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‘He has succeeded in that most difficult task, the production of a good introductory text in psychology’ – The Times Literary Supplement.
As a simple, logical, authoritative, and fair-minded introduction to psychology, this book could hardly be bettered. The author, who has studied and taught psychology in Europe, the United States, and New Zealand, approaches the study of human behaviour from the starting-point of our most primitive responses, the reflexes, which he explains simply in neurological terms. Illustrating his statements with concrete examples and with many instances from the most recent study of animal behaviour, he goes on to discuss our basic drives and needs such as hunger, thirst, and the need for air, sleep, and security. His particular gift for advancing the reader’s knowledge in easy stages allows him to explain the more complex workings of the autonomic nervous system and the processes of fear and anger, of learning, perception, and thinking, and of the patterning of personality in chapters which are as simple to comprehend as they are to read.
Paperback, 266 pages. In good preloved condition but slight water damage (but no water stains present). Minor colour change to pages.