Psychology: The Adaptive Mind

Abstract

In this introductory psychology text, the author treats research and theory from an adaptive problem-solving perspective. The subject matter of psychology is reframed by placing the major emphasis on how particular behaviours, cognitive processes, and emotions help people solve important adaptive problems, not just survival problems, but everyday problems. For example, the principles of classical conditioning are introduced as solutions to the problem of how people learn about signals in their environment; neural transmission is introduced as a solution to the problems associated with communicating internally; short-term memory is introduced as a solution to the problem of how people remember information over the short-term, and so on.

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