PACK PSYCHOLOGY
McGraw-Hill Education / Australia
978-1-76042-113-7 (ISBN)
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Psychology: Science of Mind and Behaviour studies behaviour from multiple vantage points that emphasise biological, psychological and environmental and social determinants, with an underlying commonality to how any topic can be examined.
What makes Passer & Smith an essential contemporary resource for students of psychology?
Expert Australian authors writing in their specialist areas with new content on key areas of Australian mental health including indigenous health.
A wealth of pedagogy to help students develop critical thinking and application skills and master the core concepts of psychology.
Grab the latest edition of Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour and students will find:
Fully redesigned with new examples, research and statistics throughout to give you the latest developments and research.
Learning Objectives have been added to each chapter to help pinpoint what the student will learn from each section in the chapter.
Review Questions are aligned to each Learning Objective which are designed to test the student’s critical thinking and application skills thus helping increase knowledge retention and performance.
Study made easy: concept checks at the end of each major section also assist students in retaining the information they’ve just learned by providing concise bullet point summaries of key content.
Updated Australian Focus features, including: The use and misuse of research (ch 2), The evolutionary history of Indigenous Australians? (ch 3), Mistaken identity in Sydney (ch 8), Problem solving in real life (ch 9), Aboriginal expressions of emotion (ch 11), Forming an ethnic identity in multicultural Australia (ch 12), Personality, Culture, and the Stolen Generations (ch 13), The typical life experience of an Australian Aboriginal (ch 14), Immigration to Australia (ch 17)
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Michael W. Passer, Ph.D., coordinates the introductory psychology program at the University of Washington, which enrolls about 2,500 students per year, and also is the faculty coordinator of training for new teaching assistants (TAs). He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Rochester and his PhD in Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles, with a specialization in social psychology. Dr. Passer has been a faculty member at the University of Washington since 1977. A former Danforth Foundation Fellow and University of Washington Distinguished Teaching Award finalist, Dr. Passer has had a career-long love of teaching. Each academic year he teaches introductory psychology twice and a required pre-major course in research methods. Dr. Passer developed and teaches a graduate course on the Teaching of Psychology, which prepares students for careers in the college classroom, and also has taught courses in social psychology and attribution theory. He has published more than 20 scientific articles and chapters, primarily in the areas of attribution, stress, and anxiety, and has taught the introductory psychology course for 20 years. Ronald E. Smith, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology and Director of Clinical Psychology Training at the University of Washington, where he also has served as Area Head of the Social Psychology and Personality area. He received his bachelor’s degree from Marquette University and his PhD from Southern Illinois University, where he had dual specializations in clinical and physiological psychology. His major research interests are in anxiety, stress and coping, and in performance enhancement research and intervention. Dr. Smith is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. He received a Distinguished Alumnus Award from the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute for his contributions to the field of mental health. He has published more than 160 scientific articles and book chapters in his areas of interest and has authored or co-authored 23 books on introductory psychology, human performance enhancement, and personality, including Introduction to Personality: Toward an Integration, with Walter Mischel and Yuichi Shoda (Wiley, 2004). An award-winning teacher, he has more than 15 years of experience in teaching the introductory psychology course.
Chapter 1: The Science of Psychology
Chapter 2: Studying Behaviour Scientifically
Chapter 3: Genes, Environment and Behaviour
Chapter 4: The Brain Behaviour
Chapter 5: Sensation and Perception
Chapter 6: States of Consciousness
Chapter 7: Learning: The Role of Experience
Chapter 8: Memory
Chapter 9: Language and Thinking
Chapter 10: Intelligence
Chapter 11: Motivation and Emotion
Chapter 12: Development Over The Life-Span
Chapter 13: Personality
Chapter 14: Health and Well-Being
Chapter 15: Psychological Disorders
Chapter 16: Treatment of Psychological Disorders
Chapter 17: Social Thinking and Behaviour
Chapter 18: Indigenous and Cross-Cultural Psychology
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.6.2015 |
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie |
| ISBN-10 | 1-76042-113-8 / 1760421138 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-76042-113-7 / 9781760421137 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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