Ebook Essentials Of Understanding Psychology

Ebook: Essentials of Understanding Psychology

"14th edition of Essentials of Understanding Psychology has relied heavily-and benefited substantially-from the advice of instructors and students from a wide range of backgrounds. Effective introduction to a discipline must be oriented to students-informing them, engaging them, and exciting them about the field and helping them connect it to their worlds. All these goals are achieved in Essentials of Understanding Psychology, 14/e"--

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"14th edition of Essentials of Understanding Psychology has relied heavily-and benefited substantially-from the advice of instructors and students from a wide range of backgrounds. Effective introduction to a discipline must be oriented to students-informing them, engaging them, and exciting them about the field and helping them connect it to their worlds. All these goals are achieved in Essentials of Understanding Psychology, 14/e"--

Revised edition of the author's Understanding psychology, [2017]

Aimed at those new to the subject, Fundamentals of Psychology is a clear and reader-friendly textbook that will help students explore and understand the essentials of psychology. This text offers a balanced and accurate representation of the discipline through a highly accessible synoptic approach, which seamlessly brings together all the various related topics. Fundamentals of Psychology combines an authoritative tone, a huge range of psychological material and an informal, analogy-rich style. The text expertly blends admirably up-to-date empirical research and real-life examples and applications, and is both readable and factually dense. The book introduces all the main approaches to psychology, including social, developmental, cognitive, biological, individual differences, and abnormal psychology, as well as psychological research methods. However, it also includes directions for more detailed and advanced study for the interested student. Fundamentals of Psychology incorporates many helpful textbook features which will aid students and reinforce learning, such as: Key-term definitions Extremely clear end-of-chapter summaries Annotated further reading sections Evaluations of significant research findings Numerous illustrations presented in attractive full color. This textbook is also accompanied by a comprehensive program of resources for both students and instructors, which is available free to qualifying adopters. The resources include a web-based Student Learning Program, as well as chapter-by-chapter lecture slides and an interactive chapter-by-chapter multiple-choice question test bank. Combining exceptional content, abundant pedagogical features, and a lively full-color design, Fundamentals of Psychology is an essential resource for anyone new to the subject and more particularly those beginning undergraduate courses. The book will also be ideal for students studying psychology within education, nursing and other healthcare professions.

A FASCINATING INSIGHT INTO WHAT MAKES US TICK The bestselling Understand Psychology explains basic psychological processes and how they influence us in all aspects of everyday life. 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. It is a comprehensive introduction that shows how human experience can be understood on many levels. Understand Psychology takes you through every aspect of the subject, from child development and social influences to the role of memories and emotions. You will discover how we interact with each other, why we dream, what motivates us, why children need to play and whether watching TV is bad for you. Now fully revised and updated, this 6th edition of the bestselling guide includes brand new material on mindfulness, social living, focusing in particular on shyness and loneliness and social media, coping with stress, decision making and forensic psychology, addiction and modern drugs, cognitive neuropsychology, and the psychology of learning, including teaching, exams and exam stress. The clear structure, packed full of practical examples, makes it easy to learn the essentials you really need to know. ABOUT THE SERIES People have been learning with Teach Yourself since 1938. With a vast range of practical, how-to guides covering language learning, lifestyle, hobbies, business, psychology and self-help, there's a Teach Yourself book for whatever you want to do. Join more than 60 million people who have reached their goals with Teach Yourself, and never stop learning.

"14th edition of Essentials of Understanding Psychology has relied heavily-and benefited substantially-from the advice of instructors and students from a wide range of backgrounds. Effective introduction to a discipline must be oriented to students-informing them, engaging them, and exciting them about the field and helping them connect it to their worlds. All these goals are achieved in Essentials of Understanding Psychology, 14/e"--