Product Description

Introducing Psychological Research offers clear and engaging summaries of the key research studies that have had an enormous impact on the discipline of psychology. Each summary descibes and evaluates how the study was carried out whilst encouraging the student to consider the wider implications of the research findings.

The studies have been organised into sections covering the major areas of psychology including social, developmental, biological and cognitive, with a short introduction preceding each part.

This third edition has been revised and expanded to include fourteen more studies, along with a new focus on methodology, that offers an illuminating insight into how this discipline continues to advance upon previously established ideas and includes explorations in neuroscience and evolutionary psychology. The book provides lively and lucid summaries of both classic and contemporary studies making this the perfect text for students first studying psychology.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #215073 in Books
• Published on: 2007-12-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 560 pages

PsychBLOG www.psychblog.co.uk
'..the chapter on methodology is probably one of the best I have ever read. ...The writing is excellent and keeps the reader well engaged... Overall a great text that covers all the core studies and highlights the core themes... A superb book.'

Lecturer in Social Psychology, Moray College, UK
'This book will be useful as a text for students enrolling on the BA. It covers the essential studies considered throughout the degree.'

About the Author
Philip Banyard is Senior Lecturer at Nottingham Trent University, UK and was a Chief Examiner for 20 years of first GCSE and then A Level Psychology. He has published several textbooks for students of psychology on a range of topics and has been teaching psychology for many years.

Andrew Grayson is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Nottingham Trent University, UK and his research interests are in the areas of communication and learning disabilities, autism and inclusion. He has been teaching at higher education level for 20 years, at Nottingham Trent University and at the Open University.

Customer Reviews

Psychology in a nutshell
It's been 7 years since the last revision of Introducing Psychological Research (Banyard & Grayson) but what has this recent 3rd Edition brought us? The PsychBLOG review: Let's get inside.

For students studying OCR AS Psychology this is a gem of a book. This book summarises most of the core studies (both current and new specification) concisely - although Savage-Rumbaugh (1986) is surprisingly absent. From start to finish you have psychology in a readable and witty style; talking of highly controlled social psychological studies Phil says:

"[The studies] are often brilliantly controlled and scientifically rigorous but bear as much resemblance to social interaction as an Oxo cube does to a cow. Such studies can be described as impeccable trivia."

As well as the core studies, there are also other `classic' (and not-so-classic) studies in psychology which could come in use for coursework, second-year modules, or just general interest to stretch and challenge the more able student. The book covers a good foundation of psychological perspectives from cognitive to comparative, and if that isn't enough, the chapter on methodology is probably one of the best I have ever read.