Psychology: Core Concepts

by Philip G. Zimbardo, Robert L. Johnson, Ann L. Weber

Each chapter of this brief, book focuses on the key questions and core concepts of psychology, supported by an extensive pedagogical structure designed to aid students. A wealth of instructive features, such as “Psychology in Your Life,” “Using Psychology to Learn Psychology,” and “Do it Yourself!” enhance student learning and retention of key psychological concepts. Psychology, Fifth edition integrates a cross-cultural and multicultural perspective to make psychology meaningful for all readers. This is all accomplished in a 14-chapter format, which is easier to integrate into a semester or quarter course.

Genres: Psychology, Textbooks, Nonfiction, Reference, School

Hardcover

First published August 22, 2005

About the author

Philip George Zimbardo was an American psychologist and a professor emeritus at Stanford University. He became known for his 1971 Stanford prison experiment, which was later criticized severely for both ethical and scientific reasons. He authored various introductory psychology textbooks for college students, and other notable works, including The Lucifer Effect, The Time Paradox, and The Time Cure. He was also the initiator and president of the Heroic Imagination Project.

Reviews

[JY Tan]

Bought in 2013 as a pre-university student. Still useful and interesting to study as a masters student in counselling.

[Bea]

As student of social work he was very important and played essential part in psychology study , enjoyed very much ;)

[Nguyễn Huy]

It is a very good book. I had a really good time while reading this. There are so many useful information and very suitable for everyone.

[Shield]

good

[Druzhok Pavlov]

Not what I would choose but a well written text book.

[kocham panie]

Yea u tell em fr😘

[Qiao Liu]

very enjoyable.

Many of the points are thought provoking while relatively easy to grasp.

[astaliegurec]

4.0 out of 5 stars
Surprisingly Enjoyable for a Textbook
September 21, 2008

This book was used in my son's "General Psychology" course at the University of West Florida (PSY2012). He brought it home at the end of the year, so I read it. Surprisingly, it was fairly enjoyable. The sum total of my psychological knowledge comes from this book, so I can't speak to its accuracy. But, I found it to be well-written, comprehensive, and easily-read. It is targeted right at early college students and reads like a survey course to all of Psychology (covering a person’s entire life). My only real complaint about the book is that it is very PC. But, given its source (psychologists) and its target environment (academia and academics), that's probably unavoidable. For the most part, the PC material is actually interesting (if not humorous). Only near the end does it begin to get irritating. I have to say, though, that the authors have done a remarkable job of meeting their audience's needs and done it in an enjoyable manner. Thus, I rate it at a Very Good four stars out of five.

[Mohamed Yehia]

If the objective of the book it to have the reader know himself and the humans around him better, then it have achieved its purpose. An educational book of a kind.

It laying down the psychological issues in a respected scientific way. The book is a heavy book full of research summaries, theories and models, with more than 750 pages that takes big time to read, but it worth every minute spend on it.

Warning; one time reading will not allow the reader to digest all the content, so a second reading would be required.

Again, a respectful book that changed my view to the world.

[Patricia]

Good times.

[Russell]

It was an introductory book, of course it sucked. Most intro books suck, they never get deep into anything.

[Stacey]

I thought this text offered a stimulating outline and effectively illustrated the many concepts and applications of the subject for those thinking about pursuing a degree in psychology.

[Beka Sukhitashvili]

ძალიან საინტერესო თავებია.
უნივერსიტეტში 8 თავი რაც მასწავლეს, ახლა დავამატე დანარჩენი რვაც და წავიკითხე.

[Sharon]

An introductory psychology book packed with information yet is easily digestible at the same time. Makes for a really interesting (albeit long) read, but glad I made it through nonetheless.

[Paulina]

minus one star for the prison experiment

[Sofia Carrillo]

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