Personality Theories: Development, Growth, and Diversity, 5/E
Bem P. Allen, Western Illinois University

ISBN-10: 0205439128
ISBN-13: 9780205439126

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Copyright: 2006
Format: Cloth; 576 pp
Published: 04/26/2005

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Organized by individual theorists, this comprehensive text examines the major movements in the field through an historic and humanistic approach.

This text provides a comprehensive introduction to the key personality theorists by combining biographical information on each theorist with his or her contributions to the field, including her or his ranking among the world’s most respected psychologists. In addition, Allen provides a tabular format–that is, a running comparison between the major theorists, allowing students to analyze new theories against theories learned in previous chapters. The unique style of Allen's book is strengthened through his conversational tone, enabling students to easily grasp an understanding of the key people and movements in the field of personality.

  • Offers an abundance of case studies and examples of real human functioning to help deepen students’ understanding of the concepts presented.
  • Highlights diversity issues as part of Allen’s humanistic approach to psychology.
  • Includes the latest information on subtle forms of racism, happiness and positive psychology, extraversion, Freud’s meetings with other psychologists, Jung dabbling in parapsychology, the worldwide practical impact of Bandura’s ideas, rejection sensitivity, impulse control, IQ-genes-and race, the neurophysiology of personality (in plain language), and many other thought-provoking topics.
  • Explores controversial topics, including evolutionary theory applied to jealousy, whether races exist, and the “repressed memories” controversy.
  • Reviews and analyzes one of the most famous therapy sessions in psychology’s history–Rogers’ interaction with Gloria.
  • Contains chapter-opening questions that frame the material and are later reinforced through summary points as well as essay/critical thinking questions at the end of each chapter–all aiding in the continuation of a discussion about the content and student learning. 
  • Personality Theories Web Student Guide (http://www.wiu.edu/users/mfbpa/personalityguide.html): A link to the author’s self-updated website intended to help guide students through the text.  Includes key points to remember while studying, multiple choice questions, and websites where additional information in each chapter can be found.

  • Includes a new chapter that synthesizes the entire book by comparing theorists on several philosophical, empirical, and methodological aspects, as well as a summary table that compares all the theorists at a glance.
  • Provides each theorist's current ranking among today's most prominent psychologists in the evaluation section of his or her chapter.
  • Examines the status of the Big 5 Personality Trait Theory and the status of locating genes underlying personality traits to shed light on both of these new factors affecting the field. 
  • Features the research results of many international personologists as well as an extensive reference list, which includes more than 150 new references to state of the art personality research.

1. Introduction.

Preliminary Definition of Personality.

        Implications and Cautions.

Methods of Studying Personality.

        The Case History Method.

        The Correlation Method.

        The Experimental Method.

Personality Tests: Personologists’ Tools.

        Reliability and Validity.

        Projective and Objective Tests.

Testing and Theorizing about Personality in a World of Human Diversity.

A Final Word about “Science”.

Chapter Sections.

        Introductory Statement.

        The Person: Biographies.

        View of the Person: General Philosophical Orientation.

        Basic Concepts: The Heart and Soul of a Theory.

        Evaluation: Placing a Theory in Perspective.

        Occasional Sections.

        Conclusions Section.

E-mail Interaction Section.

Summary Points.

Essay/Critical Thinking Questions.

E-mail Interaction.

2. The Psychoanalytic Legacy: Sigmund Freud.

Freud, the Person.

Freud’s View of the Person.

Basic Concepts: Freud.

        Personality Structure: Three Interacting Systems (SIDE).

        The Five Stages of Personality Development (Old Aunt Pamela Loves Gorillas).

        A Basic Diversity Issue: Freud’s View of Females.

Evaluation.

        Contributions.

        Supporting Evidence: Older and More Current.

        Limitations.

Conclusions.

Summary Points.

Essay/Critical Thinking Questions.

E-mail Interaction.

3. Personality’s Ancestral Foundation: Carl Jung.

Jung, the Person.

Jung’s View of the Person.

Basic Concepts: Jung.

        Consciousness and Unconsciousness.

        Archetypes.

        Dreams as Messengers from a Wise Unconscious.

        Personality Typology.

        Personality Development.

Evaluation.

        Contributions.

        Limitations.

Conclusions.

Summary Points.

Running Comparison.

Essay/Critical Thinking Questions.

E-mail Interaction.

4. Overcoming Inferiority and Striving for Superiority: Alfred Adler.

Adler, the Person.

Adler’s View of the Person.

        Basic Orientation.

        Humanitarianism: Diversity as It Concerns Women and People Everywhere.

Basic Concepts: Adler.

        Developing Social Feeling: Society, Work, and Love.

        Style of Life.

        Future Goals versus Past Events.

        Overcoming Inferiority.

        Striving for Superiority and the Superiority Complex.

        Family Influences on Personality Development.

Evaluation.

        Contributions.

        Limitations.

Conclusions.

Summary Points.

Running Comparison.

Essay/Critical Thinking Questions.

E-mail Interaction.

5. Moving toward, away from, and against Others: Karen Horney.

Horney, the Person.

Horney’s View of the Person.

Basic Concepts: Horney.

        Basic Anxiety: Infantile Helplessness in a Hostile World.

        Coping with Ten Neurotic Needs.

        Moving toward, against, and away from People.

        Developing an Idealized versus a Real Image of Self.

        A Basic Diversity Issue: The Psychology of Women.

Evaluation.

        Contributions.

        Some Research Support.

        Some Application: Group Therapy.

        Limitations.

Conclusions.

Summary Points.

Running Comparison.

Essay/Critical Thinking Questions.

E-mail Interaction.

6. Personality from the Interpersonal Perspective: Harry Stack Sullivan.

Sullivan, the Person.

Sullivan’s View of the Person.

        Significant Others and the Self.

        A Need for Tenderness.

Basic Concepts: Sullivan.

        Empathy, Anxiety, and Security.

        Three Modes of Experience and Six Stages of Development.

Evaluation.

        Contributions.

        Limitations.

Conclusions.

Summary Points.

Running Comparison.

Essay/Critical Thinking Questions.

E-mail Interaction.

7. The Seasons of Our Lives: Erik Erikson.

Erikson, the Person.

Erikson’s View of the Person.

        Freudian?

        On the Tasks and Polarities of Life.

Basic Concepts: Erikson.

        Infancy: Trust and Distrust.

        Early Childhood: Autonomy versus Shame and Doubt.

        Play Age: Initiative versus Guilt.

        School Age: Industry versus Inferiority.

        Adolescence: Identity versus Identity Confusion.

        Young Adulthood: Intimacy versus Isolation.

        Middle Adulthood: Productivity versus Futility.

        Mature Adulthood: Generativity versus Stagnation.

        Old Age: Integrity versus Despair.

Theoretical and Empirical Support for Erikson’s Point of View.

        Levinson: The Midlife Crisis.

        Sheehy: Women Are Different.

        Empirical Support: Research Confirming Erikson’s View.

Evaluation.

        Contributions.

        Limitations.

Conclusions.

Summary Points.

Running Comparison.

Essay/Critical Thinking Questions.

E-mail Interaction.

8. The Sociopsychological Approach to Personality: Erich Fromm.

Fromm, the Person.

Fromm’s View of the Person.

Basic Concepts: Fromm.

        Existential Needs.

        Individual and Social Character.

Evaluation.

        Contributions.

        Limitations.

Conclusions.

Summary Points.

Running Comparison.

Essay/Critical Thinking Questions.

E-mail Interaction.

9. Every Person Is to Be Prized: Carl Rogers.

Rogers, the Person.

Rogers’s View of the Person.

Basic Concepts: Rogers.

        Actualization: General and Specific.

        The Importance of the Self.

        Personality Development: Some Favorable Conditions.

        Procedures for Changing Personality: Client-Centered Therapy.

Evaluation.

        General Contributions.

        Caring about the Person in Human Relationships.

        Rogers’s Scientific Contributions.

        The Famous Case of Gloria: A Teaching Tool.

        Limitations.

Conclusions.

Summary Points.

Running Comparison.

Essay/Critical Thinking Questions.

E-mail Interaction.

10. Becoming All That One Can Be: Abraham Maslow.

Maslow, the Person.

Maslow’s View of the Person.

        The Evolution of a Theorist.

        The Gestalt Influence.

        The Existential Influence.

        Motivation.

Basic Concepts: Maslow.

        Five Basic Needs (Place Satisfaction Before Love, Esteem, and Self-Actualization).

        Human Nature Is Born, Not Made.

        Self-actualizing Persons: Superior Personalities.

        Needs and Values beyond the Pale, and Experiences from the Mountain Top.

Evaluation.

        Contributions.

        Supporting Evidence.

        Limitations.

Conclusions.

Summary Points.

Running Comparison.

Essay/Critical Thinking Questions.

E-mail Interaction.

11. Marching to a Different Drummer: George Kelly.

Kelly, the Person.

Kelly’s View of the Person.

Basic Concepts: Kelly.

        Personality as a System of Constructs.

        Relations among Constructs.

Personality Development.

        Predictability.

        Dependency Constructs.

        Role Playing.

        Choices: The C-P-C Cycle.

Evaluation.

        Contributions: Supporting Evidence and Practical Applications.

        Limitations.

Conclusions.

Summary Points.

Running Comparison.

Essay/Critical Thinking Questions.

E-mail Interaction.

12. The Social—Cognitive Approach to Personality: Walter Mischel and Julian Rotter.

Mischel: A Challenge to Traits.

Mischel, the Person.

Mischel’s View of the Person.

Basic Concepts: Mischel.

        Supporting Evidence.

        Mischel Summed Up: Consistency of Cross-Situation Behavioral Patterns.

Evaluation.

        Mischel’s Contributions.

        Limitations.

Conclusions.

Rotter: Internal versus External Control of Our Behavior.

        Rotter, the Person.

        Rotter’s View of the Person.

Basic Concepts: Rotter.

        Reinforcement Value, Psychological Situations, and Expectancy.

        Locus of Control: Internals and Externals.

        Characteristics of Internals and Externals.

Evaluation.

        Contributions to Controlling Our Lives.

        Limitations.

Conclusions.

Summary Points.

Running Comparison.

Essay/Critical Thinking Questions.

E-mail Interaction.

13. Thinking Ahead and Learning Mastery of One’s Circumstances: Albert Bandura.

Bandura, the Person.

Bandura’s View of the Person.

        Inside/Outside and Reciprocal Causation.

        Person Factors, Behavior, and the External Environment.

        Free Will, Personal Agency, and the Power of Forethought.

        Learning.

Basic Concepts: Bandura.

        Observational Learning.

        Social and Cognitive in Bandura’s Version of Social-Cognitive Theory of Observational Learning.

        Learning by Other People’s Example.

        Goals and Self-regulation.

        Self-Efficacy.

        Other Things We Learn from Models, besides Behavior.

        Rewards.

        Defensive Behaviors.

Evaluation.

        Supporting Evidence.

        Implications of Social—Cognitive Theory for Moral Functioning.

        Limitations.

Conclusions.

Summary Points.

Running Comparison.

Essay/Critical Thinking Questions.

E-mail Interaction.

14. It’s All a Matter of Consequences: B. F. Skinner.

Skinner, the Person.

Skinner’s View of the Person.

        Environmentalism: The Importance of Consequences.

        “Beyond Freedom and Dignity”.

Basic Concepts: Skinner.

        Operant Conditioning.

        Positive Reinforcement and Extinction.

        Negative Reinforcement and Punishment.

        The Development of Humans: Language, Personality, and Child Rearing.

Evaluation.

        Contributions.

        Limitations.

Conclusions.

Summary Points.

Running Comparison.

Essay/Critical Thinking Questions.

E-mail Interaction.

15. Human Needs and Environmental Press: Henry A. Murray.

Murray, the Person.

Murray’s View of the Person.

        Early Exposure to Psychology.

        Why Did Murray Become a Psychologist?

        Developing a Unique Approach to Understanding People.

Basic Concepts: Murray.

        Propositions.

        Definition of Needs.

        Varieties of Needs.

        Strength of Needs and Interactions among Them.

        Need Integrates (Complexes).

        Environmental Press.

        Thema.

Evaluation.

        Contributions.

        Limitations.

Conclusions.

Summary Points.

Running Comparison.

Essay/Critical Thinking Questions.

E-mail Interaction.

16. The Trait Approach to Personality: Raymond Cattell and Hans Eysenck.

Cattell, the Person.

Cattell’s View of the Person.

        Cattell’s Approach to Understanding the Person.

        Personality Defined.

        Nature and Nurture.

        Factor Analysis.

Basic Concepts: Cattell.

        Traits.

        Intelligence.

Evaluation.

        Contributions.

        Limitations.

Conclusions.

Eysenck: 16 = 3—Conceiving of Personality in Three Dimensions.

Eysenck, the Person.

Eysenck’s View of the Person.

Basic Concepts and Contributions: Eysenck.

        Traits and Types in Eysenck’s Theory.

        Biological Determinism.

        Toward a Scientific Model of Personality.

        Measuring and Describing E, N, and P.

        Supporting Evidence.

Eysenck’s Last Word.

Limitations.

        Arousal and E-I.

        Genes and Controversy.

        The Bell Curve: Race and Environment.

        Big 5 or Big 3 (or Big 16)?

Conclusions.

Summary Points.

Running Comparison.

Essay/Critical Thinking Questions.

E-mail Interaction.

17. Personality Development and Prejudice: Gordon Allport.

Allport, the Person.

Allport’s View of the Person.

        Humanism?

        Emphasis on Unique Traits and Behavioral Variability.

        De-emphasizing the Freudian Unconscious.

Basic Concepts: Allport.

        Personality Defined.

        Traits.

        Cardinal, Central, and Secondary p.d.s.

Personality Development.

        The Proprium and the Seven Stages of the Developing Self.

        The Mature Personality.

Personality and Prejudice.

        Prejudice Defined.

        Social Distance.

        Subtle Manifestations of Racism.

        “Race” Differences.

        Stereotypes.

        Painting the Picture of the Prejudiced Personality.

Evaluation.

        Contributions.

        Limitations.

Conclusions.

Summary Points.

Running Comparison.

Essay/Critical Thinking Questions.

E-mail Interaction.

18. Where Is Personality Theory Going?

Underlying Assumptions.

        Temporal Orientation: Past, Present, and Future.

        Free Will?

        Consciousness and Unconsciousness.

        Developmental Stages.

        Humans: “Good” or “Bad”?

        Internal or External Causation?

        Bipolarity: Opposites Repel.

        Philosophical or Empirical?

        Holism versus Fragmentation.

        Genetic versus Environmental Causation.

        Idiographic versus Nomothetic Theory.

Conceptualizations.

        Traits.

        Behavioral Dispositions.

        Cognitions.

        Temperament.

        Constructs.

        Situations.

Methodologies.

        Reliance on Case Histories, Anecdotes, and Unsubstantiated Notions.

        Correlation Is Still Not Causation.

        Where Have the Experiments Gone?

What We Know about Personality.

        Personality Is Uniqueness.

        Personality Is Complex.

What Will Personality Theories of the Twenty-First Century Be Like?

Summary Points.

Running Comparison.

Essay/Critical Thinking Questions.

E-mail Interaction.

Glossary.


References.


Names Index.


Subject Index.

This comprehensive text, organized by individual theorists, examines the major movements in the field of personality through a historic and humanistic approach. Personality Theories provides a comprehensive introduction to key personality theorists by combining their biographical information with their contributions to the field and their ranking among the world’s most respected psychologists. In addition, Allen provides a tabular format, a running comparison between the major theorists, which allows students to analyze new theories with respect to theories learned in previous chapters. The unique style of Allen’s book is strengthened through his conversational tone, allowing students to easily become familiar with the key people and movements in the field of personality.

Features

  • Offers an abundance of case studies and examples of real human functioning to help deepen students’ understanding of the concepts.
  • Highlights diversity issues as part of Allen’s humanistic approach to psychology.
  • Includes the latest information on subtle forms of racism; happiness and positive psychology; extraversion; Freud’s meetings with other psychologists; Jung’s dabbling in parapsychology; the worldwide practical impact of Bandura’s ideas; rejection sensitivity; impulse control; the relationship between IQ, genes, and race; the neurophysiology of personality (in plain language); and many other thought-provoking topics.
  • Explores controversial topics, including evolutionary theory applied to jealousy, whether races exist, and the “repressed memories” controversy.
  • Reviews and analyzes one of the most famous therapy sessions in psychology’s history—Rogers’s interaction with Gloria.
  • Contains chapter opening questions that frame the material and are later reinforced through summary points as well as essay/critical thinking questions at the end of each chapter.

New To This Edition

  • Includes a new chapter that synthesizes the entire book by comparing theorists on several philosophical, empirical, and methodological aspects, as well as a summary table that compares all the theorists at a glance.
  • Provides each theorist’s current ranking among today’s most prominent psychologists in the evaluation section of his or her chapter.
  • Examines the statuses of two new factors affecting the field—the Big 5 Personality Trait Theory and locating genes underlying personality traits.
  • Features the research results of many international personologists as well as an extensive reference list, which includes more than 150 new references to state of the art personality research.

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    The Ancient World is a comprehensive, multiperspective, and integrated chronicle of the history of the ancient Mediterranean (from Sumer to the fall of Rome) exploring the distinctive forms society took in the ancient world—especially the unusual relationship between society and the state (unlike anything we encounter today) that characterized the social order of antiquity. By closely integrating social and cultural histories with the political, institutional, and military climates in which they unfolded, this text provides fascinating insights into family, gender relations, class structures, public vs. private realms, slavery, popular culture, religion, art, architecture, leisure styles, philosophy, science, and education—and their complex relationships to ideology and political events.

  • 0131930419Ancient World, The: A Social and Cultural History, 6/E
    Nagle
    © 2006 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 448 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0131930419 | ISBN-13: 9780131930414
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    • For courses in Ancient History (Ancient Near East - Egypt/Mesopotamia), Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome. 

    This collection of primary sources focusing on the social and cultural history of the Ancient Near East, Greece, and Rome is designed to encourage students to examine issues pertaining to a broad range of themes through the analysis of relevant ancient literary and non-literary texts. Covering a wide variety of social and cultural concerns—ranging from marriage, family, war, and religion, to political culture, slavery and entertainment—the texts are arranged thematically within a general chronological framework to provide a broad overview of life in the Ancient World. This volume is the companion reader to Nagle's The Ancient World: A Social and Cultural History, 6/e.

  • 0131930400Ancient World, The: Readings in Social and Cultural History, 3/E
    Nagle & Burstein
    © 2006 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 352 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0131930400 | ISBN-13: 9780131930407
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    • For sociology of gender or classical  sociological theory courses or for sociology of gender courses offered in Women's Studies departments.

     

    This edited volume examines the way classical sociological theorists thought - and wrote - about issues of gender and human society. Intended for use in gender or classical theory courses in sociology or Women's Studies departments, the book presents the writings of important sociological figures - both men and women - to lay the foundation for studying contemporary women theorists.

  • 0131848038Before the Second Wave: Gender in the Sociological Tradition
    Finlay
    © 2007 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 416 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0131848038 | ISBN-13: 9780131848030
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    • For classes involving introductory Research or Experimental Methods.

     

    This successful introduction to behavioral research methods provides step-by-step guidance through the processes of planning an empirical study, analyzing and interpreting data, and reporting findings and conclusions.

     

    When Beginning Behavioral Research was created, it was conceived as an undergraduate text for students, who, as part of a course in research methods, are required to plan an empirical study, to analyze and interpret the data, and to present their findings and conclusions in a written report. With this in mind, however, through their years in the field the authors found that all research methods are limited in some ways, and therefore it is essential not to foreclose on the use of tools and techniques that enable the study of phenomena from more than one vantage point. By examining different scientific methods, theories, and units of analysis - rather than any single one - the authors are able to give students a broad base of scientific thinking that will, they believe, encourage the idea that each generation of researchers builds on the important findings of previous researchers in a chain of discovery and understanding. 

  • 0136128750Beginning Behavioral Research: A Conceptual Primer, 6/E
    Rosnow & Rosenthal
    © 2008 | Prentice Hall | Cloth; 480 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0136128750 | ISBN-13: 9780136128755
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    • For undergraduate courses in Behavior Modification or Behavior Therapy

     

    This book presents a comprehensive, practical presentation of both the principles of behavior modification and guidelines for their application.

     

    Throughout their separate experiences in teaching behavior modification over the past 39 years, both Garry Martin and Joseph Pear’s goals have remained the same: to teach people about the principles of behavior modification and how to apply them effectively to their everyday concerns — from helping children learn life’s necessary skills to solving some of their own personal behavior problems. Through eight editions their text has remained successful and effective because it addresses the needs of two central audiences: college and university students taking courses in behavior modification and its related areas; and students or practitioners of various helping professions (such as clinical psychology, counseling, medicine, etc.) who are concerned directly with enhancing various forms of behavioral development. Assuming no prior knowledge of behavior modification or psychology, this text facilitates understanding of the principles of behavior modification and helps readers to successfully implement behavior modification programs.

     

  • 0131942271Behavior Modification: What It Is And How To Do It, 8/E
    Martin & Pear
    © 2007 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 464 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0131942271 | ISBN-13: 9780131942271
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    • This lively text offers clear and succinct coverage of California government that blends political data with economic, cultural, and demographic trends, and analyzes the link between the economy and the political process.

     

    California Government and Politics Today is written by a college professor who is also an elected official in California, offering a unique insider's view that will engage and inform students. This new edition continues the book's tradition of offering accessible, nuts-and-bolts coverage while also encouraging political activism and developing the student’s own unique political views.

  • 0205620078California Government and Politics Today, 12/E
    Field
    © 2009 | Longman | Paper; 176 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0205620078 | ISBN-13: 9780205620074
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    • For Urban Sociology, Urban Political Economy, Urban Anthropology, and Urban Studies courses taught out of the sociology, political science and urban studies departments. 

     

    Cities and Urban Life, authored by two of the best-known textbook writers in the field, provides a comprehensive introduction to urban sociology, urban anthropology, and urban studies courses. Primarily sociological in approach, this book incorporates historical, social, psychological, geographical, and anthropological insights. While strong in the classical urban sociology, it also gives extensive attention to the "new" political economy approach to urban studies. Also, the authors use global cities as case studies for more relevance to students.

     

  • 0132260409Cities and Urban Life, 4/E
    Macionis & Parrillo
    © 2007 | Prentice Hall | Cloth; 512 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0132260409 | ISBN-13: 9780132260404
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    • Praised for the clarity of its writing, careful research, and distinctive theme — that urban politics in the United States has evolved as a dynamic interaction among governmental power, private actors, and a politics of identity — the Sixth Edition of this text brings city politics of the global era into sharp focus by tracing the continuous development of urban America from the nation’s founding to the present.

  • 0205522165City Politics: The Political Economy of Urban America, 6/E
    Judd & Swanstrom
    © 2008 | Longman | Paper; 432 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0205522165 | ISBN-13: 9780205522163
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    • The psychology of human memory and cognition is fascinating, dealing with questions and ideas that are inherently interesting, such as how we think, reason, remember, and use language. This text is directed primarily toward undergraduate students at junior and senior level. Using a first person narrative, posing direct questions to the reader, and balancing classic research with cutting edge topics, the author draws in the reader and conveys the excitement of the field.

    The fourth edition thoroughly covers the foundation areas in cognition. Reflecting the increasing use of new technologies to study memory and cognition, Ashcraft continues to integrate sections on neurosciences withing individual chapter topics. A major section in the introductory chapters provides background and information on neurons and the brain, so even students without formal coursework on the biological bases of congnition will be prepared for the cognitive neuroscience coverage in the text.

    Other important new developments also examined in the new edition include: false memory research, new research on working memory and individual differences, new strides in online investigations of comprehension and reading, and new challenges to the classic research in heurstics in decision-making.

  • 0131552716Cognition, 4/E
    Ashcraft
    © 2006 | Prentice Hall | Cloth; 640 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0131552716 | ISBN-13: 9780131552715
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    • For undergraduate courses of beginning graduate courses in Introductory Cognitive Psychology.

     

    Using a unique question-and-answer format, this text comprehensively addresses many of the overarching questions that confront and motivate today's cognitive scientists.

     

    When Daniel Willingham first approached the prospect of creating his own cognitive psychology text, he did so with the knowledge that his years of teaching experience had brought him: while many texts were relatively adequate in coverage, his students never liked them. Usually underexposed to social sciences in pre-college courses, he found his students often struggled with understanding how and why cognitive psychologists approach the problems that they do. Here, by using a unique question-and-answer format, he is able to start with questions frequently asked by students, relate those to questions cognitive scientists ask in their own research, present clear answers, and frame those answers in an interesting, lively, and comprehensive coverage of the core material. Through this accessible narrative style, Willingham shows the logical connections between each section and, by means of several new pedagogical features, encourages students to apply what they have learned in their daily lives.