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Discover the seventh Canadian edition of Psychology: Themes and Variations, a comprehensive and updated textbook that reflects the progress and expansion of psychology. This edition integrates insights from the COVID-19 pandemic, within a Canadian context. It includes new data on Indigenous Peoples, sexual orientation, and gender identity, highlighting the unity and diversity of psychology's subject matter while illuminating the research process and its practical applications. With over 1000 new references, this resource challenges students' thinking while facilitating easy learning. It includes unique features like unifying themes, personal application sections, and critical thinking exercises.

• ​​Each chapter now includes new topics, updated research up to 2024, and fresh examples.​
• ​​Content has been updated to be more inclusive, and incorporates non-binary gender pronouns throughout, where applicable.​
• New statistics on gender topics have been included throughout, covering areas such as gender division in domestic labour, sexist attitudes towards females in STEM subjects, and mating preferences.
• Includes discussions on Indigenous languages, cultural genocide, prejudice, intergroup contact hypothesis, and social neuroscience.
• ​​The impact of COVID-19 is discussed in various contexts, including sleep time and duration, social isolation, cannabis use, and alcohol consumption.​
• ​New Chapter 8: Cognition and Intelligence (this chapter combined previous edition Chapter 8: Language and Thought & Chapter 9 Intelligence and Psychological Testing).​

​1. What Is Psychology?
2. The Research Enterprise in Psychology
3. The Biological Bases of Behaviour
4. Sensation and Perception
5. Variations in Consciousness
6. Learning
7. Human Memory
8. Cognition and Intelligence
9. Motivation and Emotion
10. Human Development across the Life Span
11. Personality: Theory, Research, and Assessment
12. Social Behaviour
13. Stress, Coping, and Health
14. Psychological Disorders
15. Treatment of Psychological Disorders

Appendix A: Answers to Concept Checks and Multiple-Choice Questions
Appendix B: Statistical Methods
References
Name Index
Subject Index