PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE: A CONVERSATIONAL APPROACH (2ND EDITION)
ISBN-13: 978-1-945628-57-3
# pages: 680
Copyright Year: 2019
Suggested Retail: $144.95
Description
Douglas Krull’s enthusiasm for the field comes through in this new introduction to psychology. The conversational style makes psychological science accessible while the engaging and occasionally humorous examples facilitate learning. Frequent encouragement to practice critical thinking emphasizes this as an important aspect of the field; a psychologist’s work requires not only the collection of research findings but also the ability to reason about the meaning of those findings. Additional features of the text include in-depth coverage of psychology’s major subfields, regular prompts that encourage review and reinforce learning, and an entire chapter devoted to the psychology of religion.
Table of Contents
Prefrace
About the Author
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction, History, and Reseach Methods
Chapter 2: Biological Psychology
Chapter 3: Sensation, Perception, and Attention
Chapter 4: Learning
Chapter 5: Cognitive Psychology
Chapter 6: Motivation and Emotion
Chapter 7: Development
Chapter 8: Personality and Individual Differences
Chapter 9: Psychological Disorders and Treatments
Chapter 10: Health Psychology
Chapter 11: Social Psychology
Chapter 12: Psychology of Religion
Index
References
Special Notes
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About the Author(s): Douglas S. Krull
Doug Krull thought he wanted to be a veterinarian and went to the University of California, Davis to study animal science. However, along the way he changed his major to psychology and graduated in 1985. He went to the University of Texas at Austin for graduate school in social psychology and graduated in 1990. He worked at the University of Missouri-Columbia and then moved to Northern Kentucky University in 1996. In addition to introductory psychology, he regularly teaches social psychology and social psychology lab, and he has also taught consumer psychology, cognitive psychology, and the psychology of religion. His research interests include attribution/first impressions and multiple topics in the psychology of religion.
