Do you wake up dreading the day? Do you feel discouraged with what you've accomplished in life? Do you want greater self-esteem, productivity, and joy in daily living? This title offers tools that provide hope, compassion, and healing for people suffering from low self-esteem, unhappiness or depression.
The human brain is the most complex structure in the universe. How it works is one of the most important of scientific questions. This book explores the evolutionary route by which brains emerged since the origin of life. It also investigates how brains develop from a single fertilised egg to the incredibly complex organ that each human possesses.
Whether you're looking to be more decisive in your life, find a new job or simply be happier, the chances are that this book has the 'magic bullet' you need.
Following the path from early adulthood to old age, this engrossing introduction offers students an insight into how psychologists have made sense of the significant markers in people's lives. The authors discuss stage theories, and ecological and systemic approaches to show how these ideas illuminate our understanding of lifespan development.
How does the brain create the self? After looking at patients who have undergone a change in the brain that transforms the boundaries of the self, the author presents a model of the self that links the workings of the brain with personal features of the mind, such as meaning, purpose, and being.
The nature of learning is primarily thought of as a verbal process or function, but this suggests that pre-linguistic infants do not learn - when they are actually active learners. This text provides a theoretical framework for the "ecological approach" to understanding perceptual learning.
This textbook reviews for the first time the thinking of six major existential philosophers; Martin Adams presents a philosophical and psychological analysis, and critically evaluates the different ways that existential philosophy can illuminate the way we all strive for meaning and purpose in life.
An Introduction to Social Psychology encourages mastery of the basics as well as critical thinking. It incorporates relevant insights from social neuroscience, evolutionary theory and positive psychology, and also covers the impact of new means of social interaction, including social media.
This text defines learning and shows how the learning process is studied, places learning theory in historical perspective, and presents essential features of the major theories of learning with implications for educational practices.
How can psychologists explain strange experiences such as hallucinations or unusual beliefs in ghosts and angels? This compelling introduction aims to uncover how and why such beliefs occur, exploring explanations based on different psychological models, and evaluating the scientific basis of parapsychology and the challenges that researchers face.
From alien encounters to visions of ghosts, this introduction to anomalistic psychology explores the fascinating area of the psychology of belief in paranormal phenomena. Engaging and accessible, it considers empirical evidence from a variety of psychological perspectives, including from clinical, developmental and cognitive psychology.
IMAGINE WAKING UP IN A TRAIN STATION IN INDIA WITH NO IDEA WHO YOU ARE OR HOW YOU GOT THERE - In 2002, at age twenty-eight, David MacLean woke up in a foreign land with his memory wiped clean. No money. No passport. No identity.