译者简介:

译者：吴庆麟，华东师范大学心理与认知科学学院教授，博士生导师。教育部心理学教学工作指导委员会委员，中国心理学会理事，中国心理学会教育心理学专业委员会副主任，上海市心理学会副理事长，是我国著名的教育心理学家，他已承担近20项国家级、省部级的科研项目，发表论著80余篇部。先后获得国家图书奖、全国教育理论著作一等奖、国家优秀教材奖、上海市优秀教材奖等10项奖项。

内容简介:

本书是心理学的入门教材，涉及了心理学科的各个主要分支，介绍了心理学的起源，在人类发展历史中起的地位，叙述了心理学知识在日常生活中的作用。本书反映了心理学的最新发展成就，也是对心理学的最好的普及读本，深入浅出地向初次接触心理学的普通读者完整地勾勒了心理学的蓝图，并为读者解决日常问题提供了方法和线索。

Benjamin B. Lahey received his undergraduate training from Davidson College and his Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of Tennessee. He has taught at both community college and university levels, including the University of Georgia and the University of Miami, before joining the faculty at the University of Chicago. Ben is an award-winning teacher and a frequent speaker at the Annual National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology. He is also an active researcher on the behavioral and emotional problems of children; his research has been supported by the National Institute of Mental Health for many years. Ben was a representative of the field of psychology on the DSM-IV Child Disorders Work Group and a member of the US liaison group for the mental health section of the International Classification of Diseases. He was also the editor, with Alan E. Kazdin, of the first fourteen volumes in the annual series, Advances in Clinical Child Psychology, published by Plenum Press.