Exploring Psychology

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

• ISBN13: 9781319104191
• ISBN10: 1319104193
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781319273378
• Additional ISBN(s): 9781319132118, 9781464163364
• Edition: 11th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2018-10-19
• Publisher: MPS HIGH SCHOOL
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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?  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.

• 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

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
App A: Statistical Reasoning in Everyday Life
App B: Psychology at Work
App C: Career Fields in Psychology
App D: Complete Chapter Reviews
App E: Answers to the Retrieve It and Experience the Testing Effect Questions
Glossary
References
Index