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This thirteenth edition continues to combine the highly effective SQ4R Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Reflect, Review active learning system, an engaging style, appealing visuals, and detailed coverage of core topics and cutting-edge research in one remarkable, comprehensive text. Fully updated and reorganized, the new edition builds on the proven modular format, extensive special features, and teaching and learning tools integrated throughout the text. While the text provides a broad overview of essential psychology topics ideal for introductory courses, its modular design also readily supports more specialized curricula, allowing instructors to use the self-contained instructional units in any combination and order.

As a result, the features of Psychology and Life support a central theme: psychology as a science, with a focus on applying that science to real life experiences. Psychology and Life 2e provides a rigorous, research-centred survey of the discipline while offering students special features and learning aids that will make the science of psychology relevant, spark their interest and excite their imaginations. Using the proven SQ4R Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Reflect, and Review active learning system to help you study smarter, Coon leads you to an understanding of major concepts as well as how psychology relates to the challenges of everyday life.

Each chapter of this book takes you into a different realm of psychology, such as personality, abnormal behavior, memory, consciousness, and human development. Each realm is complex and fascinating, with many pathways, landmarks, and detours to discover. Take the journey and find yourself becoming actively involved with the material as you develop a basic understanding of psychology that will help you succeed in this course and enrich your life.

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We found that rare individual in Susan A. Susan made several valuable contributions to the sixth edition of Discovering Psychology, and the success of that collaboration prompted our decision to make her a full coauthor with this new edition. Ref lecting her expertise in clinical, personality, and social psychology, and her background in gender, culture, and diversity studies, Susan revised Chapter 7, Thinking, Language, and Intelligence; Chapter 9, Lifespan Development; Chapter 10, Personality; Chapter 11, Social Psychology; Chapter 12, Stress, Health, and Coping; Chapter 13, Psychological Disorders; and Chapter 14, Therapies.

And, she participated fully in our text-wide decisions about design, photographs, art, and content. But more on that below. As psychology instructors well know, students come to psychology with many preconceived ideas, some absorbed from popular culture, about the human mind and behavior. These notions are often inaccurate. Thus, one important goal for introductory psychology is to teach students how to distinguish fact from opinion, and research-based, empirical findings from something heard from friends or encountered on the Internet.

Scientific Literacy and Critical Thinking is identified as one of its five key goals. Psychology educators agree that the skills students learn in psychology can be as important as the content. You can also search for others PDF ebooks from publisher Worth Publishers , as well as from your favorite authors.

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The authors act on that belief by using relatable personal stories to communicate the concepts of psychological science and the process of science itself , and by presenting important research in a clear not oversimplified way. Hockenbury and Nolan also take full advantage of online learning, creating activities in LaunchPad that have students thinking about psychology as scientists do.

She regularly gives talks about incorporating scientific literacy into the introductory course and across the psychology curriculum.