TY - BOOK AU - Carlson,Neil R. TI - Psychology : : the science of behavior / SN - 9780205685578 U1 - 150 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Boston : PB - Allyn & Bacon, KW - Psychology KW - Textbooks N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 575-615) and indexes; The Science of Psychology -- The Ways and Means of Psychology -- Evolution, Heredity, and Behavior -- Biology of Behavior -- Learning and Behavior -- Sensation -- Perception -- Memory -- Consciousness -- Language -- Intelligence and Thinking -- Life-Span Development -- Motivation, Emotions, and Health -- Personality -- Social Psychology -- The Nature and Causes of Psychological Disorders -- The Treatment of Psychological Disorders N2 - Based on the connections between behavior and its biological underpinnings, Psychology: The Science of Behavior presents psychological behavior in the context of its adaptive significance. The Seventh Edition again combines a scholarly survey of research with real-world applications of research results to problems that confront us today. The authors apply the discovery method to take students inside the research process to foster a critical understanding of the logic and significance of empirical findings ER -