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Psychology : from inquiry to understanding / Scott O. Lilienfeld, Emory University, Steven Jay Lynn, Binghamton University, Laura L. Namy, Emory University, Nancy J. Woolf, University of California at Los Angeles. - CANADIAN EDITION. - CANADA PEARSON 2011 - xxiv, 723 pages : illustrations some color ; 27 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Psychology and scientific thinking : a framework for everyday life -- Research methods : safeguards against error -- Biological psychology : bridging the levels of analysis -- Sensation and perception : how we sense and conceptualize the world -- Consciousness : expanding the boundaries of psychological inquiry -- Learning : how nurture changes us -- Memory : constructing and reconstructing our pasts -- Language, thinking, and reasoning : getting inside our talking heads -- Intelligence and IQ testing : controversy and consensus -- Human development : how and why we change -- Emotion and motivation : what moves us -- Stress, coping, and health : the mind-body interconnection -- Social psychology : how others affect us -- Personality : who we are -- Psychological disorders : when adaptation breaks down -- Psychological and biomedical treatments : helping people change.

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