Cliffsquickreview Psychology

by CliffsNotes

CliffsQuickReview course guides cover the essentials of your toughest classes. Get a firm grip on core concepts and key material, and test your newfound knowledge with review questions. Whether you're... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822053276
• ISBN13: 9780822053279
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.2"

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Good enough overview

The Cliffs Quick Review serves as an outline, overview, and collection of general information that you might encounter in an Intro/General Psychology class. Other such discipline overviews, such as the Dummies guide, aren't as scholastic, and tend to cater more to Pop Psychology - or people who want to find answers to what's wrong with them.It covers the basics of:-Research Methods, Behavioral, sensation, perception, consciousness, learning, motivation, emotions, stress and health, Developmental, Personality, Abnormal, treatments, Social, intelligence, memory, Cognitive, language, and diversity; and a brief (useless) statistics section.It would have been more useful if it delved specifically into the subdisciplines (noticeably lacking are Industrial/Org, Psychiatry, Educational.. Also, in some places, all information isn't given, but rather a representative sample of information in that category. In favor of brevity, it lacks concrete examples.