Description

The most learner-centered and assessment-driven text available.

Praised for a very engaging writing style, comprehensive coverage of key research, and strong pedagogical features, Ciccarelli and White focus on getting students to read their textbook. Using the most recent recommended APA undergraduate psychology learning outcomes, the authors establish clear learning objectives for students that are tied to these objectives. Student and instructors praise Ciccarelli and White's approach to teaching and learning in today's classroom. The thirteen-chapter table of contents covers the essentials that every introductory psychology student should know and fits easily into a one-semester course.

A better teaching and learning experience

This program will provide a better teaching and learning experience– for you and your students. Here’s how:

• 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 – Features such as Student Voice and Link icons help students understand the material easily. The Student Voice Questions create a dialogue between the reader and the text while the Link icons connect all the related fields of psychology to one another.
• Engage Students – The highly visual features such as chapter opening prologues, concept maps, and special feature essays are designed to capture student interest immediately.
• Explore Research – With updated references, readers will continue to read about the most current research. Special feature essays found within the narrative cover interesting topics related to the chapter material.
• Support Instructors – This program provide instructors with unbeatable resources, including state-of-the art Interactive PowerPoints embedded with videos, the NEW MyPsychLab Video Series, an easy to use Instructor’s Manual, a class tested Test Bank with item analysis data, an online test generator (MyTest) and the new MyPsychLab.

Features

THE MOST LEARNER-CENTERED AND ASSESSMENT-DRIVEN TEXT AVAILABLE.

• The design of the book was carefully chosen with feedback from both instructors and students. From the stunning chapter openers, to the chapter ending visual Concept Summaries, the appeal of the design draws the reader in and keeps them engaged with the material.
• Based on APA assessment guidelines, each chapter is organized around detailed learning objectives. All of the ancillary materials are also organized around these objectives, making the text a fully integrated system of study. Instructors can choose which objectives are important in their course and have the flexibility when using the ancillary material to pick the content they want their students to focus on.

PERSONALIZE LEARNING WITH MYPSYCHLAB

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• The New Experiments Tool, found in MyPsychLab, allows students to experience psychology through online experiments that reinforce class lessons and textbook content.
• A 3D Virtual Brain enables students to better visualize the workings of the brain. This hands-on experience engages students and helps make course content and terminology relevant. This learning application has assessments tied to it in order to make parts of it assignable to students.

IMPROVE CRITICAL THINKING

• Designed to help students develop their critical thinking and communication skills, these Student Voice questions which appear in the margin and guide the narrative encourage, students to ask questions. Using conversational tone, which helps students relate to the concepts and keeps their interest, these questions represent the many student questions the authors have encountered in their own classroom.(ex. p. 19)
  
• The LINK feature is a great resource for students who often struggle with seeing the “big picture” of psychology and how all the fields of psychology relate to one another. (ex. p. 26)
  
• End-of-the-chapter “Concept Summaries” reinforce all the major objectives of t

New to this Edition

In this Section:

1. Overview of Changes

2. Chapter-by-Chapter Changes

1. Overview of Changes

PERSONALIZE LEARNING WITH MYPSYCHLAB

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• The New Experiments Tool, found in MyPsychLab, allows students to experience psychology through online experiments that reinforce class lessons and textbook content.
• A 3D Virtual Brain enables students to better visualize the workings of the brain. This hands-on experience engages students and helps make course content and terminology relevant. This learning application has assessments tied to it in order to make parts of it assignable to students.

ENGAGE STUDENTS

• Expanded “Psychology in Action” found in the introductory chapter focuses on study methods as well as strategies for improving the student’s memory.(ex. p. PIA-1)
• “Study Tip” feature at the beginning of each chapter reminds students to refer back to “Psychology in Action” about helpful tips on effective study methods and strategies.(ex. p. 164)
  

EXPLORE RESEARCH

• The New Experiments Tool, found in MyPsychLab, allows students to experience psychology through online experiments that reinforce class lessons and textbook content.
• Every chapter in the second edition has been updated with current and relevant research citations. Some highlights of the new and expanded coverage include:
  • Chapter 2 The Biological Perspective is reorganized. The section “Looking Inside the Living Brain” clearly present information on cutting-edge techniques psychologists use to study the brain. (ex. p. 60)
  • Chapter 4 Learning is reorganized to improve sections on learned helplessness and the effects of violent media on children are expanded.
  • Chapter 5 Memory includes a new opening essay featuring a man known as “The Human Google” with the rare ability to recall almost any event from his past. (ex. p. 163)
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Table of Contents

1. BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 1  The Science of Psychology

Chapter 2  The Biological Perspective

Chapter 3  Sensation and Perception

Chapter 4  Learning

Chapter 5  Memory

Chapter 6  Consciousness and Cognition

Chapter 7  Development Across the Life Span

Chapter 8  Motivation and Emotion

Chapter 9  Stress and Health

Chapter 10  Social Psychology

Chapter 11  Theories of Personality and Intelligence

Chapter 12  Psychological Disorders

Chapter 13  Psychological Therapies