General Psychology (Revised Edition)

Author: Ye Yiqian
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Publish Date: 2004-11-01
Features: Since its publication in 1991, this book has become a textbook for many higher education institutions and has been reprinted multiple times. Due to the rapid development of psychology in recent years and the emergence of a large number of new research findings, it has become necessary to comprehensively revise the book. Our revision principles are: to strive for guidance under dialectical materialism and historical materialism, and to align with the objectives and tasks of general psychology courses in higher education institutions. The revised edition strengthens the exposition of new developments in contemporary domestic and international psychological research, particularly the research achievements of Chinese psychologists. In the introduction, it focuses on discussing fundamental psychological theories such as the relationship between matter and spirit, and existence and consciousness. In the section on cognitive processes, it fully reflects the theories and research findings of modern cognitive psychology, highlighting the role and significance of cognitive structures in the overall psychological structure. It enriches the cognitive processes of sensation, perception, memory, thinking, and language with new perspectives and experimental research findings. In the sections on emotions and will, it emphasizes their intrinsic relationships and interactions with cognitive processes and personality. In the personality section, it discusses and analyzes the essence and characteristics of personality from new perspectives, fully reflects the recent research findings of Chinese psychologists on adolescent personality development, elaborates on the new theories of intelligence structures by Sternberg and others, introduces a comprehensive research model for personality, expands the discussion on temperament type classification based on recent research findings, and provides a detailed introduction to the new data on the distribution of temperament types among Chinese adolescents. On the premise of fully elaborating on the basic theories and concepts of psychology, the revised edition further explains the practical applications of psychological principles.