Psychology: An Introduction

by Nicky Hayes (Author), Sue Orrell (Author)

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  1993

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  This text aims to provide a clear and accessible coverage of the syllabus content for GCSE level examinations in psychology, as well as an introduction to the subject for students taking other courses. This second edition aims to be particularly interactive and proactive. The book is organized into sections on nature and nurture, physiological psychology, social psychology, developmental psychology and methodology. Topics such as cross-cultural socialization, memory, thinking and stress, not traditionally encountered at this level, are also introduced. A final methodology chapter examines issues arising from the content. Two new chapters are included in this edition, dealing with: motivation as a complex, multifaceted issue; and psychometrics, covering occupational and intelligence testing.

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  1987

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  Paperback
  1994

  $146.03

  In this book we have aimed to give you, the reader, an introduction to some of the basic theoretical concepts in psychology and to show how they have been applied in a range of professional areas. Psychology is a subject that most of us are interested in, and in this text we have tried to show what a versatile discipline psychology is and what an exciting subject it can be to study. The book is designed to show the connections between the various areas of applied psychology. For the most part, applied psychologists tend to produce specialist texts which are relevant to their own area of work. But much of the research in work psychology, for example, is rele- vant to the applied areas of sport or health or education, and research into sport psychology has messages for health psychology too. What we is to draw out the relationships between the have tried to do in this text various areas and show how the same basic concepts may manifest themselves in different applied fields.