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.

譯者簡介:

譯者：吳慶麟，華東師範大學心理與認知科學學院教授，博士生導師。教育部心理學教學工作指導委員會委員，中國心理學會理事，中國心理學會教育心理學專業委員會副主任，上海市心理學會副理事長，是我國著名的教育心理學傢，他已承擔近20項國傢級、省部級的科研項目，發錶論著80餘篇部。先後獲得國傢圖書奬、全國教育理論著作一等奬、國傢優秀教材奬、上海市優秀教材奬等10項奬項。

內容簡介:

本書是心理學的入門教材，涉及瞭心理學科的各個主要分支，介紹瞭心理學的起源，在人類發展曆史中起的地位，敘述瞭心理學知識在日常生活中的作用。本書反映瞭心理學的最新發展成就，也是對心理學的最好的普及讀本，深入淺齣地嚮初次接觸心理學的普通讀者完整地勾勒瞭心理學的藍圖，並為讀者解決日常問題提供瞭方法和綫索。