ERIC Number: ED409228
Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1986
Pages: 66
Abstractor: N/A
ISBN: ISBN-0-910857-38-5
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Psychology: Student Edition.
Stark, Rebecca
This book published in 1986 introduces students to psychology and its related subject areas. Students learn that psychology has matured through the centuries from its taboo beginnings in supernatural beliefs and magic to its current status as a scientific discipline. Sections of the book include: (1) "What is Psychology?"; (2) "Human Development"; (3) "The Nervous System"; (4) "Cognitive Development"; (5) "Creative Problem Solving"; (6) "Intelligence"; (7) "Sensation and Perception"; (8) "Conditioning, Learning and Memory"; (9) "Motivation and Emotion"; (10) "Altered States of Consciousness"; (11) "Frustration and Conflict"; (12) "Mental Disorders"; (13) "Psychotherapy"; (14) "Personality"; (15) "Theories of Personality"; and (16) "Social Psychology." (EH)
Descriptors: Behavior, Cognitive Psychology, Conditioning, Developmental Psychology, Individual Psychology, Psychology, Psychopathology, Secondary Education, Social Psychology, Social Studies
Educational Impressions, 210 Sixth Avenue, Hawthorne, NJ 07507; telephone: 800-451-7450.
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Learner
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Students
Language: English
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