Study Guide: for Psychological Science, Second Edition

Astor-Stetson, Eileen; Beck, Brett L.

ISBN 10: 0393925404 / ISBN 13: 9780393925401

Published by W W Norton & Co Inc, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Study Guide: for Psychological Science, Second Edition
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393925404
• ISBN 13: 9780393925401
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: acceptable

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Synopsis

This carefully crafted guide to using the textbook offers helpful study advice, completion questions, multiple-choice self-tests, and critical thinking questions.

About the Author

Michael S. Gazzaniga is the Director of the Sage Center for the study of Mind at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology, where he worked with Roger Sperry, and had primary responsibility for initiating human split-brain research. He has established Centers for Cognitive Neuroscience at Cornell Medical School, the University of California, Davis, and at Dartmouth. He is founder of the Cognitive Neuroscience Institute and founding editor of the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. He was a member of the President's Council on Bioethics from 2001–2009. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science, the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences.

Todd F. Heatherton (Ph.D., University of Toronto) is the Lincoln Filene Professor in Human Relations in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College. He teaches introductory psychology every year. His recent research takes a social brain sciences approach, which combines theories and methods of evolutionary psychology, social cognition, and cognitive neuroscience to examine the neural underpinnings of social behavior. He was elected president of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology in 2011 and has served on the executive committees of the Association of Researchers in Personality and the International Society of Self and Identity. He received the Petra Shattuck Award for Teaching Excellence from the Harvard Extension School in 1994, the McLane Fellowship from Dartmouth College in 1997, and the Friedman Family Fellowship from Dartmouth College in 2001. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.