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If You're an Educator Download instructor resources Additional order info. Description For introductory psychology courses at two year and four year schools This book presents a scientific, accurate, and thorough overview of the essential concepts of psychology in engaging language that the average student can easily comprehend. Three Unifying Basic Concepts: Psychology is a science that is rapidly evolving: The 9th edition contains more than new research references, more than 90 percent of which are from Human behavior and thought are diverse, varied, and affected by culture: Attention to diversity is found in every chapter, beginning with a discussion of the importance of understanding human diversity in Chapter 1; to the interdependence of language, thought and culture discussed in Chapter 7; through to gender and cultural differences in psychological disorders which are covered in Chapter The study of psychology involves active thinking, questioning, and problem solving: Dozens of challenging "Thinking Critically About" exercises encourage the reader to engage in genuine critical thinking by questioning the methods used to gather data, considering possible alternative explanations for findings, and imagining further research that might shed additional light on the phenomenon under study.
Person-Situation: To what extent is behavior caused by factors inside the person, such as thoughts, emotions, and genes? In contrast, to what extent is behavior caused or triggered by factors outside the person, such as incentives, cues in the environment, and the presence of other people?
Nature-Nurture: Is the person we become a product of innate, inborn tendencies or a reflection of experience and upbringing? Stability-Change: Are the characteristics we develop in childhood more or less permanent and fixed or do we change in predictable and unpredictable ways over the course of our lives? Diversity-Universality: Because we are all human, each person is like every other person.
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