| Description |
2 volumes : illustrations ; 29 cm |
| Series |
21st century reference series |
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21st century reference.
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| Contents |
CONTENTS: VOLUME ONE: PART I: HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGY: Psychology before 1900 -- Psychology in the 20th century -- Women and minorities in psychology -- Conducting research on the history of psychology -- PART II: BASIC RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND ANALYTIC TECHNIQUES: Statistical techniques and analysis -- Validity -- Nonexperimental research methods -- Experimental designs -- Single-subject designs -- Qualitative research -- Ethics of psychological research -- PART III: NEUROSCIENCE: Biological psychology -- Neurotransmission -- Traditional neuroscience research methods -- Imaging techniques for the localization of brain function -- Drugs and behavior -- Behavioral pharmacology -- PART IV: SENSORY PROCESSES AND PERCEPTION: Sensation -- Psychophysics -- States of consciousness -- Taste -- Vision -- Olfaction -- Audition -- Somatosensory systems -- Perception -- PART V: EVOLUTION AND BEHAVIOR: Evolutionary psychology: the impact of evolution on human behavior -- Evolutionary perspectives on mate preferences -- Animal learning and behavior -- Animal cognition -- Comparative psychology -- PART VI: BASIC LEARNING PROCESSES: Classical conditioning -- Recent trends in classical conditioning -- Taste-aversion learning -- Operant conditioning -- Recent trends in operant conditioning -- Social learning -- Stimulus equivalence -- PART VII: INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES AND PERSONALITY: Psychometrics -- Testing and assessment -- Personality development -- Personality psychology -- Intelligence -- Motivation and emotion -- PART VIII: COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY: Memory: a look into the past, present, and future -- Memory and eyewitness testimony -- Repressed and recovered memory -- Language and language development -- Thinking and problem solving -- Critical thinking -- Artificial intelligence -- VOLUME TWO: PART IX: DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY: Prenatal development and infancy -- Childhood and adolescence -- Adulthood and aging: perspectives on adult development -- Disabilities -- Autism -- Giftedness -- Death, dying, and bereavement -- Nature versus nurture -- Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: myth or mental disorder? -- PART X: SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY: Social cognition -- Attitudes and attitude change -- Group processes -- Social influence -- The nature of love -- Prejudice and stereotyping -- Leadership, theory and practice -- PART XI: HEALTH, STRESS, AND COPING: Health psychology -- Stress and stressors -- Coping skills -- Resilience -- Positive psychology -- Human performance in extreme environments -- HIV -- Suicide -- PART XII: BEHAVIOR DISORDERS AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY: Abnormal psychology -- Ethics of therapists -- Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (DSM) -- Anxiety disorders -- Dissociative disorders -- Personality disorders -- Mood disorders: an overview -- Schizophrenia: understanding a split mind -- Psychoactive substance use disorders -- Psychotherapy -- Cognitive behavioral therapy -- Family therapy and therapy with children -- Pharmacotherapy -- Forensic clinical psychology: sensationalism and reality -- Sexual offending behavior -- PART XIII: APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY: Industrial and organizational psychology -- Human factors -- Community psychology -- Sport psychology -- Environmental psychology -- Psychology and the law -- Applied behavior analysis -- Organizational behavior management -- PART XIV: HUMAN DIVERSITY: Gender and sexual orientation - Multiple axes of human diversity -- Psychology and religion -- Cross-cultural psychology and research -- International psychology |
| Summary |
Highlights the most important topics, issues, questions, and debates in the field of psychology. Provides material of interest for students from all corners of psychological studies, whether their interests be in the biological, cognitive, developmental, social, or clinical arenas |
| Notes |
"A SAGE reference publication" |
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Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Electronic version is available via Sage eReference |
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web |
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Description based on print version record |
| SUBJECT |
American university studies. Series VIII, Psychology http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83730760 -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001300
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| Subject |
Psychologie -- Guides, manuels, etc
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Psychology -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Psychology.
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| Genre/Form |
Handbook.
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Handbooks and manuals.
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| Author |
Buskist, William.
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Davis, Stephen F.
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Sage Publications.
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| LC no. |
2007031738 |
| ISBN |
9781412949682 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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