cognitive psychology for dummies

Your thinking process is free-flowing and highly individualized, so you need a method of organizing your thoughts that is uniquely your own. It’s time you discovered Mind Mapping, a marriage of logic and imagination that allows you to balance the formation and organization of ideas while encouraging a full range of mental expression.

A Mind Map® begins with a symbol or picture representing your topic and serving as the home base for creative associations. Completed, a Mind Map is colorful, imaginative and expressive of what is distinctively you. Use the breakthrough tool of Mind Mapping to:

• Think faster and more creatively
• Get more work done in far less time
• Develop an “I Can” attitude
• Awaken your power to learn
• Identify talents you never knew you had

Communicating Effectively For Dummies shows you how to get your point across at work and interact most productively with bosses and coworkers. Applying your knowledge and skill to your job is the easy part; working well with others is often the hard part. This helpful guide lets you maximize your personal interactions, even when resolving conflicts, dealing with customers, or giving difficult presentations.

Whether youâ??re the CEO of a major corporation, a small business owner, or a team manager, effective and clear communication is imperative to your success. From keeping your listener engaged to learning to become a better listener, Communicating Effectively For Dummies offers all the strategies, tips, and advice you need to:

• Learn how to become an active listener
• Accentuate the positive in negative situations
• Find win-win solutions for conflicts
• Stay on track when writing e-mails and letters
• Handle presentations, interviews, and other challenges
• Speak forcefully and assertively without alienating others

Management consultant Marty Brounstein â?? author of Handling the Difficult Employee and Coaching and Mentoring For Dummies â?? gives you the keys to a thriving career with expert advice on effective verbal and nonverbal communication. From mastering your own facial expressions (and reading them in others) to being a happy boss, Brounstein covers all the angles:

• Becoming aware of your own assumptions
• Dealing with passive-aggressive communicators
• What to say to help someone open up to you
• Communicating through eye contact and body language
• Maintaining a positive attitude
• Dealing with sensitive issues
• Effective conflict resolution models
• When to use e-mail, the phone, or a face-to-face meeting
• Dealing with angry customers
• Coaching your staff to communicate better

In todayâ??s high-stress work environment, good communication skills are imperative for keeping your cool and getting your point across. Knowing what to say and how to say it, as well as being a good listener, can often be the difference between getting ahead and just getting by. This handy, friendly guide shows you how to avoid common conflicts and make your voice heard in the office.
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A guide to the study of how and why you really make financial decisions

While classical economics is based on the notion that people act with rational self-interest, many key money decisionsâ??like splurging on an expensive watchâ??can seem far from rational. The field of behavioral economics sheds light on the many subtle and not-so-subtle factors that contribute to our financial and purchasing choices. And in Behavioral Economics For Dummies, readers will learn how social and psychological factors, such as instinctual behavior patterns, social pressure, and mental framing, can dramatically affect our day-to-day decision-making and financial choices.

Based on psychology and rooted in real-world examples, Behavioral Economics For Dummies offers the sort of insights designed to help investors avoid impulsive mistakes, companies understand the mechanisms behind individual choices, and governments and nonprofits make public decisions.

• A friendly introduction to the study of how and why people really make financial decisions
• The author is a professor of behavioral and institutional economics at Victoria University

An essential component to improving your financial decision-making (and even to understanding current events), Behavioral Economics For Dummies is important for just about anyone who has a bank account and is interested in whyâ??and whenâ??they spend money.
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Cognitive Behavioural Coaching (CBC) takes the highly effective techniques and principles of CBT off the therapists couch and in to the work place and the home.

Whether youâ??re already a coach, interested in becoming one or new to the subject; this friendly guide covers the origins and principles of Cognitive Behavioural Coaching and walks you step-by-step through the coaching process. The book explains how to use the tools and techniques of CBC to challenge negative thinking, make positive changes, achieve goals and improve effectiveness in your personal and professional life.

Coverage includes:

• The principles and the basics of CBC
• The Attributes of the CB Coach and the CBC Process
• The CBC toolkit for Work and Life
• Exploring Potential and working with Relationships
• Managing Career Transitions and maintaining Peak Performance

About the author

Helen Whitten is an experienced and accredited coach, facilitator, mediator and writer. She is the Founder and Managing Director of Positiveworks London, a consultancy company providing coaching and development programmes to people in the public and private sector throughout the world.
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From the sexcapades of Bill Clinton to the unbelievable story of Hugh Grant and the prostitute; from the 15-year-old who weighs only 82 pounds but believes she’s obese, to the professor who screams profanities at other drivers in snarled traffic – we wonder out loud, ‘What are they thinking?!’. What drives so many apparently normal, intelligent people to act irrationally, harming themselves and others? According to Sigmund Freud, such behaviour may be caused by the ‘id’, our built-in mental invitation to everything from dangerous fun to horrendous acts of irrationality. For popular psychology writer David Weiner, ‘id’ stands for ‘Inner Dummy’, the part of the brain that we must come to understand if we are ever to know why we do foolish, irrational, and compulsive things. Drawing on the groundbreaking theories of evolutionary psychology, this book localises the source of our irrationality in the limbic id – the most primitive part of our brain that endlessly thirsts for status, sex, territory, nurturance, and survival. ‘We become captured by these drives’, Weiner says. ‘By understanding our Inner Dummy, we can avoid disasters in our own lives’. Along with sound advice from clinical psychiatrist Dr. Gilbert Hefter on how to handle our own Inner Dummies with built-in rewards and punishments, Wiener brilliantly interweaves delightful, imagined conversations with Freud and staffers at a mythical advertising agency, who have been given the assignment of communicating the nature of the id’s irrationalities to the general public. This inviting, humorous romp with Inner Dummies who have made the news illustrates how we can apply ‘ID prevention’ in our daily lives and includes all the major strategies science and medicine have developed over the years to counter Inner Dummies that threaten our well-being.
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Practical tips and techniques make remembering a snap
Jog your memory with exercises to help you at home, at work, anywhere!
Whether you are cramming for an exam, have trouble remembering names, or you just want to give your overall memory power a boost, this plain-English guide offers clever tricks to help you remember what you want to remember. You’ll discover how your memory works and how to enhance it in all types of situations.
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Includes tips and strategies for kids, teens, and adults with dyslexia
Understand what dyslexia is, assess schools and programs, and help your child succeed
Does your child mix up d’s and b’s? Does he or she have trouble reading? If so, the cause may be dyslexia. But don’t worry — these days, there are many ways to overcome dyslexia. This hands-on guide leads you step by step through your options — and explains how anyone with dyslexia can achieve success in school and life.
Discover how to
* Recognize the symptoms of dyslexia
* Understand diagnostic test results
* Set up an Individualized Education Program (IEP)
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