One. Introduction to psychology and introductory books on general psychology;

1。 Psychology and life

This is the most popular introductory book on psychology or general psychology adopted by many countries in the world. Vivid and easy to understand, even non-professionals can understand. Richard Grieg co-authored with zimbardo.

The biggest feature of this book is that it is interspersed with a large number of psychological experiments, rich and varied charts and psychological tests, which makes people very knowledgeable, credible and interesting to read, and it looks juicy and juicy, and its writing is not as rough as ordinary textbooks.

2。 Myers psychology

Like the last book, it is the best introduction to psychology. I bought this book because I saw Social Psychology written by Lao Mai, which is not only interesting, but also informative. I guess the same author of this book will have the same style. Sure enough. However, in the original work of Social Psychology, it seems that those casual rhetoric, from movies to the association of trivial matters in life, have been collected a lot in this work of Psychology. Without the unrestrained vastness of the original work, the narrative is more formal.

Many websites leave messages about how poor the paper quality of this book is. That's why I didn't buy it in the first place. Later, I saw a sample in the book city. I felt that the paper quality was similar to other books, but I didn't see how bad it was. The bad thing is only the picture part, because the chart part can be re-made. The picture part, because the original book was printed in color on coated paper, is now copied and printed in black and white on ordinary paper, so many pictures are a little blurred, and some affect the viewing effect, but these pictures are just the icing on the cake of the text. If all the books are printed in color, I'm afraid the price will at least double. No way, the price and effect can only be balanced.

3。 Introduction to psychology

A series of psychology books published by Light Industry Press are all good. The influence of this book in China seems to be greater than that of Miles. I just got it. After a cursory reading, I feel that the legitimacy of the discussion is clearer than the first two. Although it is also rich in cases and orthodox in expression, it conforms to the logical habit of using domestic textbooks and is favored by professional students who want to help the exam. At first glance, this book can be compared with the first two books. Non-professionals, readers who just want to understand psychology with a relaxed attitude, seem to have a more relaxed narrative style in Psychology and Life and Myers' Psychology. If you want to study psychology as a science, this book is just right. Three introductory books can be easily read without professional knowledge.

4。 An invitation from psychology

In fact, the translation of the title of this book is problematic. I think it should be translated into psychological invitation or psychological door, which is the author's original intention. Although this book is also an introduction to psychology, it is not as detailed as the first three books, but takes a topic directly related to human beings. This book is more popular and interesting, reading more like a popular science book or a life guide book, but it does not include many aspects of general psychology, such as social psychology. Only as an introduction to psychology or a guide book for general psychology is incomplete.

I used to think that social psychology corresponds to personality psychology, one stresses society and the other stresses individuals. In fact, this understanding is not comprehensive. First of all, personality psychology is only one aspect of the individual, and there are other aspects such as cognition and development. So if you really want to find a book on social psychology, the best book is this psychological invitation. These two books.

Two. The main branch of psychology:

5。 social psychology

I have always had the wrong idea that "social psychology" has little direct relationship with our lives. After reading it, people will feel that people are social animals, and any society and others will have significant restrictions and influences on individual habits and behaviors. Conformity, persuasion, prejudice and attraction are all very interesting topics in social psychology, while communication, misunderstanding and conflict among those people are common problems in our daily life. Miles was the first psychological book he read, and it was after reading this book that he became interested in systematically studying psychology. This book is the best of all because it is interesting.

6。 Berg's personality psychology

The book "Personality Psychology" read by Berg has a high evaluation in many places. In fact, as far as "personality psychology" is concerned, it inevitably involves the theories of Freud, Jung and Philom, and it is easy to bypass the theories, which makes people feel boring. However, Berg's book is really vivid and rich in cases. It seems that a theme, what kind of people write it, is composed of completely different effects, and so much can be written on such a boring theme.

7。 cognitive psychology

I may feel a little bored when I buy the book Physiological Psychology. Cognitive psychology is about human beings: attention, perception, consciousness, memory, knowledge organization, language, thinking, problem solving and decision making, as well as creativity, human intelligence and artificial intelligence. Cognitive psychology is closely related to all aspects of our lives, because it should be more interesting and popular. But after I bought it, I found "Physiological Psychology" very easy to read, and this "Cognitive Psychology" should be the most boring one in the bibliography listed in this article. Just as it was originally thought that personality psychology related to individuals must be more practical and interesting than social psychology, in fact, nothing is closer to our life itself, more interesting and can be read at one go.

8。 physiological psychology

This book combines the latest research results of neuroscience and physiological psychology, and introduces the origin, research methods, sensory perception system, sleep, reproduction, mood and psychological obstacles of physiological psychology. This book is very professional, and ordinary interest lovers may not finish reading it without certain self-study habits. Personally, I think it is enough for ordinary lovers to read the first part of the primer and social psychology books. They read those books without knowing psychology and learned a lot. However, if you want to gain more on the basis of reading the introduction of psychology, and then look at the branch psychology of the second kind of professional field, you will feel a little worthless, because the time, patience and energy spent have doubled, and the return on acquiring new knowledge and new harvest is low.

If there are other social subjects that I haven't covered, I suggest learning some introductory books in other fields, which will have more rewards in life than continuing to study the psychological society. After all, we learn knowledge to broaden our horizons, to be practical, to penetrate knowledge horizontally, and not to show off some advanced theories, so the cost-effectiveness ratio of input and output is the first factor to be considered.

9。 Feldman's developmental psychology

Developmental psychology is a branch of psychology, which studies the occurrence, development process and laws of psychology. It studies the occurrence and development of psychology from birth to maturity and then to aging. Does the person have psychology at birth? How did his psychology happen? How does it develop and change in children, teenagers, youth, adulthood and old age? According to what law does it develop and change? What is the significance of these developments to people's life and development? ..... These are all questions that must be clarified in the study of individual psychological development.

Many developmental psychology studies a certain stage of human beings. Feldman's book studies the overall situation of human development from the moment of pregnancy to death, from the aspects of physiology, cognition, society and personality.

10。 Abnormal psychology

Three. Supplementary books on psychology:

1 1。 40 studies on the psychology of change

I used to be skeptical about psychology, thinking that human psychology is the most difficult thing to estimate and speculate. However, after reading this book, I found that many psychological conclusions are drawn from scientific psychological experiments. Although there are many supervisors in the inference process, the experimental facts are still very scientific.

12。 Experimental psychology-introduction of examples

Compared with similar experimental psychology, this book is not a didactic theoretical book, but a step-by-step experiment to illustrate the problem. In particular, it will be meaningful to compare it with the book "40 Research on Change Psychology".

This book is not difficult to read, but it focuses on teaching students how to do experimental design, so it is not recommended by interested readers.