Routledge Modular Psychology
About the Book Series
The Routledge Modular Psychology series is a completely new approach to introductory level psychology, tailor made to the new modular style of teaching.
Each short book covers a topic in more detail than any large textbook can, allowing teacher and student to select material exactly to suit any particular course or project.
The books have been written especially for those students new to higher level study, whether at school home, college or university.
They include specially designed features to help with technique, such as model essay at an average level with an examiners comments to show how extra marks can be gained. The authors are all examiners and teachers at introductory level.
The Routledge modular texts are all user friendly and accessible and include the following features:
- Practice essays with specialist commentary to show how to achieve a higher grade
- Chapter summaries to assist with revision
- Progress and review exercises
- Glossary of key terms
- Summaries of key research
- Further reading to stimulate ongoing study and research
- Website addresses for additional information
- Cross-referencing to other books in the series
Classification and Diagnosis of Psychological Abnormality
1st Edition
By Susan Cave
May 03, 2002
How is psychological abnormality recognised? How many different mental disorders are there, and what are their characteristics? Although there are established guidelines for clinicians working in this area, these have been subject to many criticisms. Exploring how views on this subject have changed...
Introducing Research and Data in Psychology: A Guide to Methods and Analysis
1st Edition
By Ann Searle
January 04, 2002
Introducing Research and Data in Psychology shows how research design and data analysis are attainable and useful skills. It introduces both experimental and non-experimental methods of research and the analysis of data using both descriptive and inferential statistics. The uses, interpretation and...
Social and Personality Development
1st Edition
By Tina Abbott
January 02, 2002
Social and Personality Development looks at the processes by which we come to be who we are. It covers a range of topics central to personality and developmental psychology. The book is arranged in three sections, the first covering the main theories of personality, the second describing the ...
Evolutionary Explanations of Human Behaviour
1st Edition
By John H. Cartwright
December 26, 2001
In recent years, a new discipline has arisen that argues human behaviour can be understood in terms of evolutionary processes. Evolutionary Explanations of Human Behaviour is an introductory level book covering evolutionary psychology, this new and controversial field. The book deals with three ...
Psychology and Work
1st Edition
By Christine Hodson
December 14, 2001
Psychology and Work provides a concise, user-friendly introduction to the field of occupational psychology. The book covers the main issues in the psychology of work and organizations. Topics discussed include the significance of work to the individual, the motivation to work, selection and ...
Attention and Pattern Recognition
1st Edition
By Nick Lund
May 29, 2001
Whilst attention is a term commonly used in everyday life, for many years psychologists have struggled in their attempts to explain what it actually means. Attention and Pattern Recognition introduces the main psychological research on attention and the methods that have been used to study it. It ...
Cortical Functions
1st Edition
By John Stirling
January 29, 2001
Cortical Functions is a companion to Kevin Silber's series title, The Physiological Basis of Behaviour and concentrates on the cerebral cortex, its structure, connections, functions and dysfunctions. John Stirling includes clinical descriptions and case studies to illustrate various forms of ...
Social Cognition
1st Edition
By Donald C. Pennington
October 20, 2000
Social Cognition looks at the way in which humans interpret, analyse and remember information about the social world. Topics covered include: attribution, social schemas and social representations, prejudice and discrimination. Suitable for the AQA-A A2 and AQA-B AS level examintation, mnd students...
Sport Psychology
1st Edition
By Matt Jarvis
August 31, 2000
Sport Psychology is an introductory account of the major psychological issues in sport today. Major theories and up-to-date research are covered in the areas of personality, attitudes to sport, aggression in sport, anxiety and stress, social influences, motivation, and skill acquisition. A wide ...
Theoretical Approaches in Psychology
1st Edition
By Matt Jarvis
August 24, 2000
Psychologists use a range of principles and theories, all of which view the person and the study of the person in very different ways. Theoretical Approaches in Psychology introduces and outlines the six main approaches and considers how each has helped psychologists understand human behaviour, ...
Perception: Theory, Development and Organisation
1st Edition
By Paul Rookes, Jane Willson
July 07, 2000
Paul Rookes and Jane Willson explain perception and perceptual processes in a way that almost anyone can understand. The study of perception, or how the brain processes information from the senses , has fascinated psychologists and philosophers for a long time. Perception takes the key research ...
Interpersonal Relationships
1st Edition
By Diana Dwyer
June 07, 2000
Interpersonal Relationships considers friendship and more intimate relationships including theories of why we need them, how they are formed, what we get out of them and the stages through which they go. Social and cultural variations are discussed as well as the effects of relationships on our ...