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Very useful introductory text

Advantages: Wide range of topics, easily accessible
Disadvantages: None

...Although this book is primarily aimed at A'Level students, I think it's also useful for teachers and other educational professionals. I bought it to help me think about a career in educational psychology and have found the range of topics showing how psyc ...

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Review of Psychology and Education - Susan Bentham

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Leads you to be a promising educater.

Advantages: A lot of theories we can apply in our daily lifes to complete our roles as parent or teachers.
Disadvantages: The font selected to write the book is small and the sentences gets lenghty at times.

In my opinion Psychology and Education leads on enhances educaters towards becoming geniously successful mentors.Being able to understand and apply psycholgy correctly enables us to understand the importance of being understanding and answering to a per ...

happyjit 05.08.2009 · Read full review
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Psychopathia Sexualis

Advantages: It's a great book mainly about…
Disadvantages: … pathologizing the "abnormal" sexual trends

Psychopathia Sexualis By Richard von Krafft-Ebing I think most people are familiar with the title of Richard von Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis; it is one of the most influential books ever written on sexology. The book is not a continuous st ...

sottovoce82 05.02.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Psychopathia Sexualis - Richard Von Krafft-Ebing

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Psychology (5th Edition) - Gleitman et al.

Advantages: comprehensive introductory text
Disadvantages: expensive (but textbooks usually are)

I recently completed the Graduate Conversion Diploma in Psychology, a year long course which leads to graduate registration with the British Psychological Society - an essential requirement for those wishing to pursue a professional qualification as a psy ...

disneyeyes 03.05.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Psychology - Henry Gleitman

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Great for 1st year psych students

Advantages: Easy to read and written in an interesting way
Disadvantages: A bit too big to carry around

This book has everything that you need for 1st year at uni. We were told to get this book as it has everything in it that our course covers. The topics are clearly set out and there is an index at the back for looking up specific things. I found th ...

ladybeck 05.08.2002 · Read full review
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Review of Psychology - Henry Gleitman

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