PSYCHOLOGY: 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 the text narrative and is reflected in the text's proven active learning system, PQ4R (Preview, Question, Read, Reflect, Review, and Recite). This system is seamlessly integrated into the book's companion Connections CD-ROM, the Book Companion Web Site, and the Study Guide--all of which are FREE with every new copy of the text. New "Learning Connections" and "Life Connections" sections in the text also include icons that cue students to interactive content on the Connections CD-ROM and the Book Companion Web Site. This seamless integration of text and technology enhances the active learning system, PQ4R, in the text, and gives students multiple ways to connect with the text's current research and relevant applications. 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.