This classic text emphasizes the science of psychology, with a special focus on applying that science to students' daily lives. Sensation, Perception, Biology, Motivation, Emotion, Development, Heath, Cognition, Intelligence, Learning, Memory, Personality, Stress, Social Psychology, History of Psychology,Research Methods, Disorders and treatments. Intro to Psych.
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R<>ichard J. Gerrig is a professor of psychology at Stony Brook University. Before joining the Stony Brook faculty, Gerrig taught at Yale University, where he was awarded the Lex Hixon Prize for teaching excellence in the social sciences. Gerrig’s research on cognitive psychological aspects of language use has been widely published. One line of work examines the mental processes that underlie efficient communication. A second research program considers the cognitive and emotional changes readers experience when they are transported to the worlds of stories. His book Experiencing Narrative Worlds was published by Yale University Press. Gerrig is a Fellow of both the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science. He is also an associate editor of Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. Gerrig is the proud father of Alexandra, who at age 16 provides substantial and valuable advice about many aspects of psychology and life in the 21st century. Life on Long Island is greatly enhanced by the guidance and support of Timothy Peterson.
Philip G. Zimbardo is an emeritus professor of psychology at Stanford University, where he has taught since 1968, after earlier teaching at Yale University, New York University, and Columbia University. He also continues to teach at the Naval Post Graduate School in Monterey. Zimbardo is internationally recognized as the “voice and face of contemporary psychology” through his widely seen PBS-TV series, Discovering Psychology, his media appearances, best-selling trade books on shyness, and his classic research, The Stanford Prison Experiment. His current research interests are in the domain of experimental social psychology, with a scattered emphasis on everything interesting to study from shyness to time perspective, persuasion, cults, madness, violence, vandalism, political psychology, and terrorism. Zimbardo has been a prolific, innovative researcher across a number of fields in social and general psychology, with more than 300 professional articles and chapters and 50 books to his credit. To recognize the breadth of his research achievements, the American Psychological Association presented Zimbardo with the Ernest Hilgard Award for lifetime contributions to general psychology. He has also won the Vaclav Havel Foundation Award for his body of research on the human condition. Zimbardo has been President of the Western Psychological Association (twice), President of the American Psychological Association, Chair of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents (CSSP), and now Chair of the Western Psychological Foundation and Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Policy, Education, and Research on Terrorism. He is most excited about the publication of his new trade book in March 2007 (Random House), which he has been working on intensely for the past several years. Its domain is the psychology of evil; its provocative title: “The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil.”
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This book is EXTREMELY helpful. I used the quizzes at the end of each chapter and I felt that it was a great way to review what I read. It also had a list of important words from each chapter (with pages numbers so they were even easier to find) and I made flash cards out of those, there was also a summary of the chapter and I believe it helped me prepare for my midterms. The book is an easy read, not complicated or dense -- full of interesting information. Unfortunately I had to return this book because I found another one for a cheaper price. I paid about $135 for this one and I bought another for $36 (both prices include shipping and handling). I did not realize the other was a different edition until I received it and wished I did not return this book. But it was too late, I got my money back and such, in other words--this book is worth it and amazing!
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This text is required for Psych 103 at Stony Brook Univ., LI, NY
It is excellent.
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This review is from: Psychology and Life (MyPsychLab Series) (Hardcover)
This book is sloppily written which makes it difficult to read. Often sentences are circumlocutious and contain awkward phrases. Also the book is full of little mistakes like "Boys are more likely than boys to engage in rough-and-tumble play" (338). Whatever.
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