Fundamentals of psychology : the brain, the person, the world / Stephen M. Kosslyn, Robin S. Rosenberg.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: SoundSoundLanguage: English Publication details: Boston : Pearson Education, 2003.Description: xxx, 500 pSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 150
LOC classification:
  • BF 121 K86f 2003
Contents:
Using psychology to learn psychology -- Science of psychology, yesterday and today -- Brain, the psychological organ -- Sensation and perception, how the world enters the mind -- Learning -- Memory, living with yesterday -- Language, thinking, and intelligence -- Emotion and motivation, feeling and striving -- Personality, vive la difference -- Psychology over the life span, growing up, growing older, growing wiser -- Stress, health, and coping -- Psychological disorders -- Treatment -- Social psychology, meeting of the minds -- Appendixes: Statistics; How to read, critically evaluate, and write research papers.
Summary: [The authors'] goal was to write a textbook that would better integrate the field of psychology and engage students. [They] felt [they] could do this by exploring both how psychology can be viewed from various levels of analysis and how psychological principles can be applied to enhance learning. Both of these themes are reflected in the overall organization of the text and its individual chapters.-Pref.
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Originally published: Boston : Allyn and Bacon, c2003.

Includes bibliographical references.

Using psychology to learn psychology -- Science of psychology, yesterday and today -- Brain, the psychological organ -- Sensation and perception, how the world enters the mind -- Learning -- Memory, living with yesterday -- Language, thinking, and intelligence -- Emotion and motivation, feeling and striving -- Personality, vive la difference -- Psychology over the life span, growing up, growing older, growing wiser -- Stress, health, and coping -- Psychological disorders -- Treatment -- Social psychology, meeting of the minds -- Appendixes: Statistics; How to read, critically evaluate, and write research papers.

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[The authors'] goal was to write a textbook that would better integrate the field of psychology and engage students. [They] felt [they] could do this by exploring both how psychology can be viewed from various levels of analysis and how psychological principles can be applied to enhance learning. Both of these themes are reflected in the overall organization of the text and its individual chapters.-Pref.

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