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Emphasizes critical thinking, culture, and gender
Psychology, 11/e, shows students why scientific and critical thinking is so important in the decisions they make. In clear, lively, warm prose, this edition continues the title’s integration of gender, culture, and ethnicity. By the end, readers will learn how to interpret research and to address and resolve controversies.
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Synopsis
Emphasizes the importance of critical thinking and the integration of culture and gender in the science of psychology.
A comprehensive introduction to the field, Psychology, 11/e emphasizes the importance of critical thinking skills crucial to students’ success in college and later in life. Written with liveliness, warmth, and clarity, the updated edition continues its tradition of integrating gender, culture, and ethnicity throughout the text.
MyPsychLab is an integral part of the Wade / Tavris / Garry program. Key learning applications include writing assessment, MyPsychLab video series, and simulations.
Teaching & Learning Experience
- Personalize Learning – MyPsychLab is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program. It helps students prepare for class and instructor gauge individual and class performance.
- Improve Critical Thinking – Critical thinking is woven throughout the text's narrative.
- Engage Students – “Mental Gears” symbol appears throughout the text to highlight topic areas that exemplify and ask students to employ critical thinking skills.
- Explore Theory/Research – “Taking Psychology With You” at the end of each chapter draws on research related to the chapter material to help students tackle practical topics.
- Understand Diversity – Integrates gender, culture, and ethnicity into the field of psychology.
- Support Instructors – A full set of supplements, including MyPsychLab, provides instructors with all the resources and support they need.
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About the Author
Carole Wade earned her Ph.D. in cognitive psychology at Stanford University. She began her academic career at the University of New Mexico, where she taught courses in psycholinguistics and developed the first course at the university on the psychology of gender. She was professor of psychology for ten years at San Diego Mesa College, then taught at College of Marin and Dominican University of California. In addition to this text, she and Carol Tavris have written Invitation to Psychology; Psychology in Perspective;and The Longest War: Sex Differences in Perspective. Dr. Wade has a long-standing interest in making psychology accessible to students and the general public. In particular, she has focused her efforts on the teaching and promotion of critical-thinking skills, diversity issues, and the enhancement of undergraduate education in psychology. She chaired the APA Board of Educational Affairs’s Task Force on Diversity Issues at the Precollege and Undergraduate Levels of Education in Psychology, as well as the APA’s Public Information Committee; has been a G. Stanley Hall lecturer at the APA convention; and served on the steering committee for the National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology. Dr. Wade is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and a charter member of the Association for Psychological Science. When she isn’t busy with her professional activities, she can be found riding the trails of northern California on her Morgan horse, McGregor, or one of his Arabian stablemates, Condé or Ricochet.
Carol Tavris earned her Ph.D. in the interdisciplinary program in social psychology at the University of Michigan, and as a writer and lecturer she has sought to educate the public about the importance of critical and scientific thinking in psychology. In addition to this text, she and Carole Wade have written Invitation to Psychology; Psychology in Perspective; and The Longest War: Sex Differences in Perspective. Dr. Tavris is also coauthor, with Elliot Aronson, of Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts; and author of The Mismeasure of Woman and Anger: The Misunderstood Emotion. She has written on psychological topics for a wide variety of magazines, journals, edited books, and newspapers. Many of her book reviews and opinion essays for the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times Book Review, the TLS, Scientific American, and other publications have been collected in Psychobabble and Biobunk: Using Psychology to Think Critically About Issues in the News. Dr. Tavris lectures widely on topics involving science vs. pseudoscience in psychology and psychiatry, on writing about science for the public, and many other subjects of contemporary interest. She has taught in the psychology department at UCLA and at the Human Relations Center of the New School for Social Research in New York. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and a charter Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science; and a member of the editorial board of the APS journal Psychological Science in the Public Interest. When she is not writing or lecturing, she can be found walking the trails of the Hollywood Hills with her border collie, Sophie.
Table of Contents
In this Section:
1. Brief Table of Contents
2. Full Table of Contents
1. Brief Table of Contents
Chapter 1: What Is Psychology?
Chapter 2: How Psychologists Do Research
Chapter 3: Genes, Evolution, and Environment
Chapter 4: The Brain and Nervous System
Chapter 5: Body Rhythms and Mental States
Chapter 6: Sensation and Perception
Chapter 7: Learning and Conditioning
Chapter 8: Behavior in Social and Cultural Context
Chapter 9: Thinking and Intelligence
Chapter 10: Memory
Chapter 11: Emotion, Stress, and Health
Chapter 12: Motivation
Chapter 13: Development Over the Life Span
Chapter 14: Theories of Personality
Chapter 15: Psychological Disorders
Chapter 16: Approaches to Treatment and Therapy
2. Full Table of Contents
Chapter 1: What Is Psychology?
Psychology, Pseudoscience, and Popular Opinion
Thinking Critically and Creatively about Psychology
Psychology’s Past: From the Armchair to the
Laboratory
Psychology’s Present: The Four Perspectives of
Psychological Science
What Psychologists Do
Chapter 2: How Psychologists Do Research
What Makes Psychological Research Scientific?
Descriptive Studies: Establishing the Facts
Correlational Studies: Looking for Relationships
Experiments: Hunting for Causes 49
Evaluating the Findings
Keeping the Enterprise Ethical
Chapter 3: Genes, Evolution, and Environment
Unlocking the Secrets of Genes
The Genetics of Similarity
Our Human Heritage: Courtship and Mating
The Genetics of Difference
Our Human Diversity: The Case of Intelligence
Chapter 4: The Brain and Nervous System
The Nervous System: A Basic Blueprint
Communication in the Nervous System
Mapping the Brain
A Tour through the Brain
The Two Hemispheres of the Brain
The Flexible Brain
Chapter 5: Body Rhythms and Mental States
Biological Rhythms: The Tides of Experience
The Rhythms of Sleep
Exploring the Dream World
The Riddle of Hypnosis
Consciousness-Altering Drugs
Chapter 6: Sensation and Perception
Our Sensational Senses
Vision
Hearing
Other Senses
Perceptual Powers: Origins and Influences
Chapter 7: Learning and Conditioning
Classical Conditioning
Classical Conditioning in Real Life
Operant Conditioning
Principles of Operant Conditioning
Operant Conditioning in Real Life
Learning and the Mind
Chapter8: Behavior in Social and Cultural Context
Roles and Rules
Social Influences on Beliefs and Behavior
Individuals in Groups
Us versus Them: Group Identity
Group Conflict and Prejudice
The Question of Human Nature
Chapter 9: Thinking and Intelligence
Thought: Using What We Know
Reasoning Rationally
Barriers to Reasoning Rationally
Measuring Intelligence: The Psychometric Approach
Dissecting Intelligence: The Cognitive Approach
Animal Minds
Chapter 10: Memory
Reconstructing the Past
Memory and the Power of Suggestion
In Pursuit of Memory
The Three-Box Model of Memory
The Biology of Memory
How We Remember
Why We Forget 3
Autobiographical Memories
Chapter 11: Emotion, Stress, and Health
The Nature of Emotion
Emotion and Culture
The Nature of Stress
Stress and Emotion
Coping with Stress
Chapter 12: Motivation
The Hungry Animal: Motives to Eat
The Social Animal: Motives to Love
The Erotic Animal: Motives for Sex
The Competent Animal: Motives to Achieve
Chapter 13: Development Over the Life Span
From Conception through the First Year
Cognitive Development
Moral Development
Gender Development
Adolescence
Adulthood
The Wellsprings of Resilience
Chapter 14: Theories of Personality
Psychodynamic Theories of Personality
The Modern Study of Personality
Genetic Influences on Personality
Environmental Influences on Personality
Cultural Influences on Personality
The Inner Experience
Chapter 15: Psychological Disorders
Diagnosing Mental Disorders
Anxiety Disorders
Mood Disorders
Personality Disorders
Drug Abuse and Addiction
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Schizophrenia
Chapter 16: Approaches to Treatment and Therapy
Biological Treatments for Mental Disorders
Major Schools of Psychotherapy
Evaluating Psychotherapy
The Value and Values of Psychotherapy