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CONCEPTS AND CONNECTIONS, BRIEF VERSION, will help your students make the connections between key concepts in psychology and the connections between those concepts and their own lives. Spencer Rathus's warm and engaging writing style explains the fundamentals in ways that students can understand, and then goes a step further to show how those fundamentals relate to students' daily lives. Rathus's commitment to helping students learn goes beyond thetext narrative and is reflected in the text's proven active learning system, PQ4R (Preview, Question, Read, Reflect, Review, and Recite). In this edition, Rathus invites students to learn about the latest in evolutionary psychology, biology, diversity, and gender issues in psychology--in a text that is concise yet thorough.This book does not include the CD-ROM