Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 616
EAN: 9780495810766
Edition: 9
ISBN: 0495810762
Label: Wadsworth Publishing
Languages: Array
Manufacturer: Wadsworth Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 720
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Studio: Wadsworth Publishing

Jim Kalat's best-selling INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY takes a "critical thinking" approach to the major theories and concerns of psychology. By prompting students to ask themselves questions like "How was this conclusion reached?" and "Does the evidence really support it?," Kalat encourages the use of scientific principles. He walks students through the hypothesis-method-results-interpretation steps that psychologists use when attempting to answer questions about human intellect, emotion, and behavior.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Son received a 3.4
Comment: I am guessing this is a good book as my son got a 3.4 in class, But better than that was the sellers response to my need. We purchased this book at the last minute and seller got this out to me immediately. Thank you

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Liked it!
Comment: I must say, this Psychology textbook is very helpful and actually interesting. It isn't chock full of hard to understand definitions. Rather, the author explains all the concepts using simple ideas and relative examples, and incorporating many pictures and tables/graphs. The loose-leaf edition also makes life so much easier.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Book is OK
Comment: This book is ok, but I can't really rate it that high. I mean, come on, its an intro to psych book.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Best Pick for an introduction to the study of psychology
Comment: I teach an IB Psychology course and this is by far the best introduction to psychology text I have read and used in my course. Kalat does a fantastic job integrating current research into each major topic and even provides summaries of key studies providing their hypotheses, methods, results, and key points from their discussions. What's more, Kalat offers questions that stretch across Bloom's levels of questioning. Perhaps most importantly, my students love this book and read it with pleasure! And these are high school students!

Finally, unlike other detailed psychology texts, this text is very digestible! It is very well organized and structured. It includes clear diagrams and visuals that really help my students. Kalat's style of writing is not only enjoyable to me, but my students really enjoy it! It is very intelligent, but warm and friendly.

I HIGHLY recommend this book for any advanced psychology high school course or introduction to psychology course in college.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: An excellent introducer to psychology
Comment: For the layman, who believed that psychology is a mythical discipline, Kalat,s book is an excellent introducer to this discipline. The book takes the ordinary reader from the basics and leads him on to the depths.
I have used this book to many new entrants (my students) to the discipline and many are now practicing psychologists.

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