ISBN: 0041500695
Godina izdanja: 1979
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Kevin Connolly - Psychology Survey No. 2
George Allen & Unwin, 1979
288 str.
meki povez
stanje: dobro

This edited book is destined for all sorts of persons, and it deals with a variety of rare and excellent matters. The chapters deal with personality appraisal, attitudes, the psychology of art, developmental psychology, cognitive psychology, perception, biopsychology, behavioral evolution, and motor control.

Contemporary psychology is a very diverse and rapidly growing subject as students know only too well. New research findings, new theories, new fields of study along with great progress in the applications of psychological knowledge abound. These developments are published in a huge number of scientific journals and an ever increasing number of books.
The Psychology Survey series offers a means of keeping up with the many exciting and important developments in the subject. The contributions to Psychology Survey No.2 range across many topics including neurobiology, language, and aesthetics, and they are written by recognised experts in Europe and North America.
Professor Kevin Connolly is Head of the Department of Psychology at the University of Sheffield. He is Chairman of the Scientific Affairs Board of the British Psychological Society, and a member of the Council of the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour.

Perception and Cognition in Infancy – George Butterworth
Language and Communication – Andrew Lock and Chris Pratt
Social Development – H. Rudolph Schaffer
Visual Perception – John P. Frisby
Biological Rhythms and Behaviour – Simon Folkard
Learning – Geoffrey Hall
Memory – Graham Hitch
The Psychology of Art – W. Ray Crozier
Social Behaviour – Michael Argyle
Personality – Claude S. Fischer
Psychopathology – Peter Venables

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