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Human Motivation (with InfoTrac)

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I teach an upper division college course with this textbook; the course is, "Psychology of Motivation." I continue to use the 2002 Fifth Edition, because the newer Sixth Edition is 98% identical to the Fifth. First, the fact that this book has reached six editions shows that it is highly successful; it is the most popularly chosen text for motivation courses. EMOTION is a large topic in the book, with five chapters. Students have responded positively to the book. As is true with other upper division textbooks in psychology, the book has a "plain appearance," lacking color printing, and other features that are common with lower division textbooks. There is no study guide, and no review questions at the ends of chapters. Some topics overlap with other psychology courses: these topics are sleep, drug addiction, sexuality. One of the most interesting specialized topics is the sensation-seeking personality --- people who love sports that are "dangerous to life and limb." Physiological topics are also covered ---- most interesting of which is the role of the brain's amygdala in negative motives and emotions ---- the amygdala is the brain's seat of prejudicial beliefs. Prof. Stephen Buggie, Univ. of New Mexico, Gallup NM 87301

Hard to evaluate a textbook, but this one I have an opinion about. The text itself is pretty standard fare, but the online features really drive the concepts home. I am in a CD-ROM/Distance Learning Course and find that the extra "browsing" really suites my learning style and doesn't feel like hard work. I enjoy the supplemental reading and it is really helping me with sources for my midterm. At first, I balked at the price, but now I am really thankful for the online section.

Franken is completely sold on the theory of evolution and tries to connect all motivation theories back to evolution. He is extremely one sided. This is not fair to students. We should be given texts that show all view points, not just one. The only positive about this book is that Franken reviews motivation theories by dissecting them into biological, learned and cognitive theories. But again, he keeps dragging the theory of evolution into each motivation theory as if it is fact - evolution is just a theory and it should not be used as the foundation of all psychological theories. I would have appreciated his book more if he had just reviewed the motivation concepts by themselves and not tried to connect them all to the theory of evolution. As a student, I feel cheated.

The book is in good condition. Contains a lot of helpful information. Contains information that is pertinent to my homework.

When i read the company's blurb about how good the books condition was and looked at how satisfied customers were in the past, i thought i'd be getting a pretty "brand new" barely used book, like i have in the past from amazon. Unfortunately, this book is beat up on the outside, and has different colored highlight marks ALL over the inside of the book, which is very distracting to me and hard to read and study. I'm very disappointed in this purchase.

This book was execellent condition. I have found that the cost was completely justified with the book in new like condition.

Great sale. Arrived in a timely manner. I ordered late and it still managed to make it quickly. Exactly as described.