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Psychology: Core Concepts, 5/E
ISBN-10: 0205474454
ISBN-13: 9780205474455
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Copyright: 2006
Format: Paper; 720 pp
Published: 06/01/2005
This item has been replaced by Psychology: Core Concepts, 6/E.
The accomplished author team of Phillip Zimbardo (APA president 2001-2002), Bob Johnson and Ann Weber once again present psychology to both teachers and students in a meaningful, manageable format.
Each chapter of this brief, less expensive textbook focuses on the key questions and core concepts of psychology, supported by an extensive pedagogical structure designed to aid students.
A wealth of instructive features, such as “Psychology in Your Life,” “Using Psychology to Learn Psychology,” and “Do it Yourself!” enhance student learning and retention of key psychological concepts. Psychology, Fifth edition integrates a cross-cultural and multicultural perspective to make psychology meaningful for all readers. This is all accomplished in a 14-chapter format, which is easier to integrate into a semester or quarter course.- A “Key Question” opens each section and a “Core Concept” is then presented as a brief answer to that question to help students understand the big picture of psychology and lead them through the material. Chapter overview maps and chapter-ending summaries are organized around the “Key Questions” and “Core Concepts” to further reinforce learning.
- “Check Your Understanding” self-tests within each chapter provide immediate reinforcement and help students assess what they know and where they need further study. Questions are broken down to focus on recall, analysis, or application of the material. One of the “Check Your Understanding” questions always focuses on the chapter's “Core Concept.” This approach is deliberately used to reinforce the student's use of the “Core Concepts.”
- “Do It Yourself!” learning activities offer simple demonstrations of psychological principles and allow students to actively apply psychological concepts alone or in groups, further enhancing their understanding.
- A more in-depth “Chapter Review Test” at the end of each chapter provides further opportunity for self-assessment.
- “Psychology in Your Life” applications at the end of each chapter section explore connections between psychology and everyday life and promote critical thinking by helping students evaluate many of the psychological ideas they will encounter in popular press (e.g. emotional differences between men and women, the origin of sexual orientation, the side effects of psychoanalytic drugs, etc.).
- “Using Psychology to Learn Psychology” sections at the end of each chapter explain how a psychological concept discussed in that chapter can be applied to studying and learning, offering practical advice for increased academic success.
- “Connection” arrows link material across chapters, showing clear relationships between concepts in various topical areas. An explanatory note accompanies the marginal arrow, giving the reader a quick review or preview of the related discussion found in other chapters. This conveys to students the sense of psychology as a web with a network of interconnecting threads that provide meaning across chapters and topical areas, rather than as a set of isolated facts and topics within each chapter.
- “Culture and Gender” coverage is updated and fully integrated where relevant throughout the text.
- At the end of each chapter in the 5th edition, we offer a short section titled “If You’re Interested,” in which the authors’ top picks of worthwhile books and rentable videos, both classics and more contemporary works.
- TECHNOLOGY ADVANTAGE—MyPsychLab is a state-of-the-art, interactive and instructive solution for introductory psychology. Designed to be used as a supplement to a traditional lecture course, or to completely administer an online course, MyPsychLab combines an E-book, multimedia, tutorials, video, audio, simulations, animations, and controlled assessments to completely engage students. (See your Valuepack listing for package ISBNs.)
Coverage — the authors meticulously reviewed, revised, updated, and expanded core coverage to ensure accuracy and infuse this edition with the very latest information from the field of psychology. In addition, the following global changes have been made to this edition:
- “The Seven Major Modern Perspectives” have been updated, to include trait psychology and the developmental viewpoint–both of which had long been ignored in the "perspectives" section of this and other texts. The modern perspectives we list in this edition are: biological, developmental, cognitive, clinical, behavioral, trait, and social-cultural. Evolution and neuroscience now fall under the biological perspective, while the clinical perspective includes both humanistic and psychodynamic psychologies.
- “State of the Art” chapter ending feature briefly characterizes/reviews what's known and also points to the unknowns that are ripe for research. The authors continue to encourage budding young researchers to think about what the unsolved problems and big mysteries are in psychology.
- “Making the abstract concrete.” The 5th edition offers a new emphasis on providing concrete examples of abstract concepts, along with an increased use of metaphors and similes, where appropriate–all designed to help students assimilate unfamiliar and abstract ideas. Students will find this especially helpful in mastering difficult concepts in biopsychology .
- Chapter 14: Social Psychology has been updated by Phil Zimbardo to present a fresh perspective on the similarities and differences between the classic Stanford Prison experiments and the recent Abu Ghraib prison abuse in Iraq.
- Research has been thoroughly updated throughout the text, offering a select balance of classic and contemporary citations to support the new edition and keep the text at the forefront of the field.
- Extensive revision to chapters 1: Mind, Behavior, and Science; 2: Biopsychology; and 5: Sensation and Perception in the new edition.
Preface.
- Mind, Behavior, and Science.
- Biopsychology.
- States of Mind.
- Psychological Development.
- Sensation and Perception.
- Learning.
- Memory.
- Thinking and Intelligence.
- Emotion and Motivation.
- Stress, Health, and Well-Being.
- Personality.
- Psychopathology.
- Therapies for Mental Disorder.
- Social Psychology.
Appendix: Understanding Graphs and Statistics.
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Psychology: Core Concepts, 6/E
Zimbardo, Johnson & McCann
©2009 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 768 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205547885 | ISBN-13: 9780205547883
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Psychology: Core Concepts, Discovering Psychology Edition (with MyPsychLab CourseCompass), 5/E
Zimbardo, Johnson & Weber
©2008 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 784 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205565948 | ISBN-13: 9780205565948
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Psychology: Core Concepts, Discovering Psychology Edition (with MyPsychLab), 5/E
Zimbardo, Johnson & Weber
©2008 | Allyn & Bacon | Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap; 784 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205570860 | ISBN-13: 9780205570867
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