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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.

Brief Table of Contents

Chapter 1:     Psychology and Scientific Thinking: A Framework for Everyday Life 

Chapter 2:    Research Methods: Safeguards against Error

Chapter 3:    Biological Psychology: Bridging the Levels of Analysis  

Chapter 4:    Sensati... MOREon and Perception: How We Sense and Conceptualize the World

Chapter 5:    Consciousness: Expanding the Boundaries of Psychological Inquiry

Chapter 6:    Learning: How Nurture Changes Us

Chapter 7:    Memory: Constructing and Reconstructing Our Pasts

Chapter 8:    Language, Thinking, and Reasoning: Getting Inside Our Talking Heads

Chapter 9:     Intelligence and IQ Testing: Controversy and Consensus

Chapter 10:  Human Development: How and Why We Change

Chapter 11:  Emotion and Motivation: What Moves Us

Chapter 12:  Stress, Coping, and Health: The Mind–Body Interconnection

Chapter 13:  Social Psychology: How Others Affect Us

Chapter 14:  Personality: Who We Are

Chapter 15:  Psychological Disorders: When Adaptation Breaks Down

Chapter 16:  Psychological and Biomedical Treatments: Helping People Change

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.