Community College Open Textbook Collaborative

Reviewer's Comments
This is an excellent textbook. It is very well written and includes an inordinate amount of theory, interesting facts, and content. I recommend this book as the primary text to anyone who teaches Psychology. A little more about cognition or cognitive psychology needs to be added with the behaviorist components at the beginning of the book.

Reviewer's Comments
I would recommend this book as introductory information to a student interested in studying the directions of psychology in the past and where they may be going in the future. It is not a very detailed or cumbersome book but does provide the reader with some very useful information about psychology. My biggest suggestion would be to continue on with the book. This is a very good foundation for a psychology book but needs much more information.

I would recommend this book simply as a sort of primer to someone who is thinking about studying psychology. It gives a good perspective of what is covered in psychology and understanding that psychology is not just diagnosing and treating mental illness. It involves understanding behavior and mental processes. This is a very short book but good reading. It gives the reader some very good perspectives as to what psychology entails and explains some of the main topics covered in psychology in addition to some of the contemporary approaches that are used today.