Opis: Psychology, Global Edition - Saundra Ciccarelli, Noland White

The most learner-centered and assessment-driven text available With its engaging writing style and comprehensive coverage of key research, Psychology, 4/e, awakens students' curiosity and energizes their desire to learn more. This title draws learners into an interactive experience of psychology. The authors establish clear learning objectives tied to the most recent APA-recommended undergraduate learning guidelines. MyPsychLab is a valuable component to the Ciccarelli/White program. Engaging activities plus assessments provide a teaching and learning system that helps students master psychological concepts more readily. With MyPsychLab, students can develop critical thinking skills through writing, simulate classic experiments and surveys, watch videos on research and applications, and explore the Visual Brain in 3-D. Revel from Pearson is a new learning experience designed for the way today's students read, think, and learn. Revel redesigns familiar and respected course content and enriches it for today's students with new dynamic, rich-media interactives and assessments. The result is improved student engagement and improved learning. Revel for Ciccarelli/White, Psychology, 4e will be available for Fall 2014 classes. Ciccarelli/White, Psychology, 4e will provide a better teaching and learning experience-for you and your students. This program: * Personalizes Learning with MyPsychLab: MyPsychLab is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program. It helps students prepare for class and instructor gauge individual and class performance. * Connects Psychology to the Real World: Students will be able to relate chapter material to their own lives. * Energizes a Desire to Learn: From Chapter 1, this title provides students with ample opportunities to study from wherever they are. * Embeds Interactive Content: Throughout each chapter interactive content has been fully incorporated into all aspects of the text.In this Section: 1. Brief Table of Contents 2. Full 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: Consciousness: Sleep, Dreams, Hypnosis, and Drugs Chapter 5: Learning Chapter 6: Memories Chapter 7: Cognition Chapter 8: Development Across the Life Span Chapter 9: Motivation and Emotion Chapter 10: Sexuality and Gender Chapter 11: Stress and Health Chapter 12: Social Psychology Chapter 13: Theories of Personality Chapter 14: Psychological Disorders Chapter 15: Psychological Therapies 2. Full Table of Contents Chapter 1: The Science of Psychology What Is Psychology? Psychology Then: The History of Psychology Psychology Now: Modern Perspectives 1 Psychological Professionals and Areas of Specialization Psychology: The Scientific Methodology Ethics of Psychological Research Applying Psychology to Everyday Life: Thinking Critically About Critical Thinking Chapter 2: The Biological Perspective An Overview of the Nervous System Neurons and Nerves: Building the Network The Central Nervous System: The "Central Processing Unit" The Peripheral Nervous System: Nerves on the Edge Distant Connections: The Endocrine Glands Looking Inside the Living Brain From the Bottom Up: The Structures of the Brain Applying Psychology to Everyday Life: Paying Attention to the Causes of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception The ABCs of Sensation The Science of Seeing The Hearing Sense: Can You Hear Me Now? Chemical Senses: It Tastes Good and Smells Even Better Somesthetic Senses: What the Body Knows The ABCs of Perception Applying Psychology to Everyday Life: Beyond "Smoke and Mirrors"-The Psychological Science and Neuroscience of Magic Chapter 4: Consciousness: Sleep, Dreams, Hypnosis, and Drugs What Is Consciousness? Altered States: Sleep Dreams Altered States: The Effects of Hypnosis Altered States: The Influence of Psychoactive Drugs Applying Psychology to Everyday Life: Thinking Critically About Ghosts, Aliens, and Other Things That Go Bump in the Night Chapter 5: Learning Definition of Learning What's in It for Me? Operant Conditioning Cognitive Learning Theory Observational Learning Applying Psychology to Everyday Life: Can You Really Toilet Train Your Cat? Chapter 6: Memories Three Processes of Memory Models of Memory The Information-Processing Model: Three Memory Systems Getting It Out: Retrieval of Long-Term Memories The Reconstructive Nature of Long-Term Memory Retrieval: How Reliable Are Memories? What Were We Talking About? Forgetting Neuroscience of Memory Applying Psychology to Everyday Life: Alzheimer's Disease Chapter 7: Cognition How People Think Intelligence Language Applying Psychology to Everyday Life: Mental and Physical Exercises Combine for Better Cognitive Health Chapter 8: Development Across the Life Span Issues in Studying Human Development The Basic Building Blocks of Development Prenatal Development Infancy and Childhood Development Adolescence Adulthood Applying Psychology to Everyday Life: Cross-Cultural Views on Death Chapter 9: Motivation and Emotion Approaches to Understanding Motivation What, Hungry Again? Why People Eat Emotion Applying Psychology to Everyday Life: When Motivation Is Not Enough Chapter 10: Sexuality and Gender The Physical Side of Human Sexuality The Psychological Side of Human Sexuality: Gender Human Sexual Behavior Sexual Dysfunctions and Problems Sexually Transmitted Infections Applying Psychology to Everyday Life: The AIDS Epidemic in Russia Chapter 11: Stress and Health Stress and Stressors Physiological Factors: Stress and Health Coping With Stress Applying Psychology to Everyday Life: Exercising for Mental Health Chapter 12: Social Psychology Social Influence: Conformity, Compliance, Obedience, and Group Behavior Social Cognition: Attitudes, Impression Formation, and Attribution Social Interaction: Prejudice and Aggression Liking and Loving: Interpersonal Attraction Aggression and Prosocial Behavior Applying Psychology to Everyday Life: Anatomy of a Cult Chapter 13: Theories of Personality Theories of Personality The Man and the Couch: Sigmund Freud and the Psychodynamic Perspective The Behaviorist and Social Cognitive View of Personality The Third Force: Humanism and Personality Trait Theories: Who Are You? The Biology of Personality: Behavioral Genetics Assessment of Personality Applying Psychology to Everyday Life: The Biological Basis of the Big Five Chapter 14: Psychological Disorders What Is Abnormality? Models of Abnormality Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR) Anxiety Disorders: What, Me Worry? Mood Disorders: The Effect of Affect Eating Disorders Dissociative Disorders: Altered Identities Schizophrenia: Altered Reality Personality Disorders: I'm Okay, It's Everyone Else Who's Weird Applying Psychology to Everyday Life: Taking the Worry Out of Exams Chapter 15: Psychological Therapies Two Kinds of Therapy The Early Days: Ice-Water Baths and Electric Shocks Psychotherapy Begins Humanistic Therapy: To Err Is Human Behavior Therapies: Learning One's Way to Better Behavior Cognitive Therapies: Thinking Is Believing Group Therapies: Not Just for the Shy Does Psychotherapy Really Work? Biomedical Therapies Applying Psychology to Everyday Life: Virtual Realities

Szczegóły: Psychology, Global Edition - Saundra Ciccarelli, Noland White

Tytuł: Psychology, Global Edition
Autor: Saundra Ciccarelli, Noland White
Producent: Pearson
ISBN: 9781292059853
Rok produkcji: 2014
Ilość stron: 784
Oprawa: Miękka
Waga: 1.46 kg

Recenzje: Psychology, Global Edition - Saundra Ciccarelli, Noland White