Psychology Around Us
  1. 931 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Psychology Around Us, Fourth Canadian Edition offers students a wealth of tools and content in a structured learning environment that is designed to draw students in and hold their interest in the subject. Psychology Around Us is available with WileyPLUS, giving instructors the freedom and flexibility to tailor curated content and easily customize their course with their own material. It provides today's digital students with a wide array of media content — videos, interactive graphics, animations, adaptive practice — integrated at the learning objective level to provide students with a clear and engaging path through the material. Psychology Around Us is filled with interesting research and abundant opportunities to apply concepts in a real-life context. Students will become energized by the material as they realize that Psychology is "all around us."

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Key takeaways

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Insight 1

Analyze the historical and philosophical roots of psychology and evaluate the scientific methods and ethical guidelines used to conduct psychological research.

Insight 2

Explain the biological underpinnings of behavior, including neural processes and developmental stages, and analyze fundamental cognitive processes such as sensation, perception, learning, memory, language, and intelligence.

Insight 3

Examine theories of motivation, emotion, and personality, and apply principles of social psychology to understand human interaction. Differentiate between various psychological disorders and evaluate their respective treatment approaches.

Information

Publisher
Wiley
Year
2021
Edition
4
eBook ISBN
9781119809227

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Brief Contents
  5. Contents
  6. Chapter 1: Psychology: Yesterday and Today
  7. Chapter 2: Psychology as a Science
  8. Chapter 3: Neuroscience
  9. Chapter 4: Human Development
  10. Chapter 5: Sensation and Perception
  11. Chapter 6: Consciousness
  12. Chapter 7: Learning
  13. Chapter 8: Memory
  14. Chapter 9: Language and Thought
  15. Chapter 10: Intelligence
  16. Chapter 11: Motivation and Emotion
  17. Chapter 12: Personality
  18. Chapter 13: Social Psychology
  19. Chapter 14: Stress, Coping, and Health
  20. Chapter 15: Psychological Disorders
  21. Chapter 16: Treatment of Psychological Disorders
  22. Appendix A: Answers to Self-Study Questions
  23. Appendix B: Statistics in Psychology
  24. Glossary
  25. References
  26. Name Index
  27. Subject Index
  28. EULA

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