Research

Of Wonder
DaiGianna Williams

MY RESOURCE:

Seventh Edition Psychology Textbook

In this book you can learn lots of

psychology related topic such as:
FOUNDATIONS
Evolution And The
Biological Roots Of
Behavior
The Brain And The
Nervous System
Sensation
Perception

KNOWLEDGE
AND
THOUGHT
Learning

THE PERSON
IN CONTEXT

INDIVIDUAL
DIFFERENCES

Cognitive
Development

Intelligence
Personality

Memory

Social Development

Thinking

Social Cognition And

Emotion

Psychopathology

Language

Social Influence And

Relationships

Treatment Of Mental
Disorders

Who created
this resource?

This textbook
was written by:

Henry Gleitman,
who was the
Professor
of
Psychology at
the University
of Pennsylvania.

Daniel
Reisberg, who
is the chair of
the department
of psychology
at
Reed
College
in
Portland,
Oregon.

James Gross,
the Associate
Professor of
Psychology at
Stanford
University.

What can you learn with this

resource?
This text covers the breadth of psychology. You can find out
about many topics such as intelligence, personality, mental
disorders, social and cognitive development. You can learn
about how psychology relates to various other scientific
fields such as biology, neuroscience, sociology and even
biochemistry, as these things relate to behavior and humans.

What I learned. . .
(Chapter 12- Social Cognition and Emotion; 445) Stereotypes create self-fulfilling
prophecies. The group that is getting targeted with the stereotype behave in a way that
confirms the stereotype. An obvious example is racism, but another example would be a
teacher's expectation of a student's performance.

(Chapter 13- Social Influence and Relationships; 512) Group polarization is a

tendency for decisions made by groups to be more extreme than the decisions that would
have been made by the individual members. One reason is that each member of the
group wants to take a position at the group's leading edge.

(Chapter 17- Treatment of Mental Disorders; 643) Sigmund Freud developed the
beginning stages of Classical psychoanalysis. Freud believed that a patient's ills stem
from unconscious conflicts that date back to early childhood, and that for a person to
overcome their issues, they have to gain insight into their buried thoughts or wishes.

How and why did I choose

this resource?
I found this resource at place to get free books and I chose it because
I have an interest in psychology.