Psychology
Publisher: Grolier Educational; Grolier Academic Reference; Grolier; Brown Partworks Limited
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Danbury, Conn
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780717256624; 9780717256563; 9780717256570; 9780717256587; 9780717256594; 9780717256600; 9780717256617
Subjects: Juvenile literature; Psychology
Description: Covers major aspects of psychology, including its background, theoretical premises, and its development into modern science of the mind.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. History of psychology. What is psychology? ; Timeline ; Ancient Greek thought ; Early psychology ; Nature and nurture ; Beginnings of scientific psychology ; Functionalism ; Gestalt psychology ; Psychoanalysis ; Phenomenology and humanism ; Behaviorism ; Neuropsychology ; Brain-imaging techniques ; Cognitive psychology ; Psycholinguistics ; Computer simulation ; Evolutionary psychology ; Nonwestern theories of the mind ; Cross-cultural psychology ; Research methods; title: v. 2. The brain and the mind. History of the brain ; Biology of the brain ; Mind ; Perception ; Emotion and motivation ; Consciousness ; Artificial minds; title: v. 3. Thinking and knowing. The human computer ; Attention and information processing ; Learning by association ; Representing information ; Storing information ; Language processing ; Problem solving; title: v. 4. Developmental psychology. Fetal development ; Infant cognition ; Perceptual development ; Stages of development ; Memory development ; Development of problem solving ; Emotional development ; Social development ; Applications and future challenges; title: v. 5. Social psychology. People as social animals ; Relating to others ; Relating to society ; Communication ; Personality ; Intelligence ; Nature or nurture; title: v. 6. Abnormal psychology. What is abnormality? ; Mental disorders ; Abnormality in development ; Psychotherapies ; Physical therapies ; Mental disorders and society.