Baron, Robert A.

Essentials of psychology / Robert A. Baron ; with the special assistance of Michael J. Kalsher. - Boston : Allyn and Bacon, c1996. - xxix, 639 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 575-608) and indexes.

Psychology - its nature, scope and methods; biological bases of behaviour - a look beneath the surface; sensation and perception - making contact with the world around us; consciousness - awareness of ourselves and the external world; learning - how we're changed by experience; memory - of things remembered...and forgotten; cognition and intelligence; human development - from child to adult; motivation and emotion; individual differences - personality - consistency in the behaviour of individuals; health, stress and coping; psychological disorders - their nature and causes; therapy - diminishing the pain of psychological disorders; social thought and social behaviour.

0205174507

95012236


Psychology.

BF121 / .B3 1996

150 BAR