Psychology (Foundations of Psychology - Nicky Hayes)

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Product:	Foundations of Psychology - Nicky Hayes
Date:	23/07/01 (199 review reads)
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As some of you might know I am currently on a disability studies course but I was previously on a GNVQ Advanced in Health and Social Care course. By doing, this course you get to come across a lot of psychology text books. The book that I am doing this opinion on has to be the one of best ever psychology text books ever written. This book is aimed at people who have brief or very little knowledge psychology.

This book can be used as a textbook, for courses like GNVQ Advanced in Health and Social Care, HND disability studies and also courses like GCSE psychology. ( As there are some units in this book on the physical aspects of health and social well-being) . (I personally used it for both, I have also used this book for the HND course that I am presently on). It can also be picked up and read by anyone who wants to read about different aspects psychology from intelligence to the medical model of abnormal behavior. .

I bought this book because it is very detailed and I found it to be very detailed and it also has great pictures to accompany the text that is written in this book. At the beginning of the chapters in the book, it gives you a brief description of what is in the chapter, with key words that are highlighted in black. Then the author of the book goes in to that subject in a lot of detail covering all the key words that are bold. Also at the beginning of every chapter there are the assignment headings that you need to cover.

Synopsis of This Book

This psychology text book is a comprehensive and detailed introduction to psychology for people working at an advanced level of psychology.

This psychology book is divided into six sections. The sections are:-

Cognitive psychology
Individuality and abnormality
Physiological psychology
Social psychology
Developmental psychology
Comparative psychology

Lets go in to these sections in more detail.

Before any of these chapt
ers there is an extremely detailed introduction to the different perspectives in psychology. This chapter there are 4 main sections covering the following subjects:-

The philosophical origins of psychology,
Schools of thought in psychology,
Area of psychology,
Psychological perspectives and also there is a summary.

Cognitive psychology

In this section of the book, there are 4 chapters covering the subjects of perception and attention, memory, language and literacy, thinking and perception. I personally found this section very useful and detailed. There is also a lot pictures, diagrams and tables accompany the text.

Individuality and abnormality

There are 4 chapters in this section of Individuality and abnormality. This section mainly covers the following subjects, intelligence, theories of personality, the medical model of abnormal behavior and also alternatives to the medical model.

Physiological psychology

This section also has 4 chapters covering the are of physiological psychology. The chapters are, brain development and clinical neuropsychology, consciousness, sensation and parapsychology and also emotion and motivation. I found this section very useful. Other subjects that are covered in detail are as follows:- sleep, dreaming, emotion and also relationships.

Social psychology

This section covers the subjects of self and other, understands others, social influence and social action and also attitude’s, prejudice and crowd behavior. I had to do a seminar on the subject of social psychology and I found this section extremely helpful. There are also a lot of case studies in this section, which is also very helpful. Other subjects that are covered in detail are as follows:- concepts of self, leadership, attitudes and also prejudices.

Developmental psychology

This section of developmental psychology has four sections. The subjects that are co
vered in this section are, learning skill and development, cognitive development and social awareness, social development and also life span developmental psychology. Other area that are covered in detail are:- Skill learning, moral development, attachment, play and also sex and gender.

Comparative psychology

This section of this book covers the following subjects, introducing comparative psychology, animal behavior, animal behavior, animal communication and also method and ethics in psychology. Other subjects that are covered in detail are:- imprinting, courtship, forms of animal communication and also ethical issues in psychology.

At the end of this book there is a comprehensive glossary of terms. The only thing that was a bit disappointing, in this book was that none of the pictures were in colour, but the content in this book soon made up for it.

This book is written by Dr. Nicky Hayes, who has taught psychology at all different levels and she has had a number of best selling psychology books.

Details on this book.

Title: Foundations of Psychology, An Introductory Text

Author: Nicky Hayes

Published By: Nelson

ISBN: 0-17-490056-2

Other Details: 742 Pages.

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