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Key Ideas in Psychology
Ian Stuart-Hamilton
Jessica Kingsley Publishers London and Philadelphia
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All rights reserved. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission of the Copyright Act 1956 (as amended), or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 3334 Alfred Place, London WC1E 7DP. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to prosecution and civil claims for damages.
The right of Ian Stuart-Hamilton to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
First published in the United Kingdom in 1999 by Jessica Kingsley Publishers Ltd, 116 Pentonville Road, London N1 9JB, England and 325 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia PA 19106, USA. www.jkp.com
Copyright 1999 Ian Stuart-Hamilton
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A CIP catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Stuart-Hamilton, Ian Introduction to psychology 1.Psychology I. Title 150
ISBN 1 85302 359 0
Printed and Bound in Great Britain by Athenaeum Press, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear
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To Kate For dainties are all cates
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Acknowledgements
I would like to thank University College Worcester for continuing to support me; Jessica Kingsley for politely ignoring the fact that my manuscript was two years late; and last but not least, Ruth, Mark and Kate for continuing to tolerate my many foibles.
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Contents
Introduction
9
1. What is Psychology?
12
2. Intelligence
24
3. Personality
53
4. Social Psychology
80
5. Language
103
6. Developmental Psychology
120
7. Learning Theory
143
8. Memory
156
9. Perception
176
10. Biopsychology
206
11. Comparative Psychology
240
12. Mental Illness
259
13. Statistics
299
14. Some Concluding Thoughts
317
Reference
322
Index
330
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Introduction
This book is written with a simple aim to tell people what Psychology is about. It presents a review of the key areas of the subject as it is traditionally taught, and provides the reader with an introduction to important concepts and findings within each of these. Armed with the information in this book, the reader should be able at least to make sense of most psychological topics. At the end of each chapter is a set of suggested further readings which will enable a more detailed exploration of the particular topic under discussion to be made.
The book is aimed at two groups of readers. The first comprises people who are new to the subject and simply want to know what Psychology
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