Essentials of Understanding Psychology - Second Canadian Edition

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The second Canadian edition of Feldman, Collins & Green, Essentials of Understanding Psychology, has been heavily revised in every aspect for this attractive edition. Every element of the text, from the new, inviting design, to the interactive and real-world pedagogy, to the photos and tables that litter the text, is designed to enhance the hands-on, real-world application of psychology. This new edition also incorporates the framework of Feldman's renowned P.O.W.E.R. Learning.

Essentials of Understanding Psychology has been structured to give students an in-depth and critical method of studying. Presented in a more streamlined edition, the Essentials text is designed to bring psychology to life in the hands of students.

Robert S. Feldman is Professor of Psychology and Dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. A recipient of the College Distinguished Teacher Award, he teaches psychology classes ranging in size from 15 to nearly 500 students. During the course of more than two decades as a college instructor, he has taught undergraduate and graduate courses at Mount Holyoke College, Wesleyan University, and Virginia Commonwealth University in addition to the University of Massachusetts.

Professor Feldman, who initiated the Minority Mentoring Program at the University of Massachusetts, also has served as a Hewlett Teaching Fellow and Senior Online Teaching Fellow. He initiated distance learning courses in psychology at the University of Massachusetts.

A Fellow of both the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science, Professor Feldman received a BA with High Honors from Wesleyan University and an MS and PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a winner of a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer Award and the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Wesleyan. He is on the boards of the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS) and the FABBS Foundation, which advocate for the field of psychology.

He has written and edited more than 150 books, book chapters, and scientific articles. He has edited Development of Nonverbal Behavior in Children, Applications of Nonverbal Behavioral Theory and Research, Improving the First Year of College: Research and Practice, and co-edited Fundamentals of Nonverbal Behavior. He is also author of Development Across the Life Span, Child Development, and P.O.W.E.R. Learning: Strategies for Success in College and Life. His books have been translated into many languages, including Spanish, French, Portuguese, Dutch, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese. His research interests include deception and honesty in everyday life, work that he described in The Liar in Your Life, a trade book published in 2009. His research has been supported by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute on Disabilities and Rehabilitation Research.

Professor Feldman loves music, is an enthusiastic pianist, and enjoys cooking and travelling. He has three children and a young grandson. He and his wife, a psychologist, live in western Massachusetts in a home overlooking the Holyoke mountain range.

Joan Collins has spent most of her life in school. Her commitment to education has been inspired by the inscription above the front door of the college she attended at the University of Toronto, which reads “The Truth shall make you free.” As a secondary school teacher teaching English, the most significant event she experienced was the discovery that a young student who sat at the front of the classroom could not read. Her awareness of student reading problems led her to develop a remedial reading program and later to write a thesis and a dissertation on reading. Since 1988, Joan Collins has taught psychology at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario, at first to students in different daytime programs (Library Techniques, Computer Studies, Advertising, Applied Research, General Arts and Science) as well as to mature students in Continuing Education. Currently, she teaches a variety of psychology courses to General Arts and Science students. Joan Collins finds it very rewarding to introduce students to psychology and to see them discover that the subject matter is interesting, exciting, and relevant to everyday life.