Psychology category: 48213 books
by Minna Lyons, Neil Harrison, Gayle Brewer
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
This accessible introductory text addresses the core knowledge domain of biological psychology, with focused coverage of the central concepts, research and debates in this key area. Biological Psychology outlines the importance and purpose of the biological approach and contextualises it with other...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Handbook of the Psychology of Aging, 6e provides a comprehensive summary and evaluation of recent research on the psychological aspects of aging. The 22 chapters are organized into four divisions: Concepts, Theories, and Methods in the Psychology of Aging; Biological and Social Influences on Aging;...
Social Psychology, Past and Present
An Integrative Orientation
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Providing a clearer understanding of contemporary issues through a broad, historical perspective, this scholarly overview unites the multidisciplinary roots of social psychology into one coherent book. The author attempts to unite the works and theories of all social psychological subdivisions. Clearly...
Portraits of Pioneers in Psychology
Volume V
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2003
This book offers glimpses into the personal and scholarly lives of 20 giants in the history of psychology. As in the earlier volumes, prominent scholars were invited to prepare chapters on a pioneer who had made important contributions in their own area of expertise. Some of the psychologists described...
The Essential Sternberg
Essays on Intelligence, Psychology, and Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2008
"I strongly recommend this book to people working in the area of intellectual disabilities...It may open new vistas that are not always available in the traditional disability literature. It will especially challenge psychologists working in this field."--Journal of Policy and Practice in...
The Psychology of Becoming a Successful Worker (Open Access)
Research on the changing nature of achievement at work
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
What is success at work and why is it important? How do top workers describe their success? How can work, community, leadership, family, or home and school promote success?
Success at work is often associated with career-oriented individuals who sacrifice other areas of life to achieve highly...
by Kaarina Maatta, Satu Uusiautti
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Universities around the world are under increasing pressure to maintain high levels of graduation and to make study processes as efficient as possible, with teachers and students struggling to meet the expectations placed upon them as a result. The Psychology of Study Success in Universities asks...
The SAGE Handbook of Industrial, Work & Organizational Psychology
V3: Managerial Psychology and Organizational Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
The third volume in The SAGE Handbook of Industrial, Organizational and Work Psychology concentrates on business decision-making and the many factors influencing the adoption and implementation of IWO practices. Chapter topics include utility assessments of interventions, decision-making errors in...
Chaos and Complexity in Psychology
The Theory of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2008
While many books have discussed methodological advances in nonlinear dynamical systems theory (NDS), this volume is unique in its focus on NDS's role in the development of psychological theory. After an introductory chapter covering the fundamentals of chaos, complexity and other nonlinear dynamics,...
Teaching, Training, and Administration in Graduate Psychology Programs
A Psychoanalytic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
Teaching, Training, and Administration in Graduate Psychology Programs offers a unique contribution to the literature by presenting psychoanalytic perspectives on the challenges of educating future psychologists. By integrating psychoanalytic theory with engaging cases and practical applications,...
Quantitative Psychology Research
The 80th Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society, Beijing, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
The research articles in this volume cover timely quantitative psychology topics, including new methods in item response theory, computerized adaptive testing, cognitive diagnostic modeling, and psychological scaling. Topics within general quantitative methodology include structural equation modeling,...
by Rom Harre
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2005
`For anyone that has spent years rowing off into convoluted estuaries, and would like an entertaining and useful chart to remind them of River Psychology as a whole, I thoroughly recommend this book' - The Psychologist
`This is a highly enjoyable, erudite and beautifully written manuscript....
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Reflexivity is a category that is too appealing not to arouse interest. It is a concept largely diffused in several psychological domains, as well as associated with epistemological, theoretical, methodological and practical discussions. At the same time, it is a very polysemic notion, understood...
Experimental Psycholinguistics (PLE: Psycholinguistics)
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
How is speech produced and understood in the context of everyday communication?
First published in 1975, this book is considered one the best of the early books in this field. The task of psycholinguistics is to discover how people produce and comprehend speech. This encompasses virtually all...