Free Psychology Books; the GAL Encyclopedia of Psychology eds by Strickland et al

The GAL Encyclopedia of Psychology eds by Strickland et al

Psychology is one of the most fascinating fields of study. Almost everyone seems interested in understand-ing his or her own behavior, as well as the actions of oth-ers. Psychology is, by far, the most popular of the social and behavioral sciences and one of the most attractive to those who are interested in knowing more about people and their behavior. In college and universities, psycholo-gy has been one of the most popular majors for over three decades, and students are more likely to take an elective course in psychology than one from any other field. Not surprisingly, psychology has also become a popular high school offering. Initially, psychology courses at the secondary school level tried to meet the needs of rapidly maturing adoles-cents who were interested in the changes they were expe-riencing in themselves and in their relationships with oth-ers—family, friends, the world of adults. 

We are living in times of dramatic social change. Each of us continually faces new challenges about how we will make our place in the world. As the discipline of psychology matured, ad-justment courses gave way to substantive content courses that offered not just psychology’s latest findings about de-velopmental and identity issues, but also featured those more traditional areas of cognitive, experimental, physio-logical, and social psychology. These courses were joined by newly developed offerings such as neuropsychology and psycholinguistics. The advances in the scientific side of psychology were paralleled by the remarkable growth of counseling, clinical, and school psychology...............

 
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