Thursday, 5 March 2015

contents pages


I. An introduction to alcoholism
II. A history of alcohol consumption and addiction
III. Identifying addiction 
i) Early signs of alcoholism
ii) Physical symptoms
iii) Psychiatric symptoms
IV. The causes of addiction: theoretical perspectives 
i) Psychosocial causes
ii) Genetic variation
iii) Neurological approaches 
V. Diagnosing alcoholism.
VI. Treating alcoholism 
i) Rehabilitation 
ii) Detoxification
iii) Psychological treatments
iv) Medications
VII. Prognosis for alcoholism
VIII. Current research into alcoholism
IX. Helplines and useful links



I. Foreword
II. The Psychology of Communication: Seven essays
1) Face-to-Face
2) Telephone Etiquette
3) Body Language
4) The Written Word
5) Innuendo, Implication and In-Between-the-Lines
6) Speaking in Public and Public Speaking
7) The Psychology of Silence 
III. Afterword 


I. An introduction to humanism
II. The history of humanism
i) Predecessors across the globe
ii) Renaissance humanism
iii) 18th-19th century to modern humanism
III. Types of humanism
i) Renaissance
ii) Secular
iii) Religious
IV. Anti-humanist humanism: the paradoxical polemics  about humanism
V, Humanistic psychology


I. Memory: an introduction to the study of memory
II. Long-term and short-term memory
III) Models of short and long-term memory
- Atkinson-Shiffrin's Multi-Store Model
- Baddley and Hitch's Working Memory Model
- Research to corroborate and contradict
IV. Types of memory
i) Declarative memory (explicit) 
- episodic memory
- semantic memory 
ii) Procedural memory (implicit)
V. Forgetting
i) decay
ii) interference
VI. The neurobiology of memory
VIII. Disorders affecting memory
IX. Levels of processing: improving memory
X. Other types of memory
i) flashbulb memory
ii) topographical memory 
XI. False memories
X. Current issues in memory research 
XI. Conclusions