Essentials Of Psychology: Concepts and Applications

by Jeffrey S. Nevid

The new edition of this brief introductory text retains the hallmark features that have made its parent text unique in the market, while offering a more manageable, student-friendly format. The text's organization breaks down each chapter into smaller instructional units organized around a set of key concepts in a particular area of study. The text also features Nevid's comprehensive learning system derived from research on memory, learning, and textbook pedagogy. This learning model incorporates what the author calls the "Four Es of Effective Learning"--Engaging Student Interest, Encoding Information, Elaborating Meaning, and Evaluating Progress. Nevid's Essentials of Psychology: Concepts and Applications, 2/e, provides a broad view of psychology that includes the history, methods of research, major theories, and research findings of the discipline as well as applications of the knowledge gained from contemporary research to the problems and challenges we face in today's world. Major content revisions cover many of the 1,000-plus new citations of research findings and theoretical developments that have appeared in the scientific literature in the past three years. In addition the text offers the latest research findings in the areas of neuroscience, gender, and positive psychology.

Genres: Textbooks, Psychology, School, Nonfiction, College, Reference

522 pages, Paperback

Published December 14, 2007

About the author

Jeffrey Nevid, Ph.D., ABPP, is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology at St. John’s University in New York, where he has taught at the undergraduate and graduate levels since 1981. He is also a practicing psychologist specializing in cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) in New York. Dr. Nevid holds a Diplomate in Clinical Psychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP) and is a Fellow of the Academy of Clinical Psychology (FAClinP).

Dr. Nevid completed his doctoral degree in clinical psychology at SUNY Albany and was awarded a National Institute of Mental Health Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Evaluation Research at Northwestern University. Dr. Nevid has conducted research in many areas of psychology and has amassed more than 200 publications and professional presentations. He has also authored or coauthored more than a dozen books in psychology and related fields, including several leading college textbooks, such as Psychology: Concepts and Applications (Cengage Learning), Abnormal Psychology in a Changing World (Pearson Education), Human Sexuality in a World of Diversity (Pearson Education), and Psychology and the Challenges of Life: Adjustment and Growth (John Wiley). Dr. Nevid also serves as Director of Research of Implicit Metrics, a marketing research firm he founded with his colleague Ronald Jay Cohen, Ph.D., ABPP.

Reviews

[mary liz · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'M FINISHED HALLELUJAH.

This was...not my favorite. *coughs* It had a lot of weird theories and stuff I didn't agree with, but I found parts of it pretty interesting. It was just really intense trying to get through a 550-page textbook in 8 weeks.

Soooo let's just say I wouldn't recommend it necessarily. XD But it's a great reference for when I'm writing and want to know more about the human brain. ;)

2.5 stars

[Katy Lovejoy · Rating 4 out of 5]

did a good Job actually teaching me about a subject I knew nothing about

[Stevie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I felt that this was a very good and very informative psychology book. I had to get this for school and people wanted to buy it off of me but I kept it to read it over again. I would definitely recommend this book to people who are wanting to learn about psychology.

[Elynor · Rating 3 out of 5]

Textbook for my online psychology course, which I took through Pitt Community College in NC.