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This book provides an engaging, cohesive, and practical treatment of traditional psychological principles and theories. This book is core reading for introductory students and will appeal also to a general audience interested in psychology.
List of contents
Part 1: Introduction. Chapter 1. The Human Condition. Chapter 2. The Science of Psychology. Part 2: Mostly Nature. Chapter 3. Biology and the Human Condition. Chapter 4. Sensation, Perception, and the Human Condition. Chapter 5. Motivation, Emotion, and the Human Condition. Part 3: Mostly Nurture. Chapter 6. Direct Learning and the Human Condition. Chapter 7. Indirect Social Learning, Memory, and the Human Condition. Chapter 8. Cognition and the Human Condition. Part 4 Nature/Nurture. Chapter 9. Lifespan Development and the Human Condition. Chapter 10. Personality and the Human Condition. Part 5: Cultural Adaptation. Chapter 11. Social Influence and the Human Condition. Chapter 12. Maladaptive Behavior and the Human Condition. Chapter 13. Psychology and Maladaptive Behavior. Chapter 14. Cultural Adaptation in Pursuit of Self-Actualization
About the author
Jeffrey C. Levy received the Deans Advisory Council's Outstanding Teacher Award, the Sears-Roebuck Award for College Teaching and Campus Leadership, and was twice nominated by Seton Hall University, USA, for National CASE Professor of the Year. Trained as an experimental psychologist with interests in the psychology of learning and behavior modification, Levy is the author of
Adaptive Learning and the Human Condition (2013) and
Adaptive Learning and the Human Condition: Behavior Modification and the Helping Professions, 2nd edition (2022).
Summary
This book provides an engaging, cohesive, and practical treatment of traditional psychological principles and theories. This book is core reading for introductory students and will appeal also to a general audience interested in psychology.
