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Psychology, Seventh Edition By Douglas BernsteinLouis A. PennerAlison Clarke-StewartEdward Roy ( Houghton Mifflin Company )
Release Date: 2005-02-28
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Bernstein, Penner, Clarke-Stewart, and Roy's, Psychology strikes an ideal balance between classic and current research, and contains substantial material on culture and human diversity, as well as updated coverage of behavioral genetics and evolutionary psychology. This text's complete learning program offers instructors, both experienced and novice, a "one-stop teaching" tool. In the Seventh Edition of this comprehensive, research-oriented text, the authors explore the full range of psychology, free from theoretical bias; blend conceptual discussion and description of research studies; foster scientific attitudes and help students learn to think critically; present lessons in a clear, accessible, and readable style; and demonstrate that psychology is an integrated discipline in which each subfield is linked to other subfields by common interests and overarching research questions. - Linkages feature, combined with the text narrative, highlights the network of relationships among psychology's subfields, helping students to see the "big picture" of psychology as an interrelated discipline. Beginning with Chapter 2, a Linkages Diagram presents a set of questions that illustrate three of the ways in which material in the chapter is related to other chapters in the book.
- Thinking Critically sections in each chapter make psychological processes more explicit and accessible by providing a framework for analyzing evidence before drawing conclusions.
- Focus on Research sections, appearing in chapters 3 through 19, examine the ways in which research methods (described in Chapter 2, "Research in Psychology") have been applied to help advance our understanding of some aspects of behavior and mental processes.
- Emphasis on active learning helps students become involved learners, not just passive readers. PsychAssist tutorials, available online (password included automatically with each student text) and on CD-ROM, and referenced in the text by an icon in select "In Review Charts" further promote active learning.
- Eduspace online learning environment offers homework exercises, quizzes, tests, tutorials, and supplemental study materials, including PsychAssist animations and digitized Psych in Film video clips.
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 Bernstein and Penner: Introductory Psychology
This is an excellent book which I find very difficult to fault. It is clearly explained and well presented and the online materials accompanying the book are very useful. The way in which the subject is presented is exciting and, despite being introductory material, the book invites the reader to take their skills to a higher level by deliberate application of critical thinking. However, my only minor criticism is that sometimes the authours do not follow their own advice - sometimes they make statements which I find doubtful and arise where they failed to apply sufficient critical thinking! (Of course we are all guilty of this error sometimes). However, these statements are few and far between, as most of the time the authours examine more than one side to every controversial issue. It is interesting how psychology texts reflect the psychology of the authours, and this book contains some curious 'Westernisms' - this is not a criticism, just an amusing observation which reinforces a major theme of the book regarding how social psychology affects our own perception. For example, I am not entirely convinced by the way the book compares western capitalist cultures to eastern socialist cultures. I must re-read this section. Clearly not even psychologists are immune to social influences! This book is absolutely one of my favourites and it was a pleasure and an enlightenment to read it. I think the authours would actually be delighted by students who questions their interpretation, since this is the over-riding theme of the book - look at the evidence and then decide objectively for oneself, and that is great advice to anyone in any walk of life.
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Instructor's edition vs student
The text is the same. However, when compared to the student's edition, the instructor's edition is missing a lot of extras (sample tests, study hints, etc.) Those can be found on the website, but not in the book. In the student's edition, the extras take up about 200 pages.
If you want more material--Instructor's edition has less than student.
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One of the best psychology books I've ever read!
I don't know if this is going to reflect on the quality of the psychology book, or the caliber of books I have read and reviewed, but I must say, this introductory psychology book is one of the best I've ever seen. The examples capture the reader and are used in an intelligent way to demonstrate the major points of each chapter. And I was never bored once with this book, which is a big plus. A great book for an intro to psych class!
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 Psychology for poets
While this Psycholgy book does have some good points and interesting approaches, if you use this book in a class setting you will be dissapointed. The questions that the proffesor will use for test and quizes are elementary. But so elementary that they are completly subjective.
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