Download or read book Applied Psychology for Foundation Year written by Wendy Garnham and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-12 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applied Psychology for Foundation Year: Key Ideas for Foundation Courses introduces students to topical issues and controversies within specific areas of applied psychology, bringing together current theories and studies from a number of areas within applied psychology through a series of interesting and current debates and controversies. Included in this book are a series of snapshots of how psychologists have tried to apply their findings to real-life problems. Using a clear structure and accessible tone, this book demonstrates how psychological research can be applied to inform current debates across a variety of the field’s subdisciplines. Through examination of both established theoretical ideas and more recent empirical evidence, it enables readers to see how research is linked to practical application in occupational psychology, educational psychology, criminology, sport psychology and environmental psychology. In doing so, it explicates contemporary theories and studies and contributes a cross-cultural understanding of these topics. This book’s wide coverage of topics and theories is designed to enable readers to not only immerse themselves in topical and often controversial debates but also to develop a critical awareness of alternative viewpoints, methodological weaknesses and theoretical shortcomings. Readers are encouraged to consider and question these theories and consider the implications of this research and how the findings can be applied to their own experience. Applied Psychology for Foundation Year is a key textbook for both foundation year and introductory psychology courses and will be of interest to anyone wanting to delve into topical issues in contemporary psychology.
Download or read book Social Psychology for Foundation Year written by Wendy Garnham and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Introducing students to topical issues and controversies drawn from specific areas of social psychology, Social Psychology for Foundation Year answers a series of contemporary questions and debates by bringing together current theories and studies from a number of areas within the field. Aimed primarily at students starting out on their degree journey, this book demonstrates how psychological research can help us understand our social world. Exploring topics from the Obama effect to groupthink, from what makes a good leader to the role of social identity in riots, it demonstrates how theories and studies contribute to our understanding of human behaviour. It embraces both established theories and recent empirical evidence to enable readers to see how research is linked to practical application in psychology and empowers readers to develop a greater understanding of why we do the things we do. Social Psychology for Foundation Year is a key textbook for both foundation year and introductory psychology courses and will be of interest to anyone wanting to delve into topical issues in contemporary psychology"--
Download or read book Applied Psychology written by Rowan Bayne and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this revised new edition, Bayne and Jinks expertly combine the professional and academic aspects of applied psychology. The contributing authors, all experts in their field, provide authoritative and engaging overviews of their areas of expertise and an important range of perspectives. The book is organised into three parts. The first part is a general context for applied psychology including a discussion of questions about evidence based practice. The second part discusses practice and training in a plethora of areas of applied psychology, including all of the traditional routes (for e.g. clinical, health and educational psychology), eight ′relative newcomers′ to the field (for e.g. sport and forensic psychology) and four areas not always regarded as applied psychology: counselling, coaching, careers guidance and lecturing. The innovative third part is a roundtable of expert practitioners commenting on the new directions they would like to see in their areas of applied psychology. Applied Psychology: Research, Training and Practice 2nd Edition will be essential for all students considering a career in an applied field, either those studying applied psychology at undergraduate level or MSc students on applied psychology courses at this level.
Download or read book Understand Applied Psychology Teach Yourself written by Nicky Hayes and published by Teach Yourself. This book was released on 2010-06-25 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understand Applied Psychology shows how basic psychological processes are relevant to everyday situations and contexts. From education to occupational psychology, this book provides a comprehensive look at psychology in almost every area of day-to-day living. It covers 18 different areas of applied psychology, explaining how psychologists work in the community as a whole and how psychology is applied to working life and broader aspects of living. The book also includes well-developed but unknown areas such as space psychology and eco-psychology, showing the scope of applied psychology and giving ideas for other areas where it could usefully contribute to our everyday lives. NOT GOT MUCH TIME? One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started. AUTHOR INSIGHTS Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author's many years of experience. TEST YOURSELF Tests in the book and online to keep track of your progress. EXTEND YOUR KNOWLEDGE Extra online articles at www.teachyourself.com to give you a richer understanding of applied psychology. FIVE THINGS TO REMEMBER Quick refreshers to help you remember the key facts. TRY THIS Innovative exercises illustrate what you've learnt and how to use it.
Download or read book Social Psychology for Foundation Year written by Wendy Garnham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2024-07-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing students to topical issues and controversies drawn from specific areas of social psychology, Social Psychology for Foundation Year answers a series of contemporary questions and debates by bringing together current theories and studies from a number of areas within the field. Aimed primarily at students starting out on their degree journey, this book demonstrates how psychological research can help us understand our social world. Exploring topics from the Obama effect to groupthink, from what makes a good leader to the role of social identity in riots, it demonstrates how theories and studies contribute to our understanding of human behaviour. It embraces both established theories and recent empirical evidence to enable readers to see how research is linked to practical application in psychology and empowers readers to develop a greater understanding of why we do the things we do. Social Psychology for Foundation Year is a key textbook for both foundation year and introductory psychology courses and will be of interest to anyone wanting to delve into topical issues in contemporary psychology.
Download or read book Applied Social Psychology written by Jamie A. Gruman and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 1150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This student-friendly introduction to the field focuses on understanding social and practical problems and developing intervention strategies to address them. Offering a balance of theory, research, and application, the updated Third Edition includes the latest research, as well as new, detailed examples of qualitative research throughout.
Download or read book Applied Psychology written by Harold Ernest Burtt and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 821 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is intended for two types of readers: the college student who has had an introductory course in psychology and desires orientation toward the science in its practical aspects, and the layman who is concerned with the general scope of applied psychology and possibly with a particular interest in some limited phase of it. With these readers in mind, a certain degree of compromise is necessary between a very technical text and a popular treatise. The effort has been made to give a scientific treatment of the subject that is reasonably thorough but not heavy and over the head of the general reader. For those who have not taken an introductory course in psychology, the second chapter gives a concise overview of the basic principles which might be obtained in such a course. A balanced emphasis on the different aspects of applied psychology has been attempted, but this may not be evident from a glance at the varying numbers of pages in certain chapters. The difficulty is that many topics, for example, psychological tests, are involved at numerous places in the discussion. The general policy has been to go into detail on a particular topic when it first comes up in the course of the discussion, giving adequate treatment to it there and merely making cross reference later. Thus, later chapters, without such cross references, would perforce be longer. The discussion is moderately documented and supplemented by tabular or graphic material. It is not the intention to support every detailed statement by citing chapter and verse to the extent of slowing down the discussion, but the references included should enable the interested reader to run down most of the original sources from which material was drawn. Statistics is always a problem in a work of this sort. Applied psychology in its actual practice draws heavily on statistics. Ideally, a student or lay reader ought to know something about basic statistics before pursuing applied psychology at all. Naturally, this is not feasible but neither does it seem advisable to devote the initial portion of the book to a deadly overview of statistics. However, a few of the more necessary statistical notions are introduced in the text when they first become pertinent. Enough detail is given, it is hoped, for the reader to pursue the work intelligently whenever those same principles come up again. In some cases where a bit more extensive treatment is desirable, there is supplementary statistical material in the appendix"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2007 APA, all rights reserved).
Download or read book Applied Psychology in Everyday Life written by Christopher J. L. Cunningham and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The practice of psychology involves more than the clinical treatment of mental illness. Although the media may perpetuate the view that all psychologists are healthcare professionals, or specialists who deal with deviant or non-normal behaviors, the majority of psychologists study and practice in diverse areas of human functioning other than clinical psychology. Psychology is the scientific study of human thought and behavior, all human behavior. It is a science with the same rigorous research standards as physics, chemistry, or biology. This book showcases a variety of applications of psychological science in the areas of health, law, sports, business, religion, and money. It is an outgrowth of the River Cities Industrial-Organizational Psychology Conference held at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA, in October 2008. The theme of the 2008 conference was “Applying Psychology to Everyday Life.” We hope the content of this volume enhances your awareness of the importance of applied psychology and that it motivates you to further explore its potential to impact our daily lives.
Download or read book Applied Psychology written by Warren HILTON and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Psychology and Work Today written by Duane P. Schultz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-30 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For undergraduate-level courses in Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Business Psychology, Personnel Psychology and Applied Psychology. Psychology and Work Today provides an invaluable foundation for anyone entering today's global business and industrial world. This informative, sophisticated, and entertaining text teaches students about the nature of work in modern society. By focusing on the practical and applied rather than the scientific ideal, the authors demonstrate how industrial-organizational psychology directly impacts our lives as job applicants, trainees, employees, managers, and consumers.
Download or read book Introduction to Applied Psychology written by Dr. Avinash Kumar and published by The Readers Paradise . This book was released on 2021-07-03 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mental health of adolescents especially in metro cities are very pathetic might be due to lack of parental relationship and lack of value added education. In this regard study of Philosophy, Psychology, Communication and Life-skills, through different action oriented tools and techniques can help the young generation to know themselves and can cope with different day to day problems. With the help of life skill management and effective communication skills student will deal to cope with their own day to day problem and can do help other people for the betterment of the society which is the main objectives of every human science. In this regard the present book will definitely help to build the skills of the young students to deal effectively with some of the practical skills.
Download or read book A History of Psychology written by William Douglas Woody and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 1013 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Psychology: The Emergence of Science and Applications, Sixth Edition, traces the history of psychology from antiquity through the early 21st century, giving students a thorough look into psychology’s origins and key developments in basic and applied psychology. This new edition includes extensive coverage of the proliferation of applied fields since the mid-twentieth century and stronger emphases on the biological basis of psychology, new statistical techniques and qualitative methodologies, and emerging therapies. Other areas of emphasis include the globalization of psychology, the growth of interest in health psychology, the resurgence of interest in motivation, and the importance of ecopsychology and environmental psychology. Substantially revised and updated throughout, this book retains and improves its strengths from prior editions, including its strong scholarly foundation and scholarship from groups too often omitted from psychological history, including women, people of color, and scholars from outside the United States. This book also aims to engage and inspire students to recognize the power of history in their own lives and studies, to connect history to the present and the future, and to think critically and historically. For additional resources, consult the Companion Website at www.routledge.com/cw/woody where instructors will find lecture slides and outlines; testbanks; and how-to sources for teaching History and Systems of Psychology courses; and students will find review a timeline; review questions; complete glossary; and annotated links to relevant resources.
Download or read book Applied Psychology for Social Workers chapters 1 3 written by Paula Nicolson and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoroughly revised and updated to take account of the latest research in psychology as well as recent innovation in social work education and practice, the third edition provides an informative yet practical explanation of the intrinsic link between psychology, social work theory and practice.
Download or read book Influencing Social Policy written by Kenneth I. Maton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Influencing Social Policy synthesizes current knowledge about how psychologists influence social policy to serve the public interest. The volume builds upon interviews with 79 applied psychologists about their experiences in the policy domain, with special focus on the work of applied developmental psychologists, applied social psychologists, and community psychologists. Additional foundations of the volume include a review of social science scholarship across a wide range of disciplines, and author Kenneth Maton's 30 years of teaching on the topic, including frequent interactions with Washington, DC, policy experts. Together, these sources provide in-depth information about how applied psychologists influence social policy, the factors that contribute to their success, the challenges they face, and the approaches used to address those challenges. The policy influences described span all three branches of government: legislative, executive, and judicial. The policy content areas are diverse, including the death penalty prohibition for adolescents, early childhood education, gay marriage, gender discrimination in the workplace, health and mental health care reform, homelessness, home visiting programs, sexually abused child witness treatment, status offender diversion from the juvenile justice system, substance abuse prevention, and many others. Influencing Social Policy is a must-have resource for graduate students and professionals in a wide variety of disciplines with interests in influencing social policy, including psychology, education, public health, social work, policy studies, anthropology, and sociology.
Download or read book Fields of applied psychology written by Anne Anastasi and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Introduction to Applied Psychology written by Coleman R. Griffith and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1934 edition.
Download or read book Elements of Applied Psychology written by Peter Spurgeon and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This breadth of professional and student audiences is reflected in the text, with major sections examining established areas of applied psychology combined with an acknowledgement of the ever developing new areas of study such as health psychology, psychology and law, and economic psychology. "Elements of Applied Psychology" also gives an insight into the role of the psychologist working in each of these new areas, offering undergraduates an indication of the work which will be on offer to them and of the role which they will be expected to fulfill. Undergraduate psychology courses have expanded rapidly over recent years. Simultaneously, the number of professional groups who incorporate elements of applied psychology in their work is growing all the time. "Elements of Applied Psychology" is the first text to investigate the pressures created by this increased interest, offering some insight into the factors which have influenced its pattern and direction.
