Psychology, 5/e
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Author(s):
Author:
Robert A. Baron
- ISBN:9788177583854
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Price:
Rs. 525.00
- Pages:768
- Imprint:Pearson Education
- Binding:Paperback
- Status:Available
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On the cutting edge of the latest research, Pyschology provides a critical thinking approach to the core topics of psychology along with relevant applications and student-focussed features and activities.
Table of Content
- Psychology: A Science and a Perspective.
- Biological Bases of Behavior.
- Sensation and Perception: Making Contact with the World around Us.
- States of Consciousness.
- Learning: How We're Changed by Experience.
- Memory: Of Things Remembered and Forgotten.
- Cognition: Thinking, Deciding, and Communicating.
- Human Development I: The Childhood Years.
- Human Development II: Adolescence, Adulthood, and Aging.
- Motivation and Emotion.
- Intelligence: Cognitive, Practical, and Emotional.
- Personality: Uniqueness and Consistency in the Behavior of Individuals.
- Health, Stress, and Coping.
- Mental Disorders: Their Nature and Causes.
- Therapies: Techniques for Alleviating Mental Disorders.
- Social Thought and Social Behavior.
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Salient Features
- Extremely current research and references - many from 1998, 1999 and even 2000
- "From Science….to Practice" features stress the practical value of psychology by illustrating how the findings and principles of psychology are being used to address important problems in many different fields, including medicine, education, law and business.
- Current research on evolutionary psychology discusses the biological and genetic bases of behaviour and is called out with marginal icons
- Gender and diversity issues are integrated within the text
- "Food for Thought" critical thinking questions have been added to review questions at the end of major sections
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