Highlighting the importance of relationships, the revised edition provides new background information and additional research-based strategies to enable pre-service and practicing teachers and child care staff to understand, prevent, and respond effectively to challenging behavior.

This book introduces the reader to the issues, forces, and outcomes that make us who we are. The material is relevant, too: Readers gain the foundations in important theories and research that enable them to become educated interpreters of developmental information.

Contents: What is psychology? -- Scientific methods in psychology -- Biological psychology -- Sensation and perception -- Development -- Learning -- Memory -- Cognition and language -- Intelligence -- Consciousness - - Motivated behaviors -- Emotions, stress, and health -- Social psychology -- Personality -- Abnormal psychology: disorders and treatment.

This new book provides a broad, introductory survey to psycholinguistics that will remain relevant to students whether or not they continue on in the field. Language in Mind addresses important questions and approaches, reflecting a variety of theoretical orientations and viewpoints and provoking a sense of curiosity about language and the structures in the mind and brain that give rise to it.

Intimate Inequalities provides an in-depth look into the intimate lives of one group of millennials living in the United States, demystifying what actually goes on behind closed doors, and arguing that millennials'private lives can reveal much about their ability to navigate inequalities in their lives more broadly.

This fascinating and timely book examines the distressing psychological syndrome of'cabin fever'in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and the greatest confinement of people to their homes in history, offering antidotes for it. Exploring the definitions and social and cultural history of cabin fever, a condition provoked by prolonged isolation, the book will be of interest to anyone concerned about the impact of current or any future pandemic lockdowns, prison life, remote living, or even travelling to Mars.