Psychology 4e WIE

Students often get lost in the details ... most will never take a second psychology course ... they often have trouble relating the material to their everyday lives...
The new Fourth Edition of Kowalski & Westen's Psychology addresses these teaching challenges. The student develops evaluative reasoning through self-discovery for a lifetime of learning. Students are drawn into the material in a way that in-trigues and stimulates so they begin to see psychology at work in their daily lives.

Like its predecessors, this new edition effectively captures the diversity and breadth of psychology. A complete overview of how human beings think, feel, and behave is included. Psychology is an evolving science, which continually addresses and re-addresses the relationship between psychological events and their neural underpinnings, between cognition and emotion, be-tween cultural processes and human evolution, between nature and nurture, and more.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Psychology: The Study of Mental Processes and Behavior
Chapter 2. Research Methods in Psychology
Chapter 3. Biological Bases of Mental Life and Behavior
Chapter 4. Sensation and Perception
Chapter 5. Learning
Chapter 6. Memory
Chapter 7. Thought and Language
Chapter 8. Intelligence
Chapter 9. Consciousness
Chapter 10. Motivation and Emotion
Chapter 11. Health, Stress, and Coping
Chapter 12. Personality
Chapter 13. Physical and Cognitive Development
Chapter 14. Social Development
Chapter 15. Psychological Disorders
Chapter 16. Treatment of Psychological Disorders
Chapter 17. Attitudes and Social Cognition
Chapter 18. Interpersonal Processes
Glossary G-1
References R-1
Photo Credits C-1
Text and Illustration Credits C-3
Name Index I-1
Subject Index I-16