1. The book "Three Kinds of Psychology: Psychological Theories of Freud, Skinner and Rogers" mainly introduces and compares the thoughts of the representatives of the three major schools of contemporary psychology (psychoanalysis, behaviorism and humanism), which is worth reading as an introductory book of psychology. What impressed me deeply in this book is the introduction to Freud, who is most famous for his psychological obstacles caused by human nature and destructive instinct and his interpretation of dreams. But personally, the part of his theory that has been useful to most people so far is about self-defense mechanism. Understanding these mechanisms is very helpful for us to adopt an appropriate attitude when facing difficulties. 2. "Psychology and Life" Psychology and life is a textbook used by Stanford University in the United States for many years, and it is also a classic textbook popularized by many universities in the United States. It is recommended by ETS as the main reference book for GRE psychology special examination, and it is also an excellent teaching material for the selection of "General Psychology" courses in many national universities. Not only that, this textbook is fluent, easy to understand and goes deep into life. It connects psychological theory and knowledge with people's daily life and work, and becomes an excellent reading for the general public to understand psychology and themselves! 3. The book "Three Kinds of Psychology" introduces the basic theories of psychoanalysis/behaviorism and humanism, which should be regarded as a good introductory book. 4. Introduction to Psychology-The Road to Understanding Thought and Behavior is another famous American psychology textbook. This book is translated from the latest revision of the ninth edition of the original work and compiled by the personnel of the Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. These two books are voluminous, but they are both written in simple terms and close to life. At the same time, both of them contain the latest research results and cutting-edge information, and they are really the best introductory books for psychology lovers. 5. Introduction to Psychoanalysis summarizes Freud's basic ideas and the main contents of psychoanalysis, which is extremely rare in similar books. Freud and Marx (Renmin University of China Press, 2004) expounds the relationship between psychoanalysis and Marxism. Although this book was written in the 1930s, it still has its value. 6. Inferiority and Transcendence is Adler's most influential work, which has been published by many publishing houses in China. Adler's latest translation is Understanding Human Nature published by Guizhou People's Publishing House (2004). You can read the book of general psychology: general psychology is an introductory course for psychology majors. Through the study of this course, students should master the basic concepts, laws and theories of psychology; Understanding the basic framework of modern psychology and its application in real life will lay a good foundation for further study of psychology. General Psychology General psychology is a science that studies human psychological phenomena with the same laws. It summarizes the theoretical essence of the most general principle of human understanding of psychological phenomena in history, and brings together the psychological research results of various branches of psychology and major psychological schools. Therefore, general psychology is the most basic, universal and important basic discipline in psychological science. It is not only the introduction of people's psychological knowledge, but also the theoretical basis of many branches of applied psychology. Human psychological phenomenon is one of the most complicated phenomena in the universe. Humans have been interested in this phenomenon for a long time and have been tirelessly exploring it. Until today, they are still trying tirelessly to reveal its occurrence, development, internal regularity and essence. Although the psychological phenomenon of human beings is extremely complicated, it is what we are most familiar with. Because, a normal and healthy person is constantly producing psychological phenomena all the time, and can realize what has happened to himself. If we can see the color, hear the sound and taste the taste; Can recall some things I have experienced before; Can use their brains and make various inventions; I can imagine my bright future. At the same time, our hearts will also have a complex experience, such as happiness, cheerfulness, satisfaction, happiness, pain, sadness, regret, guilt and so on. These complex psychological phenomena that happen to people are what general psychology calls "psychological phenomena". For the convenience of research, general psychology generally divides psychological phenomena into "psychological process" and "personality psychology". The specific content of their tolerance is as follows: (1). Psychological process: 1). Cognitive process: feeling, perception, attention, memory, thinking, phenomenon 2). Emotional process: 3). Meeting process: (2). Personality psychology: 1). Personality tendency: need, motivation, interest. So general psychology mainly expounds the following psychological problems: 1. Feeling is a reflection of the individual attributes of things that directly act on the senses. For example, for an apple in front of us, we can see its size, shape and color, smell its fruit fragrance, take a bite and taste it, and touch it with our hands to know that its surface is smooth and cold. Of course, if it can make a sound, we can also hear it. This "seeing", "hearing", "tasting", "smelling" and "touching" means various senses such as sight, hearing, taste, smell and skin feeling. 2. Perception is a reflection of the overall attributes of things that act on our sensory organs. Perception is more complicated than feeling. Perception is produced on the basis of various senses. For example, when we know the color, size, shape, taste and fragrance of apples, we will have a comprehensive understanding of the whole apple. This is the cognition of Apple. Perception is divided into three categories because of the different nature of the things it reflects: spatial perception, temporal perception and motion perception. General psychology not only studies these perceptions, but also studies and analyzes some special perceptions, such as illusions and hallucinations. 3. Memory is the reflection of things and experiences perceived by the human brain in the past. It is a more complicated psychological process than feeling and perception. For example, we can recognize movies, TV shows or books we have seen in the past when we watch or read them later. This is what we have seen before or can remember in our minds without looking at it: recalling their main contents or plots, which is the memory phenomenon. Memory is of great significance to our study, work and life, because the accumulation of all knowledge and experience in a person's life is almost realized through memory. Therefore, "memory" has always been an important topic in general psychology research. From the end of 65438 to the end of 2009, the famous German psychologist Ebbinghaus broke into the research field of memory for the first time. Until today, memory has been studied from the perspective of computers and information workers. In the past 100 years, human beings have proved the characteristics and laws of sensory memory, short-term memory and long-term memory, and began to apply some discovered memory laws to practice. The memory part of General Psychology is a brief introduction to these research results. 4. Thinking is a more advanced psychological process, which is the generalization and indirect reflection of the essential attributes of things by the human brain. In practice, we must solve all kinds of problems or puzzles, such as proving a geometric problem, writing an article, carrying out a technological innovation and designing an engineering scheme. These are mainly done through "thinking". Thinking is what we usually call thinking. The process of thinking is carried out through analysis, synthesis, comparison, abstraction, generalization and concretization. The form of thinking is embodied in concept, judgment and reasoning. Thinking types are mainly divided into action thinking, image thinking, abstract thinking, informal logical thinking and formal logical thinking. In addition, the problem of thinking and language is also an important issue in the chapter on thinking in General Psychology. Imagination, like thinking, is an advanced psychological process. It is a process in which the human brain processes and transforms the existing images and creates new images. For example, we haven't been to Zhuo Yuan, but when we read the poem "There are cattle and sheep at the bottom of the wind and grass", a picture of grassland and pastoral areas will float in our minds. The endless prairie under the blue sky, the dense grassland ups and downs in the breeze, the fat cattle and sheep appearing and disappearing in the grass, and the shaping process of artistic images such as "the Monkey King" and "Pig Bajie" will be another example. Imagination is not created out of thin air. It is always based on the representation of things that have been perceived before and left in the mind through memory. Imagination and reality are the combination of processing, transformation and innovation of memory representation. Imagination is an important and necessary factor in creative activities. It can be said that a scientific invention and creation and the creation of all literary and artistic forms are the results of imagination and thinking. Imagination includes unintentional imagination, intentional imagination, recreative imagination, creative imagination and fantasy. 6. Emotion is the experience of people's attitude towards whether objective things meet their own needs. If you are happy because of good grades, progress, pain because of failure, fear because of danger, regret because of your mistakes, and so on. These are all emotional manifestations. Emotions are always associated with people's needs and are always expressed through certain behaviors. Such as smiling and dancing when you are happy; When angry, gnash your teeth and get angry; When I was sad, I looked gloomy and burst into tears; When I'm scared, I tremble with fear, and so on. Obviously, emotional activities are closely related to human blood circulation and physiological activities of muscles and glands. The types, characteristics, nature and the law of occurrence and development of emotions are the contents to be clarified by general psychology. 7. Note that when we feel, perceive, remember, think and imagine, we must concentrate on it, so that we can see clearly, hear clearly and keep it in mind for a long time, so that we can answer questions quickly and correctly and carry out creative activities. This state of concentration and concentration is called attention phenomenon by general psychology. Attention is the direction and concentration of psychological activities on something. Note that it is not a unique psychological process, it always exists as an accessory to other psychological processes such as feeling, perception, memory, thinking and imagination, and always accompanies it. If you don't pay attention, the psychological process will be in a state of aimless distraction, making it impossible for people to effectively understand and transform the world. Therefore, attention has also become an important issue in general psychology research. A few days ago, we mainly focused on the types, nature and characteristics of attention and how to improve people's attention. 8. Will, the ultimate goal of people's understanding of all objective things is to transform it and use it to serve mankind. This kind of planned and purposeful action to understand and transform objective reality is called will action by general psychology. The psychological process that governs this kind of action to the end and achieve the expected goal is called will. The essence of will is an inner spiritual power, which is used to regulate, dominate and control human behavior. It can make people consciously and clearly establish their own goals before they act, make people consciously overcome many difficulties in the whole process of achieving their goals, resist all kinds of external induction, and be free from all kinds of external influences and interference, so that their actions will never deviate from the predetermined track, and finally achieve their goals and achieve the predetermined goals. The content of will is also an important aspect of general psychology. General psychology not only studies people's psychological characteristics such as cognitive process, emotional process and will process, but also studies people's psychological differences, that is, people's personality psychology.