Extensive updating throughout and a dramatically enhanced media and supplements package, including all new video case studies, makes this new edition of Abnormal Psychology the most effective yet.

This is a concise textbook on abnormal psychology that integrates various theoretical models, sociocultural factors, research, clinical experiences, and therapies. The author encourages critical thinking about the science and study of mental disorders and also reveals the humanity behind them.

Monthly magazine devoted to topics of general scientific interest.

Through this book's accessible, active, and applied approach, users determine whether their learning style strengths are verbal/linguistic, logical/mathematical, visual/spatial, or interpersonal, then receive personalized, content-specific study tips throughout the book! By studying according to their own personal learning style strengths, this book helps readers become more effective and efficient learners. Research updates summarize recent research from sources like Scientific American, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Science, Current Directions in Psychological Science, and others. A free accompanying copy of the Video Classics in Psychology CD-ROM views classic experiments like Milgram's obedience study, Watson's Little Albert, Bandura's Bobo doll, Pavlov's dogs, Harlow's monkeys, and others. Industrial/Organizational coverage is expanded to show how psychology is used in the workplace, sports, law, and real lives.

Revised standard textbook for the introductory undergraduate course has been updated (fourth edition, 1988) most notably to introduce the recent connectionist or neural network view of human cognition. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR