A standard introductory textbook focusing on the scientific roots of the field while emphasizing its practical value and relevance to society. The first edition

While acknowledging their major debt to Europeans like Freud, Piaget, Erickson, Lewin, and Jung, American psychologists generally concentrated on developments i

Unique to the book are the appendices that enable interested readers to test hypotheses of their own devising related to the psychological importance and/or fav