Psychology : Frontiers and Applications, Fourth Canadian Edition + Connect W/eText

Product Description

Psychology: Frontiers and Applications is one of the most popular Introductory Psychology texts in Canada for a reason. The text strikes a balance between scientific integrity and student friendliness, introducing students to psychology as a science while highlighting its relevance to their lives and society. The Fourth Canadian Edition includes expanded content on thought, language, and intelligence; a brighter, more engaging design; and an improved conceptual framework with a clearer emphasis on the relations between biological, psychological, and environmental levels of analysis. Connect - Your Study and Testing Program with e-book - is included with each new copy of the text. For more information, go to www.mcgrawhillconnect.ca

About the Author

Ronald E. Smith, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology and Director of Clinical Psychology Training at the University of Washington, where he also has served as Area Head of the Social Psychology and Personality area. He received his bachelor’s degree from Marquette University and his PhD from Southern Illinois University, where he had dual specializations in clinical and physiological psychology. His major research interests are in anxiety, stress and coping, and in performance enhancement research and intervention. Dr. Smith is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. He received a Distinguished Alumnus Award from the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute for his contributions to the field of mental health. He has published more than 160 scientific articles and book chapters in his areas of interest and has authored or co-authored 23 books on introductory psychology, human performance enhancement, and personality, including Introduction to Personality: Toward an Integration, with Walter Mischel and Yuichi Shoda (Wiley, 2004). An award-winning teacher, he has more than 15 years of experience in teaching the introductory psychology course.

John B. Mitchell is the Academic Dean at Brescia University College, University of Western Ontario. Dr. Mitchell received his B.A. and M.A. from Queen’s University and his Ph.D. from Concordia University. Following completion of his Ph.D., he did post-doctoral research at the Douglas Hospital Research Centre in Montreal and at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver. Dr. Mitchell has taught Introduction to Psychology at Boston College, Brescia University College, and the University of Western Ontario in classes that have ranged in size from 50 to 500 students. He has also taught courses in behavioural neuroscience, psychopharmacology, memory, research methods, and, more recently, educational psychology. In 2006, Dr. Mitchell received the Brescia University College Award for Teaching Excellence. Dr. Mitchell has authored or co-authored research papers and book chapters on memory, the effects of early experience on the ability to recover from stress, and motivation.

Michael W. Passer, Ph.D., coordinates the introductory psychology program at the University of Washington, which enrolls about 2,500 students per year, and also is the faculty coordinator of training for new teaching assistants (TAs). He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Rochester and his PhD in Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles, with a specialization in social psychology. Dr. Passer has been a faculty member at the University of Washington since 1977. A former Danforth Foundation Fellow and University of Washington Distinguished Teaching Award finalist, Dr. Passer has had a career-long love of teaching. Each academic year he teaches introductory psychology twice and a required pre-major course in research methods. Dr. Passer developed and teaches a graduate course on the Teaching of Psychology, which prepares students for careers in the college classroom, and also has taught courses in social psychology and attribution theory. He has published more than 20 scientific articles and chapters, primaril