Contents:

1. Psychology and its Relation to Nursing

2. Body-Mind Relationship

3. Biology of Behavior

4. Nature and Nurture: Individual Differences

5. Observation: Attention, Sensation, and Perception

6. The Learning Process

7. Memory: Remembering and Forgetting

8. Thinking and Reasoning: Concept and Language

9. Intelligence and its Measurement

10. Aptitudes (Capacity or Innate Potential)

11. Motivation

12. Frustration and Conflicts

13. Stress and its Management

14. Defense Mechanisms

15. Emotions in Health and Disease

16. Attitude: The Way We See Things

17. Personality (Is What the Man is)

18. Developmental Psychology

19. Mental Health and Mental Illness

20. Psychological Tests: Measurement of Individual Differences

21. Attributions: Our Explanations of Behavior

22. Educational Psychology: Scope and Methods

23. Effective Teaching

24. Role and Functions of a Teacher

25. Evaluation

26. Our Social World

27. Soft Skills and Nursing Empowerment

Answer Keys

Index