This text also provides instructors with a fully integrated supplements package to objectively gauge their students' mastery of psychology's key principles and concepts and to create dynamic lectures.
Guides students through introductory psychology concepts. This book integrates a variety of elements that foster students' understanding of psychology and its impact on their everyday lives, including a fresh Neuroscience and Life feature.
Further chapters explore nontraditional diversity topics, such as weightism, ageism, and social stigma. Integrated throughout the text are applications of these topics to timely social issues.
It explores why we are the way we are, how we came to be that way, and what we might do to change seemingly fundamental traits. The book puts psychology in context, using non-technical language to analyze everyday situations.
... 118 Perls, Frederick, 90, 188, 256 Pfaffmann, Carl, 40 Piaget, Jean, 56, 134, 205, 212, 233 Pickren, Wade E., iv, ... 278 Sartre, Jean-Paul, 215 Scheerer, Martin, 38, 187 Schlesinger, K., 13, 276 Schlosberg, Harold, 155 Schneider, ...
An additional theory of burnout was presented by Coakley (1992) who proposed that a narrowly defined identity may lead to a feeling of entrapment in the role of an athlete (see 7.38). The premise of Coakley's model was that social ...
The book presents a comprehensive updated approach to current psychological knowledge to facilitate a rapid review of the major subjects in psychology in medicine and to stimulate further detailed study. The book is divided into five Parts.
The "Ideas Concerning a Descriptive and Analytic Psychology" (1894), now translated into English for the first time, sets forth Dilthey's programma tic and methodological viewpoints through a descriptive psychology, while "The Understanding ...
Understanding Abnormal Psychology provides a thorough understanding of abnormal psychology with a focus on the integration of psychology, biology and health.
... be named after his or her favorite cattle, the center of the Nuer cultural system (Evans-Pritchard, 1940). Totemism entails the identification of social groups with animals (Lévi-Strauss, 1966). Anthropologists Crocker (1985) and ...