What is Psychology?: Essentials, International Edition - Softcover

Pastorino, Ellen; Doyle-Portillo, Susann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0840030835 ISBN 13: 9780840030832

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

With a strong applied focus, WHAT IS PSYCHOLOGY? ESSENTIALS, 2E, International Edition captures and holds students’ attention from the first page to the last. Ellen Pastorino and Susann Doyle-Portillo, award-winning psychology professors with an infectious enthusiasm for teaching, have found that students who are curious are motivated to explore and truly learn how psychological concepts are connected. This text incorporates the authors’ successful and engaging teaching approach, unlocking students’ curiosity with compelling, chapter-opening stories of real people that show students how psychology affects their everyday lives. Embedded critical-thinking questions motivate students to continue making connections between personal stories, applications to their own lives, and psychological concepts they will use outside of the classroom. Diversity is addressed in every chapter through integration of issues of gender, race, culture, ethnicity, and sexuality.

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Paperback. Pub Date :2011-12-15 Pages: 704 Language: English Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing With a strong applied focus. What Is Psychology Essentials. 2e. International Edition captures and holds students attention from the first page to the last. Ellen Pastorino and Susann Doyle-Portillo. award-winning psychology professors with an infectious enthusiasm for teaching. have found that students who are curious are motivated to explore and truly learn how psychological concepts are connected. This text incorporates the authors successful and engaging teaching approach . unlocking students curiosity with compelling. chapter-opening stories of real people that show students how psychology affects their everyday lives. Embedded critical-thinking questions motivate students to continue making connections between personal stories. applications to their own lives. and psychological...

Review:

1. What Is Psychology? 2. How Does Biology Influence Our Behavior? 3. How Do We Sense and Perceive Our World? 4. Consciousness: Wide Awake, in a Daze, or Dreaming? 5. How Do We Learn? 6. How Does Memory Function? 7. Cognition, Language, and Intelligence: How Do We Think? 8. Motivation and Emotion: What Guides Behavior? 9. How Do People Grow, Change, and Develop? 10. Social Psychology: How Do We Understand and Interact With Others? 11. Health, Stress, and Coping. How Can You Create a Healthy Life? 12. What Is Personality, and How Do We Measure It? 13. What Are Psychological Disorders, and How Can We Understand Them? 14. What Therapies Are Used to Treat Psychological Problems? Appendix A. How Are Statistics Used in Psychology? Appendix B. How Do We Apply Psychology to the Workplace?

About this edition

• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0840030835
• ISBN 13: 9780840030832
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 704