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Essentials Of Understanding Psychology

7th Edition
1260881288 · 9781260881288
The Seventh Canadian edition of Feldman's?Essentials of Understanding Psychology is designed with a student-first approach. It informs, engages, and excites readers by featuring relatable content and concise coverage in an easy-to-read modular format… Read More
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Preface

Chapter 1 Introduction to Psychology
Module 1 Psychologists at Work
Module 2 A Science Evolves: The Past, the Present, and the Future
Module 3 Research in Psychology
Module 4 Research Challenges: Exploring the Process

Chapter 2 Neuroscience and Behaviour
Module 5 Neurons: The Basic Elements of Behaviour
Module 6 The Brain
Module 7 The Nervous System and the Endocrine System: Communicating Within the Body

Chapter 3 Sensation and Perception
Module 8 Sensing the World Around Us
Module 9 Vision: Shedding Light on the Eye
Module 10 Hearing and the Other Senses
Module 11 Perceptual Organization: Constructing Our View of the World

Chapter 4 States of Consciousness
Module 12 Sleep and Dreams
Module 13 Hypnosis and Meditation
Module 14 Drug Use: The Highs and Lows of Consciousness

Chapter 5 Learning
Module 15 Classical Conditioning
Module 16 Operant Conditioning
Module 17Cognitive Approaches to Learning

Chapter 6 Memory
Module 18 The Foundations of Memory
Module 19 Recalling Long-Term Memories
Module 20 Forgetting: When Memory Fails

Chapter 7 Thinking, Language, and Intelligence
Module 21 Thinking and Reasoning
Module 22 Language
Module 23 Intelligence

Chapter 8 Motivation and Emotion
Module 24 Explaining Motivation
Module 25 Human Needs and Motivation: Eat, Drink, and Be Daring
Module 26 Understanding Emotional Experiences

Chapter 9 Lifespan Development
Module 27 Nature and Nurture: The Enduring Developmental Question
Module 28 Prenatal Development: From Conception to Birth
Module 29 Infancy and Childhood
Module 30 Adolescence: Becoming an Adult
Module 31 Adulthood

Chapter 10 Personality
Module 32 Psychodynamic Approaches to Personality
Module 33 Trait, Learning, Biological and Evolutionary, and Humanistic Approaches to Personality
Module 34 Assessing Personality: Determining What Makes Us Distinctive

Chapter 11 Health Psychology: Stress, Coping, and Well-Being
Module 35 Stress and Coping
Module 36 Psychological Aspects of Illness and Well-Being
Module 37 Health and Wellness

Chapter 12 Psychological Disorders
Module 38 Normal versus Abnormal: What Makes the Distinction?
Module 39 The Major Psychological Disorders
Module 40 Psychological Disorders in Perspective

Chapter 13 Treatment of Psychological Disorders
Module 41 Psychotherapy: Psychodynamic, Behavioural, and Cognitive Approaches to Treatment
Module 42 Psychotherapy: Humanistic, Interpersonal, and Group Approaches to Treatment
Module 43 Biomedical Therapy: Biological Approaches to Treatment

Chapter 14 Social Psychology
Module 44 Attitudes and Social Cognition
Module 45 Social Influence and Groups
Module 46 Prejudice and Discrimination
Module 47 Positive and Negative Social Behaviour

 
The Seventh Canadian edition of Feldman's?Essentials of Understanding Psychology is designed with a student-first approach. It informs, engages, and excites readers by featuring relatable content and concise coverage in an easy-to-read modular format. This approach enables students to learn the fundamentals of psychology as it relates to their everyday lives. The new edition maintains its focus on diversity and inclusion and offers indigenous knowledge on core introductory psychology topics through new Lived Experience: Indigenous Voices and Indigenous Perspective boxes. In addition, Canadian statistics, research, and current events have been updated to engage students with content that's relevant to their lives. 
 
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Expanded Coverage of Indigenous Content. New to this edition are Lived Experience: Indigenous Voices boxes, which provide first person experiences from Canada’s Indigenous Community as they relate to key psychological concepts. One example includes the experience of Jennifer General, a Behavioural Therapist and member of the Tyendinaga Mohawk community.
Current Research and Applications. The Seventh Canadian edition includes updated statistics and new research examples on various psychological concepts throughout.
Key Contributor Boxes. New to this edition are Key Contributor boxes, which share the stories of those who have shaped the field of psychology. In one example from Chapter 10, students learn how Victor Frankl’s time in a Nazi death camp shaped his belief—and later the philosophy of the humanistic psychologists—that human life has dignity and meaning even under the most dehumanizing of conditions.
Writing?Assignments. The Writing Assignment tool delivers a learning experience to help students improve their written communication skills and conceptual understanding. As an instructor you can assign, monitor, grade, and provide feedback on writing more efficiently and effectively.?
Student-First Approach.?Essentials of Understanding Psychology?puts?students first by connecting psychology to everyday life.?Features and content were specially designed to inform, engage and excite students to help them learn and retain the material.??
Modular?Chapter Format.?The modular?learning format?offers flexibility?for instructors based on course needs, and improved learning?comprehension?for students.?Chapters in?Essentials of Understanding Psychology?cover?the major areas of psychology, with each chapter?divided into three or more short modules.??
Indigenous Perspectives. In signing the Indigenous Education Protocol, colleges and other post-secondary institutions across Canada have pledged to support the inclusion of Indigenous intellectual and cultural traditions into their academic curriculum. To support this goal, Feldman integrates Indigenous knowledge throughout on core introductory psychology topics, including states of consciousness, human development, and social psychology. New Lived Experience: Indigenous Voices boxes provide first person experiences from Canada’s Indigenous Community as they relate to key psychological concepts. In addition, Indigenous Perspective boxes are included and have been updated across multiple chapters.
Developed?for the college market. Author Laura Cavanagh applies her expertise within the psychology field to provide a uniquely Canadian perspective. As a Registered Psychotherapist and the Academic Coordinator of the?Behavioural?Sciences diploma at Seneca College, Professor Cavanagh understands the importance of connecting with students through applied learning.
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