Published by Pearson Canada (December 23, 2022) © 2024
An Introduction to Psychological Science presents students with a model for scientific literacy; this model forms the core of how this book is written and organized. We believe a scientific literacy perspective and model will prove useful in addressing two course needs we often hear from instructors - to provide students with a systematic way to categorize the overwhelming amount of information they are confronted with, and to cultivate their curiosity and help them understand the relevance, practicality, and immense appeal of psychological science.
Psychological science is in a privileged position to help students hone their scientific literacy. It is both a rigorous scientific discipline and a field that studies the most complex of all phenomena: the behavioural, cognitive, and biological basis of behaviour. With this focus on behaviour, one can rightly argue that psychology resides at the hub or core of numerous other scientific disciplines; it also shares connections with neuroscience, education, and public health, to name a few linkages. From this perspective, the knowledge acquired by studying psychological science should transfer and apply to many other fields. This is great news when you consider that psychology is one of the few science courses that many undergraduates will ever take.
This fourth edition reflects significant advances in psychological science as well as updated research and real-life examples. In addition, we have developed a new feature inspired by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Calls to Action where we examine psychological topics from Indigenous perspectives. Summary of changes:
Digital Update 2024
New Truth and Reconciliation Module
New Current Event Box - Synthesizing Minds: Exploring the Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Psychology
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Dr. Mark Krause received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees at Central Washington University, and his PhD at the University of Tennessee. He completed a postdoctoral appointment at the University of Texas at Austin where he studied classical conditioning of sexual behaviour in birds. Following this, Krause accepted a research fellowship through the National Institute of Aging to conduct research on cognitive neuroscience at Oregon Health and Sciences University. He has conducted research and published on pointing and communication in chimpanzees, predatory behaviour in snakes, the behavioural and evolutionary basis of conditioned sexual behaviour, and the influence of testosterone on cognition and brain function. Krause is currently a professor of psychology at Southern Oregon University, where his focus is on teaching, writing, and supervising student research. His teaching includes courses in general psychology, comparative psychology, learning and memory, and behavioural neuroscience. His spare time is spent with his family, cycling, reading, and enjoying Oregon's outdoors.
Dr. Daniel Corts discovered psychology at Belmont University, where he received his Bachelor's degree. He completed a Ph.D. in experimental psychology at the University of Tennessee in 1999 and then a postdoctoral position at Furman University for one year where he focused on the teaching of psychology. He is now a professor of psychology at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois, where he has taught for over 19 years. His research interests in cognition have led to publications on language and memory, and he has also published in the area of college student development. Corts is enthusiastic about getting students involved in research and has supervised or coauthored over 100 conference presentations with undergraduates. Corts is active in Psi Chi, the International Honor Society in Psychology, and recently finished a term as president.
Dr. Stephen Smith received his Bachelor of Arts and Science in Psychology and Political Science from the University of Lethbridge, and his M.A. and PhD in Psychology from the University of Waterloo. After graduating in 2004, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Affective Neuroscience Laboratory at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Smith is now a Professor of Psychology at the University of Winnipeg. His research focuses on how emotion, attention, and movement interact, and on how these processes are performed by the nervous system. He has published research on emotional processing in patients with different types of brain damage, the phenomenon of the autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR), and, using neuroimaging, how emotions influence the activity of cells in both the brain and the spinal cord. Smith's teaching includes introductory psychology, physiological psychology, and third- and fourth-year courses in cognitive neuroscience.
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