Principles of Practical Psychology (Wang Yiming)

Author: Wang Yiming et al.
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Publish Date: 2004-04-02
Features: The title of the book "Practical Principles of Psychology" reflects 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 these principles. This writing approach is beneficial for both teaching and learning. On one hand, it helps students grasp the overall knowledge system, enabling them to better understand and study their professional knowledge and research through mastering mature psychological laws. 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, it introduces systematic knowledge to help students 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. The book's content structure provides ample flexibility for curriculum design and teacher instruction. First, for non-psychology majors who, due to time constraints, can only offer general psychology courses and cannot cover social psychology, management psychology, educational psychology, mental health, and other courses, it offers great convenience in selecting and combining teaching content. Second, instructors can either expand or deepen the theoretical sections to teach undergraduate and associate-degree 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 higher education, as well as various adult education and vocational education programs, but also for professionals in practical fields directly related to people or psychology enthusiasts.