Psychology : an introduction to the study of human behavior / Henry Clay Lindgren, Donn Erwin Byrne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lindgren, Henry Clay, 1914-2005, author.

Byrne, Donn Erwin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human behavior.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (429 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Psychology

Place of Publication:

New York : Wiley, 1961.

Summary:

The central purpose of this textbook is that of aiding students to develop a better and more complete understanding of human behavior--their own behavior as well as that of others. We have undertaken this project with two basic assumptions in mind. The first and perhaps the most important of these assumptions is the belief that of all the sciences, psychology has the most to offer in the way of a sense-making framework for understanding human behavior. The second assumption that has guided us is the belief that any course or text, in order to be successful, must communicate with students. Unfortunately, a great many courses and texts in psychology, as in other subjects, fall short of attaining an adequate degree of communication because they attempt to answer questions that students not only have not asked, but have not dreamed of asking. On the other hand, students do have questions for which psychologists do have the answers. What we have tried to do in developing this textbook is to anticipate the questions that students are likely to ask and answer them in such a way that they might be led to ask some of the deeper and more significant questions that are of interest to the psychologist. To put this into other words, we have tried to write a book that begins with areas of interest that are common to beginning students as well as to psychologists and proceeds into areas which psychologists think are important for human understanding, but of which the layman has little awareness.

Contents:

Psychology as a science and a profession

Human development: Infancy and childhood

Human development: Adolescence and adulthood

Physiological processes

The learning process

Perceptual processes

Motivation and emotional behavior

The psychologist's use of statistics

Intelligence and creativity

Personality: The organization of behavior

Personal adjustment and mental hygiene

The social matrix of individual behavior

Communication

Group processes

Selecting and learning occupational roles

Psychology in business and industry

Psychology and world affairs.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.