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This shorter version of Wade and Tavris best-selling text, Psychology, offers a new twist for the shorter-text market. It maintains the same high quality writing, focus on critical thinking, attention to multicultural issues, and commitment to the debates of psychology as well as the Quick Quizzes, Get Involved, and Taking Psychology With You features from the larger version.* A fresh, student-centered, teaching-flexible thirteen chapter organization. * Whats Ahead questions - Appended with page references in the Looking Back section at the end of each chapter . * Provides students with a preview of the content for each major section. * Quick Quizzes - After each major section of the text. * Actively tests students comprehension. * Chapter-opening vignettes - Based on real newspaper stories. * Allows students to apply what they have learned. * Get-Involved exercises. * Provides hands-on application exercises and demonstrations that enhance student learning. * Taking Psychology With You sections - At the end of each chapter. * Draw on research in the chapter to help students tackle topics of practical concern. * A compelling narrative style - And straightforward pres

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• 1 What Is Psychology?
• I Your Self
• 2 Theories of Personality
• 3 Development over the Life Span
• II Your Body
• 4 Neurons, Hormones, and the Brain
• 5 Sensation and Perception
• III Your Mind
• 6 Thinking and Intelligence
• 7 Memory
• IV Your Environment
• 8 Learning
• 9 Behavior in Social and Cultural Context
• V Your Mental Health
• 10 Psychological Disorders
• 11 Approaches to Treatment and Therapy
• VI Your Life
• 12 Emotion, Stress, and Health
• 13 The Major Motives of Life: Love, Sex, Food and Work
• Statistical Appendix