Practical Principles of Psychology

Author: Wang Yiming et al.
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Publish Date: 2001-04-01
Features: The title of the book "Practical Principles of Psychology" indicates its characteristics. First, it is a foundational psychology textbook. It emphasizes the introduction of psychological principles, focusing on well-established psychological laws, while minimizing the presentation of experimental data on psychological principles. This writing approach is highly beneficial for both teaching and learning. On one hand, it helps students grasp the overall knowledge system, enabling them to better understand and study mature psychological laws and their own professional knowledge. On the other hand, it allows teachers to more actively and flexibly select and apply experimental data based on actual teaching needs. Second, the book emphasizes practicality. On one hand, by introducing systematic knowledge, it enables students to understand and utilize psychological principles. On the other hand, it strives to select and present psychology knowledge and laws with strong applicability, highlighting their practical value. In terms of content structure, the book leaves ample room for curriculum design and teacher instruction. First, for non-psychology majors who, due to time constraints, can only offer general psychology courses and cannot teach social psychology, management psychology, educational psychology, mental health, etc., it provides great convenience in selecting and combining teaching content. Second, instructors can either expand or deepen theoretical sections to teach undergraduate and college students or select specific chapters to deliver specialized training sessions. Therefore, this book is suitable not only as a textbook for non-psychology majors in universities, as well as various adult education and vocational education programs, but also for professionals in practice-related fields or psychology enthusiasts.