Psychology around us /
Ronald Comer, Elizabeth Gould.
- Second edition.
- xliv, 649 pages, 138 variously numbered pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chapter 1: Psychology: Yesterday and Today -- Chapter 2: Psychology As a Science -- Chapter 3: Human Development -- Chapter 4: Neuroscience -- Chapter 5: Sensation and Perception -- Chapter 6: Consciousness -- Chapter 7: Learning -- Chapter 8: Memory -- Chapter 9: Language and Thought -- Chapter 10: Intelligence -- Chapter 11: Motivation --Chapter 12: Emotion, Stress, and Health -- Chapter 13: Personality -- Chapter 14: Social Psychology -- Chapter 15: Psychological Disorders -- Chapter 16: Treatment of Psychological Disorders.
"Comer and Gould's Psychology Around Us demonstrates the many-often surprising, always fascinating-intersections of psychology with students' day-to-day lives. Every chapter includes sections on human development, brain function, individual differences and abnormal psychology that occur in that area. These "cut-across" sections highlight how the different fields of psychology are connected to each other and how they connect to everyday life. Every chapter begins with a vignette that shows the power of psychology in understanding a whole range of human behavior. This theme is reinforced throughout the chapter in boxed readings and margin notes that celebrate the extraordinary processes that make the everyday possible and make psychology both meaningful and relevant. The text presents psychology as a unified field the understanding of which flows from connecting its multiple subfields and reinforces the fact that psychology is a science with all that this implies (research methodology, cutting edge studies, the application of critical thinking)."--