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3.39 AVERAGE
3.39 AVERAGE
Introducing Psychology is a book that does what the cover says - it introduces the subject in little conversational nuggets that are easy to understand.
It covers the history of the subject briefly, the six major houses/schools of thought, the salient features of the different theories and some bits about the founders/leading thinkers of the schools. The cartoons presented are fun and often witty. For someone looking to read about the subject, it offers a good starting point. Thereafter one can branch into details through other books.
I can't rave over the book. I felt it was competent enough to have in the can what's on the label. And that's about it.
It covers the history of the subject briefly, the six major houses/schools of thought, the salient features of the different theories and some bits about the founders/leading thinkers of the schools. The cartoons presented are fun and often witty. For someone looking to read about the subject, it offers a good starting point. Thereafter one can branch into details through other books.
I can't rave over the book. I felt it was competent enough to have in the can what's on the label. And that's about it.
For someone who has studied psychology, this book can be quite boring to read as it is fairly basic. I'm sure I would have enjoyed it more if I knew nothing about the subject. My main criticism is that the book wasn't as graphic as it advertised itself to be. There was a picture every couple of pages. However, the information provided in the text is the most important. I'd definitely recommend it if you knew nothing about psychology and wanted a place to start.
Unstructured and unoriginal, appears to be a C- highschool report
It covered mostly all the concepts used in educational psychology for teacher training so it was helpful for me to understand the origin of certain theories with their experiments. It is a good summary to start from.
I love this series with graphics.
I love this series with graphics.
This is a very introductory guide, most likely meant for people who might be interested in studying psychology, but haven't yet decided whether to go for it or not. It writes shortly but fairly comprehensively about the history of psychological research and study and some of its influences and its influencers. It describes things fairly simplistically at times almost like it expects it's readers to be very simplistic, but then it uses big difficult words without always describing what they mean.
The book is not ideal for Kindle or other ebooks, as the images are very small and it's frustrating to have to zoom into each one. Then again, there are not that many images for a graphic guide and most don't really bring anything to the book. Some provide information in the form a picture with text in it, but others are making a skit which is not that funny. In addition, the graphics are not always researched well referencing the text.
Still, the actual information I gained from this was interesting.
The book is not ideal for Kindle or other ebooks, as the images are very small and it's frustrating to have to zoom into each one. Then again, there are not that many images for a graphic guide and most don't really bring anything to the book. Some provide information in the form a picture with text in it, but others are making a skit which is not that funny. In addition, the graphics are not always researched well referencing the text.
Still, the actual information I gained from this was interesting.
I loved it so much, you have no idea how much I appreciate this type of books. The type that helps you learn new things by showing you, by being so creative, the graphs and pictures in this book were so pretty and beautiful and very connected to those theories they were trying to present that you had to learn something, anything, at least by looking at those pictures. I knew some of those theories because of college, but it was so much better to read about them in this fun way. I recommend it for anyone who wants to learn psychology in a fun and very easy way. (the theories are presented so well, it's so easy to comprehend them like this. I think my teachers should learn something from this author.)
pretty handy book if you want to know more about the basics of psychology. what makes it pretty great is the short chapters which makes all the concepts and stuff ready and easy to digest. bear in mind, this isn't going to teach you all the secrets of the subject and really isn't going to be as interesting and fun-filled as most people think psychology is all about. some might see this book as being mundane and dull but this is truly the core and essence of the field itself. think of this as a rather short and sweet 'psychology for dummies'. -written by yours truly, a psychology student.
informative
slow-paced