Psychology

Synopsis

With unsurpassed breadth and depth of coverage, Barker's "Psychology" provides a concise, readable presentation of the foundations of psychological phenomena and the perspectives in psychology. The book provides the interpretation and integration of a broad swath of information in an understandable presentation of general psychology. An integrated adaptive-evolutionary theme runs throughout the text and the unique historical perspective defines where we have been in psychology, where we are going and what psychology means in relation to other sources of knowledge. This volume outlines the history of psychology and its implications and methodology in the behavioral sciences, as well as the biological/behavioral, perceptual/cognitive, developmental/individual differences and the social/cultural perspectives in psychology. For those interested in a concise, comprehensive introduction to the foundations of psychology.