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Psychology: The Essence of a Science 1st Edition

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Psychology: The Essence of a Science is a concise, scientific-based textbook that includes essential, fundamental information along with a built-in study guide to encourage student mastery of the concepts. This easy to read, easy to learn from textbook includes basic principles, theories, and people, as well as classic research and the latest citations, ranging from multicultural views on the Big Five personality traits to the latest on taste receptors and their locations. A rigorous scientific approach is taken, but with a casual, conversational, and often humorous approach.

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Psychology: The Essence of a Science offers a different approach from a traditional textbook in Introductory Psychology. Psychology: The Essence of a Science is a brief and to-the-point text that covers the core principles, theories, and people in psychology. In addition to classic research, this text includes up-to-date citations, ranging from multicultural views on the Big Five personality traits to the latest information on taste receptors and their locations.

Features of this unique approach:

Built-in study guide at the end of every chapter helps students increase their understanding of the field of psychology as a whole and of the specific material in each chapter.
Think Tanks feature contains critical thinking questions for discussion and assignments, offering suggestions on thinking through and about the material.
Connecting Concepts pedagogical aids helps students refresh their learning and bridge material throughout the course.
I Link, Therefore I Am boxes include related web sites for topics being discussed.
Just the Facts highlights are scattered throughout the text with the purpose to both motivate students and facilitate a deeper processing of the material presented.