General Psychology (Revised Second Edition)

Author: Ye Yiqian et al. (Editor-in-Chief)
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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 as follows: Striving to guide the revision under the guidance of dialectical materialism and historical materialism, and aligning with the objectives and tasks of general psychology courses in higher education institutions. The revised edition strengthens the elaboration 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 theoretical issues in psychology, 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, and enriching the discussion with new perspectives and experimental research findings on perception, memory, thinking, and language. In the sections on emotions and will, it emphasizes their intrinsic relationships and interactions with cognitive processes and personality. In the section on personality, it discusses and analyzes the essence and characteristics of personality from new perspectives, fully reflecting 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 character, expands the discussion on temperament type classification based on recent research findings, and provides a detailed introduction to new data on the distribution of temperament types among Chinese adolescents. While fully elaborating on the basic theories and concepts of psychology, the revised edition further explains the practical applications of psychological principles.