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u/Shroomivore · 5 pointsr/AcademicPsychology

If you're interested in neuroscience am I safe in assuming you're also interested in neuropathology? If this is the case then I strongly recommend you read any books by Oliver Sacks. He is considered the David Attenborough of Neuroscience and has spent his life exploring peculiar neurological disorders. His book "The man who mistook his wife for a hat" is the best starting point and consists of numerous peculiar case studies of patients he has treated over the years. Very easy, yet fascinating read, can't recommend enough.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Books/Man-Who-Mistook-His-Wife/0330523627


With regards to more theoretical reading, look into the following people and the theories and research attributed to them, you will most likely learn about these people in detail on your course.

Piaget for Child Development (very interesting stuff)

Bandura for Developmental/Learning/Social

Baddeley for Working Memory

Miller for Cognitive

Milgram for Social Psych

Asche for Social Psych

Good luck and enjoy!

u/radinamvua · 3 pointsr/AcademicPsychology

Hi! If you can, let us know a little more about what you think you're interested in already, or what you already know something about. Psychology covers a lot of very different things.


Here are a few broad books which I found interesting before I studied it formally, for if you're not yet sure where to focus:



  • Psychology: A very short introduction - Covers the basics, easy to understand, and will give you a good idea of what you want to know more about! (There's also one of these 'very short introductions' to the brain, which you might also find interesting. It's more biology and neuroscience, but there's a lot of overlap to psychology.)


  • The Man who mistook his wife for a hat, by Oliver Sacks - A very interesting selection of stories, about the bizarre and mysterious things that brains can do when they're not operating quite as normal. Very easy to read, and very personal and involved with the patients themselves.

  • How the mind works, by Steven Pinker - A longer, slightly in depth book, although it still covers a wide range of material. Quite a lot of jokes, and it's well written!



    Anyway, I hope that helps, and let me know if you do have any particular interests, and I'll see what I can think of! Psychology is really great, and I think there's an area of it to keep almost anybody interested.
u/strobe_jams · 1 pointr/todayilearned

This reminds me of some of the other real life cases in Oliver Sack's collection below. Well worth a read if you're interested in unusual neurological phenomena.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Man-Who-Mistook-Wife/dp/0330523627