英美等國300多所大學院校采用，很受歡迎的導論性心理學教材之一模塊化的結構體例獨樹一幟，既適應於課堂教學，也適合閱讀和自學語言簡練，清新自然，生動形像且富有激情普通心理學雙語教學的優選教材或參考讀物中國心理學界泰鬥黃希庭教授作序推薦

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CHAPTER1Introduction to Psychology
MODULE 1Psychologists at Work
MODULE 2A Science Evolves: The Past, the Present, and the Future
MODULE 3Research in Psychology
MODULE 4Critical Research Issues
CHAPTER2Neuroscience and Behavior
MODULE 5 Neurons: The Basic Elements of Behavior
MODULE 6 The Nervous System and the Endocrine System: Communicating Within the Body
MODULE 7 The Brain
CHAPTER3Sensation and Perception
MODULE 8 Sensing the World Around Us
MODULE 9 Vision: Shedding Light on the Eye
MODULE 10 Hearing and the Other Senses
MODULE 11Perceptual Organization: Constructing Our View of the World
CHAPTER4States of Consciousness
MODULE 12Sleep and Dreams
MODULE 13Hypnosis and Meditation
MODULE 14Drug Use: The Highs and Lows of Consciousness
CHAPTER5 Learning
MODULE 15 Classical Conditioning
MODULE 16 Operant Conditioning
MODULE 17 Cognitive Approaches to Learning
CHAPTER6 Memory
MODULE 18 The Foundations of Memory
MODULE 19 Recalling Long-Term Memories
MODULE 20 Forgetting: When Memory Fails
CHAPTER7 Thinking, Language, and Intelligence
MODULE 21Thinking and Reasoning
MODULE 22Language
MODULE 23Intelligence
CHAPTER8 Motivation and Emotion
MODULE 24Explaining Motivation
MODULE 25 Human Needs and Motivation: Eat, Drink, and Be Daring
MODULE 26 Understanding Emotional Experiences
CHAPTER9 Development
MODULE 27 Nature and Nurture: The Enduring Developmental Issue
MODULE 28 Infancy and Childhood
MODULE 29 Adolescence: Being an Adult
MODULE 30 Adulthood
CHAPTER 10 Personality
MODULE 31Psychodynamic Approaches to Personality
MODULE 32Trait, Learning, Biological and Evolutionary, and Humanistic Approaches to Personality
MODULE 33Assessing Personality: Determining What Makes Us Distinctive
CHAPTER11Health Psychology: Stress, Coping, and Well-Being
MODULE 34Stress and Coping
MODULE 35 Psychological Aspects of Illness and Well-Being
MODULE 36 Promoting Health and Wellness
CHAPTER12Psychological Disorders
MODULE 37 Normal Versus Abnormal: Making the Distinction
MODULE 38 The Major Psychological Disorders
MODULE 39 Psychological Disorders in Perspective
CHAPTER13Treatment of Psychological Disorders
MODULE 40 Psychotherapy: Psychodynamic, Behavioral, and Cognitive Approaches to Treatment
MODULE 41Psychotherapy: Humanistic, Interpersonal, and Group Approaches to Treatment
MODULE 42Biomedical Therapy: Biological Approaches to Treatment
CHAPTER 14Social Psychology
MODULE 43Attitudes and Social Cognition
MODULE 44Social Infl uence and Groups
MODULE 45 Prejudice and Discrimination
MODULE 46 itive and Negative Social Behavior
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Reference

這部由羅伯特·費爾德曼撰寫的《心理學綱要》（Essentials of Understanding Psychology）在英美等國被300多所大學采用，是很受歡迎的導論性心理學教材之一。本書即影印自該教材的近期新第10版。
全書分為14章，依次為：心理學導言，神經科學與行為，感覺與知覺，意識狀態，學習，記憶，思維、語言與智力，動機與情緒，發展，人格，健康心理學，心理障礙，心理障礙的治療，社會心理學。在此基礎上，全書進一步劃分為46個獨立的模塊，讀者可以根據自己的興趣有選擇地閱讀。這種獨樹一幟的模塊化設計，不僅適應於課堂教學，也非常適合普通讀者來自學。
從第1版到第10版，作者始終秉持“把學生放在首位”的宗旨，致力於吸引學生的注意，將心理學知識傳授給學生，進而激發學生的興趣，幫助他們將心理學與日常世界建立起聯繫。作者的語言簡練，生動形像，書中的各種教輔材料，如各種精等

(美)羅伯特·費爾德曼(Robert S.Feldman) 著 著