The Everything Psychology Book is a great choice for people who are just interested in the processes of the brain, current trends, psychology's history, or who are considering pursuing a career in the field of psychology. The Everything Psychology Book was written by Lynda L. Warwick and Lesley Bolton, This book is considered to be a reference book, its content has anything and everything to do with psychology. The Everything Psychology book is a very easy read, it breaks down important sections in the book into smaller pieces that focus directly on important pieces, which makes this book good for someone who knows absolutely nothing about psychology and even is a knowledgeable book for graduate students and their professors. This book is not a one sided book it covers every side of psychology possible, From the people who believe there is no such thing to active believes that study the different states of the conscious mind. The Everything Psychology Book is insightful in which it provides information on how to become a psychologist, all rules and regulations psychologist must abide by, and goals that should be meet in making a career choice. The books approach is covering everything from how to observe and interact with people, to it giving you a taste of psychology and what a career in psychology has to offer. The Everything Psychology Book is based around the human brain and how the brain relays messages that produce our body functions. This book goes back through a large section of history to the time of Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920). Wundt founded psychology in 1879 when he established the first psychological laboratory. The book travels from the start of psychology to present day, providing theories from well known psychologist like Sigmund Freud to Charles Darwin. Also providing methods from many successful and well meant unsuccessful psychologists. The Everything Psychology Book Was written to give people interested in psychology an inside view of the career.
In Picking up the Everything Psychology Book I intended it to have a large amount of information, I obtain this thought from just flipping through the book. I wasn't that enthusiastic about reading the book since I was expecting it to be like every other reference book. When I actually got through the first chapter of the book my opinion changed. This book isn't a boring reference book that puts you to sleep in the first two or three pages. The difference between this book and other reference books is that the Everything Psychology Book breaks apart information by stating fun and interesting facts for example: with the experiment conducted by Albert Bandura in the 1960's. Bandura set up an experiment where he would be testing and observing children on the learning of aggression. Bandura picked three groups of children for his experiment, all three saw a film in which an adult beats a Bobo doll in very specific ways. The only difference was each group saw a different conclusion one group saw the adult being rewarded for giving the Bobo doll a good beating. The second group saw the adult being punished for beating the Bobo doll. Finally the last group saw the adult have nothing happen to him after beating the doll. Next the children were put in a room and allowed to play with Bobo dolls. The results from this were that the children who had seen the adult get punished imitated barely any of the actions done by the adult to Bobo. Both the children who had seen the adult either get rewarded or have no consequences show significantly more aggression towards the Bobo doll. Concluding from this experiment I believe that children most defiantly follow close to their role models, peers, and parents. Reading the Everything Psychology Book really helped me become more informed and further interested into a career in psychology. I think that the book is a great resource, it had plenty of information and background facts that make you want to continue reading. Putting all the positives of the book aside I was really disappoint that I couldn't find anything anywhere in the book about roshak tests. This was one of the things I was told to look forward to in learning about psychology and the book failed me. Besides my disappointments I would recommend this book to any one who is considering making their career one that has a great deal of psychology required.
In Picking up the Everything Psychology Book I intended it to have a large amount of information, I obtain this thought from just flipping through the book. I wasn't that enthusiastic about reading the book since I was expecting it to be like every other reference book. When I actually got through the first chapter of the book my opinion changed. This book isn't a boring reference book that puts you to sleep in the first two or three pages. The difference between this book and other reference books is that the Everything Psychology Book breaks apart information by stating fun and interesting facts for example: with the experiment conducted by Albert Bandura in the 1960's. Bandura set up an experiment where he would be testing and observing children on the learning of aggression. Bandura picked three groups of children for his experiment, all three saw a film in which an adult beats a Bobo doll in very specific ways. The only difference was each group saw a different conclusion one group saw the adult being rewarded for giving the Bobo doll a good beating. The second group saw the adult being punished for beating the Bobo doll. Finally the last group saw the adult have nothing happen to him after beating the doll. Next the children were put in a room and allowed to play with Bobo dolls. The results from this were that the children who had seen the adult get punished imitated barely any of the actions done by the adult to Bobo. Both the children who had seen the adult either get rewarded or have no consequences show significantly more aggression towards the Bobo doll. Concluding from this experiment I believe that children most defiantly follow close to their role models, peers, and parents. Reading the Everything Psychology Book really helped me become more informed and further interested into a career in psychology. I think that the book is a great resource, it had plenty of information and background facts that make you want to continue reading. Putting all the positives of the book aside I was really disappoint that I couldn't find anything anywhere in the book about roshak tests. This was one of the things I was told to look forward to in learning about psychology and the book failed me. Besides my disappointments I would recommend this book to any one who is considering making their career one that has a great deal of psychology required.
