Exploring Psychology, Fifth Edition

Rating:
Summary: From a student's point of view
Review: When I took General Psychology in college last semester, this is the book that I had to use. Let me start by saying that I usually dread having to read an assigned chapter or to review out of a textbook, but Exploring Psychology (Fourth Edition) was an exception.

I'm interested in psychology to begin with, but I thought the book's chapters were well written, interesting, and very easy to understand. There are 14 chapters, and all the chapters have a few main headings, or sections, that relate to what the whole chapter is about, and a bunch of sub-sections. From time to time in each chapter, there is a set of review questions in a box called "Rehearse It!." At the end of every chapter, there is a great summary from each of the chapter's different sections, a few critical thinking exercises, and an answer key to the Rehearse It! questions.

As for what psychological topics are included, this book has a lot to offer. There are chapters devoted to everything that deals with psychology from learning, memory, therapy, how people develop, biology, behavior, and much more. Throughout the text, it mentions and goes into detail about the works of many famous psychologists such as Sigmund Freud, B.F. Skinner, John B. Watson, and many others.

Also included in Exploring Psychology are the other things you'd expect to see such as a glossary, two Appendixes, and more. I can't say anything from a teacher's point of view, but for me as a student, this book was fun to read and very easy to understand.

Rating:
Summary: From a student's point of view
Review: When I took General Psychology in college last semester, this is the book that I had to use. Let me start by saying that I usually dread having to read an assigned chapter or to review out of a textbook, but Exploring Psychology (Fourth Edition) was an exception.

I'm interested in psychology to begin with, but I thought the book's chapters were well written, interesting, and very easy to understand. There are 14 chapters, and all the chapters have a few main headings, or sections, that relate to what the whole chapter is about, and a bunch of sub-sections. From time to time in each chapter, there is a set of review questions in a box called "Rehearse It!." At the end of every chapter, there is a great summary from each of the chapter's different sections, a few critical thinking exercises, and an answer key to the Rehearse It! questions.

As for what psychological topics are included, this book has a lot to offer. There are chapters devoted to everything that deals with psychology from learning, memory, therapy, how people develop, biology, behavior, and much more. Throughout the text, it mentions and goes into detail about the works of many famous psychologists such as Sigmund Freud, B.F. Skinner, John B. Watson, and many others.

Also included in Exploring Psychology are the other things you'd expect to see such as a glossary, two Appendixes, and more. I can't say anything from a teacher's point of view, but for me as a student, this book was fun to read and very easy to understand.