Straightforward and student friendly, James S. Nairne's PSYCHOLOGY, Fifth Edition, uses a proven problem-solving approach to help you discover how to apply psychology to your everyday life. A firm believer that you must understand what a psychological process is for before you can hope to understand how it works, Dr. Nairne presents topics from a "functional" perspective. With this signature approach, chapters begin by focusing on the "why" behind psychological processes before introducing what they are and how they work. Our brains are filled with psychological "tools" that control everything from emotion to memory, and each helps us adapt and solve important everyday problems. Nairne describes these tools in detail, shows you how they're used, and focuses on specific situations in which they are applied. Emphasizing critical thinking and active learning, PSYCHOLOGY, Fifth Edition, provides current, comprehensive, and practical coverage that you can immediately apply to your life.
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Psychology: The Adaptive Mind presents all the conventional content of an introductory book, but with a twist. Rather than beginning with theory or research, it begins each topic with an everyday example of a "problem" to be solved (for example, how to remember a telephone number; how we can "know" that a rattlesnake's rattle signals an event). In every chapter, Psychology: The Adaptive Mind "reframes" the subject matter of psychology by placing the major emphasis on how particular behaviors, cognitive processes, and emotions help people solve important adaptive problems -- not just survival problems, but everyday problems. For example, the principles of classical conditioning are introduced as "solutions" to the problem of how people learn about signals in their environment. By presenting the field of psychology in the context of "adaptive problem solving", Psychology: The Adaptive Mind provides a distinctive and cohesive viewpoint that effectively organizes and integrates the material and makes it easy to learn from. -- Midwest Book Review
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James S. Nairne is Distinguished Professor of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University, specializing in human memory. Professor Nairne is recognized internationally as both a scholar and a teacher. At Purdue, he has received virtually every top teaching honor that the University offers. In 2000, he received the "Liberal Arts Excellence in Education Award"; in 2001 he received the "Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award in Memory of Charles B. Murphy" and he was named a Fellow of the Purdue Teaching Academy; in 2004 he was recognized with a permanent position in Purdue's Book of Great Teachers. He is currently director of the Honors Program in the School of Liberal Arts and for the Department of Psychology. Jim Nairne received his Ph.D. in Human Memory and Cognition from Yale University. His memberships include APA, APS, and the Psychonomics Society. He is currently Associate Editor of the PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW, and was the associate editor of the JOURNAL OF MEMORY AND LANGUAGE from 1997 to 2001 and has served on the board since 1993.
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