Discovering Psychology

Author : Don H. Hockenbury,Sandra E. Hockenbury
Publisher : Worth Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0716776618

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Discovering Psychology by Don H. Hockenbury,Sandra E. Hockenbury Pdf

More than any other introductory psychology textbook, the Hockenburys' brief book presents the discipline with a unique understanding of today's students--emphasizing its relevance and immediate impact on their lives. Without sacrificing science, the authors draw on personal experiences and anecdotes to illustrate essential concepts and important research direction. TheFourth Editionincorporates hundreds of new research studies throughout, with particular attention to areas of intensive current research and enduring student interest, including neuroscience, lifespan development, memory, and gender and culture issues. Also new is the dramatically enhanced media and supplements package, offering more ways than ever to help students make the study of psychology a part of their world.

Author : Laura Freberg,John T. Cacioppo
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
Page : 715 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1111841292

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Discovering Psychology by Laura Freberg,John T. Cacioppo Pdf

In this fresh new offering to the Intro Psychology course, authors John Cacioppo and Laura Freberg portray psychology as being an integrative science in two ways. First, they have written a text that reflects psychology's rightful place as a hub science that draws from and is cited by research in many other fields. Second, this text presents psychology as a unified science that seeks a complete understanding of the human mind, rather than as a loosely organized set of autonomous subspecialties. As psychology moves rapidly toward maturity as an integrative, multidisciplinary field, the introductory course offers an opportunity to teach all of psychology in one place and at one time. This text reflects that evolution--and the authors' excitement about it.

Author : Walter J. Lonner,Susanna A. Hayes
Publisher : IAP
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-06-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781607526070

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Discovering Cultural Psychology by Walter J. Lonner,Susanna A. Hayes Pdf

This book is a landmark in contemporary cultural psychology. Ernest Boesch’s synthesis of ideas is the first comprehensive theory of culture in psychology since Wilhelm Wundt’s Völkerpsychologie of the first decades of the twentieth century. Cultural psychology of today is an attempt to advance the program of research that was charted out by Wundt—yet at times we are carefully avoiding direct recognition of such continuity. While Wundt’s experimental psychology has been hailed as the root for contemporary scientific psychology, the other side of his contribution— ethnographic analysis of folk traditions and higher psychological functions— has been largely discredited as something disconnected from the scientific realm. As an example of “soft” science—lacking the “hardness” of experimentation—it has been considered to be an esoteric hobby of the founding father of contemporary psychology. Of course that focus is profoundly wrong—the opposition “soft” versus “hard” just does not fit as a metalevel organizer of any science. Yet the rhetoric discounting the descriptive side of Wundt’s psychology is merely an act of social guidance of what psychologists do—not a way of creating knowledge.

Author : Ian Hills
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780995399426

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Through a Hedge Backwards Volume 1: Rats and Stats: Discovering Psychology in the Swinging Sixties by Ian Hills Pdf

The life of a 1960s psychology student. This first volume of the "Through a Hedge Backwards" memoir series captures the life of a student of psychology at Queensland University in ultra-conservative Brisbane in the swinging sixties. The author has an intimate knowledge of psychology in Australia and provides an insider's view of the development of the profession through its adolescent years. The book delivers a critical examination of the behind-the-scenes manoeuvrings to resolve the serious issues facing the profession, told against the backdrop of the social history of the times. This critique of the history and politics of Australian psychology is leavened with controversial theories, anecdotes of student life, street marches, wild parties and the life of a singer-songwriter. And Ian has a secret problem. He is uncoordinated, half-blind, dyslexic and can't hold his drink. His struggle to overcome these hidden weaknesses is woven through his story with a light but thoughtful touch.

Author : L. D. Sanders
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781405175319

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Discovering Research Methods in Psychology by L. D. Sanders Pdf

This study presents a student-friendly introduction to the principal research methodology techniques of psychology. Using a narrative approach, the text explains the complexities of research and the vital role it has played in the development of the field.

Author : Laura Freberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0324829612

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Discovering Biological Psychology by Laura Freberg Pdf

With its comprehensive, authoritative coverage and student-centered pedagogy, DISCOVERING BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY, International Edition is ideal for a broad range of students taking a beginning undergraduate course in biological or physiological psychology. The book provides a foundational understanding of the structure and function of the nervous system and its relationship to both typical and disordered human behavior. Written by an author with nearly 30 years of teaching experience at schools ranging from community colleges to the Ivy League, this text presents classic concepts, current topics, and cutting-edge research in a style that is both accessible to beginning and less-prepared students and appealing to students with stronger backgrounds. As a result, the book allows instructors to teach a rigorous course that does not oversimplify the material, while keeping students excited and engaged. Reviewers have praised the text's clear narrative, high-interest examples, pedagogy, and purposeful art program. The Second Edition is supported by a comprehensive and contemporary media package that includes animations, videos, lectures and an image gallery on Microsoft« PowerPoint« slides, student response system content, and a time-saving online homework and course management system.

Author : Sayyed Mohsen Fatemi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781108489508

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The Psychology of Inner Peace by Sayyed Mohsen Fatemi Pdf

This book sheds new light on the psychology of peace and demonstrates the role of heartfulness in implementing genuine peace.

Author : Sandra E. Hockenbury,Susan Nolan
Publisher : Worth
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 131918765X

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Psychology by Sandra E. Hockenbury,Susan Nolan Pdf

This acclaimed classroom favourite makes the science of psychology come alive for students, with personal stories that exemplify important concepts in a student-friendly way and coverage of the field’s scientific foundations and advances. The substantially updated new edition extends the book’s focus on developing scientific literacy in the context of psychology, with new features in print and in the book’s new online course space, LaunchPad. These features are the result of the book’s most dramatic addition—Sandra Hockenbury’s new writing partnership with co-author, Susan Nolan, who shares her belief that the introductory course can help all kinds of students develop a real understanding of psychology and lasting scientific literacy without sacrificing the field’s research core. The book can also be purchased with the breakthrough online resource, LaunchPad, which offers innovative media content, curated and organised for easy assignability. LaunchPad's intuitive interface presents quizzing, flashcards, animations and much more to make learning actively engaging.

Author : David G. Myers
Publisher : W H Freeman & Company
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0716752530

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Exploring Psychology by David G. Myers Pdf

An introduction to psychology course. The author's updating and integrated use of the SQ3R learning system (Survey, Question, Read, Rehearse, Review) help to make the text accessible. A comprehensive supplements package is available to help both students and instructors.

Author : Jennifer Walinga,Charles Stangor
Publisher : Hasanraza Ansari
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Introduction to Psychology by Jennifer Walinga,Charles Stangor Pdf

This book is designed to help students organize their thinking about psychology at a conceptual level. The focus on behaviour and empiricism has produced a text that is better organized, has fewer chapters, and is somewhat shorter than many of the leading books. The beginning of each section includes learning objectives; throughout the body of each section are key terms in bold followed by their definitions in italics; key takeaways, and exercises and critical thinking activities end each section.

Author : Gary Lewandowski,Natalie Ciarocco,David Stromhetz
Publisher : Worth
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 131924355X

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Discovering the Scientist Within by Gary Lewandowski,Natalie Ciarocco,David Stromhetz Pdf

Discovering the Scientist Within is the only book on the market that teaches students about research methods using a case study approach. All the design-focused chapters present students with a single study described from start to finish. Chapters start by asking students to consider a scenario and then walks them through the steps of the study: formulating a research question, performing a literature review, constructing a data collection method, considering ethics, refining the method, gathering data, understanding and reporting the statistical results. Students come away with a practical understanding of the research process and useful practice in the basic steps that comprise all studies. The book can also be purchased with the breakthrough online resource, LaunchPad, which offers innovative media content, curated and organised for easy assignability. LaunchPad's intuitive interface presents quizzing, flashcards, animations and much more to make learning actively engaging.

Author : Ronald S. Valle,Steen Halling
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781461569893

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Existential-Phenomenological Perspectives in Psychology by Ronald S. Valle,Steen Halling Pdf

When I began to study psychology a half century ago, it was defined as "the study of behavior and experience." By the time I completed my doctorate, shortly after the end of World War II, the last two words were fading rapidly. In one of my first graduate classes, a course in statistics, the professor announced on the first day, "Whatever exists, exists in some number." We dutifully wrote that into our notes and did not pause to recognize that thereby all that makes life meaningful was being consigned to oblivion. This bland restructuring-perhaps more accurately, destruction-of the world was typical of its time, 1940. The influence of a narrow scientistic attitude was already spreading throughout the learned disciplines. In the next two decades it would invade and tyrannize the "social sciences," education, and even philosophy. To be sure, quantification is a powerful tool, selectively employed, but too often it has been made into an executioner's axe to deny actuality to all that does not yield to its procrustean demands.

Author : David G. Myers
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 936 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781429216388

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Psychology In Modules by David G. Myers Pdf

This version of the main text breaks down the chapters into shorter modules, for more accessibility. The smaller chunks allow students to better grasp and explore psychological concepts. The modules also allow more flexibility in teaching, as cross-references to other chapters have been replaced with brief explanations.

Author : Laura Freberg
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1305088700

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Discovering Behavioral Neuroscience: An Introduction to Biological Psychology by Laura Freberg Pdf

With its comprehensive, authoritative coverage and student-centered pedagogy, DISCOVERING BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE: AN INTRODUCTION TO BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY, 3rd Edition is ideal for a broad range of students taking a beginning undergraduate course in biological or physiological psychology. Retitled in this edition to reflect the increasing interest in, and importance of, neuroscience, the book provides a foundational understanding of the structure and function of the nervous system and its relationship to both typical and disordered human behavior. Written by an author with more than 30 years of teaching experience at schools ranging from community colleges to the Ivy League, this text presents classic concepts, current topics, and cutting-edge research in a style that is both accessible to beginning and less-prepared students and appealing to students with stronger backgrounds. As a result, the book allows instructors to teach a rigorous course that does not oversimplify the material, while keeping students excited and engaged. Reviewers have praised the text's clear narrative, high-interest examples, pedagogy, and purposeful art program. Updated with hundreds of new citations and to reflect changes in the DSM-5, this edition also includes new boxed features on ethics, careers, research, and health to engage students in the material, promote critical thinking, and prepare students for their future professions. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Author : Wadsworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1305768256

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Custom Miami Dade - PSY 2012 by Wadsworth Pdf