Psychology

Adolescence, Seventh Edition, by Nancy J. Cobb.

Recognized as one of the leading texts in the field, the Seventh Edition of Cobb's Adolescence provides an up-to-date and thorough review of current research and theory. Praised for its accessible writing style, this book is distinguished by its comprehensive coverage of identity research, gender, ethnic diversity, and issues relevant to early versus late adolescence and emerging adulthood.

An Introduction to Behavior Genetics introduces concepts from the field of behavior genetics at a level readily comprehended by upper-division undergraduates, or graduate students from a variety of disciplines including Psychology, Biology, Chemistry, Anthropology, and Sociology.

We have been inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement to contribute to the global conversation on anti-racism, as well as other critical social issues including social justice, inequalities, and activism. We know that as students, you’re already thinking about, engaging with, and taking action on a lot of these issues. Our collection of free textbook chapters aims to provide you with the theoretical background to develop your arguments, and an...

Blending classic scholarship with exciting new developments in the discipline, Biological Psychology offers a fresh perspective on the brain's interaction with its environment.

Brain and Behavior: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective addresses the central aims of cognitive neuroscience, seeking to examine the brain not only by its components but also by their functions. It highlights the principles, discoveries, and remaining mysteries of modern cognitive neuroscience. Brain and Behavior covers a wide swath of territory critical for understanding the brain, from the basics of the nervous system, to sensory and motor sys...

Child Development: Context, Culture, and Cascades stands apart in the landscape of child development textbooks by emphasizing the multiple interrelated contexts in which development occurs, including culture, and the ways that each stage of development informs and affects later stages of development—cascades. Child Development: Context, Culture, and Cascades systematically emphasizes these themes to help students arrive at a deeper understanding ...

Clinical Neuroscience informs students of relevant neurobiological foundations of various mental illnesses. In this book, students will begin their journey with a tour of the brain's fundamental building blocks (neuroanatomy, neurochemistry, neurophysiology, neurodevelopment) before moving to mental health challenges and illnesses (Traumatic brain injury, Parkinson's Disease, Addiction, Schizophrenia, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Depression). T...

Chun and Most's Cognition addresses the issue of dull, outdated course materials by presenting exciting findings from contemporary cognitive psychology in a way students can easily grasp. Highlighting everyday-life applications, Cognition motivates students to share in the excitement of cognitive psychology through highly relevant examples, discussions, and demonstrations (e.g. Think for Yourself and See for Yourself features). This comprehensive...

An evidence-based, accessible introduction to the study of sexuality and the diverse ways in which it brings joys and challenges to our lives. Now in its fifth edition, Discovering Human Sexuality has established itself as a popular and widely praised text that respects diversity both in the sexual world and among the students who read it. The backgrounds of the authors--in psychology, sociology, teaching, and writing--have made possible a text t...

Drugs: Mind, Body, and Society is designed to help students understand the diverse foundations of drugs and drugs use, as well as provide them with study skills to evaluate current research and data. Written in an accessible, conversational tone, the text will help students to think critically about the use of drugs in society, gain greater knowledge of their bodies, their values, and current research. The book's features incorporate real life qu...

Written in a contemporary and accessible voice, Drugs: Mind, Body, and Society offers more than knowledge and study skills. It is a multidisciplinary text that provides students with a comprehensive discussion about drugs and drug effects that weaves together physiology, neuroscience, pharmacology, psychology, society, culture, media, history, law, and religion. With an emphasis on critical thinking skills, this book teaches students to evaluate ...

Emotion, Third Edition, offers a comprehensive and integrated survey of the field of affective science. The text covers the major theories of emotion in detail and reviews both classic and cutting-edge research on emotional processes from various subdisciplines. The authors' thoughtful engagement with ongoing controversies, contradictory findings, methodological limitations, and replication failures encourages critical thinking. While highly rigo...

Bringing together an internationally respected team of experts, the second edition of Fundamentals of Health Psychology continues to offer a comprehensive introduction to the key topics and approaches in the fast-growing field of health psychology.

Human Sexuality, third edition, is the most engaging and up-to-date Canadian introduction to the diversity of human sexual experiences. Balancing biological coverage with an insightful exploration of social and cultural issues, this Canadian contributed text helps students understand human sexuality from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives. Incorporating the latest research, clinical practice, and developments, and revised with an eye to ...

Language in Mind: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics, Second Edition, by Julie Sedivy, uses a research-based approach that emphasizes not just what psycholinguists know, but how they've come to know it. Language in Mind's critical examination of primary literature imparts the scope of debate in this active field, and helpful illustration helps connect psycholinguistic findings to observations about everyday phenomena.

Research on fundamental learning processes continues to tell an important and interesting story. In the second edition of Learning and Behavior: A Contemporary Synthesis, Mark Bouton recounts that story, providing an in-depth but highly readable review of modern learning and behavior theory that is informed by the history of the field. The text reflects the author's conviction that the study of animal learning has a central place in psychology, a...

Looking Inside the Disordered Brain provides students with a working knowledge of our rapidly evolving understanding of the foundational brain circuits supporting human social, emotional, and cognitive behavior, and describes how disruptions within these circuits are associated with symptoms of common psychiatric disorders. It first establishes how specific anatomical circuits process signals we receive from our ever-changing internal and externa...

The start of a university education can be a daunting time for many – and never more so than this year, with all the uncertainty being faced in the wake of a global pandemic.

To help you feel better-prepared for the start of your first semester, we invite you to read the following chapters, which we have drawn from a range of our student texts. Written by some of the UK’s most passionate and experienced educators, these chapters provi...

Multicultural Psychology combines research with actual real narratives to examine multicultural issues and capture the richness of diverse cultures. The text covers compelling topics such as differences in world views, communication, racial and cultural identity, development, racism, and immigration, as well as gender, sexuality, age, and ability. It presents a broad foundation for understanding the issues psychologists address when studying...

Organized around four well-established core concepts, Principles of Psychology provides students with a framework to understand the science of behavior Written in a conversational style, Principles of Psychology is organized around the following four well-established principles that serve as touchstones for the field of psychology:

1. The mind is a process at work in a physical machine, the brain.
2. We are consciously aware of only a fraction of our ...

Principles of Psychology offers students a complete introduction to psychology, balancing contemporary approaches with classic perspectives, weaving stimulating conceptual issues throughout the text, and encouraging students to think critically, creatively, and practically about the subject and how it applies to the real-world.

Research-based but highly accessible, this fresh, contemporary, and engaging volume helps students appreciate the science of psychology and understand how its principles apply to their own lives.

Unique in its breadth of coverage ranging from historical accounts of drug use to clinical and preclinical behavioral studies, Psychopharmacology is appropriate for undergraduates studying the relationships between the behavioral effects of psychoactive drugs and their mechanisms of action.

Student resources for this title are available on the book's Companion Website

Research Methods: From Theory to Practice guides students through the entire research process-from choosing a research question and getting Institutional Review Board approval to presenting results at conferences and submitting work for peer review.

Sensation & Perception, Sixth Edition, introduces students to their own senses, emphasizing human sensory and perceptual experience and the basic neuroscientific underpinnings of that experience. The authors, specialists in their respective domains, strive to spread their enthusiasm for fundamental questions about the human senses and the impact that answers to those questions can have on medical and societal issues

This edition of Sensation & Pe...

Sensation & Perception, Fifth Edition, by Jeremy M. Wolfe, Keith R. Kluender, Dennis M. Levi, Linda M. Bartoshuk, Rachel S. Herz, Roberta L. Klatzky, and Daniel M. Merfeld.

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• Current research findings are integrated as the basics are presented
• The book provides coverage that others don't: full chapters on Taste, Smell, Touch, and the Vestibul...

• Emphasis on real-world examples and contemporary athletes in every chapter
• Connects to students on a personal level through "Test Yourself" features that enable students to rate themselves on various issues, attitudes, and behaviors and apply what they've learned to their own lives
• Emphasizes research with a thorough review of research methods in the first chapter and "Research in Action" boxes throughout that explore thought-provoking topics li...

Starting Out in Methods and Statistics for Psychology: a Hands-on Guide to Doing Research takes first year psychology students through the entire process of doing research in psychology from exploring designs and methods, to conducting step-by-step, by-hand data analysis, and writing up their findings, in a friendly and accessible way.

Statistics in Context offers a fresh approach to teaching statistics. Designed to reduce students' fear of numbers, the text aims to put statistics-wary readers at ease with uncomplicated explanations and practical examples drawn from real research and everyday life. Written in lively, accessible prose, the narrative describes the who, what, when, where, and why, and also the how, of statistics.

The most practically focused guide for first year psychology students, created to give them the skills and confidence they need to begin their undergraduate studies.

Resources for lecturers and students are available below.

The Mind’s Machine was introduced in 2012 to impart the core concepts of behavioral neuroscience to students in a diverse range of disciplines, including psychology and the other life sciences, but also art, philosophy, media studies, linguistics, and the like. Using streamlined text, full-color art, novel pedagogical features, and real-life examples and analogies, The Mind's Machine, Fourth Edition engages students new to neuroscience without sa...

The Psychology of Criminal Behaviour is a thrilling and comprehensive introduction to the psychological theories of criminality and violence. It examines how psychology and biology both play a role in understanding what may lead individuals to commit crime. Theoretical in approach, The Psychology of Criminal Behaviour ensures that material is presented in a way that meets the needs of both psychology and criminology students. ...

Understanding Memory is the most engaging, comprehensive, and applied introduction to memory that relates the study of memory to everyday life.

Understanding quantitative and qualitative research in psychology is the most hands-on, accessible, and approachable guide to the entire research process, which fully explores both quantitative and qualitative methods to give students the knowledge and confidence they need to succeed.

The Mind's Machine, introduced in 2012, was written to impart the core concepts of behavioral neuroscience to students in a diverse range of disciplines, including not only psychology and the other life sciences, but art, philosophy, media studies, linguistics, and the like. Using streamlined text, full-color art, novel pedagogical features, and real-life examples and analogies, The Mind's Machine, Third Edition engages students new to neuro...