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Psychology: An introduction 3e

Description
Psychology: an introduction 3rd edition is a comprehensive psychology textbook aimed at first year students. The third edition has been revised to focus on key areas of the undergraduate syllabus. The book retains its strength in providing students with a sound theoretical foundation, as well as streamlining the detail provided in the narrative introductions, research findings and relevant case studies. This gives students the tools to develop their own ideas and to engage critically with the content.

Psychology: an introduction provides an excellent foundation for students pursuing careers in diverse fields, such as health, education, business, and social development.

Features

• Two new chapters on Learning and Interpersonal attraction
• Some chapters have been amalgamated to streamline the content and to ensure topics are covered in adequate depth
• Each chapter has a short list of peer-reviewed websites
• An analysis feature presents a problem and explains how the issue can be approached using different perspectives

Contents
Part 1 Introduction to psychology
1. Finding out about people
2. Research methods in psychology
Part 2 Developmental psychology
3. Prenatal and neonatal development
4. Preschool development
5. Middle childhood
6. Adolescence
7. Adulthood and ageing
Part 3 Personality
8. Theories of personality
9. Personality assessment
Part 4 Brain and behaviour
10. Biological psychology
11. Neuropsychology
12. Sensation and perception
13. The biological basis of perception and disorders of vision
Part 5 Cognitive psychology
14. Learning and conditioning
15. Motivation
16. Thinking
17. Attention
18. Memory
19. Language
20. Intelligence
Part 6 Social psychology
21. Interpersonal attraction
22. Group concepts
23. Poverty and ethnicity
24. Sex, gender and sexuality
25. Violence and traumatic stress; peacemaking and peacebuilding
Part 7 Psychology and health
26. Risk behaviour and stress
27. Substance abuse and psychopharmacology
28. Nutrition and HIV/AIDS, TB and parasites
Part 8 Mental Health
29. Psychopathology
30. Psychotherapies
31. Community mental health
Part 9 Organisational psychology
32. Organisational psychology

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