Psychology - Richard Gross Reviews

Richard Gross' book has been a bible to students for over 20 years. Beginning as a much thinner but, nontheless, still informative "A" level text, this volume has been through numerous revisons, editions and updates over the years. This is now considered THE general introductory textbook at an undergraduate level and this latest edition ...

This is a fantastic text book for anyone studying psychology at AS level or A level There are 50 chapters in this book so it coveres everything you could possibly need to know and sometimes in a lot more detail than you actually need but i like that aspect of the book. Each chapter has an introduction, telling what it was all ...

I am an undergraduate of nursing, and this text book was our top recommended book for the module of "Human development, behaviour and health". I purchased the 5th edition of this book from the uni book store for £27.50 in a soft back, not too bad really when you consider that it is 1007 pages long. Written by ...

Excellent text for A level students. If you buy one text book, buy this one. Very detailed. - Advantages: This book contains EVERYTHING you will need for A level Psychology. Highly detailed text - Disadvantages: Not good for revising with as it is so comprehensive

Really this book needs two reviews, since it claims to be useful both for A'level and undergraduate study. As an A'level text I would rate it very highly. I found it interesting, and informative, giving a grounding to the subject at an appropriate level. The illustrations and photos also helped make it more accessable. At an ...

I used Gross throughout my A-level Psychology course last year and found it was a great help in my studies. Gross introduces the key theorists the key concepts and therefore is quite useful for students trying to get to grips with the terminology used in this field. However, Gross has a tendency to go into far more depth than is necessary for an ...

this book is a very good book about psychology, i loved it from the start and it grew on me further till the conclusion. if u have ever wanted to know how to see what people think, or why people do the things they do, then this is the book for you, as it is a mre suitable version for beginners, rather than those well studied in the field of ...

This is the king of books when it comes to learning psychology. I first discovered it when I started my A'level Psychology course. To start with, it was difficult to grasp and understand as it's probably the most intense and academic Psychology text. Once I started to gain knowledge of the subject it became an essential book for my ...

For someone who'd never studied psychology before I found this book really useful. It's written in a clear, concise style and it's not at at threatening or intimidating and doesn't attempt to confuse you with jargon (until you've got past the chapters that explain the jargon anyway). Unlike a lot of psychology text ...

When I first came across this book I was studying for my A-Levels and found the wording very difficult. In this book, Richard Gross uses the correct terminology but I think for absolute beginners, it can make things difficult to grasp and other books are better when starting a course like this for the fist time. For more advanced students, ...

a really useful text to those new to psychology. it's a bit dated now, but that doesn't matter, since it presents the ideas that need to be collected by all psychologists before embarking onto more advanced stuff. there's nothing it doesn't really cover, and it's useful even to the undergrads, covering stuff that isn't ...

Gross is an A-Level standard text book for Psychology students but it has many uses for people at all levels. It is an excellent reference tool for basic psychology for GCSE, A-Level and degree students. It is also well written, easy to read and interesting, which makes it a good reference tool for people simply interested in Psychology and who ...