Psychology Third Canadian Edition

by Daniel L. Schacter, Daniel T. Gilbert, Daniel M. Wegner, Matthew K. Nock, Ingrid Johnsrude

Overview

Schacter, Gilbert, Wegner, and Nock’s Psychology, Third Edition is widely acclaimed for captivating students with contemporary psychology research on the major topics of the introductory course, while helping them develop critical thinking skills that will stay with them beyond the course term. Expert coverage of the DSM-5, quirky examples of thinking gone awry, scenarios based on common psychological misconceptions, and contributions from new co-author Matthew Nock highlight the new edition.

And now, this breakthrough text is available in a version created just for Canadian students and teachers.  It offers the same fascinating writing, helpful study tools, and keen eye for intriguing stories as Psychology, Third Edition, but with a wide range of Canadian examples and impactful work by Canadian researchers incorporated throughout.

Welcome Canadian author, Ingrid Johnsrude
Ingrid’s principal area of investigation is the neural basis of understanding speech, and she leads experiments examining how utterances are transformed into acoustic signals and then into meaning via a variety of cognitive processes. Her investigations span multiple levels—from understanding the brain structures involved in hearing and comprehension to observing the ways listeners deal with challenges such as background noise.

LaunchPad, featuring LearningCurve
Psychology, Third Canadian Edition has its own dedicated version of Worth’s new online course space, LaunchPad.  LaunchPad offers Worth’s acclaimed media content, curated into prebuilt, easily assignable units, in a breakthrough interface in which power and simplicity go hand in hand. For more information, visit www.launchpadportal.com.

Available in LaunchPad, the widely-praised adaptive quizzing system, LearningCurve uses brief, game-like activities to put the concept of “testing to learn” into action. Customized quizzing adapts to students’ responses and provides individualized question sets at different difficulty levels (with instant feedback) based on each student’s progress. For more information, visit www.learningcurveworks.com

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781429237215
Publisher:	Worth Publishers
Publication date:	06/13/2014
Edition description:	Third Edition, Canadian Edition
Pages:	800
Product dimensions:	9.40(w) x 10.90(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Daniel Schacter is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. Schacter received his BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He subsequently developed a keen interest in amnesic disorders associated with various kinds of brain damage. He continued his research and education at the University of Toronto, where he received his PhD in 1981. He taught on the faculty at Toronto for the next six years before joining the psychology department at the University of Arizona in 1987. In 1991, he joined the faculty at Harvard University. His research explores the relation between conscious and unconscious forms of memory and the nature of distortions and errors in remembering. Many of Schacter‘s studies are summarized in his 1996 book, Searching for Memory: The Brain, The Mind, and The Past, and his 2001 book, The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers, both winners of the APA’s William James Book Award.

Daniel Gilbert is Harvard College Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. After attending the Community College of Denver and completing his BA from the University of Colorado, Denver, he went on to earn his PhD from Princeton University. From 1985-1996, he taught on the faculty of the University of Texas, Austin, during which time he received the American Psychological Association’s Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology. In 1996, he joined the faculty of Harvard University. Gilbert has won numerous awards including the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His research on affective forecasting is an attempt to understand how and how well people predict their emotional reactions to future events. He is the author of the national bestseller Stumbling on Happiness.

Daniel Wegner is Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. He received his BS in 1970 and PhD in 1974, both from Michigan State University. He began his teaching career at Trinity University in San Antonio, TX, before his appointments at the University of Virginia in 1990 and Harvard University in 2000. He is Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and former associate editor of Psychological Review. His research focuses on thought suppression and mental control, social memory in relationships and groups, and the experience of conscious will. His seminal work in thought suppression and consciousness served as the basis of two trade titles, White Bears and Other Unwanted Thoughts and The Illusion of Conscious Will, both of which were named Choice Outstanding Academic Books.

Matthew K. Nock is professor of psychology and director of the Laboratory for Clinical and Developmental Research at Harvard University. He received his BA from Boston University and his PhD in psychology from Yale University in 2003 and completed his clinical internship at Bellevue Hospital and the New York University Child Study Center. His research is aimed at advancing the understanding of why people behave in ways that are harmful to themselves, with an emphasis on suicide and other forms of self-harm. His research is multidisciplinary in nature and uses a range of methodological approaches to understand better how these behaviors develop, how to predict them, and how to prevent their occurrence. His work has been recognized through the receipt of four early career awards from the American Psychological Association, the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, and the American Association of Suicidology; in 2011 he was named a MacArthur Fellow. In addition to conducting research, he has been a consultant and scientific advisor to the National Institutes of Health, the World Health Organization’s World Mental Health Survey Initiative, the American Psychological Association, and the American Psychiatric Association DSM–5 Childhood and Adolescent Disorder Work Group. At Harvard, he has received several teaching awards including the Roslyn Abramson Teaching Award and the Petra Shattuck Prize. In January 2014, he will join Daniel Schacter, Daniel Gilbert, and Daniel Wegner as a co-author of Psychology, Third Edition

Table of Contents

1. Psychology: The Evolution of a Science
discusses the development of psychology in Canada, highlighting Canadian pioneers (including James Mark Baldwin, Donald Olding Hebb, Brenda Milner, and Wilder Penfield) and Canadian psychological organizations (Canadian Psychological Association, the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science, and the Canadian Association of Neuroscience).

2. Methods in Psychology
uses Canadian data to explain the fundamentals of research and data evaluation. It includes the TriCouncil ethical guidelines, and the Canadian Psychological Association code of ethics that Canadian psychologists must follow.

3. Neuroscience and Behavior
starts with Canadian examples to illustrate the issue of sports-related head trauma and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. Other highlights include the contributions of internationally renowned neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield in mapping somatosensory and motor cortex and McGill researcher Michael Meaney's work on the profound influence of maternal caretaking behaviour on the stress response in offspring.

4. Sensation and Perception
features research from the University of Western Ontario on the neural pathways for vision or visual streams, as well as University of Toronto researcher Glenn Schellenberg’s study on the link between music education and IQ scores.

5. Consciousness
looks at how University of Western Ontario researchers are using fMRI technology to determine the level of consciousness in brain-damaged patients.

6. Memory
covers seminal research on Levels of Processing by Fergus Craik and Endel Tulving, from University of Toronto, which has been so influential in our understanding of how humans encode information. The chapter also discusses Brenda Milner’s discovery, through her early work with Henry Molaison (HM), of the role of the hippocampus in long-term memory.

7. Learning
examines McMaster University researcher Shepard Siegel’s work on classical conditioning and how it explains the occurrence of drug overdoses with experienced drug abusers. It also describes McGill University research with rats that demonstrates how operant conditioning occurs.

8. Emotion and Motivation
offers a Canadian perspective on eating disorders.

9. Language and Thought
looks at the future of bilingualism in Canada.

10. Intelligence
uses athleticism as a model for intelligence and Canadian hockey player, Hayley Wickenheiser, as an example. By examining Wickenheiser's athletic abilities we question how intelligence is measured and thus discuss in detail intelligence testing and measurement methods.

11. Development
draws on Canadian statistics on health-related issues. Also included is McGill University research on the relationship between reflexes and motor development, as well as work by Canadian researcher Tomáš Paus showing how areas of the brain develop with age.

12. Personality
describes research at the University of British Columbia researchers personality, language, and behaviour.

13. Social Psychology
features research at the University of Calgary on the frustration-aggression hypothesis. It also discusses research at McGill University on attraction and relationship maintenance.

14. Stress and Health
includes a study on Canadian immigration and health patterns, and statistics relating to health issues.

|15. Psychological Disorders
looks at the incidence rates of psychological disorders in Canada, as well as alternative disorder evaluation protocols.

16. Treatment of Psychological Disorders
examines treatment rates and strategies available to Canadians and the ethic code for the treatment of patients.