Get set for psychology
By: Peter Wright and Hamish Macleod
Contributors: Macleod, Hamish
Series: Get set for university; Get set for university
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780748626960
Subjects: Education & Training; Psychology; Study and teaching (Higher); PSYCHOLOGY
Description: Provides an introduction to the study of psychology at university level. This book aims to encourage and enable the reader to link a natural interest in human (and animal) behaviour with the sorts of models and theories that are used by academic psychologists.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: COVER; CONTENTS; 1 HOW TO USE THIS BOOK; 2 STATISTICAL THINKING; 3 PRACTICAL CLASSES; 4 BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOUR; 5 PERCEPTION; 6 COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY; 7 DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY; 8 SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; 9 INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; 10 GETTING THE MOST OUT OF LECTURES; 11 LEARNING IN SMALL GROUPS; 12 WRITING TO BE READ; 13 ONLINE LEARNING; 14 PREPARING FOR AND SITTING EXAMINATIONS; INDEX;