Get set for psychology - Wright, Peter (Edinburgh University Press, 2006)
Includes bibliographical references and index
COVER; CONTENTS; 1 HOW TO USE THIS BOOK; 2 STATISTICAL THINKING; 3 PRACTICAL CLASSES; 4 BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOUR; 5 PERCEPTION; 6 COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY; 7 DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY; 8 SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; 9 INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; 10 GETTING THE MOST OUT OF LECTURES; 11 LEARNING IN SMALL GROUPS; 12 WRITING TO BE READ; 13 ONLINE LEARNING; 14 PREPARING FOR AND SITTING EXAMINATIONS; INDEX.
Provides an introduction to the study of psychology at university level. This book aims to encourage and enable the reader to link a natural interest in human (and animal) behaviour with the sorts of models and theories that are used by academic psychologists