Mastering psychology
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Mastering psychology
（Macmillan master series）
Macmillan, 1991
- pbk.
- pbk. export
Available at 8 libraries
Note
Bibliography: p. [277]-290
Index: p. [296]-301
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A comprehensive introduction to psychology, which provides the basis for understanding research methods and theories as well as giving information about careers in psychology. Topics covered range from psychopathology to the advances made by Jean Piaget in the field of cognitive development.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Development over the lifespan: early social behaviour and the parent-child relationship
- the attachment process
- the childhood years
- adolescence
- physical development during adolescence
- adulthood
- early adulthood
- middle adulthood
- late adulthood. Part 2 Aspects of socialisation: the acquisition of sex roles
- sex role typing
- sex reassignment in childhood
- cross-cultural studies
- theories of sex role typing
- social learning theory
- cognitive development theory
- the development of aggression. Part 3 Social influence: social facilitation
- conformity
- criticisms and comments on conformity experiments
- compliance
- obedience. Part 4 Attitudes: measuring attitudes
- the development of attitudes
- changing attitudes
- the nature of the message
- the characteristics of the audience
- the source of the communication
- the context in which the message is delivered. Part 5 Social perception: impression formation
- the primacy recency effect
- central traits
- other influences on impression formation
- prejudice and discrimination
- racism
- sexism
- interactions based on equality
- counter-stereotyping
- fostering cooperation
- interpersonal attraction. Part 6 Perception: classification of sensory receptors
- principles common to sensory systems
- the human visual system
- visual proceeding by the brain
- sensation and perception
- perceiving is believing
- is perception innate or learned?
- gestalt theory of perception. Part 7 Attention: selective attention
- divided attention
- automatic and conscious processing. Part 8 Memory: sensory memory
- the Atkinson-Shiffrin model of memory
- research evidence
- criticisms of laboratory studies of memory
- eyewitness testimony
- levels of processing
- semantic memory. Part 9 Intelligence: the development of IQ tests
- construction of modern IQ tests
- theories of intelligence
- deferminants of IQ test performance
- current intelligence research. Part 10 Cognitive development: the work of Jean Piaget
- the development of the intellect
- Piaget's stage theory
- Piaget on moral development
- Piaget's theory - a critical evaluation. Part 11 Language and communication: the structure of language
- from sounds to words - the acquisition of language
- beyond simple sentence
- impaired language development
- theories of language acquisition
- language in other animals. Part 12 Animal learning: Ivan Pavlov and classical conditioning
- instrumental or operant conditioning
- Thorndike and the Law of Effect
- Skinner and reinforcement
- positive and negative reinforcement
- punishment and negative reinforcement
- primary and secondary reinforcement
- parial and continuous reinforcement
- schedules of reinforcement
- comparison between the different schedules
- applications of learning theory
- applications of classical conditioning
- treatments using operant conditioning techniques
- competence-performance issue
- latent learning. (Part contents)
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