Readings in Attitude Change
Readings in Attitude Change

Author: Samuel Himmelfarb

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 1974

Total Pages: 684

ISBN-13:

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Discusses some of the important discoveries in astronomy and the circumstances that prompted them.

The Psychology of Attitudes and Attitude Change
The Psychology of Attitudes and Attitude Change

Author: Gregory R. Maio

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 141292975X

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Written by two world-leading academics in the field of attitudes research, is a brand new textbook that gets to the very heart of this fascinating and far-reaching field. Greg Maio and Geoffrey Haddock describe how scientific methods have been used to better understand attitudes and how they change. With the aid of a few helpful metaphors, the text provides readers with a grasp of the fundamental concepts for understanding attitudes and an appreciation of the scientific challenges that lay ahead.

Critical Readings on Piaget
Critical Readings on Piaget

Author: Leslie Smith

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-09-26

Total Pages: 666

ISBN-13: 1134786131

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Critical Readings on Piaget is a follow-up to Piaget: Critical Assessments a collection of eighty-three papers dealing with the critique of Piaget's work in psychology, education and philosophy during the period 1950-90. This new collection tracks developments in the most recent published work during the period 1990-95, with an integral guide and editorial commentary by Leslie Smith. Starting with Piaget's epistemology, a major intellectual resource in departmental psychology and eduction, Leslie Smith sets out the main elements of Piaget's position in relation to twenty one papers, dealing with equilibration and equilibrium, education and social development, reasoning development, number development and modal knowledge. A conclusion examines the psychological and educational assessment of Piaget's epistemology. This collection of distinctive studies during the last five years provides high-profile and engaging examples from current research in this area. It will provide a useful and compact text for undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers.

Readings in Educational Psychology
Readings in Educational Psychology

Author: S.B. Kakkar

Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Dist

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 494

ISBN-13: 9788171563579

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This Book Of Readings Provides A Pan¬Oramic View Of Modern-Day Research In Educational Psychology For The Ad¬Vanced Student Planning To Specialize In Psychology And Research. The Arti¬Cles Emphasize Current And Varied Developments In The Field And Clearly Show The Intimate Relationship Of Theory And Fact. The Purpose Is To Help The Reader Assimilate The Experi¬Mental And Research-Oriented Deve¬Lopments. Theoretical Concepts Are Presented Through Empirical Data From Which They Have Emerged, Thus Conveying How Systematic Ideas Evol¬Ved From Data And Data From Ideas.There Are Eleven Divisions In The Book. In Each Division There Are Five To Ten Articles That Lie In A Specific Field, Each Article Describing The Study Of A Particular Topic In The Format Of A Formal Research Paper, Giving A Complete Account Of Design, Analysis, Interpretation, Results Etc. In Most Cases The Material Has Been Given In Its Entirety Including Diagrams And Tables; This Is To Help Students Realize The Significance And The Implications Of What They Have Read.Thus This Collection Forms A Very Important Reference Book For Post¬Graduate Students, Their Teachers, Psy¬Chologists, Sociologists, And All Those Concerned With Educational Psycho¬Logy In General, And Psychological And Educational Problems In Particular.

Readings About The Social Animal
Readings About The Social Animal

Author: Elliot Aronson

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2003-08-22

Total Pages: 548

ISBN-13: 9780716759669

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Organized to illustrate the major themes of Elliot Aronson's The Social Animal, this collection of classic and contemporary readings explores the most important ideas, issues, and debates in social psychology today.