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Psychology is part of everyone's experience: it influences the way we think about everything from education and intelligence, to relationships and emotions, advertising and criminality. People readily behave as amateur psychologists, offering explanations for what people think, feel, and do. But what exactly are psychologists trying to do? What scientific grounding do they have for their approach? This Very Short Introduction explores some of psychology's leading ideas and their practical show more relevance. In this new edition, Gillian Butler and Freda McManus explore a variety of new topics and ways of studying the brain. Until recently it was not possible to study the living human brain directly, so psychologists studied our behavior, and used their observations to derive hypotheses about what was going on inside. Now-through neuroscience-our knowledge of the workings of the brain has increased and improved technology provides us with a scientific basis on which to understand the structure and workings of the brain, allowing brain activity to be observed and measured. Exploring some of the most important advances and developments in psychology-from evolutionary psychology and issues surrounding adolescence and aggression to cognitive psychology-this is a stimulating introduction for anyone interested in understanding the human mind. show lessTags
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Ky tekst i shkëlqyer shpjegon në mënyrë të përmbledhur se si e studiojnë psikologët modernë mendjen dhe sjelljen njerëzore. Ky libër është paraqitja më e mirë e mundshme e kësaj fushe dhe shpjegon studimin shkencor të mendjes me një gjuhë të kulluar që është sa e kuptueshme dhe e këndshme për t'u lexuar.
The book is divided into 10 small chapters, and it covers the basics: perception, learning and memory, reasoning and communication (language), motivation, developmental psychology, abnormal psychology and social psychology.
However, this book was simply too much the freshman lecture for my taste. The theory and the practice of psychology raise very imporant philosophical and political issues and this book simply never got there. Perhaps it is too much to ask of a Very Short Introduction, but I would have prefered that author take a more critical stance, even one with which I disagree.
However, this book was simply too much the freshman lecture for my taste. The theory and the practice of psychology raise very imporant philosophical and political issues and this book simply never got there. Perhaps it is too much to ask of a Very Short Introduction, but I would have prefered that author take a more critical stance, even one with which I disagree.
Overview of some different fields and approaches to psychology and what psychologists do. Reads more like a hook to get teenagers to decide on psychology at university.
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Gillian Butler is a consultant clinical psychologist and Fellow of the British Psychological Society
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- Psychology: A Very Short Introduction
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- Psychology
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- 1998
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- William James
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- In 1890 William James, the American philosopher and physician and one of the founders of modern psychology, defined psychology as 'the science of mental life' and this definition provides a good starting point for our underst... (show all)anding even today.
In 1890 William James, the American philosopher and physician and one of the founders of modern psychology, defined psychology as 'the science of mental life' and this definition can still provide a good starting point for ou... (show all)r understanding today. [2nd ed.] - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Undoubtedly future research will raise as many questions as it answers and, equally certainly, psychology will continue to fascinate people - those who know about it only from their own subjective experience as well as those who make it their life's work.
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Undoubtedly future research will raise as many questions as it answers and, equally certainly, psychology will continue to fascinate people who know about it only from their own subjective experience as well as those who make it their life's work. [2nd ed.] - Blurbers
- Clare, Anthony; Storr, Anthony; Beck, Aaron T.; Argyle, Michael
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