Publisher's Synopsis
One of the most widely accepted ways of classifying human mental functions defines three separate areas of cognition, affect and conation. Emotion is one of the most important and thoroughly explored forms of affect and motivation is essentially just a new name for conation.;The Longman Essential Psychology series provides comprehensive and concise coverage of all the major topics studied in undergraduate psychology courses throughout the UK, Europe and the USA. Each volume deals with a core module and is written by an international list of contributors who are all actively involved in research.
