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Psychology: An Introduction

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First of all, I am a computer scientist and I picked this book without taking a course. I was reading books like "Your erroneous zones", "Too much control", "Do what you are" and some others like those, when I decided I wanted have a deeper understanding of psychology.

This book is great. I was first surprised to discover there was much more to psychology than Freud, Jung and the psychoanalysis. Just look at its table of contents.

1. The Science of Psychology.
2. The Biological Basis of Behavior.
3. Sensation and Perception.
4. States of Consciousness.
5. Learning.
6. Memory.
7. Cognition and Language.
8. Intelligence and Mental Abilities.
9. Motivation and Emotion.
10. Life Span Development.
11. Personality.
12. Stress and Health Psychology.
13. Psychological Disorders.
14. Therapies.
15. Social Psychology.

Reading this book helped me understand myself and other people, and it has a lot of sources. There was not a chapter I found uninteresting. A great buy.

At my school we use this textbook for our AP Psychology class. It is very clear and understandable, a great introduction to Psychology.

I thought this was a great book...Also because I aced the course. This book is clear and is worded so you can remember things easily. Gives great examples!

I was looking for a good introduction to psychology and this book gave me exactly what I wanted. It starts of with a bit of history and definitions before getting into specific fields of psychology. The book really encourages to make up your own opinion about different subjects and experiments.

Definitely recommended.

This book was not what I thought it would be . I was lookong more on the lines of a text book on Introduction to Psychology.

I am so impressed. I was hessitant about purchasing a used book online, but I had a great experience. The book was just as described and was to my door 3 days after I ordered it.