
The Working Mind
An Introduction to Psychology
J.P. Das(Author)
SAGE Publications Inc (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 30. July 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
284 pages
978-0-7619-9262-2 (ISBN)
Description
Students of psychology will find this a lively, well-illustrated book that answers a basic question: What is psychology about? Dealing with emotion, motivation, personality and intelligence, the psychological basis of behaviour and perception, this book helps us to understand how the mind works, what lies behind ordinary conversations and routine movements and consciousness, neuro-imaging, split-brain, innateness of language, cultural transmission of learning, the origins of higher mental activity, and personality research and intelligence.
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-0-7619-9262-2 (9780761992622)
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J.P. Das is an Indo-Canadian psychologist and an internationally recognized expert in Intelligence. Among his major contributions to psychology is the PASS (Planning, Attention, Simultaneous, and Successive) theory of intelligence. He is currently engaged in expanding planning to include executive functions. What might be the implications of these higher mental activities for education as well as management behavior is the topic of this book.
Professor Das is an Emeritus Director of the Centre on Developmental & Learning Disabilities (named after him) at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, and Emeritus Professor in Educational Psychology. He has authored and co-authored over a dozen of books and contributed more than 300 research papers to international journals and edited volumes. His earlier published titles with SAGE include Cognitive Planning: The Psychological Basis of Intelligent Behaviour (1996, co-authored with Binod C. Kar and Rauno K. Parrila); The Working Mind (1998); Reading Difficulties and Dyslexia: An Interpretation for Teachers (2009); and Consciousness Quest: East Meets West (2014).
Professor Das is an Emeritus Director of the Centre on Developmental & Learning Disabilities (named after him) at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, and Emeritus Professor in Educational Psychology. He has authored and co-authored over a dozen of books and contributed more than 300 research papers to international journals and edited volumes. His earlier published titles with SAGE include Cognitive Planning: The Psychological Basis of Intelligent Behaviour (1996, co-authored with Binod C. Kar and Rauno K. Parrila); The Working Mind (1998); Reading Difficulties and Dyslexia: An Interpretation for Teachers (2009); and Consciousness Quest: East Meets West (2014).
Content
What Is Psychology About?
Methods
The Physiological Basis of Behavior
Perception
Learning
Remembering and Forgetting
Thought and Language
Emotion and Motivation
Intelligence
Personality
Learning and Understanding Language
Methods
The Physiological Basis of Behavior
Perception
Learning
Remembering and Forgetting
Thought and Language
Emotion and Motivation
Intelligence
Personality
Learning and Understanding Language