Psychology: A Very Short Introduction
Psychology: A Very Short Introduction Psychology is part of everyone's experience: it influences the way we think about everything from education and intelligence, to relationships and emotions,…
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Psychology: A Very Short Introduction
Psychology is part of everyone's experience: it influences the way we think about everything from education and intelligence, to relationships and emotions, advertising and criminality. But what exactly are psychologists trying to do? People readily behave as amateur psychologists, offering explanations for what people think, feel, and do.
This Very Short Introduction explores some of psychology's leading ideas and their practical relevance.In this new edition, Gillian Butler and Freda McManus explore a variety of new topics and ways of studying the brain. What scientific grounding do they have for their approach? Until recently it was not possible to study the living human brain directly, so psychologists studied our behavior, and used their observations to derive hypotheses about what was going on inside.
Now - through neuroscience - our knowledge of the workings of the