Title overview
• Opening Case Study
Each chapter opens with an engaging video case study of a notable person to pique student interest. The individual profiled may be the subject of a popular news story or a patient with a rare disorder that exemplifies the topic that the chapter will explore.
• Session Goals
At the beginning of the study session, 3–5 learning objectives are listed to preview the material for the students.
• YourTurn Activities
Throughout the chapter, students are invited to engage in short experiments, solve problems, complete tables, etc. After a block of material is presented, students will be prompted to actively process the information.
• 360º Activities
360º Activities in your 360º User Guide allow you to extend students’ YourTurn active-learning experiences inside the classroom, fostering hands-on learning during class sessions.
• Learning Catalytics™
Learning Catalytics from Pearson helps bridge the gap between the learning that occurs outside of class and the classroom experience. An interactive tool that utilizes students’ own smartphones, tablets, and laptops, Learning Catalytics allows for assessment of student understanding in real time. This feature of REVEL for Psychology will help you see how individual students are performing, so you can intervene when necessary to keep them on task.
• Interactive Figures
Found throughout each session, interactive figures allow students to manipulate and interact with dynamic content to apply and further reinforce the material. For example, students can view an interactive illustration of the brain in three dimensions, exploring its component parts from every angle.
• Real-World Applications
These short features illustrate how psychology can be used to explain real-world behavior. They highlight pop culture and other applications of psychology in everyday life.
• Writing Prompts
Writing prompts embedded throughout promote critical thinking in the text encourage students to record their thoughts and generate knowledge about the material they’ve just explored.
• Psychology in the Dynamic World
Each chapter contains at least one substantially longer feature illustrating how our dynamic world influences human behavior. These features highlight cutting-edge research or the interaction between technology and the human experience.
• Studies that Changed Psychology
Each chapter presents a brief summary of a classic research study explained in Roger Hock’s text, Forty Studies that Changed Psychology. The study is presented in much the same way as a journal article, with an introduction, methods, results, and discussion section. This feature exposes Introductory Psychology students to basic scientific methods, and provides instructors opportunities to use these classic studies as a starting point for projects and discussions.
• Since You Asked
Commonly asked questions from the student files of the author are interspersed, and answered, throughout the session.
• Pop-Up Glossary
This feature lets students click or tap key terms to view a pop-up definition without having to leave the page.
• Session Goals Revisited
At the end of each session, this feature yields an opportunity for students to revisit chapter objectives and review a summary of chapter content.
• Check Your Knowledge
A five-item multiple-choice quiz at the end of each session (as well as a 25–item test at the end of each chapter) will allow students to assess how well they have mastered the material.
• 360 Guide for Instructors
The 360 Guide combines a traditional instructors manual with co-author Amy Marin’s The Interactive Learning Companion, which offers guidance on how to make the most of you and your students’ time. It includes tips on how to design an interactive learning session, a variety of interactive learning structures, and content-based interactive learning activities for the Introductory Psychology course.
Table of contents
1: The Science of Psychology
Introduction: The Science of Psychology
1.1: What Is Psychology?
1.2: Approaches to Behaviour
1.3: Conducting Research in Psychology
1.4: Experimental Methods
1.5: Psychology in a Dynamic World: The Psychology of Internet Gaming Addiction
Shared Writing: Heredity Versus the Environment
2: Foundations of Behaviour
Introduction: Foundations of Behaviour
2.1: Models of Behaviour
2.2: Biological Foundations I: The Nervous and Endocrine Systems
2.3: Biological Foundations II: The Brain
2.4: Cultural Foundations
2.5: Psychology in a Dynamic World: The fMRI: Scientific Mind Reading?
Shared Writing: Studying Culture
3: Sensation and Perception
Introduction: Sensation and Perception
3.1: Principles of Sensation
3.2: Your Sensory Equipment
3.3: Perception
3.4: Perceptual Interpretation
3.5: Psychology in a Dynamic World: Extraordinary Abilities: Echolocation
Shared Writing: Perceptual Errors
4: Consciousness
Introduction: Consciousness
4.1: States of Consciousness
4.2: Sleep
4.3: Dreams
4.4: Hypnosis and Meditation
4.5: Drug-Altered Consciousness
4.6: Psychology in a Dynamic World: Mindfulness and You
Shared Writing: Subliminal Messages
5: Learning
Introduction: Learning
5.1: Rudimentary Learning
5.2: Classical Conditioning
5.3: Operant Conditioning
5.4: Cognitive Learning
5.5: Psychology in a Dynamic World: Behaviour Modification: New Technologies and Weight Loss
Shared Writing: Early Childhood Education
6: Memory
Introduction: Memory
6.1: Memory's Three Tasks
6.2: The Biology of Memory
6.3: Forgetting
6.4: Improving Your Memory
6.5: Psychology in a Dynamic World: Human Memory and Your Digital Camera
Shared Writing: Improving Your Memory
7: Cognitive Processes
Introduction: Cognitive Processes
7.1: Thinking
7.2: Language
7.3: Intelligence
7.4: Psychology in a Dynamic World: Just Take It One Step at a Time: The Falsehood of Multitasking
Shared Writing: Non-Human Animals and Language
8: Motivation and Emotion
Introduction: Motivation and Emotion
8.1: Theories of Motivation
8.2: Motivation in Action: Hunger
8.3: Explaining Emotions
8.4: Emotional Experience and Expression
8.5: Psychology in a Dynamic World: Computer Games and Your Motivation to Learn
Shared Writing: Polygraph Tests
9: Lifespan Development
Introduction: Lifespan Development
9.1: The Science of Development
9.2: Prenatal and Newborn Development
9.3: Infancy and Childhood
9.4: Adolescence
9.5: Adulthood
9.6: Psychology in a Dynamic World: Is This Your Brain on Drugs?
Shared Writing: Goodness of Fit
10: Personality
Introduction: Personality
10.1: What is Personality?
10.2: Psychodynamic and Humanistic Approaches to Personality
10.3: Social-Cognitive, Dispositional, and Biological Approaches to Personality
10.4: Personality Assessment
10.5: Psychology in a Dynamic World: Genetics and Personality: A Baby Catalogue?
Shared Writing: Personality Tests
11: Social Psychology
Introduction: Social Psychology
11.1: Social Influence
11.2: Group Processes
11.3: Relating to Others
11.4: Psychology in a Dynamic World: Your Next Date? He or She May Be Just Around the Corner!
Shared Writing: Social Dilemma
12: Sexuality and Gender
Introduction: Sexuality and Gender
12.1: The Biology of Sex
12.2: The Psychology of Gender
12.3: Sexual Orientation
12.4: Sexual Behaviours
12.5: Sexual Responsibility
12.6: Psychology in a Dynamic World: Emotion and Sexual Attraction: Are Happy Men and Women More Attractive to Others?
Shared Writing: Gay and Lesbian Parents
13: Health Psychology
Introduction: Health Psychology
13.1: Introducing Health Psychology
13.2: Health Behaviour
13.3: Stress
13.4: Coping with Stress
13.5: Psychology in a Dynamic World: Illness-Sniffing Dogs? The Power of the Snout...
Shared Writing: Cultural Adaptation
14: Psychological Disorders
Introduction: Psychological Disorders
14.1: Understanding Abnormality
14.2: Disorders I
14.3: Disorders II
14.4: Disorders III
14.5: Psychology in a Dynamic World: A Happiness Gene? …But Just in Women?
Shared Writing: Determining Abnormal Behaviour
15: Therapy
Introduction: Therapy
15.1: Historical Treatment of Abnormality
15.2: Biological Therapies
15.3: Psychotherapies
15.4: Other Approaches to Therapy
15.5: Psychology in a Dynamic World: The Role of Percussion in Therapy: Can Drumming Reduce Anxiety and Depression?
Shared Writing: Professional Psychological Treatment
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