Textbook Details
- By:
- Stephen M. Kosslyn and Robin S. Rosenberg
- Published:
- June 2020
- Discipline:
- Psychology Textbooks
- ISBN (Digital):
- 978-1-4533-3587-1
Introducing Psychology: Brain, Person, Group v5.1 clearly explains basic psychological concepts by highlighting the interactions between the brain (biological factors), the person (beliefs, desires, and feelings), and the world (social, cultural, and environmental factors). This engaging three-level approach organizes and integrates a variety of topics within and across chapters—and encourages learners to actively apply psychology to their own lives.
Key Benefits
SPARK DISCUSSION
Get your students talking. Special high-interest features throughout this text, like chapter-opening stories that are revisited throughout the following chapters, provide thematic structure and real-life applications to engage students.
INTEGRATE LEARNING
Utilize a mainstream perspective built around three levels of analysis (brain, person, group) that aligns with the popular integrated approach to psychology.
STAY CURRENT
This title includes information about COVID-19 and the pandemic’s early impact upon many facets of human psychology such as memory, personality, stress and health, social cognition, and social behavior.
MAINTAIN BALANCE
A unique partnership between the authors—one a respected scholar and the other an experienced clinical psychologist—provides a balance of theory and practice
Brief Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction to the Science of Psychology: History and Research Methods
Chapter 2: The Biology of Mind and Behavior: The Brain in Action
Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception: How the World Enters the Mind
Chapter 4: Learning: How Experience Changes Us
Chapter 5: Memory: Living with Yesterday
Chapter 6: Language, Thinking, and Intelligence: What Humans Do Best
Chapter 7: Emotion and Motivation: Feeling and Striving
Chapter 8: Personality: Vive La Difference!
Chapter 9: Psychology Over the Life Span: Growing Up, Growing Older, Growing Wiser
Chapter 10: Stress, Health, and Coping: Dealing with Life
Chapter 11: Psychological Disorders: More than Everyday Problems
Chapter 12: Treatment: Healing Actions, Healing Words
Chapter 13: Social Psychology: Meeting of the Minds
Appendix A: Statistics and How to Think About Research Studies
Appendix B: Answers to Practice Tests
Appendix C: References