Achieve Read & Practice for Exploring Psychology in Modules (Six-Months Access)

by Myers, David G.; Dewall, C. Nathan

• ISBN13: 9781319252144
• ISBN10: 1319252141
• Edition: 11th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2019-01-24
• Publisher: Worth Publishers

Summary

 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?  The modular version of the best-selling Exploring Psychology offers creative ways to help make it happen.

The new edition of Exploring Psychology in Modules 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.

• Facilitate learning by teaching critical thinking and helping students at every step.


• Present psychology as a science, emphasizing the process of inquiry and putting facts in the service of concepts.


• Make sure students come away with an appreciation of psychology's big ideas, and with a deeper respect for humanity--what drives us, distinguishes us, unifies us.
  

Table of Contents

Thinking Critically With Psychological Science
Module 1: The History and Scope of Psychology
Module 2: Research Strategies: How Psychologists Ask and Answer Questions
 
The Biology of Behavior
Module 3: Neural and Hormonal Systems
Module 4: Tools of Discovery and Older Brain Structures
Module 5: The Cerebral Cortex and Our Divided Brain
Module 6: Genetics, Evolutionary Psychology, and Behavior
 
Consciousness and the Two-Track Mind
Module 7: Consciousness: Some Basic Concepts
Module 8: Sleep and Dreams
Module 9: Drugs and Consciousness
 
Developing Through the Life Span
Module 10: Developmental Issues, Prenatal Development, and the Newborn
Module 11: Infancy and Childhood
Module 12: Adolescence
Module 13: Adulthood
 
Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
Module 14: Gender Development
Module 15: Human Sexuality
 
Sensation and Perception
Module 16: Basic Concepts of Sensation and Perception
Module 17: Vision: Sensory and Perceptual Processing
Module 18: The Nonvisual Senses
 
Learning
Module 19: Basic Learning Concepts and Classical Conditioning
Module 20: Operant Conditioning
Module 21: Biology, Cognition, and Learning
 
Memory
Module 22: Studying and Encoding Memories
Module 23: Storing and Retrieving Memories
Module 24: Forgetting, Memory Construction, and Improving Memory
 
Thinking, Language, and Intelligence
Module 25: Thinking
Module 26: Language and Thought
Module 27: Intelligence and Its Assessment
Module 28: Genetic and Environmental Influences on Intelligence
 
Motivation and Emotion
Module 29: Basic Motivational Concepts, Affiliation, and Achievement
Module 30: Hunger
Module 31: Theories and Physiology of Emotion
Module 32: Expressing and Experiencing Emotion
 
Stress, Health, and Human Flourishing
Module 33: Stress and Illness
Module 34: Health and Happiness
 
Social Psychology
Module 35: Social Thinking and Social Influence
Module 36: Antisocial Relations
Module 37: Prosocial Relations
 
Personality
Module 38: Classic Perspectives on Personality
Module 39: Contemporary Perspectives on Personality
 
Psychology Disorders
Module 40: Basic Concepts of Psychological Disorders
Module 41: Anxiety Disorders, OCD, and PTSD
Module 42: Major Depressive Disorder and Bipolar Disorder
Module 43: Schizophrenia and Other Disorders
 
Therapy
Module 44: Introduction to Therapy and the Psychological Therapies
Module 45: Evaluating Psychotherapies
Module 46: The Biomedical Therapies and Preventing Psychological Disorders
 
Appendix A: Statistical Reasoning in Everyday Life
Appendix B: Psychology at Work
Appendix C: Career Fields in Psychology
Appendix D: Complete Chapter Reviews
Appendix E:
Glossary
References
Indexes