The text adopts a critical approach to ‘mainstream Psychology’, attempting to identify and challenge some of the underlying assumptions that are traditionally made about ‘human nature’ and how it can be investigated in ways based on the scientific study of the natural world. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins. As a very large field, it's impossible to have a textbook that dives too deep into anything, but this made a good job of having a sufficient overview.

Gross is the 'bible' for students of Psychology and anyone in related fields such as Counselling, Nursing and Social Work who needs a reliable, catch-all text.An attempt to understand and explain how the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others.

What makes Psychology unique is the view of Psychologists as part of their own subject-matter: trying to study other people cannot be done by copying the methods of the physicist or chemist. Cognitive development occurs through the interaction between innate capacities and environmental events. Was their behavior something to do with them ‘as a person’, such as their motives, intentions, or personality (an internal cause)? Or was it something to do with the situation, including some other person or some physical feature of the environment (an external cause)?Attribution theory deals with the general principles governing how we select and use the information to arrive at causal explanations for behavior. This book is designed to help students organize their thinking about psychology at a conceptual level.

Themes, Issues and Debates in Psychology presents an integrated view of Psychology by identifying underlying themes (such as the scientific nature of Psychology, cultural and gender differences), issues (ethical, methodological and conceptual), and debates (such as heredity vs.e. a state of balance or equilibrium achieved by the person when he is able to deal adequately with the data before him. It’s the gender that gives us a sense of personal identity as male or female (Wade and Tavris, 1994). Help students to understand and evaluate classic and contemporary Psychology with the best-selling textbook from Gross, that is still setting the standard, 500,000 students later. A nice and easy to read format with plenty of good links and resources embedded within the various sub-sections.

It’s accessible, thorough and, in my opinion, essential for A level and undergraduate degree courses in psychology. Following a career in teaching, the runaway success of his first book, Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour, made it possible for him to switch direction and focus on writing. Perception is the ‘added value’ that the organized brain gives to raw sensory data; it goes way beyond the ‘palette of sensations’ and involves memory, past experience, and higher-level processing.Hilgard Professor of Psychology at Stanford University, and Director of the Stanford Psychophysiology Laboratory ( http://spl. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching (Stanford’s highest award for teaching), the Stanford Postdoctoral Mentoring Award (twice), the Society for Affective Science Inaugural Mentorship Award, and the APS Mentor Award from the Association for Psychological Science. Build a solid foundation for students to develop the skills and knowledge they need to progress with the updated edition of Richard Gross's best-selling introduction to Psychology. Different psychological theories attempt to answer quite different questions about moral development.