| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 702 p.) |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Historical and conceptual issues -- Introduction to biological psychology -- Human motivation -- Emotion, stress, and coping -- States of awareness -- Introduction to cognitive psychology -- Visual perception and attention -- Conditioning and learning -- Human memory -- Thinking : problem solving and decision making -- Language -- Introduction to individual differences -- Intelligence -- What does personality look like? -- Introduction to developmental psychology -- Cognitive development : specific abilities -- Theories of cognitive development -- Social development in everyday life -- Attachments and friendships -- Introduction to social psychology -- Social cognition -- Social behaviour and relationships -- Group processes -- Intergroup processes -- Introduction to abnormal psychology -- Approaches to abnormality -- Therapeutic approaches -- Introduction to research methods -- Psychological inquiry -- Design of investigations -- Data analysis |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [635]-673) and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Psychology.
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Psychology [MESH]
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Psychology
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psychology.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Reference.
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Psychology
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Psychologie
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| Genre/Form |
Einführung.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021698955 |
| ISBN |
9781317568575 |
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1317568575 |
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9781317568582 |
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1317568583 |
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9781315736945 |
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1315736942 |
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