Psychology: Core Concepts (4th Edition)

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Summary: A low level textbook
Review: I really don't like this textbook. It is written at a level that is appropriate for a community college or high school, but it is too simplistic for use in a university classroom. Beyond the errors that the text makes, such as locating the suparchiasmatic nucleus in the thalamus, the explanations are to brief and simple. The book includes end of chapter review questions, but they are so simple that most students could answer them simply by looking at the chapter concepts.

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Summary: Won't put you to sleep!
Review: I was assigned this text for a college General Psychology course, and upon reading it cover to cover, I found that it was quiet interesting! The book uses simple terms so it is easy to understand what really matters, rather than trying to memorize countless definitions, and it has a story at the beginning of each chapter to help put each concept in perspective. In comparison to other dry, and complicated psychology books which I have had in the past, I highly suggest this book to anyone wishing, or forced to, study psychology.

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Summary: confusing and disjointed but somewhat informative
Review: THis book was used for my into to psycho class at a large university, and I really wish they would have picked a different text. The book has a hard time staying focused, in one section concepts are horibbly oversimplified, in another, they are throwing too much high level information with no context. The chapter questions were ridiculously easy at times, unanwerable even by my TA at others. All in all, a very disjointed text.

Rating:
Summary: confusing and disjointed but somewhat informative
Review: THis book was used for my into to psycho class at a large university, and I really wish they would have picked a different text. The book has a hard time staying focused, in one section concepts are horibbly oversimplified, in another, they are throwing too much high level information with no context. The chapter questions were ridiculously easy at times, unanwerable even by my TA at others. All in all, a very disjointed text.