I was very excited to see this book become part of our offerings, possibly because of my fascination with the topic, but more so because I believe it to be a worthwhile topic for an elective course in high school. While this is not a textbook in the traditional form, there is plenty of information in this book for the student to learn and digest. It would most likely constitute a half-credit course, or possibly more, if instructors assign their own written assignments such as essays, research work, or perhaps an interactive notebook. There is a section in the back with numerous suggestions for further reading and study, and a glossary of topic related vocabulary words that would be easy to put into quiz form for added grade constitution. 256 pgs, pb. ~Judy
Filled with beautiful full-color diagrams and illustrated throughout, A Degree in a Book: Psychology is a perfect introduction for students and laypeople alike.
With mind maps for each chapter, definition boxes, easily digestible features on the history of psychology and suggestions for further reading, it provides you with everything you need to understand the fundamental issues. Learning psychology has never been easier.
Featuring flow charts, infographics, suggestions for further reading, and easily digestible history sections, this book makes understanding the human mind easier than ever. Including the theories of Sigmund Freud, Ivan Pavlov, and many more, it covers the whole range of psychology.
By the time you finish reading this book, you will be able to answer questions like: How do we learn? Do groups make better decisions than individuals? How do we study the living brain? What are the components personality?
The Degree in a Book series appears to take the essential topics of an individual subject and break them down into nuggets of information that are easy to process and understand. What the product becomes is a course that is a great introduction to the subject at hand! The books are filled with text and illustrations, feature spreads, information boxes, suggestions for further reading, and more. They are structured in normal book format, and do not look like a standard course text, so there are no comprehension questions, quizzes/tests, and no teacher material. Assigning written essays, interactive notebooking, or composing your own quizzes and tests, would not be hard to do given the amount of information presented in these books. Each softbound book has 256 pages.
