by Jeffrey S. Nevid (2003)
Psychology: Concepts and Applications has been developed based upon the author's research on how students best learn from a textbook. It presents a concept-based modular organization focused on four key objectives: to enhance learning, engage student interest, sharpen critical thinking skills, and incorporate technology as a tool for learning. The text provides a broad perspective on psychology that covers the history, methods of research, major theories, and research findings of the discipline, as well as applications of the knowledge gained from contemporary research to the problems and challenges we face in today's world. - Preface.
Douglas A. Bernstein ... [et al
Examines the ways in which research methods have been applied to understanding behaviour and mental processes. The unique "Linkages" system helps students understand the relationships among the subfields of psychology.
Marie Bérubé, Marc Vachon
Passer de rêveur à acteur dans sa propre histoire est, sans aucun doute, un grand plaisir de cette existence et un des fondements d'une vie épanouie et heureuse. Vous puiserez [dans cet ouvrage] une démarche concrète et plusieurs outils pratiques pour alimenter votre élan et vous stimuler dans la mise en oeuvre des changements que vous souhaitez. (4e de couverture).
John Bradshaw
Influence de la famille sur la formation de la personnalité. Explique comment l'individu peut échapper aux pièges de comportement renforcés par la famille dysfonctionnelle, de la dépendance à la codépendance jusqu'à la perte de volonté et le déni. Montre comment s'en sortir, assumer ses blessures intérieures et découvrir son moi véritable. [SDM].
Gustav Jahoda
The relationship between "mind" and "culture" has become a prominent - and fashionable - issue in psychology during the last quarter of the twentieth century. The conflict is between those who see the human mind as being generated from, and an intimate part of, culture and those, usually termed cognitivists, who view the mind as essentially separate from the environment. Gustav Jahoda traces the historical origins of this conflict to demonstrate that thinkers' preoccupation with the relationship between mind and culture is a very old one. The salient issues began to crystallize three centuries ago in Europe in the form of two distinct traditions whose contrasting conceptions of human nature and the human mind still remain the focus of current debates. The dominant one was produced by the scientific approach that had proved so successful in the physical realm. This view, associated with the Enlightenment, holds that mind is an essential part of nature and subject to its fixed laws. As a result of the influence of external factors such as climate and ecology, mind creates culture but remains essentially unchanged. The opposite view, which dates back to Vico and was espoused by anti-Enlightenment thinkers, is that the mind is separate from nature, an entity that both creates and is extensively modified by culture in a constant cycle of mutual determination. The growing prestige of experimental psychology has led to a heated debate between supporters of the rival traditions: is psychology a science or a cultural discipline? Jahoda identifies the current form of this debate as but a phase in psychology's long fascination with the role that culture plays in the formation of the mind. This book is a formidable achievement by one of Europe's most distinguished and erudite psychologists.