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Insider's Guide to Graduate Programs in Clinical and Counseling Psychology: 2006 2007 Edition (Insider's Guide to Graduate Programs in...
by Tracy J. Mayne, John C. Norcross, and Michael A. Sayette
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"Students need to realize that the Insider's Guide is much more than a shopping list of statistics about programs to be picked up just before sending off the first wave of applications. In fact, this is a resource that all students seriously considering careers in professional psychology will find valuable as soon as they declare their major. In addition to helping students decide where to apply, the book offers advice on undergraduate course selection, describes the various career options available within professional psychology, and guides the reader in writing letters of inquiry, preparing for interviews, and deciding where to go once accepted. For students who would benefit from a well-structured, concise set of guidelines and useful checklists, this book fits the bill."--Bryan D. Fantie, PhD, Psi Chi Advisor; Department of Psychology, American University "Imagine for a moment, a growing crowd of people who are all attempting to get through doors that are passageways to the careers they desperately want. If you find yourself in this reality that students face in attempting to gain admission to graduate programs in clinical psychology, the Insider's Guide is a 'must read."--C. R. Snyder, PhD, Director of Clinical Psychology, University of Kansas
"Anyone considering applying to a graduate program in clinical or counseling psychology would be advised to consult this book.This reference work would be appropriate in any college library with undergraduate or graduate programs, as well as public library or career counseling office collections."-- American Reference books Annual (ARBA)"An excellent resource.The authors are faithful to the title; this is truly an insider's guide.4 Stars!"-- Doody's Annual"The process of applying for admission to graduate programs in clinical and counseling psychology can be daunting. This valuable resource guides individuals through the process.Recommended for college libraries."--Choice
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"Students need to realize that the Insider's Guide is much more than a shopping list of statistics about programs to be picked up just before sending off the first wave of applications. In fact, this is a resource that all students seriously considering careers in professional psychology will find valuable as soon as they declare their major. In addition to helping students decide where to apply, the book offers advice on undergraduate course selection, describes the various career options available within professional psychology, and guides the reader in writing letters of inquiry, preparing for interviews, and deciding where to go once accepted. For students who would benefit from a well-structured, concise set of guidelines and useful checklists, this book fits the bill."--Bryan D. Fantie, PhD, Psi Chi Advisor; Department of Psychology, American University "Imagine for a moment, a growing crowd of people who are all attempting to get through doors that are passageways to the careers they desperately want. If you find yourself in this reality that students face in attempting to gain admission to graduate programs in clinical psychology, the Insider's Guide is a 'must read."--C. R. Snyder, PhD, Director of Clinical Psychology, University of Kansas "Anyone considering applying to a graduate program in clinical or counseling psychology would be advised to consult this book.This reference work would be appropriate in any college library with undergraduate or graduate programs, as well as public library or career counseling office collections."-- American Reference books Annual (ARBA)"An excellent resource.The authors are faithful to the title; this is truly an insider's guide.4 Stars!"-- Doody's Annual"The process of applying for admission to graduate programs in clinical and counseling psychology can be daunting. This valuable resource guides individuals through the process.Recommended for college libraries."--Choice
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Forty Studies that Changed Psychology: Explorations into the History of Psychological Research (5th Edition)
by Roger R. Hock
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"I do think that Hock has done a commendable job in this book of not only selecting appropriate studies, but providing this useful educational tool for introductory students Hock keeps his audience interested and writes very elegantly, and yet, concisely The idea of the book, which is to expose the novice student to the real story of research behind the introductory 'facts' is not only a worthwhile contribution to any introductory class, but an exemplary attempt to portray a more appropriate depiction of psychology to the naive student. This book is well written, engaging, easy to read, and comprehensive." — Misty Hill, Yale University "Hock's text brings class discussions to life Hock's writing style is very engaging. I know this, because my students praise the work, but more so because I also read it with enthusiasm most good historians tend to be encyclopedic, Hock's casual style is a welcome change." — James A. Schirille, Wake Forest University "The main strength is that Roger Hock summarizes, with flair and with clarity, some of the most important studies in the history of psychology." — Linda Pierce, Madonna University
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This unique book closes the gap between psychology books and the research that made them possible. Its journey through the “headline history” of psychology presents 40 of the most famous studies in the history of the science, and subsequent follow-up studies that expanded their findings and relevance. Readers are granted a valuable insider's look at the studies that continue to be cited most frequently, stirred up the most controversy when they were published, sparked the most subsequent related research, opened new fields of psychological exploration, and changed most dramatically our knowledge of human behavior. For individuals with an interest in an introduction to psychology.
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Research In Psychology: Methods and Design
by C. James Goodwin
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Designed to give readers a clear understanding of how experimental psychologists think and introduce them to variety of research methods they use in their attempts to understand behavior. Thoroughly revised to include all the important new developments in research methodologies, and incorporating engaging and relevant examples from recent studies, this book will provide the reader with a thorough grounding in Psychological research methods and practices.
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Wheeling Jesuit Univ., WV. Introductory textbook presents a clear picture of how experimental psychologists think, how to develop research ideas and hypotheses, how to design studies and carry them out, and how to analyze results. Offers new material on ethics, online searching, and guidelines for preparing APA-style research reports. Previous edition: c2003.
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The Psychologist as Detective: An Introduction to Conducting Research in Psychology (4th Edition)
by Randolph A Smith and Stephen Davis
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The Psychologist as Detective conveys the excitement of research methodology through a lively, conversational style. To make the study of the research process interactive and accessible for readers, pedagogical features and critical thinking activities are integrated throughout the volume. Actual student research appears in each chapter to increase relevance and heighten reader interest. This text evaluates the science of psychology, research ideas and hypotheses, ethics, nonexperimental methods and the basics of experimentation variables and control, statistics, designing-conducting-analyzing and interpreting experiments, as well as alternative research designs, external validity, critiquing experimental research and writing and assemblling an APA-format research report. For individuals involved with or interested in psychological research.
The publisher, Prentice-Hall Humanities/Social Science
This text conveys the excitement of research methodology to students through the use of a lively, student-oriented presentation. It makes the process of research accessible and by providing pedagogical features throughout the text to facilitate active learning.
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Adapting Minds: Evolutionary Psychology and the Persistent Quest for Human Nature (Bradford Books)
by David J. Buller
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"The author’s restraint and generous stance ensure that evolutionary psychologists have to take Adapting Minds seriously. I highly commend [Buller] for having written an outstanding book. It sets the standard for the continuing debates on evolutionary psychology." -- Science
"His book, Adapting Minds from MIT Press, is the most persuasive critique of evo psych I have encountered After Adapting Minds it is impossible to ever again think that human behavior is the Stone Age artifact that evolutionary psychology claims." -- Sharon Begley, Wall Street Journal
"Buller hopes that Adapting Minds can clear the way for some actual science about how evolution equips us to have psychologies. Anyone with a serious interest in evolution, psychology, or humanity should read it to free their mind for that task." -- The New Scientist
"Adapting Minds is destined to become required reading among evolutionary psychology’s detractors. But, despite its flaws, it will be read with interest by evolutionary psychologists too. Buller provides a useful overview of the filed and of the current debates Buller enables evolutionary psychologist to get back to arguing about the science." -- Nature
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Was human nature designed by natural selection in the Pleistocene epoch? The dominant view in evolutionary psychology holds that it was -- that our psychological adaptations were designed tens of thousands of years ago to solve problems faced by our hunter-gatherer ancestors. In this provocative and lively book, David Buller examines in detail the major claims of evolutionary psychology -- the paradigm popularized by Steven Pinker in The Blank Slate and by David Buss in The Evolution of Desire -- and rejects them all. This does not mean that we cannot apply evolutionary theory to human psychology, says Buller, but that the conventional wisdom in evolutionary psychology is misguided.
Evolutionary psychology employs a kind of reverse engineering to explain the evolved design of the mind, figuring out the adaptive problems our ancestors faced and then inferring the psychological adaptations that evolved to solve them. In the carefully argued central chapters of Adapting Minds, Buller scrutinizes several of evolutionary psychology's most highly publicized "discoveries," including "discriminative parental solicitude" (the idea that stepparents abuse their stepchildren at a higher rate than genetic parents abuse their biological children). Drawing on a wide range of empirical research, including his own large-scale study of child abuse, he shows that none is actually supported by the evidence.
Buller argues that our minds are not adapted to the Pleistocene, but, like the immune system, are continually adapting, over both evolutionary time and individual lifetimes. We must move beyond the reigning orthodoxy of evolutionary psychology to reach an accurate understanding of how human psychology is influenced by evolution. When we do, Buller claims, we will abandon not only the quest for human nature but the very idea of human nature itself.
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Research Methods in Psychology
by David G. Elmes, Barry H. Kantowitz, and III, Henry L. Roediger
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Using contemporary examples from primary sources, research METHODS IN PSYCHOLOGY, Eighth Edition encourages students to become engaged in the basics of scientific investigation through an example-based approach. This text displays the authors' commitment to ensuring that the student has a thorough understanding of the research process from the very beginning. Highly readable, it avoids the heavy statistical tone that some introductory students find difficult to understand. Rather, it is conceptually driven to offer students a big picture view of the experimental approach to research. Empirical examples and applications are consistently used throughout to foster critical thinking skills. In many chapters, a unifying empirical example at the beginning of the chapter is cited throughout the chapter to help clarify terms or design problems. By presenting concepts with concrete examples, the text aids students in applying related ideas to their areas of research interest.
About The Author
David Elmes is Professor of Psychology at Washington and Lee University. He earned his B.A. with high honors from the University of Virginia and completed the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees there. He is a past president of the Council on Undergraduate research and is a fellow of the American Psychological Society. Professor Elmes has edited READINGS IN EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY and DIRECTORY OF research IN PSYCHOLOGY AT PRIMARILY UNDERGRADUATE INSTITUTIONS. He is co-author of EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, Eighth Edition (Wadsworth 2005). Barry H. Kantowitz is Professor of Psychology, Professor of industrial and Operational engineering and Director of the Transportation research Institute at the University of Michigan. He has written and edited more than a dozen books. His research on human attention, mental workload, reaction time, human-machine interaction and human factors have all been supported by the Office of Education, the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. He is co-author of EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, Eighth Edition (Wadsworth 2005). Henry L. Roediger, III, is the James S. McDonnell University Professor of Psychology and Dean of Academic Planning in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, where he has taught since 1996. He received a B.A. in psychology from Washington and Lee University and a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Yale University. He has taught at Rice University, Purdue University, and spent three years as a visiting professor at the University of Toronto. His research interests lie in cognitive psychology, particularly in human learning and memory. Dr. Roediger has published more than 170 chapters, articles, and Reviews as well as other textbooks and edited volumes. He is co-author of EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, Eighth Edition (Wadsworth 2005).
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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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You have heard about how a musician loses herself in her music, how a painter becomes one with the process of painting. In work, sport, conversation or hobby, you have experienced, yourself, the suspension of time, the freedom of complete absorption in activity. This is "flow," an experience that is at once demanding and rewarding--an experience that Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi demonstrates is one of the most enjoyable and valuable experiences a person can have. The exhaustive case studies, controlled experiments and innumerable references to historical figures, philosophers and scientists through the ages prove Csikszentmihalyi's point that flow is a singularly productive and desirable state. But the implications for its application to society are what make the book revolutionary.
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Aristotle observed 2300 years ago that more than anything men and women seek happiness. Csikszentmihalyi (psychology, Univ. of Chicago) has for 25 years made similar observations regarding "flow," a field of behavioral science examining connections between satisfaction and daily activities. A flow state ensues when one is engaged in self-controlled, goal-related, meaningful actions. Data regarding flow were collected on thousands of individuals, from mountain climbers to chess players. This thoroughly researched study is an intriguing look at the age-old problem of the pursuit of happiness and how, through conscious effort, we may more easily attain it. Recommended for general readers.
- Terry McMaster, Utica Coll. of Syracuse Univ. Lib., N.Y .
Copyright 1990 Reed business Information, Inc.
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Ethics in Psychology: Professional Standards and Cases (Oxford Textbooks in Clinical Psychology, Vol 3)
by Gerald P. Koocher and Patricia Keith-Spiegel
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Psychologists today must deal with a broad range of ethical issues--from charging fees to maintaining a client's confidentiality, and from conducting research to respecting clients, colleagues, and students. As the field of psychology has grown in size and scope, the role of ethics has become
more important and complex whether the psychologist is involved in teaching, counseling, research, or practice. Now this most widely read and cited ethics text in psychology has been revised to reflect the ethics questions and dilemmas that psychologists encounter in their everyday work. ethics in
Psychology has been completely updated in response to evolving trends in psychological research and practice, as well as extensive changes in the American Psychological Association's ethics code. Gerald P. Koocher and Patricia Keith-Spiegel take a practical, commonsense approach to ethics in
modern-day psychological practice, and offer constructive suggestions for both preventing problems and resolving ethical predicaments. In this book, their main intent is to present the full range of contemporary ethical issues in psychology as not only relevant and intriguing, but also as integral
and unavoidable aspects of the profession. The authors make extensive use of actual case studies in order to illustrate how the APA guidelines apply to specific situations, such as fee setting, advertising for clients, research ethics, sexual attraction, classroom ethics, managed care issues,
confidentiality, and much more. The most recent ethics code of the American Psychological Association (1992) is used here only as a starting point. The authors go well beyond the APA code and incorporate the input of many experts. In addition to the analysis of a wide variety of general situations,
new problematic areas are identified and explored. The book includes two appendixes - Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct, adopted by American Psychological Association, Rules and Procedures of the ethics Committee of the American Psychological Association - both in an
easy-to-use format. In addition, each chapter lists summary guidelines along with current and valuable references. Highly readable, the book unites a straightforward, lively writing style with humorous anecdotes that highlight the human side of ethics and make the book a pleasure to read. ethics in
Psychology will be an indispensable guide to ethical decision-making for all psychologists and students in psychology.
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Now in a new edition, ethics in Psychology, considers many of the ethical questions and dilemmas that psychologists encounter in their everyday practice, research, and teaching. The book has been completely updated in response to evolving trends in psychological research and practice, as well as extensive changes in the American Psychological Association's ethics code. Taking a practical, commonsense approach to ethics in modern-day psychological practice, this useful book offers constructive means for both preventing problems and resolving ethical predicaments. This new edition retains the key features that have contributed to its popularity, including extensive case studies that provide illustrative guidance on a wide variety of topics, such as fee setting, advertising for clients, research ethics, sexual attraction, classroom ethics, managed care issues, confidentiality, and much more.
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