# Plain ZIP of Starting with psychology

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## Contents

- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1 Studying people
- 2 A brain of two halves
  - 2.1 Introduction
  - 2.2 The story of the split brain patients
- 3 It's the thought that counts
  - 3.1 Organisation and improved recall
  - 3.2 Using mental images
  - 3.4 Forming concepts
  - 3.5 Schemas
- 4 Adult and intimate relationships
  - 4.1 Introduction
  - 4.2 Attraction
  - 4.3 Proximity and familiarity
  - 4.4 Similarity
  - 4.5 Physical appearance
  - 4.6 Staying together or falling apart
- 5 Group pressure
  - 5.1 Introduction
  - 5.2 ‘In-groups’ and ‘out-groups’
  - 5.3 Groups and conformity
- 6 What makes us who we are?
  - 6.1 Introduction
  - 6.2 Multiple influences
  - 6.3 The Zidane head-butt
  - 6.4 Zidane's background
- Glossary
- Next steps
- References
- Acknowledgements

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