Understanding Psychology

This book includes extensive coverage of the traditional topical areas of behavior, sensation and perception, learning, memory, cognition, human development, personality, abnormal behavior, and social psychology. However, if also features distinctive chapters that focus primarily on applied topics, such as Chapter 15 on health psychology, and Chapter 19 on issues of diversity and ways of fostering a better society. The flexibility of this text`s organizational structure is considerable. Each chapter is divided into three or four manageable, self-contained units, allowing instructors to choose and omit sections in accordance with their syllabi.