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product details:
- ISBN-10 : 1841693723
- ISBN-13 : 978-1841693729
- Author: Michael Eysenck
Aimed at those new to the subject, Fundamentals of Psychology is a clear and reader-friendly textbook that will help students explore and understand the essentials of psychology. This text offers a balanced and accurate representation of the discipline through a highly accessible synoptic approach, which seamlessly brings together all the various related topics.
Fundamentals of Psychology combines an authoritative tone, a huge range of psychological material and an informal, analogy-rich style. The text expertly blends admirably up-to-date empirical research and real-life examples and applications, and is both readable and factually dense. The book introduces all the main approaches to psychology, including social, developmental, cognitive, biological, individual differences, and abnormal psychology, as well as psychological research methods. However, it also includes directions for more detailed and advanced study for the interested student.
table of contents:
1. Introduction.
2. Historical and Conceptual Issues.
Part 1. Introduction to Biological Psychology.
3. Human Motivation.
4. Emotion, Stress, and Coping.
5. States of Awareness.
Part 2. Introduction to Cognitive Psychology.
6. Visual Perception and Attention.
7. Conditioning and Learning.
8. Human Memory.
9. Thinking: Problem Solving and Decision Making.
10. Language.
Part 3. Introduction to Individual Differences.
11. Intelligence.
12. What Does Personality Look Like?
Part 4. Introduction to Developmental Psychology.
13. Cognitive Development: Specific Abilities.
14. Theories of Cognitive Development.
15. Social Development in Everyday Life.
16. Attachments and Friendships.
Part 5. Introduction to Social Psychology.
17. Social Cognition.
18. Social Behavior and Relationships.
19. Group Processes.
20. Intergroup Processes.
Part 6. Introduction to Abnormal Psychology.
21. Approaches to Abnormality.
22. Therapeutic Approaches.
Part 7. Introduction to Research Methods.
23. Psychological Inquiry.
24. Design of Investigations.
25. Data Analysis.