LaunchPad for Exploring Psychology (12 Month Access Card)
Lisensnøkkel fysisk /
2019
/ Engelsk
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781319252557
Publisert
2019-04-26
Utgave
11. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Worth Publishers Inc.,U.S.
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Aldersnivå
Lower undergraduate, P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Lisensnøkkel fysisk
Antall sider
896
Biographical note
David Myers received his B.A. in chemistry from Whitworth University, and his psychology Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. He has spent his career at Hope College, Michigan, where he has taught dozens of introductory psychology sections. Hope College students have invited him to be their commencement speaker and voted him "outstanding professor."Nathan DeWall is professor of psychology and director of the Social Psychology Lab at the University of Kentucky. He received his bachelor’s degree from St. Olaf College, a master’s degree in social science from the University of Chicago, and a master’s degree and Ph.D. in social psychology from Florida State University.
Do you want your students to engage with and retain psychology’s key principles, and to work toward becoming better students and better people in the process? Best-selling Exploring Psychology offers creative ways to help make it happen.The new edition of Exploring Psychology offers outstanding currency on the research, practice, and teaching of psychology. Myers and DeWall inspire students with fascinating findings and applications, effective new study tools and technologies, and a compassionate and compelling storytelling voice. Their presentation is based on the same guiding principles that made David Myers the world’s bestselling introductory psychology author. This textbook can also be purchased with the breakthrough online resource, LaunchPad, which offers innovative media content, curated and organised for easy assignability. LaunchPad's intuitive interface presents quizzing, flashcards, animations and much more to make learning actively engaging.
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Best-selling Exploring Psychology offers creative ways to help make it happen.The new edition of Exploring Psychology offers outstanding currency on the research, practice, and teaching of psychology.
Chapter 1: Thinking Critically With Psychological Science.- Chapter 2: The Biology of Behavior.- Chapter 3: Consciousness and the Two-Track Mind.-Chapter 4: Developing Through the Life Span.- Chapter 5: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality.- Chapter 6: Sensation and Perception.- Chapter 7: Learning.- Chapter 8: Memory.- Chapter 9: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence.- Chapter 10: Motivation and Emotion.- Chapter 11: Stress, Health, and Human Flourishing.- Chapter 12:Social Psychology.- Chapter 13: Personality.- Chapter 14: Psychological Disorders.- Chapter 15: Therapy.- References.- Index.
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Exploring Psychology offers quality writing and resources that bring results for instructors and their students. The supplements and media are author-driven and integrated with the textbook. Immersive Learning Activities: How Would You Know? (in LaunchPad) Created by DeWall and Myers, these online activities show students how our understanding of psychology emerges from investigating fascinating research questions. New_to_this_edition900 new citations, with new coverage of diversity (cultural, racial, gender identity, belief system, and sexual orientation); “post-truth world” realities (with a new animated tutorial for students from the authors); sexual aggression and how attitudes change by place and over time (including a new infographic in Chapter 5); critical thinking (with at least one new “Thinking Critically About” infographic in each chapter); and all the latest from the field on topics such as epigenetics, cognitive neuroscience, therapeutic lifestyle change, and biomedical therapies. ENGAGE and RETAIN icons flag the most important opportunities to review. The authors choose all of their examples and illustrations, and the new icons point out key elements. New “Ask Yourself” questions throughout the book help students further engage with the course content
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781319252557
Publisert
2019-04-26
Utgave
11. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Worth Publishers Inc.,U.S.
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Aldersnivå
Lower undergraduate, P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Lisensnøkkel fysisk
Antall sider
896
Biographical note
David Myers received his B.A. in chemistry from Whitworth University, and his psychology Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. He has spent his career at Hope College, Michigan, where he has taught dozens of introductory psychology sections. Hope College students have invited him to be their commencement speaker and voted him "outstanding professor."Nathan DeWall is professor of psychology and director of the Social Psychology Lab at the University of Kentucky. He received his bachelor’s degree from St. Olaf College, a master’s degree in social science from the University of Chicago, and a master’s degree and Ph.D. in social psychology from Florida State University.