Since the development of psychology, the content is extremely rich. In order to have a comprehensive understanding of psychology, it is best to start with an introduction to psychology or general psychology.
(A) domestic classic textbooks
1. General Psychology (Revised Edition) (edited by Peng Yuling, Beijing Normal University Press)
Since the first edition of 1988 was published, the textbook has been reprinted three times, with a total print run of 200,000 copies, which shows its popularity. At the same time, the book has been revised many times, and its content is detailed, reflecting the new development and changes of contemporary disciplines, so it is a teaching material used by undergraduates in many schools and a reference book for postgraduate entrance examination designated by many universities.
2. General Psychology (edited by Meng, Peking University Publishing House)
This textbook, edited by Meng, has been published many times since it was first published in 1994. It is one of the most popular general psychology textbooks in China.
3. Introduction to Psychology (by Huang Xiting, People's Education Press)
This book has the author's own distinctive characteristics in some aspects, and it is also the most fluent textbook in China. Unfortunately, it is still a reprint of the early 1990 s version, and there is no latest revision.
At present, it is still used as a reference book for postgraduate enrollment by some universities in China.
4. General Psychology (Revised Edition) (edited by Ye Yigan, East China Normal University Press)
This textbook is a relatively standard textbook, with the most popular system, less personal style and the most textbook characteristics. What is more prominent is the integration of the research of many domestic scholars. It is also a revised version of the classic textbook, adding new contents on the basis of maintaining the original advantages.
5. Modern Psychology (Taiwan Province Zhang Chunxiang, Shanghai People's Publishing House)
Many contents of the textbook refer to psychology and life, and the style of the textbook is the most westernized. Moreover, the textbook is vivid in writing, interesting in cases and the easiest to read. Unfortunately, many words are different from those translated in mainland China, so beginners should pay attention to them.
(B) foreign classic textbooks
1. Psychology and Life (16 Edition) (People's Posts and Telecommunications Publishing House)
This is an excellent and classic psychology textbook, which has a high reputation not only in the United States, but also in many countries in the world. This is the best reading for introductory psychology. It can be used as both teaching materials and popular reading materials. The only drawback is that this is a voluminous book with more than 600 pages.
2. Introduction to Psychology-The Road to Understanding Thought and Behavior (China Light Industry Press)
The book was translated from the latest revised edition of the ninth edition of the original work and compiled by the personnel of the Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Like Psychology and Life, it is only written in simple terms and close to life. At the same time, it contains the cutting-edge information of the latest research results and is the best introductory book for psychology lovers.
3. Psychology-The Way of Integration (Up and Down) (East China Normal University Press)
This textbook was written by many experts under the auspices of British psychologist M.W. Eysenck. This book focuses on the development and contribution of European psychology, so it can provide readers with another perspective.
Second, developmental psychology.
(A) domestic classic textbooks
1. Developmental Psychology (edited by Lin Chongde, People's Education Press) and Developmental Psychology (edited by Zhang Chunxiang, Zhejiang Education Press).
These two textbooks are authoritative works in the textbooks of developmental psychology in China. It is a reference book for undergraduate and postgraduate students in many colleges and universities, and it is the only psychological textbook with lifelong development as its content in China.
2. Psychology of Child Development (Fang Fuxi and Fang Ge, People's Education Press)
This textbook is a member of the "Basic Psychology Department" of the "Tenth Five-Year Plan" national key book publishing project. This is a textbook of developmental psychology with China characteristics. Almost all the important chapters "can hear the voices of our children in China."
(B) foreign classic textbooks
1. Developmental Psychology (9th Edition) (Diana, People's Posts and Telecommunications Press)
More than 500 universities and colleges in the United States have adopted this book as teaching materials, including UCLA, Northwestern University, Duke University, University of Maryland, University of Washington and Johns Hopkins University. , and has been widely praised.
This book describes all kinds of problems involved in all stages of life. This is a fascinating book that can benefit everyone at the same time.
2. Developmental Psychology: Children and Adolescents (6th Edition) (Schaefer, China Light Industry Press)
Textbook of Developmental Psychology is the number one textbook in Amazon. The author is Shafer, a famous American social psychologist and developmental psychologist. The book systematically introduces the development process of human psychology and the characteristics of each stage, focusing on the development of children and adolescents. The content involves developmental psychology theory, research methods, language development, learning, cognition, personality and social development, as well as the latest ecological theory, which brings together classic research and the latest research trends in various fields. At the same time, combined with the development characteristics of different ages in each chapter, it provides suggestions for individual growth. The organic combination of theory and research in the book is helpful for students to truly understand and apply it to practical research and life, and it is a classic textbook for the development of psychology.
Third, educational psychology.
(A) domestic classic textbooks
1. Educational Psychology (Feng Zhongliang, People's Education Press)
The viewpoint, system and content of the textbook are unique and novel. While expounding the author's academic views, he also widely introduced the achievements of other scholars. This textbook is not only a monograph with unique academic value, but also a textbook for students of psychology department and education department to study and study educational psychology. The book consists of five chapters and twenty-four sections, covering almost all aspects of psychology related to education and teaching, from scientific problems of educational psychology to teaching design and effectiveness evaluation. It is the most comprehensive monograph on educational psychology at present.
2. Contemporary Educational Psychology (Chen Qi, Beijing Normal University Press)
This textbook is based on the author's classroom notes for many years and combines the latest research results of educational psychology in recent ten years. It not only reflects the new achievements and trends of educational psychology research at home and abroad, but also pays attention to the combination of theory and educational practice, so that readers can apply what they have learned.
(B) foreign classic textbooks
1. Educational Psychology (Robert Jeffrey Sternberg, China Light Industry Press)
This textbook is a rare good book in the field of educational psychology in recent years, and it has made a successful attempt in the close connection between theory and practice. The book is fluent, easy to understand, rich in content and closely related, involving human development, individual differences, thinking, learning, memory, motivation, education and evaluation. There are both classical theories and the latest research results, especially focusing on the discussion of the laws of psychological activities in the process of teaching and learning; At the same time, it also provides a thinking situation, which helps readers to apply what they have learned to their study, work and life.
2. Theory and Practice of Educational Psychology (7th Edition) (Slaven, Peking University Press)
The textbook, written by Slaven, a famous educational psychologist, combines profound psychology with real life, and the language is easy to understand, so that teachers can use these practical cases in class. The author uses a series of questions to guide teachers so that they can simulate actual activities in class. It is a unique educational psychology textbook.
Fourth, experimental psychology.
(A) domestic classic textbooks
1. Experimental Psychology (edited by Zhu Ying, People's Education Press)
This textbook is the key textbook of higher education in the Ninth Five-Year Plan of the Ministry of Education and one of the comprehensive textbooks of the national experimental psychology system. It combines many contents of cognitive psychology, and is used by many universities as an experimental psychology textbook for undergraduates, and also as a designated reference textbook for postgraduate examinations.
2. Experimental Psychology (edited by Yang Zhiliang, Zhejiang Education Press)
This textbook is also one of the classic textbooks of experimental psychology in China. Together with "Basic Experimental Psychology" published by the author 1988, it is used as a reference textbook and undergraduate textbook for postgraduate entrance examination. The book is characterized by a detailed discussion of the independent variables and dependent variables involved in the study of each psychological phenomenon, and a detailed experimental design at the end of each chapter, which is very helpful for readers to understand the experimental design.
3. Experimental Psychology (edited by Meng Qingmao, Beijing Normal University Press)
This textbook collects a lot of experimental results of cognitive process, and supplements some new methods that other similar textbooks do not have, such as adaptive method of signal detection theory and fuzzy mathematical calculation method.
4. Experimental Psychology (edited by Guo Xiuyan, People's Education Press)
This textbook is the tenth five-year plan textbook of the Ministry of Education and one of the latest experimental psychology textbooks. It refers to Kantwitz's experimental psychology system and adds many new contents. For example, how to read and write psychological experiment reports is added, so that readers can have a comprehensive understanding of the experiment reports. The experiments of time perception and implicit cognition were added. Detailed experimental reports are provided at the end of each chapter to help students understand the process of psychological experiments.
5. Outline of Experimental Psychology (edited by Zhang Xuemin and Shu Hua, Peking University Publishing House)
On the basis of maintaining the traditional theory and design method of experimental psychology, this textbook adjusts the structure and system of experimental psychology textbooks, highlighting the easy-to-learn, practical and operable learning content. A large number of frontier experiments in the field of psychological research have been added. The book introduces 67 psychological experiments, and I believe this book can also be used as an experimental instruction manual, which is helpful to improve the perceptual knowledge of psychological experiments.
6. Multi-factor experimental design in psychology and education research (Shu Hua, Beijing Normal University Press)
Starting with the basic problems of experimental design, this textbook introduces in detail the design principles and methods of single-factor, double-factor, three-factor and more complex factor experiments and nested experiments, and deeply discusses the methods of multiple comparison and contrast. At the same time, the multi-factor design with SPSS software is introduced in detail, and a large number of application examples are attached. It can be used as a supplementary reading material for the above experimental psychology textbooks to understand the multi-factor experimental design.
(B) foreign classic textbooks
1. Experimental Psychology-Mastering Psychological Research (Kantewitz et al., East China Normal University Press)
This textbook is as famous as Experimental Psychology written by Woodworth and Schlossberg, and is regarded as the representative textbook of American experimental psychology in the 20th century. The two books are famous in the field of experimental psychology because of their achievements in the times, and they are one of the translations of experimental psychology worth seeing.
2. "40 Psychological Research of Change: Exploring the History of Psychological Research" (Hock, R.R., China Light Industry Press)
The 40 studies in the textbook are all experimental studies that have the greatest influence on the development of psychology. There are many references, and they still play an important role in the research of this discipline, covering the main branches of psychology, including the biological basis of human behavior, perception, learning, intelligence, individual development, emotion, personality, psychopathology, psychotherapy and social psychology. It is of great help to understand the development of experimental psychology and even psychology.
3. experimental psychology course: detectives who can explore the psychological world (third edition) (Smith R.A. et al., China Light Industry Press)
The author turned the textbook of experimental psychology into a fascinating detective novel and a suspense detective movie. Some difficult research problems are properly transformed into vivid links in the process of detection, which often hit the nail on the head and make readers suddenly enlightened. You will find that this book introducing psychological research methods is not only very beautiful, but also can unconsciously grasp the profound connotation of psychological research methods.
4. Experimental Psychology: Introduction by Examples (7th Edition) (Solso, R.L., etc. , translated by Zhang Qi, China Light Industry Press)
This book is not only rich in research examples, but also incisive, detailed and thorough in the basic principles of psychological experimental research, various modes of psychological experimental design and the specific process of psychological experimental research. Therefore, this book is widely used as an experimental psychology textbook for universities and graduate students by psychology majors in some American universities, and is well received by psychology professors and college students, enjoying a high reputation.
Verb (abbreviation of verb) psychological measurement
(A) domestic classic textbooks
1. Psychological and Educational Measurement (Revised Edition) (Dai Haiqi et al., Jinan University Press)
This textbook is the revised edition of Psychological and Educational Measurement (Dai Haiqi et al., Jinan University Press). This textbook summarizes the contents of many classic textbooks, not only introduces the basic theory of measurement and the technology of test compilation in detail, but also introduces the famous psychological tests one by one. In addition, it also introduces the new development of psychometrics theory, which is the most recommended psychometrics textbook at present.
2. Psychometrics (Zheng Richang, People's Education Press)
On the basis of a brief introduction to the basic theory of psychological measurement, this textbook focuses on various psychological tests widely circulated at home and abroad.
3. Psychometrics (edited by Yu Jin, East China Normal University Press)
This textbook systematically introduces the types of classical psychological measurement, its theory, programming and other basic theories, introduces some new development trends of the scale in detail, and puts forward some evaluation and analysis. When expounding the compiling procedure and using method of psychological measurement, taking the self-compiled "Group Intelligence Test for Children" as an example, the operation steps and procedures are emphatically introduced, which is convenient for students to understand and master the actual operation and cultivate their ability to compile and implement psychological test scale.
(B) foreign classic textbooks
1. Psychological Test and Evaluation (6th Edition) (by Ronald Cohen and Mark Sverik, People's Posts and Telecommunications Publishing House)
This book is a very successful textbook for undergraduates and is highly praised. It discusses the philosophical principles, historical background and methodological basis of psychological testing, evaluation and measurement, and helps students evaluate their strengths and weaknesses in practice. Reliable methods, the latest research results, insightful cultural views, fascinating examples and illustrations, critical thinking, and a sense of humor revealed between the lines, so that students unconsciously participate in it and benefit a lot.
2. Psychometrics: History, Overview and Application (4th Edition) (by Gregory, Peking University Press).
In addition to the traditional field of psychometrics, the book also makes a detailed analysis of neuropsychology and gerontology, and makes a wide-ranging investigation on the application and even abuse of early psychometrics, such as learning disabilities, measurement under specific circumstances, the embodiment of racial differences in IQ, and deception in group achievement measurement. At the same time, it critically describes and analyzes the recent psychological measurement methods, investigates the subtle differences in the measurement process, and discusses the extensive value disputes surrounding the psychological measurement process.
Six, psychological statistics
(A) domestic classic textbooks
1. Psychology and Education Statistics (edited by Zhang Houcan and Xu Jianping)
This textbook is one of the best psychological statistics textbooks in China at present, and it is a revised edition of Statistics of Psychology and Education (Zhang Houcan, Beijing Normal University Press). It can be said that many psychological statistics textbooks are written on the basis of referring to this book. The book is detailed and systematic, and each chapter is accompanied by a large number of after-school exercises. It is a psychological statistics textbook with clear context. The writing style of this book follows the basic structure and content of psychology and educational statistics, keeps pace with the times, absorbs the new achievements of statistical development and adds a little computer application technology. Many principles and methods that cannot be found in other psychological statistics textbooks can be found in this textbook. This textbook perfectly combines psychological principles with statistical knowledge and is the first choice for everyone who studies psychostatistics.
2. Education and Psychological Statistics (Revised Edition) (edited by Zhang Minqiang, People's Education Press)
This textbook is the revised edition of Education and Psychological Statistics (edited by Zhang Minqiang, People's Education Publishing House). The basic contents of the book include descriptive statistics, inferential statistic and so on. The principle and application of several multivariate statistical analysis methods are also introduced, and the corresponding computer statistical analysis methods are added. It is not only suitable for undergraduates, but also for senior psychology students and graduate students.
3. Statistics of Psychological and Behavioral Sciences (edited by Gan Yiqun, Peking University Publishing House)
The characteristic of this textbook is that there are no profound mathematical formulas and calculations, and the object can include readers with preliminary mathematical knowledge. Try to use simple data in the topic to eliminate readers' fear of mathematics; Combine statistics with specific research schemes to convey to readers the information of how to apply appropriate statistical methods to the studied problems; Theoretically, it absorbs the latest statistical theories and methods of western psychology, and the use of statistical symbols is basically the same as that of foreign statistical textbooks, adding "statistical validity", "effect size" and "simple effect", reflecting the latest trends in academic circles; This paper attempts to introduce some important contents of advanced statistics to readers in a more popular way, including the output results of the application software package SPSS. In addition, the 10 set of exercises at the back of the book is of great reference value.
(B) foreign classic textbooks
1. Psychological Statistics: 9th Edition (photocopy edition) (by Richard runyon, Kay Coleman and David Pittenger, People's Posts and Telecommunications Publishing House).
This is an excellent basic textbook of psychology and educational statistics, and it is also an important reference book for researchers in the field of social sciences. The writing style of this book is relaxed and lively, English is fluent and easy to understand, teaching is simple, and readers will not get bored when studying and reading.
2. A Guide to Psychostatistics (translated by David Pittenger and Lin Fengxun, People's Posts and Telecommunications Publishing House)
This is a supporting study book of Psychological Statistics (ninth edition), and each chapter consists of five parts. The first part is "behavior goal", through the definition of behavior goal, it is clear what purpose this chapter should achieve; The second part is "research questions", which helps to read and review the relevant contents in the textbook by answering research questions; The third part is "statistical terminology", which tests the mastery of the basic concepts of psychostatistics; The fourth part is "Chapter Review", which summarizes the main contents of each chapter; The fifth part is a simulation exercise to test the mastery of the basic concepts and principles of psychostatistics and the application ability of using psychostatistics knowledge to solve practical problems. This textbook is a rare excellent study guide for beginners of psychostatistics and those who have studied it and want to further improve their theoretical level and application ability.
Seven, reference books
(1) encyclopedia of China (psychology volume) (encyclopedia of China publishing house)
It is compiled by more than 300 experts and scholars with comprehensive contents. The entries in the book about the history of China's psychology and the psychology of Chinese characters highlight the characteristics of China.
② Dictionary of Psychology (Shanghai Education Press, 2003)
This dictionary compiled by three famous psychologists in China, Lin Chongde, Yang Zhiliang and Huang Xiting, is the largest and latest psychological dictionary in China, which can reflect the frontier trends of psychology.
(3) Handbook of International Psychology in the New Century (Volume I and Volume II) (East China Normal University Press)
This is an authoritative reference book which is jointly completed by famous scholars from many countries in the world and can reflect the international level.
(4) A Concise Dictionary of Psychology (edited by Huang Xiting, Anhui Education Press)
This dictionary is exquisite and practical.
(5) Published by the National Committee for the Examination and Approval of Psychological Terminology (1999) (Science Press)
There are many loanwords in psychological terms, but there is some confusion in the use of psychological terms in China. I believe that the publication of this reference book will play a great role in standardizing the use of psychological terms and promoting the unification and standardization of psychological terms.
Eight, several sets of books
In the publication of psychological books, many publishing houses pay attention to scale effect and series effect, so many sets of large psychological books have been published.
(1) Department of Applied Psychology (People's Education Press)
This is a set of monograph textbooks edited by Lin Chongde, a famous psychologist in China, and jointly compiled by academic leaders of various branches of applied psychology in China, including Educational Psychology and Psychometrics 12 volumes. This set of books introduces the hot spots and focuses of applied psychology in a practical way in view of several disciplines that are developing rapidly and maturing in the field of applied psychology at home and abroad.
(b) Practical Psychology Series (Zhejiang Education Press)
This is a set of large-scale series covering the research field of psychology in the 20th century, published by Zhejiang Education Press. The author is a well-known psychologist on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, covering a wide range of topics, including the basic theory of psychology, psychohistory and many branches of applied psychology, including management psychology and consumer psychology. At present, more than 20 books have been published. This kind of books can basically represent the academic level of cross-strait psychology at present.
(c) Translation of Contemporary Psychological Masterpieces (East China Normal University Press)
This series is based on famous books, and the selection criteria are academic and authoritative, which embodies the academic views and thoughts of psychologists. Its academic taste is very high, covering the main branches of psychological science, such as education and development psychology, general and experimental psychology, social psychology, management psychology and so on. The concept is broad, the scale is huge and the scope is wide.
(4) Psychology Series and Introduction to New Books (China Light Industry Press)
Psychology series is divided into psychological counseling and therapy, psychological reading guide and practical psychology. The new orientation is divided into mass psychology, children's education, quality education and other series. These two sets of books, especially the former, have great influence in the circle of psychology lovers. Among them, "Psychological Counseling and Therapy" series is the most systematic and influential book of its kind imported from China.
(5) Overview of 20th Century Psychology (Zhejiang Education Press)
Based on the theory of one school, one family and one person, which had great influence in psychology in the 20th century, this series designed various schools in the history of psychology. It is the most systematic and comprehensive translation of world psychology masterpieces in China so far by selecting the most influential works of the founders or representatives of the main schools in the field of psychological science in the 20th century, comprehensively reflecting the research achievements of world psychology and various branches of psychology, and showing the academic development of world psychological science. Since its publication, this series of books has included about 30 books, such as Essays on Human and Animal Psychology, which is the largest translation of China's world psychological masterpieces to date.