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Psychology is the internationally best-selling introduction to one of the world’s most exciting sciences. This popular text explores every major branch in the field, allowing students to discover classic and contemporary topics, theories and applications. A range of engaging pedagogical features bring alive the diverse strands within the subject. Richly illustrated throughout, with examples from across the globe, this is an essential read for students of psychology and related disciplines just beginning their studies, as well as for those who simply want to explore psychology in more depth. The full text downloaded to your computer With eBooks you can: search for key concepts, words and phrases make highlights and notes as you study share your notes with friends eBooks are downloaded to your computer and accessible either offline through the Bookshelf (available as a free download), available online and also via the iPad and Android apps. Upon purchase, you'll gain instant access to this eBook. Time limit The eBooks products do not have an expiry date. You will continue to access your digital ebook products whilst you have your Bookshelf installed.

Psychology Enhanced

• Cover


• Title


• Copyright


• Brief Contents


• Contents


• Welcome to your ebook


• Preface to the sixth edition


• Guided tour


• About the author?s


• Acknowledgements


• Publisher?s acknowledgements


• 1 The science of psychology


• What you should be able to do after reading Chapter 1


• Questions to think about


• What is psychology?


• Psychology defined


• How much of a science is psychology?


• Controversies in psychological science: Replication


• Controversies in psychological science: Is psychologycommon sense?


• Explaining behaviour


• Established and emerging fields of psychology


• Psychology in action: How to detect a liar?


• Psychology: a European perspective


• Cutting edge: How not to use the internet


• Psychology ? An international perspective


• Cutting edge: Which cities produce the ?best? psychological research?


• Psychological training and status of psychology in Europe


• European views of psychology and psychologists


• Psychology: the development of a science


• Philosophical roots of psychology


• Modern psychology: from the Leipzig laboratory to the cognitive revolution


• Structuralism: Wilhelm Wundt


• Memory: Hermann Ebbinghaus


• Functionalism: William James and James Angell


• Evolution and heritability: Charles Darwin and Francis Galton


• Psychodynamic theory: Sigmund Freud


• Behaviourism: Edward Thorndike and Ivan Pavlov


• Behaviourism: John B. Watson


• Radical behaviourism: Edward Tolman and Clark Leonard Hull


• Radical behaviourism: Burrhus Frederic Skinner


• Genetic epistemology: Jean Piaget


• Gestalt psychology: Max Wertheimer


• Humanistic psychology