Product Description: Book by Werthman, Michael

Selected essays on such topics as freedom, responsibility, anxiety, and psychotherapy probe the problems faced by contemporary man

Product Description: Integrates critical thinking, gender, age, ethnicity and multiculturalism into the study of psychology. This enables students to not only learn the content of psychology, but also to think critically about the many influences that shape human development and behaviour.

Product Description: The book represents the first attempt to summarize the major factors in the ongoing debate on ideology and psychology. The contributions on historical development focus on concrete research areas, and show the importance of the social context and ideology in the development of psychology...read more

Product Description: This book introduces contextualism, an emerging paradigm that has generated much interest and excitement in psychology, sociology, communications research, and other areas of behavioral science. Unlike behaviorism which tries to predict behavior based on a specific set of variables, contextualism asserts that human beings react and learn in a variety of situations and there is no single best kind of behavior...read more

Schools can get caught up in disasters and crises such as major loss following a fire, injuries and deaths of pupils on a school journey, or delliberate violence. This book describes some of the ways that crises can affect schools and suggests how to lesson the physical and emotional effect.

A comprehensive high school level introduction to the study of psychologyPsychology and You utilizes a writing style that talks with students using examples and language relevant to their lives. Anecdotes, historical facts, unusual events, everyday issues and concerns, and humor are also built in to keep students' interest.This program has been fully correlated to the proposed standards for teaching high school psychology developed by the American Psychological Association.

In this Briefer Version, as in the longer text, Wayne Weiten shows the unity and diversity of psychology's subject matter, illuminates the process of research and its intimate link to application, and gives students a presentation that makes it easy to learn without sacrificing conceptually challenging material. The Briefer Version is created expressly for those professors who are drawn to Weiten's fresh, original approach to the subject matter and his impeccable scholarship, but find the longer text a bit too much for their students to master in one term. This Fifth Edition of the Briefer Version is visually stunning, scientifically sound, and fun to read. Making learning easy without lowering the level of scholarship, Weiten presents introductory psychology in a way that will be meaningful to students long after they have completed the course.

Product Description: The accomplished author team of Phillip Zimbardo (APA president 2001-2002), Bob Johnson and Ann Weber once again present psychology to both teachers and students in a meaningful, manageable format. Each chapter of this brief, less expensive textbook focuses on the key questions and core concepts of psychology, supported by an extensive pedagogical structure designed to aid students...read more

Product Description: Simply Psychology, 3rd Edition, is a reader-friendly and engaging introduction to the key principles of psychology. Organised around the major approaches to the subject, it covers biological, behaviourist, developmental, social, and cognitive psychology, as well as individual differences...read more

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