| Description |
xxiv, 776 pages : coloured illustrations ; 28 cm |
| Series |
ERA Collection
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| Contents |
Prologue: how psychology became a science -- 1. Science and pseudoscience in psychology: skills for thinking scientifically in everyday life -- 2. Research methods: safeguards against error -- 3. Cross-cultural psychology: how culture affects us -- 4. Biological psychology: the brain-body communication superhighway -- 5. Sensation and perception: how we sense and conceptualise the world -- 6. Consciousness: expanding the boundaries of psychological inquiry -- 7. Learning: how nurture changes us -- 8. Memory: constructing and reconstructing our pasts -- 9. Language, thinking and reasoning: getting inside our talking heads -- 10. Intelligence and IQ testing: controversy and consensus -- 11. Human development: how and why we change -- 12. Emotion and motivation: what moves us -- 13. Stress, coping and health: the mind-body interconnection -- 14. Social psychology: how others affect us -- 15. Personality: who we are -- 16. Psychological disorders: when adaptation breaks down -- 17. Psychological and biological treatments: helping people change |
| Notes |
Authorised adaptation from the United States edition entitled Psychology :from inquiry to understanding, 1st edition, ISBN 0205412432, ©2009 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Intelligence tests.
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Pseudoscience.
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Psychology -- Interactive media
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Psychology -- Interactive multimedia.
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Psychology.
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Science -- Psychological aspects.
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| Author |
Haslam, Nick, 1963- author
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Jamieson, Graham A., author
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Lynn, Steven J., author
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Namy, Laura L., author
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Slaughter, Virginia, author
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Woolf, Nancy Jean, author
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| ISBN |
9781442539822 (paperback) |
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