Psychology for Kids: 40 Fun Tests That Help You Learn about Yourself (Self-Help for Kids Series) [Paperback]

Jonni Kincher (Author), Julie S. Bach (Editor), Pamela Espeland (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1995 | Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up | Series: Self-Help for Kids Series

Readers give themselves tests that help them discover new things about their own personalities and character.

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Review

"An ideal self-discovery resource for children, families, and teachers."—Children's Advocate

 Previous edition: “Best Small Press Psychology Book,” Benjamin Franklin Book Award

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

J. Kincher was born in Oklahoma and grew up in Colorado and California. She received her education in psychology at California State University, San Bernardino. Her interest in psychology began when she was in third grade, but there weren’t many psychology books for young children “back then,” so she designed special courses in academic psychology for third grade through high school and created her own materials. She began teaching “Psychology for Kids Playshops” so “kids” could use their natural curiosity about themselves to learn the basics of psychology as an academic discipline and thus be introduced to another area of study in the social sciences. The ideas and materials for her books were developed and tested in the Playshops. She also is the author of the award-winning Psychology for Kids Vol. 2: 40 Fun Experiments That Help You Learn About Others.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 10 and up
  
• Paperback: 152 pages
• Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing; Revised edition (January 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0915793857
• ISBN-13: 978-0915793853
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #653,262 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great resource!, August 10, 2004

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V. Zilinsky "co-owner of www.raisingourkids.com" (Michigan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Psychology for Kids: 40 Fun Tests That Help You Learn about Yourself (Self-Help for Kids Series) (Paperback)

We live our whole childhood trying to figure out who we really are, and now there is a book to help our kids explore their personalities even deeper. It contains 40 fun and easy-to-follow psychological tests that offer a wide range of insights into a child's personality. At the end of the book, there is a summary sheet to tie together all the results in a nice and easy to understand manner. This is a great book for parents to share with their grade-school kids, and the best thing about these tests is that there are NO WRONG ANSWERS!!

17 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars not what I hoped, November 8, 2002

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"mommyteacherartfan" (MO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Psychology for Kids: 40 Fun Tests That Help You Learn about Yourself (Self-Help for Kids Series) (Paperback)

This book does have a lot of self-discovery experiments- in fact that's pretty much all it has. There isn't much information included to validate the experiments or to explain why they are significant to psychology. However, the book does refer you to other sources. I ordered the book, hoping to use it with my High School Gifted class but found that the text was a bit too juvenille. This book could be a good supplement to a psychology unit, but it is not something from which to teach.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great for the budding pre-teen psychologists, May 9, 2010

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thelegalalien (midwest, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Psychology for Kids Vol. 1: 40 Fun Tests That Help You Learn About Yourself (Updated Edition) (Book & CD Rom) (Paperback)

This is a perfect introductory book for an upper-elementary or middle-school student who is developing an interest in psychology.

It concentrates on self-discovery and self-awareness and consists mainly of various personality tests. Those are very well done. They are engaging and child-friendly, yet also manage to plug in concepts and relate the tests to real life, without overloading the reader with academic language or emotionally heavy material. Conceptually, it is accurate and, while simple, not at all dumbed down.

It also gives ideas for projects, essays and assignments to link the material with the rest of the curriculum. The books has a few illustrations (black-and-white cartoons).

To make it clear, you will NOT find information on theoretical and experimental psychology in this book, no name dropping and theory outlines, no experimental design or discussion of famous experiments, etc. This is not a textbook, and even as a supplementary reading will likely be too juvenile for a high-schooler.

The best way to read this book is to take a chapter or two at a time, go through it together with your kid, compare your test results and discuss anything related to the topic that comes to your mind: give more depth to the definitions, discuss problems that may arise in this or that, try and figure out how you would study that if you were an experimental psychologist, etc.

Enjoy this book!