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The Science of Psychology: An Appreciative View by Laura A. King

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Focusing on why things go right, The Science of Psychology: An Appreciative View helps students understand and appreciate psychology as a science and as an integrated whole. Informed by student data, the program extends these themes and enhances their pedagogical value by helping students through the topics they find the most challenging, and offering learning resources to master them. With a deep respect for the breadth of student backgrounds, the text integrates a broad range of research topics from wide-ranging scholars.

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  • 1. What is Psychology?
  • 2. Psychology's Scientific Method
  • 3. Biological Foundations of Behavior
  • 4. Sensation and Perception
  • 5. States of Consciousness
  • 6. Learning
  • 7. Memory
  • 8. Thinking, Intelligence, and Language
  • 9. Human Development
  • 10. Motivation and Emotion
  • 11. Gender, Sex, and Sexuality
  • 12. Personality
  • 13. Social Psychology
  • 14. Industrial and Organizational Psychology
  • 15. Psychological Disorders
  • 16. Therapies
  • 17. Health Psychology

About the Author

Laura A. King

Laura King did her undergraduate work at Kenyon College, where, an Englishmajor, she declared a second major, in psychology, during the second semester of her junior year. Shecompleted her A.B. in English with high honors and distinction and in psychology with distinctionin 1986. Laura then did graduate work at Michigan State University and the University of California,Davis, receiving her Ph.D. in personality psychology in 1991.
Laura began her career at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, moving to the University ofMissouri, Columbia, in 2001, where she is now a professor. In addition to seminars in the developmentof character, social psychology, and personality psychology, she has taught undergraduate lecturecourses in introductory psychology, introduction to personality psychology, and social psychology. AtSMU, she received six different teaching awards, including the “M” award for “sustained excellence”in 1999. At the University of Missouri, she received the Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Researchand Creative Activity in 2004.
Her research, which has been funded by the National Institutes for Mental Health, has focusedon a variety of topics relevant to the question of what it is that makes for a good life. She has studiedgoals, life stories, happiness, well-being, and meaning in life. In general, her work reflects an enduringinterest in studying what is good and healthy in people. In 2001, her research accomplishments wererecognized by a Templeton Prize in positive psychology. Laura’s research (often in collaborationwith undergraduate and graduate students) has been published in the Journal of Personality andSocial Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Cognition and Emotion, the Journalof Personality, and other publications . A new paper on the place of regrets in maturity is forthcomingin the American Psychologist.
Currently editor-in-chief of the Journal of Research in Personality, Laura has also served asassociate editor of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin and the Journal of Personality andSocial Psychology, as well as on numerous grant panels. She has edited or co-edited special sectionsof the Journal of Personality and the American Psychologist. In “real life,” Laura is an accomplishedcook and enjoys listening to music (mostly jazz vocalists and singer-songwriters), gardening, andchasing Sam, her 3-year-old son.

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