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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 150
EAN num: 9780030646386
ISBN number: 0030646383
Label: Holt/McDougal
Manufacturer: Holt/McDougal
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Page Count: 498
Printing Date: 2003-04
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I was just assigned this book for my psychology class and managed to read/skim through it. Maybe I'm just angry because I had the opportunity to take a college-level class in cognitive theory over the summer and was thus exposed to much more interesting reading material, but this book is a real piece of work... even compared to most high school textbooks I've had. For starters, the pictures are much larger than the words. As much as a good illustration can help one grasp a difficult concept, the ones in this book show pretty much NOTHING. Then, there's the whole tone of the material, which really aggrivates me. It seems very condescending, with words like "placebo" that almost any high school senior would know phoneticized (pluh-SEE-boh). In additoin, it appears as though more effort has been placed towards catering to special lobby groups than towards creating a memorable book that will sucessfully teach psychology and impart a love for the field. "Race relations" are referred to a lot, as are "animal rights." As liberal as I am (anti-war, quasi-socialist, for legal recognition of gay unions, pro-environmentalist to a certain degree), I really get irked when these petty, almost-nonissues that (stupidly) took up much of the Left's focus twenty years ago are brought back to life in the form of instructional materials. They water down the actual material to a point where it almost becomes propoganda. In an effort to make the text "non-biased," it has in effect become MORE biased... just in the "right" direction.
If you are a teacher and reading this, please do me (and pretty much every other student out there) a favor and DO NOT use this textbook in your classroom. I don't know if there are other books that do the same thing better or what your options are, but I would certainly not recommend this one. Perhaps you could let your students read some actual research journals or college textbooks; if you give them the benefit of the doubt and overestimate rather than underestimate their intellectual abilities, I bet you'll be surprised at the results. The goal of a class like this should be to make young people passionate about something; obviously, the textbook you see here does nothing of the sort.
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I take AP psychology and I cant believe are school bought this book. I have many psychology books and I really think the scenarios help one have a better understanding of psychology, especially if someone is not use to the language of psychology. This book revolves around three people, Marc, Todd and Dan and they just do really lame and boring things together and somehow Dr. Rathus makes correlations b/w them and psychology. Not only that, the author is just plane lazy, constantly referring to other books and authors all through the text presumably because he doesn't have any ingenuity at all. The worst of all of this book is that some of the information is just wrong, giving the reason why I had to give it one star. $82.00 is what "Dr. Rathus" and Holt should be paying me to just read this grotesque textbook.
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I have this book, we used it in my high school psychology class. It is an informative and good book for beginners, and for very first exposing one to the feild of psychology. It is just that, a "high school book." SO dont expect a bunch of information and guidence, but a sort of introduction to psychology.
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