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At just fourteen chapters, Psychology: Core Concepts 7e provides rich coverage of the foundational topics taught in most introductory courses.
Psychology: Core Concepts focuses on a manageable number of core concepts (usually three to five) in each chapter, allowing students to attain a deeper level of understanding of the material. Learning is reinforced through focused application and critical thinking activities, and connections between concepts are drawn across chapters to help students see the big picture of psychology as a whole. The 7th…mehr

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Where great science meets great teaching.

At just fourteen chapters, Psychology: Core Concepts 7e provides rich coverage of the foundational topics taught in most introductory courses.

Psychology: Core Concepts focuses on a manageable number of core concepts (usually three to five) in each chapter, allowing students to attain a deeper level of understanding of the material. Learning is reinforced through focused application and critical thinking activities, and connections between concepts are drawn across chapters to help students see the big picture of psychology as a whole. The 7th edition features an enhanced critical thinking emphasis, with new chapter-opening "Problems" and new end-of-chapter critical thinking applications that promote active learning.

Teaching & Learning Experience

Personalize Learning — The new MyPsychLab delivers proven results in helping students succeed, provides engaging experiences that personalize learning, and comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students and instructors achieve their goals.

Improve Critical Thinking — Pedagogical features are designed to help students learn the problem-solving skills and critical thinking techniques of a good psychologist.

Engage Students — In-text learning activities and the new MyPsychLab Video Series maintain student interest both in and out of the classroom.

Explore Research — Current research reflects the most up-to-date psychological theories and applications.

Understand Culture and Diversity — Cross-cultural, multicultural, and gender research is woven throughout the text to reflect the increasing diversity and global reach of psychology.

Support Instructors — An Instructor’s Manual, Test Bank (both print and computerized), Interactive PowerPoints, the new MyPsychLab Video Series, Telecourse Videos, and a Telecourse Study Guide provide instructors with the ultimate supplements package.

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WHERE GREAT SCIENCE MEETS GREAT TEACHING.

“Psychology Matters” applications within 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 psychoactive drugs, etc.). A special “Psychology Matters” section within each chapter focuses on Using Psychology to Learn Psychology, offering practical advice for increased academic success. (ex. p. 79)

“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 that the discipline of psychology contains many interconnecting threads that weave together to provide meaning across topics, rather than functioning as a set of isolated facts and topics. (ex. p. 68)

The Discovering Psychology Viewing Guide at the end of each chapter in the text includes a program review and activities tied to the Discovering Psychology video series, helping students tie text concepts to what they see in the videos. Students can access the Discovering Psychology videos online through MyPsychLab whenever and wherever they want. They can also complete an online, automatically scored review quiz. (ex. p. 84)

PERSONALIZE LEARNING

The new MyPsychLab delivers proven results in helping students succeed, provides engaging experiences that personalize learning, and comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students and instructors achieve their goals.

New MyPsychLab Video Series - This new video series offers the most current and cutting-edge introductory psychology video content. These exclusive half-hour videos take the viewer into today’s research laboratories, inside the body and brain, and onto the street to experience real-world applications. In MyPsychLab, students can also access the Discovering Psychology videos, which provide an overview of historic and current theories of human behavior, and feature many of the researchers and studies introduced in this textbook.

The New Experiments Tool, found in MyPsychLab, allows students to experience psychology through online experiments that reinforce class lessons and textbook content.

A New Read More section in MyPsychLab offers interested students the opportunity to explore topics that branch out from the core concepts presented in the text.

The Pearson eText allows students to access their textbook anytime, anywhere, and any way they want—including listening online or downloading to their iPad.

A personalized study plan for each student, based on Bloom’s Taxonomy, arranges content from less complex thinking—like remembering and understanding—to more complex critical thinking—like applying and analyzing. This layered approach promotes better critical-thinking skills, and helps students succeed in the course and beyond.

Assessment tied to every video, application, and chapter enables both instructors and students to track progress and get immediate feedback. With results feeding into a powerful gradebook, the assessment program helps instructors identify student challenges early—and find the best resources with which to help students.

An assignment calendar allows instructors to assign graded activities, with specific deadlines, and measure student progress.

Class Prep collects the very best class presentation resources in one convenient online destination, so instructors can keep students engaged throughout every class.

IMPROVE CRITICAL THINKING

Chapter Opening Problems are designed to get students engaged in the material from the onset. Students are encouraged to think through the problem as they read the chapter, using the core concepts presented to help them resolve the problem. A special effort has been made in this new edition to provide clues throughout the chapter that will help students understand the solution to the chapter-opening problem. The Chapter Summary now gives a brief “answer” to the problem as well. (ex. p. 40)

Critical Thinking applications at the end of each chapter help students become better consumers of scientific information and build upon the critical thinking skills introduced in the first chapter. (ex. p. 80)

“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. (ex. p. 81)

“Psychology Matters” applications within 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 psychoactive drugs, etc.). A special “Psychology Matters” section within each chapter focuses on Using Psychology to Learn Psychology, offering practical advice for increased academic success. (ex. p. 79)

A personalized study plan for each student, based on Bloom’s Taxonomy, arranges content from less complex thinking—like remembering and understanding—to more complex critical thinking—like applying and analyzing. This layered approach promotes better critical-thinking skills, and helps students succeed in the course and beyond.

ENGAGE STUDENTS

A “Key Question” opens each chapter section and a “Core Concept” is presented as a brief answer. These Key Questions and Core Concepts help students understand the big picture and guide them through the chapter material. Chapter overview maps and chapter-ending summaries are organized around the “Key Questions” and “Core Concepts” to further reinforce learning. (ex. p. 43)

Chapter Opening Problems are designed to get students engaged in the material from the onset. Students are encouraged to think through the problem as they read the chapter, using the core concepts presented to help them resolve the problem. A special effort has been made in this new edition to provide clues throughout the chapter that will help students understand the solution to the chapter-opening problem. (ex. p. 40) TheChapter Summary now gives a brief “answer” to the problem as well. (ex. p. 81)

“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.” (ex. p. 62)

“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.  IN THIS SECTION:

1.) BRIEF

2.) COMPREHENSIVE

BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Chapter 1: Mind, Behavior, and Psychological Science

Chapter 2: Biopsychology, Neuroscience, and Human Nature

Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception

Chapter 4: Learning and Human Nature

Chapter 5: Memory

Chapter 6: Thinking and Human Intelligence

Chapter 7: Development over the Lifespan

Chapter 8: States of Consciousness

Chapter 9: Motivation and Emotion

Chapter 10: Personality: Theories of the Whole Person

Chapter 11: Social Psychology

Chapter 12: Psychological Disorders

Chapter 13: Therapies for Psychological Disorders

Chapter 14: Stress, Health, and Well-Being

COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS:



Chapter 1: Mind, Behavior, and Psychological Science

1.1 What Is Psychology – And What Is It Not?

Psychology: It’s More than You Think

Psychology Is Not Psychiatry

Thinking Critically about Psychology and Pseudopsychology

Psychology Matters: Using Psychology to Learn Psychology

1.3 What Are Psychology’s Six Main Perspectives?

Separation of Mind and Body and the Modern Biological Perspective

The Founding of Scientific Psychology and the Modern Cognitive Perspective

The Behavioral Perspective: Focusing on Observable Behavior

The Whole-Person Perspectives: Psychodynamic, Humanistic, Trait and Temperament

The Developmental Perspective: Changes Arising from Nature and Nurture

The Sociocultural Perspective: The Individual in Context

The Changing Face of Psychology

PSYCHOLOGY MATTERS: Psychology as a Major

1.2 How Do Psychologists Develop New Knowledge?

Four Steps in the Scientific Method

Five Types of Psychological Research

Controlling Biases in Psychological Research

Ethical Issues in Psychological Research

PSYCHOLOGY MATTERS: The Perils of Pseudopsychology

Critical Thinking Applied: Facilitated Communication

Chapter Summary

Discovering Psychology Viewing Guide

Chapter 2: Biopsychology, Neuroscience, and Human Nature

2.1 How Are Genes and Behavior Linked?

Evolution and Natural Selection

Genetics and Inheritance

PSYCHOLOGY MATTERS: Choosing Your Children’s Genes

2.2 How Does the Body Communicate Internally?

The Neuron: Building Block of the Nervous System

The Nervous System

The Endocrine System

PSYCHOLOGY MATTERS: How Psychoactive Drugs Affect the Nervous System

2.3 How Does the Brain Produce Behavior and Mental Processes?

Windows on the Brain

Three Layers of the Brain

Lobes of the Cerebral Cortex

Cerebral Dominance

PSYCHOLOGY MATTERS: Using Psychology to Learn Psychology

Critical Thinking Applied: Left Brain vs. Right Brain

Chapter Summary

Discovering Psychology Viewing Guide

Chapter 4: Learning and Human Nurture

4.1 What Sort of Learning Does Classical Conditioning Explain?

The Essentials of Classical Conditioning

Applications of Classical Conditioning

PSYCHOLOGY MATTERS: Taste Aversions and Chemotherapy

4.2 How Do We Learn New Behaviors by Operant Conditioning?

Skinner’s Radical Behaviorism

The Power of Reinforcement

The Problem of Punishment

A Checklist for Modifying Operant Behavior

Operant and Classical Conditioning Compared

PSYCHOLOGY MATTERS: Using Psychology to Learn Psychology

4.3 How Does Cognitive Psychology Explain Learning?

Insight Learning: Köhler in the Canaries with the Chimps

Cognitive Maps: Tolman Finds out What’s on a Rat’s Mind

Observational Learning: Bandura’s Challenge to Behaviorism

Rethinking Behavioral Learning in Cognitive Terms

Brain Mechanisms and Learning

“Higher” Cognitive Learning

PSYCHOLOGY MATTERS: Fear of Flying Revisited

Critical Thinking Applied: Do Different People Have Different “Learning Styles”?

Chapter Summary

Discovering Psychology Viewing Guide

Chapter 5: Memory

5.1 What Is Memory?

Metaphors for Memory

Memory’s Three Basic Tasks

PSYCHOLOGY MATTERS: Would You Want a “Photographic” Memory?

5.2 How Do We Form Memories?

The First Stage: Sensory Memory

The Second Stage: Working Memory

The Third Stage: Long-Term Memory

PSYCHOLOGY MATTERS: “Flashbulb” Memories: Where Were You When…?

5.3 How Do We Retrieve Memories?

Implicit and Explicit Memory

Retrieval Cues

Other Factors Affecting Retrieval

PSYCHOLOGY MATTERS: On the Tip of Your Tongue

5.4 Why Does Memory Sometimes Fail Us?

Transience: Fading Memories Cause Forgetting

Absent-Mindedness: Lapses of Attention Cause Forgetting

Blocking: Access Problems

Misattribution: Memories in the Wrong Context

Suggestibility: External Cues Distort or Create Memories

Bias: Beliefs, Attitudes, and Opinions Distort Memories

Persistence: When We Can’t Forget

The Advantages of the “Seven Sins” of Memory

Improving Your Memory with Mnemonics

PSYCHOLOGY MATTERS: Using Psychology to Learn Psychology

Critical Thinking Applied: The Recovered Memory Controversy

Chapter Summary

Discovering Psychology Viewing Guide

Chapter 6: Thinking and Intelligence

6.1 What Are the Components of Thought?

Concepts

Imagery and Cognitive Maps

Thought and the Brain

PSYCHOLOGY MATTERS: Schemas and Scripts Help You Know What to Expect

6.2 What Abilities Do Good Thinkers Possess?

Problem Solving

Judging and Making Decisions

On Becoming a Creative Genius

PSYCHOLOGY MATTERS: Using Psychology to Learn
Where great science meets great teaching. At just fourteen chapters, Psychology: Core Concepts 7e provides rich coverage of the foundational topics taught in most introductory courses. Psychology: Core Concepts focuses on a manageable number of core concepts (usually three to five) in each chapter, allowing students to attain a deeper level of understanding of the material. Learning is reinforced through focused application and critical thinking activities, and connections between concepts are drawn across chapters to help students see the big picture of psychology as a whole. The 7th edition features an enhanced critical thinking emphasis, with new chapter-opening "Problems" and new end-of-chapter critical thinking applications that promote active learning. Teaching & Learning Experience * Personalize Learning — The new MyPsychLab delivers proven results in helping students succeed, provides engaging experiences that personalize learning, and comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students and instructors achieve their goals. * Improve Critical Thinking — Pedagogical features are designed to help students learn the problem-solving skills and critical thinking techniques of a good psychologist. * Engage Students — In-text learning activities and the new MyPsychLab Video Series maintain student interest both in and out of the classroom. * Explore Research — Current research reflects the most up-to-date psychological theories and applications. * Understand Culture and Diversity — Cross-cultural, multicultural, and gender research is woven throughout the text to reflect the increasing diversity and global reach of psychology. * Support Instructors — An Instructor's Manual, Test Bank (both print and computerized), Interactive PowerPoints, the new MyPsychLab Video Series, Telecourse Videos, and a Telecourse Study Guide provide instructors with the ultimate supplements package. Preview Site: Facebook Page:
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