Psychologizing

A Personal, Practice-Based Approach to Psychology

Patrick M. Whitehead

Psychologizing introduces students to the study of psychology by encouraging them to approach the subject on a personal level. Classroom-tested, the psychologizing model emphasizes learning through practice. A conversational and highly engaging narrative prompts students to begin thinking like psychologists as they examine key concepts, including learning, development, personality, and emotion. Based on the practice of phenomenology, Psychologizing emphasizes meaning and context. Chapters include a discussion of influential psychologists who have adopted this attitude and, in doing so, have forever changed the way that we understand thinking and learning. By exploring how experience is always meaningful, and how meaning can only be understood within a context, students will sharpen and develop critical thinking, and reflect on how they identify and shape meaning in their own lives.

This book is accompanied by ancillaries designed to enhance the experience of both instructors and students:

Instructor’s Manual. This valuable resource provides a sample syllabus, open response activities for discussion, suggested research paper guidelines, and sample rubrics.

Test Bank. For every chapter in the text, the Test Bank includes questions in multiple choice, true/false, and essay formats.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Pages: 236 • Trim: 6⅜ x 9⅜

978-1-4422-6872-2 • Hardback • September 2016 • $123.00 • (£95.00)

978-1-4422-6873-9 • Paperback • September 2016 • $55.00 • (£42.00)

978-1-4422-6874-6 • eBook • September 2016 • $52.00 • (£40.00)

Subjects: Psychology / Movements / Humanistic, Psychology / General, Psychology / Movements / Existential

Courses: Psychology; General, Philosophy; Phenomenology, Psychology; Introductory, Psychology; History and Systems; Existential Psychology , Psychology; History and Systems; Humanistic Psychology

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A Personal, Practice-Based Approach to Psychology

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Summary

Psychologizing introduces students to the study of psychology by encouraging them to approach the subject on a personal level. Classroom-tested, the psychologizing model emphasizes learning through practice. A conversational and highly engaging narrative prompts students to begin thinking like psychologists as they examine key concepts, including learning, development, personality, and emotion. Based on the practice of phenomenology, Psychologizing emphasizes meaning and context. Chapters include a discussion of influential psychologists who have adopted this attitude and, in doing so, have forever changed the way that we understand thinking and learning. By exploring how experience is always meaningful, and how meaning can only be understood within a context, students will sharpen and develop critical thinking, and reflect on how they identify and shape meaning in their own lives.

This book is accompanied by ancillaries designed to enhance the experience of both instructors and students:

Instructor’s Manual. This valuable resource provides a sample syllabus, open response activities for discussion, suggested research paper guidelines, and sample rubrics.

Test Bank. For every chapter in the text, the Test Bank includes questions in multiple choice, true/false, and essay formats.

Details

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Pages: 236 • Trim: 6⅜ x 9⅜

978-1-4422-6872-2 • Hardback • September 2016 • $123.00 • (£95.00)

978-1-4422-6873-9 • Paperback • September 2016 • $55.00 • (£42.00)

978-1-4422-6874-6 • eBook • September 2016 • $52.00 • (£40.00)

Subjects: Psychology / Movements / Humanistic, Psychology / General, Psychology / Movements / Existential

Courses: Psychology; General, Philosophy; Phenomenology, Psychology; Introductory, Psychology; History and Systems; Existential Psychology , Psychology; History and Systems; Humanistic Psychology

Author

Patrick M. Whitehead is assistant professor of psychology at Darton State College, where he teaches introductory psychology. His work has also been published in Psychology Teacher Network, The Humanistic Psychologist, Journal of Phenomenological Psychology, among others.

Table of Contents

Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: Methods
Chapter Three: Learning
Chapter Four: Thinking, Knowledge, and Intelligence
Chapter Five: Biological Psychology
Chapter Six: Sensation and Perception
Chapter Seven: Retrospection and Prospection
Chapter Eight: Development
Chapter Nine: Personality
Chapter Ten: Motivation
Chapter Eleven: Emotion
Chapter Twelve: Normal and Psychopathological
Chapter Thirteen: Health Psychology
Chapter Fourteen: Dreams and Dream-Analysis
Chapter Fifteen: Consciousness

Features

• Conversational narrative engages students with psychology by examining its personal significance to them

• Concise and affordable alternative to standard introductory psychology textbooks

• A classroom-tested Instructor’s Manual and Test Bank available to adopters

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Psychologizing

A Personal, Practice-Based Approach to Psychology

Patrick M. Whitehead

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A Personal, Practice-Based Approach to Psychology

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