Study Guide for Psychology
Product Description
Between them, authors Davis and Palladino have spent over 50 years teaching the introductory psychology course, and they are committed to offering a book whose design, writing, price, and content meets the needs of learners at all levels. Using a conversational writing style, this engaging book offers a broad exploration of classic and contemporary research on current and emerging topics in the field, and encourages readers to recognize, first hand, how psychological concepts have meaning in their own daily lives. Investigating the “hows” and “whys” of research methods presented, this book offers frequent examination of the validity of conclusions drawn. Chapter topics cover sensation and perception, states of consciousness, basic principles of learning, motivation and emotion, memory, thinking and intelligence, lifespan developmental psychology, sex and gender, personality, psychological disorders, therapy, health psychology, social psychology, and applied psychology. For individuals seeking an introduction to the psychology field.
Anonymous said,
Wrote on May 7, 2010 @ 5:23 am
This book was a good introducion to the field of psychology. It was a great help to me during my general psychology course. Aside from presenting its information in a clear and easly understandable way, the text is well organized and full of study aids. The chapters are helpfully subdivided and each segment provides a synopsis and a “study break” self quiz so you can test yourself and see how much of the material you have asimilated. Margin definitions and summeries of all the important terms and concepts are presented adjacent to the full explanations of the material. The graphs and illustrations in each chapter are very informative and useful in explaining the concepts and experiments presented. Overall this is a good book for anyone who wants a genral overview of psychology.
Rating: 4 / 5
Jay said,
Wrote on May 7, 2010 @ 6:06 am
This is for the study guide edition of the book! It’s not the actual text book! Nowhere on this page does it actually say its the study guide and even the picture doesn’t say its the study guide!
Rating: 1 / 5
M. Weston said,
Wrote on May 7, 2010 @ 7:08 am
I really liked this book. It was comprehensive and clear. I am now, a year or two later, regretting selling it back because I actually could have used its material.
Rating: 5 / 5
Timothy Doyle said,
Wrote on May 7, 2010 @ 8:19 am
I needed the text book, not the study guide. Amazon didn’t even list the text book, so I didn’t know there were two books.
Rating: 1 / 5