- Rita L. Atkinson // Introduction to Psychology
Psychology is both broad and ambitious. Nourished by biology at its border with the natural sciences and by sociology and anthropology at its border with the social sciences, psychology deals with complex questions about human nature once
considered solely the province of literature and philosophy. This book seeks to convey the excitement of psychology as an intellectual human enterprise.
The goals of introduction to Psychology have always been to inspire an appreciation for an empirical approach to human behavior, to produce intelligent consumers of psychological information, and to address psychology's role in promoting human welfare and solving social problems. This textbook focuses on what readers should retain long after the final examination.
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