
Schaum's Easy Outline of Introduction to Psychology
Based on Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Introduction to Psychology, Second Edition
Arno Wittig(Author)
Schaum Outline Series (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 16. September 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-0-07-139882-4 (ISBN)
Description
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Edition
Abridged edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Abridged edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 162 mm
Width: 213 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
191 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-139882-4 (9780071398824)
Schweitzer Classification
Person
Arno F. Wittig, Ph.D. (Muncie, IN) has been a professor of psychology for almost 35 years and Dean of the Honors College at Ball State University in Indiana for the past eleven years.
Content
Chapter 1 - Psychology: Definition and History; Chapter 2 - Methodology and Statistics; Chapter 3 - Biological Foundations; Chapter 4 - Developmental Psychology; Chapter 5 - Sensation and Perception; Chapter 6 - Consciousness; Chapter 7 - Learning; Chapter 8 - Retention and Forgetting; Chapter 9 - Cognitive Process; Chapter 10 - Motivation and Emotion; Chapter 11 - Psychological Testing and Individual Differences; Chapter 12 - Personality Principles; Chapter 13 - Abnormal Personality Patterns; Chapter 14 - Therapies; Chapter 15 - Social Psychology