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Peter O. Gray
Peter Gray was a full-time professor of psychology at Boston College for 30 years, where he served his department at various times as Department Chair, Undergraduate Program Director, and Graduate Program Director.  He has published research in biological, evolutionary, cultural, developmental and educational psychology; published articles on innovative teaching methods; taught more than 20 different undergraduate courses, including, most regularly, introductory psychology; helped develop a university-wide program to improve students study and learning skills; and developed a program of research practicum courses. He is now retired from regular teaching, but maintains a position as Research Professor at Boston College.  Most of his current research and writing has to do with the value of play, especially free age-mixed play, in childrens development.  He is author of a popular weekly blog entitled Freedom to Learn: The Roles of Play and Curiosity as Foundations for Learning.
Before joining Boston College, Peter Gray studied psychology as an undergraduate at Columbia University and earned a Ph.D. in biological sciences at Rockefeller University.  He earned his way through college by coaching basketball and working with youth groups in New York City.  As a graduate student he directed a summer biology program for talented high school students from impoverished neighborhoods.  His avocations today include long distance bicycling, kayaking, and backwoods skiing.
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David F. Bjorklund
David F. Bjorklund, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychology at Florida Atlantic University, where he has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in developmental and evolutionary psychology since 1976. He received a BA degree in Psychology from the University of Massachusetts in 1971, an MA degree in Psychology from the University of Dayton in 1973, and a Ph.D. degree in Developmental Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1976. He has received numerous teaching and research awards from Florida Atlantic University, and is the recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt Research Award. He served as Associate Editor of Child Development (1997-2001) and is currently serving as Editor of the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. He has served on the editorial boards of numerous journals and also served as a contributing editor to Parents Magazine. He has published more than 170 scholarly articles on various topics relating to child development and evolutionary psychology and has received financial support for his research from the National Science Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, and the German Research Foundation. His other books include Childrens Thinking: Cognitive Development and Individual Differences, now in its fifth edition; Why Youth is Not Wasted on the Young; Looking at Children: An Introduction to Child Development (with Barbara Bjorklund); Parents Book of Discipline (with Barbara Bjorklund); Applied Child Study (with Anthony Pellegrini); The Origins of Human Nature: Evolutionary Developmental Psychology (with Anthony Pellegrini); Childrens Strategies: Contemporary Views of Cognitive Development; False-Memory Creation in Children and Adults: Theory, Research, and Implications; and Origins of the Social Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and Child Development (edited with Bruce Ellis). His current research interests include children’s cognitive development and evolutionary developmental psychology. He lives in Jupiter, Florida, with his wife Barbara, and enjoys traveling, cooking, playing basketball, and kayaking.
Table of Contents
Part I Foundations for the Study of Psychology
Chapter 1 Background to the Study of Psychology
Chapter 2 Methods of Psychology.
Part II The Biological Bases of Behavior
Chapter 3 Genetics and Evolutionary Foundations of Behavior
Chapter 4 The Neural Control of Behavior
Chapter 5 Mechanisms of Motivation and Emotion
Part III Sensation and Perception
Chapter 6 Smell, Taste, Pain, Hearing, and Psychophysics
Chapter 7 The Psychology of Vision
Part IV Learning and Thinking
Chapter 8 Basic Processes of Learning
Chapter 9 Memory, Attention, and Consciousness
Chapter 10 Solving Problems: Reasoning and Intelligence
Part V Growth of the Mind and Person
Chapter 11 The Development of Body, Thought, and Language
Chapter 12 Social Development
Part VI Social and Personality Psychology
Chapter 13 Social Psychology
Chapter 14 Personality
Part VII Psychological Disorders and Treatment
Chapter 15 Psychological Disorders.
Chapter 16 Treatment of Psychological Disorders
Statistical Appendix
Product Updates
- Thinking Critically About …questions at the end of each chapter help students consider the major ideas argus in each chapter.
- Social Psychology is now covered in one chapter (Chapter 13) to offer a more cohesive review of social
psychological research. - The chapter on neural control and behavior is covered earlier in the text (Chapter 4)
- Updated Find Out More sections at the end of chapters contain thumbnail reviews of several relevant and
interesting books, websites, and content from various media that are sufficiently nontechnical to be read by
first-year students.
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Authors
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Peter O. Gray
Peter Gray was a full-time professor of psychology at Boston College for 30 years, where he served his department at various times as Department Chair, Undergraduate Program Director, and Graduate Program Director.  He has published research in biological, evolutionary, cultural, developmental and educational psychology; published articles on innovative teaching methods; taught more than 20 different undergraduate courses, including, most regularly, introductory psychology; helped develop a university-wide program to improve students study and learning skills; and developed a program of research practicum courses. He is now retired from regular teaching, but maintains a position as Research Professor at Boston College.  Most of his current research and writing has to do with the value of play, especially free age-mixed play, in childrens development.  He is author of a popular weekly blog entitled Freedom to Learn: The Roles of Play and Curiosity as Foundations for Learning.
Before joining Boston College, Peter Gray studied psychology as an undergraduate at Columbia University and earned a Ph.D. in biological sciences at Rockefeller University.  He earned his way through college by coaching basketball and working with youth groups in New York City.  As a graduate student he directed a summer biology program for talented high school students from impoverished neighborhoods.  His avocations today include long distance bicycling, kayaking, and backwoods skiing.
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David F. Bjorklund
David F. Bjorklund, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychology at Florida Atlantic University, where he has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in developmental and evolutionary psychology since 1976. He received a BA degree in Psychology from the University of Massachusetts in 1971, an MA degree in Psychology from the University of Dayton in 1973, and a Ph.D. degree in Developmental Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1976. He has received numerous teaching and research awards from Florida Atlantic University, and is the recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt Research Award. He served as Associate Editor of Child Development (1997-2001) and is currently serving as Editor of the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. He has served on the editorial boards of numerous journals and also served as a contributing editor to Parents Magazine. He has published more than 170 scholarly articles on various topics relating to child development and evolutionary psychology and has received financial support for his research from the National Science Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, and the German Research Foundation. His other books include Childrens Thinking: Cognitive Development and Individual Differences, now in its fifth edition; Why Youth is Not Wasted on the Young; Looking at Children: An Introduction to Child Development (with Barbara Bjorklund); Parents Book of Discipline (with Barbara Bjorklund); Applied Child Study (with Anthony Pellegrini); The Origins of Human Nature: Evolutionary Developmental Psychology (with Anthony Pellegrini); Childrens Strategies: Contemporary Views of Cognitive Development; False-Memory Creation in Children and Adults: Theory, Research, and Implications; and Origins of the Social Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and Child Development (edited with Bruce Ellis). His current research interests include children’s cognitive development and evolutionary developmental psychology. He lives in Jupiter, Florida, with his wife Barbara, and enjoys traveling, cooking, playing basketball, and kayaking.
Table of Contents
Part I Foundations for the Study of Psychology
Chapter 1 Background to the Study of Psychology
Chapter 2 Methods of Psychology.
Part II The Biological Bases of Behavior
Chapter 3 Genetics and Evolutionary Foundations of Behavior
Chapter 4 The Neural Control of Behavior
Chapter 5 Mechanisms of Motivation and Emotion
Part III Sensation and Perception
Chapter 6 Smell, Taste, Pain, Hearing, and Psychophysics
Chapter 7 The Psychology of Vision
Part IV Learning and Thinking
Chapter 8 Basic Processes of Learning
Chapter 9 Memory, Attention, and Consciousness
Chapter 10 Solving Problems: Reasoning and Intelligence
Part V Growth of the Mind and Person
Chapter 11 The Development of Body, Thought, and Language
Chapter 12 Social Development
Part VI Social and Personality Psychology
Chapter 13 Social Psychology
Chapter 14 Personality
Part VII Psychological Disorders and Treatment
Chapter 15 Psychological Disorders.
Chapter 16 Treatment of Psychological Disorders
Statistical Appendix
Product Updates
- Thinking Critically About …questions at the end of each chapter help students consider the major ideas argus in each chapter.
- Social Psychology is now covered in one chapter (Chapter 13) to offer a more cohesive review of social
psychological research. - The chapter on neural control and behavior is covered earlier in the text (Chapter 4)
- Updated Find Out More sections at the end of chapters contain thumbnail reviews of several relevant and
interesting books, websites, and content from various media that are sufficiently nontechnical to be read by
first-year students.
New Media Option!
Achieve Read & Practice
Achieve Read & Practice marries Macmillan Learning’s mobile-accessible eBook with the acclaimed LearningCurve adaptive quizzing. It is an easy-to-use yet exceptionally powerful teaching and learning option that streamlines the process of increasing student engagement and understanding. instructors can assign reading simply, students can complete assignments on any device, and the cost is significantly less than that of a printed book.
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- Assignments come with LearningCurve quizzes offering individualized question sets, feedback, and eBook references that adapt to correct and incorrect answers. If students struggle with a particular topic, they are encouraged to re-read the material and answer a few short additional questions.
- The Read & Practice gradebook tracks student performance individually and for the whole class, helping instructors prepare for class and one-on-one discussions.
Peter Grays evolutionary perspective and emphasis on critical thinking have made his rigorous yet accessible introduction to psychology a widely respected classroom favorite, edition after edition. Now thoroughly revised, with the help of new co-author David Bjorklund, Psychology, Eighth Edition, invites and stimulates students to investigate the big ideas in psychological science.
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