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Psychology: Core Concepts, Discovering Psychology Edition (with MyPsychLab), 5/E
ISBN-10: 0205570860
ISBN-13: 9780205570867
Publisher: Pearson
Copyright: 2008
Format: Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap; 784 pp
Published: 02/20/2007
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Description
Psychology: Core Concepts has been a best-seller through five editions. Its focus on the key questions and core concepts of psychology – along with a wealth of high-interest features such as “Psychology in Your Life,” “Using Psychology to Learn Psychology,” and “Do It Yourself” boxes – has given students the tools and the motivation to master introductory psychology.
Now, this well loved text is available in a special edition tied to the award-winning “Discovering Psychology” video series, produced by WGBH Boston with the American Psychological Association. Author Phil Zimbardo narrates the video series, as leading researchers, practitioners, and theorists probe the mysteries of the mind and body and bring psychology to life for introductory students.
Psychology: Core Concepts: The Discovering Psychology Edition offers the same content as the Fifth Edition, and adds a built in Discovering Psychology viewing guide at the end of each chapter. Each new copy of the text comes packaged – at no additional cost – with access to MyPsychLab, an online tool that includes links to the “Discovering Psychology” videos, as well as interactive viewing activities tied to the videos. Students can go to MyPsychLab to launch the videos and then either complete the viewing activities in their textbook or and do the assignments online. There’s also an Index of Multimedia that makes it easy for instructors to find and launch specific video segments for classroom presentation.
Features
Do you use videos as a part of your instruction? Do you have visual and aural learners in your class who would respond well to quality videos covering psychology content? Would you like to show videos to your students, but don't have the time or equipment to show them in class? Would you be interested in using the award-winning WGBH/Annenberg video, Discovering Psychology: Updated Edition?
- A new Viewing Guide at the end of each chapter in the textbook includes program review and activities tied to the Discovering Psychology video series, helping your students can tie textbook concepts to what they see in the videos.
- Students can access the Discovering Psychology videos online when and where they want to. Students can complete an online, automatically scored program review quiz to instantly check their comprehension, and the form can be emailed to instructors who wish to keep track of students who view the videos.
- Our Recommended Books and Videos sections at the end of each chapter offer the authors’ top picks of worthwhile books and rentable videos, both classics and more contemporary works.
When your students read their textbook, how well do they pull out the key takeaways? Are your students ever overwhelmed by the amount of material thrown at them in encyclopedic textbooks? Are you seeking a text that focuses more on core concepts, without watering down the material?
- As the subtitle of Psychology: Core Concepts suggests, the authors have focused the textbook on those core concepts the majority of instructors agree are the most important for introductory students to learn. Extraneous and/or distracting content is omitted so that students can focus on learning and applying the core scientific principles of psychology.
- A “Key Question” opens each section and a “Core Concept” is then presented as a brief answer to that question to help students understand the big picture of psychology and lead them through the material. Chapter overview maps and chapter-ending summaries are organized around the “Key Questions” and “Core Concepts” to further reinforce learning.
Are you seeking a text with a strong online component? Would you like your students to have access to dozens of videos, animations, simulations, additional readings, self-assessments and other resources? Do you teach an online or hybrid course? Do any of your students prefer to purchase an electronic textbook?
- MyPsychLab is an interactive, online learning and teaching resource that helps students succeed in their psychology class. Organized around an electronic version of their textbook, students can watch videos, explore simulations and animations, read biographies and other textbook related content, and study for their exams. Students can take practice tests and MyPsychLab will create a customized Study Plan for them, so that they know what they still need to study before the exam. A post test, which they can take as many times as they like, allows them to check their progress.
- For the instructor who teaches a hybrid or online course, MyPsychLab CourseCompass is a turnkey solution, fully loaded with content right out of the box. You determine how much or how little you want to customize your course, and there are a full array of assessment and tracking tools at your disposal. Visit www.mypsychlab.com for additional information.
- Students who are comfortable referring only to an electronic textbook can purchase access to MyPsychLab directly at www.mypsychlab.com.
Do you consider it important that your textbook emphasize active learning? Do your students ever tell you that they read the chapter, and thought they understood it, but then do poorly on quizzes and tests?
- “Check Your Understanding” self-tests within each chapter provide immediate reinforcement and help students assess what they know and where they need further study. Questions are broken down to focus on recall, analysis, or application of the material. One of the “Check Your Understanding” questions always focuses on the chapter's “Core Concept.” This approach is deliberately used to reinforce the student's use of the “Core Concepts.”
- “Do It Yourself!” learning activities offer simple demonstrations of psychological principles and allow students to actively apply psychological concepts alone or in groups, further enhancing their understanding.
- A more in-depth “Chapter Review Test” at the end of each chapter provides further opportunity for self-assessment.
How well do your students connect psychological principles to their own lives?
- “Psychology in Your Life” applications at the end of each chapter section explore connections between psychology and everyday life and promote critical thinking by helping students evaluate many of the psychological ideas they will encounter in popular press (e.g. emotional differences between men and women, the origin of sexual orientation, the side effects of psychoanalytic drugs, etc.).
- “Using Psychology to Learn Psychology” sections at the end of each chapter explain how a psychological concept discussed in that chapter can be applied to studying and learning, offering practical advice for increased academic success.
- Culture and Gender coverage is fully integrated where relevant throughout the text, so all students see the relevance of psychology to their lives.
How do you help students see the connections between the various areas and subdisciplines of psychology?
- “Connection” arrows link material across chapters, showing clear relationships between concepts in various topical areas. An explanatory note accompanies the marginal arrow, giving the reader a quick review or preview of the related discussion found in other chapters. This conveys to students the sense of psychology as a web with a network of interconnecting threads that provide meaning across chapters and topical areas, rather than as a set of isolated facts and topics within each chapter.
New To This Edition
- The new "Discovering Psychology Edition" includes an end-of-chapter viewing guide that offers activities tied to the Discovering Psychology video series.
- Each new copy of the text comes packaged — at no additional cost — with access to MyPsychLab, an online tool that includes links to the “Discovering Psychology” videos, as well as interactive assignments tied to the videos. Icons in the text alert students to relevant videos. Students then go to MyPsychLab to launch the videos and complete the assignments, either from their textbook or online.
- MyPsychLab also includes an Index of Multimedia that makes it easy for instructors to find and launch specific video segments for classroom presentation.
Coverage — the authors meticulously reviewed, revised, updated, and expanded core coverage to ensure accuracy and infuse this edition with the very latest information from the field of psychology. In addition, the following global changes have been made to this edition:
- “The Seven Major Modern Perspectives” have been updated, to include trait psychology and the developmental viewpoint–both of which had long been ignored in the "perspectives" section of this and other texts. The modern perspectives we list in this edition are: biological, developmental, cognitive, clinical, behavioral, trait, and social-cultural. Evolution and neuroscience now fall under the biological perspective, while the clinical perspective includes both humanistic and psychodynamic psychologies.
- “State of the Art” chapter ending feature briefly characterizes/reviews what's known and also points to the unknowns that are ripe for research. The authors continue to encourage budding young researchers to think about what the unsolved problems and big mysteries are in psychology.
- “Making the abstract concrete.” The 5th edition offers a new emphasis on providing concrete examples of abstract concepts, along with an increased use of metaphors and similes, where appropriate–all designed to help students assimilate unfamiliar and abstract ideas. Students will find this especially helpful in mastering difficult concepts in biopsychology .
- Chapter 14: Social Psychology has been updated by Phil Zimbardo to present a fresh perspective on the similarities and differences between the classic Stanford Prison experiments and the recent Abu Ghraib prison abuse in Iraq.
- Research has been thoroughly updated throughout the text, offering a select balance of classic and contemporary citations to support the new edition and keep the text at the forefront of the field.
- Extensive revision to chapters 1: Mind, Behavior, and Science; 2: Biopsychology; and 5: Sensation and Perception in the new edition.
Table of Contents
Preface.
- Mind, Behavior, and Science.
- Biopsychology.
- States of Mind.
- Psychological Development.
- Sensation and Perception.
- Learning.
- Memory.
- Thinking and Intelligence.
- Emotion and Motivation.
- Stress, Health, and Well-Being.
- Personality.
- Psychopathology.
- Therapies for Mental Disorder.
- Social Psychology.
Appendix: Understanding Graphs and Statistics.
Previous Edition(s)
Zimbardo, Johnson & Weber
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ISBN-10: 0205474454 | ISBN-13: 9780205474455
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