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Susan Nolan
Susan A. Nolan is Professor of Psychology at Seton Hall University in New Jersey, where she has been a 2020 College of Arts and Sciences Teacher of the Year. Susan has researched curricula and assessment in psychology education, the interpersonal consequences of mental illness, and the role of gender in science careers. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation. Susan was the 2021 president of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology. She also is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Association for Psychological Science. She holds an A.B. from the College of the Holy Cross and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University. Susan is fascinated by the applications of psychology to the “real world,” both locally and globally. She served as a representative from the APA to the United Nations for 5 years, and was a recipient of the Fukuhara Award for Advanced International Research and Service from the International Council of Psychologists. She was a 2015–2016 U.S. Fulbright Scholar in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where she and her husband have a home, as well as a 2023 U.S. Fulbright Scholar in Australia. An avid traveler, Susan uses the examples she encounters through these experiences in the classroom, in this textbook, and in the statistics textbooks that she co-authors.
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Sandra Hockenbury
Sandra E. Hockenbury is a science writer who specializes in psychology. Sandy received her B.A. from Shimer College and her M.A. from the University of Chicago, where she was also a research associate at the Institute of Social and Behavioral Pathology. Prior to co-authoring Psychology and Discovering Psychology, Sandy worked for several years as a psychology editor in both academic and college textbook publishing. Sandy has also taught as an adjunct faculty member at Tulsa Community College.
Sandy’s areas of interest include positive psychology, cross-cultural psychology, and the intersection of Buddhist philosophy, neuroscience, and psychology. She is a member of the American Psychological Association (APA), the Association of Psychological Science (APS), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Sandy is a member of the Board of Trustees of Shimer College and recently served as a volunteer with Nomads Clinic, a nonprofit organization that brings medical care to remote areas in the Himalayan regions of Nepal and the Tibetan Plateau.
Table of Contents
Chapter 2: Neuroscience and Behavior
Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception
Chapter 4: Consciousness and its Variations
Chapter 5: Learning
Chapter 6: Memory
Chapter 7: Thinking, Language and Intelligence
Chapter 8: Motivation and Emotion
Chapter 9: Lifespan Development
Chapter 10: Gender and Sexuality
Chapter 11: Personality
Chapter 12: Social Psychology
Chapter 13: Stress, Health, and Coping
Chapter 14: Psychological disorders
Chapter 15: Therapies
Appendix A: Statistics: Understanding Data
Appendix B: Industrial/Organizational Psychology
Product Updates
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Achieve for Discovering Psychology
Achieve sets a whole new standard for integrating assessments, activities, and analytics into your teaching. It brings together all of the high quality features that instructors and students love about its predecessor LaunchPad—interactive e-book, LearningCurve adaptive quizzing and other assessments, immersive learning activities, extensive instructor resources—in a powerful new platform that offers:
- A cleaner, more intuitive, mobile-friendly interface
- Powerful analytics
- Self-regulated learning and goal-setting surveys
- A fully integrated iClicker classroom response system, with questions available for each unit or the option to integrate your own
Available exclusively in Achieve starting Fall 2022
Introductory Psychology Video Collection
This extraordinary new video collection features over 120 in-demand clips from high-quality sources—classic and contemporary— as well as engaging original content. It’s a remarkably diverse and relevant resource, developed in partnership with a faculty and student advisory board, and encompassing such captivating topics as COVID and stress, Alzheimer’s, loneliness & the brain, Black Lives Matter/racial trauma & racial bias, online dating, and topics related to transgender youth. Videos are closed-captioned with warnings for sensitive content, and each clip includes assignable assessments, with results reporting into the Achieve gradebook.
New! Tell Me More
In these short videos, author Susan Nolan dives deeper into high-interest topics such as the replication crisis, learned helplessness and discrimination, cognitive errors and misinformation, and the gender mosaic. All videos come with assessment and are closed captioned.
New in the Text
A new chapter on Gender and Sexuality (Chapter 10)
The new chapter includes updated language throughout based on extensive feedback from GLAAD, and covers everything from updated research on changes in gender stereotypes and cognitive gender differences to new research on intersex people, gender identity, and sexual orientation.
New and updated diversity, equity, and inclusion coverage
Along with the new Gender and Sexuality chapter, there are updated “Culture and Human behavior boxes. There is new research related to the negative effects of discrimination (in the chapters on Learning, Social Psychology, Disorders, and the Appendix on Industrial and Organizational Psychology) and there is new research on non-WEIRD populations within the research methods coverage.
A completely revised Chapter 2 (Neuroscience and Behavior)
The chapter includes revised art and 55 new references. In addition, Focus on Neuroscience boxes in most chapters reflect the exciting trends in the discipline.
Coverage of COVID and the pandemic
The authors discuss the influence of memory research on contact tracing, the increase in psychological disorders; the expansion of telehealth, and the rise in remote work.
Increased inclusion of the contributions of pioneering psychologists from underrepresented groups
Experts include Mamie Phipps Clark, Charles Henry Turner, Robert Williams, Leta Hollingworth, James Jackson, Carolyn Attneave, Martha Bernal, and more.
Authors
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Susan Nolan
Susan A. Nolan is Professor of Psychology at Seton Hall University in New Jersey, where she has been a 2020 College of Arts and Sciences Teacher of the Year. Susan has researched curricula and assessment in psychology education, the interpersonal consequences of mental illness, and the role of gender in science careers. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation. Susan was the 2021 president of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology. She also is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Association for Psychological Science. She holds an A.B. from the College of the Holy Cross and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University. Susan is fascinated by the applications of psychology to the “real world,” both locally and globally. She served as a representative from the APA to the United Nations for 5 years, and was a recipient of the Fukuhara Award for Advanced International Research and Service from the International Council of Psychologists. She was a 2015–2016 U.S. Fulbright Scholar in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where she and her husband have a home, as well as a 2023 U.S. Fulbright Scholar in Australia. An avid traveler, Susan uses the examples she encounters through these experiences in the classroom, in this textbook, and in the statistics textbooks that she co-authors.
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Sandra Hockenbury
Sandra E. Hockenbury is a science writer who specializes in psychology. Sandy received her B.A. from Shimer College and her M.A. from the University of Chicago, where she was also a research associate at the Institute of Social and Behavioral Pathology. Prior to co-authoring Psychology and Discovering Psychology, Sandy worked for several years as a psychology editor in both academic and college textbook publishing. Sandy has also taught as an adjunct faculty member at Tulsa Community College.
Sandy’s areas of interest include positive psychology, cross-cultural psychology, and the intersection of Buddhist philosophy, neuroscience, and psychology. She is a member of the American Psychological Association (APA), the Association of Psychological Science (APS), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Sandy is a member of the Board of Trustees of Shimer College and recently served as a volunteer with Nomads Clinic, a nonprofit organization that brings medical care to remote areas in the Himalayan regions of Nepal and the Tibetan Plateau.
Table of Contents
Chapter 2: Neuroscience and Behavior
Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception
Chapter 4: Consciousness and its Variations
Chapter 5: Learning
Chapter 6: Memory
Chapter 7: Thinking, Language and Intelligence
Chapter 8: Motivation and Emotion
Chapter 9: Lifespan Development
Chapter 10: Gender and Sexuality
Chapter 11: Personality
Chapter 12: Social Psychology
Chapter 13: Stress, Health, and Coping
Chapter 14: Psychological disorders
Chapter 15: Therapies
Appendix A: Statistics: Understanding Data
Appendix B: Industrial/Organizational Psychology
Product Updates
New!
Achieve for Discovering Psychology
Achieve sets a whole new standard for integrating assessments, activities, and analytics into your teaching. It brings together all of the high quality features that instructors and students love about its predecessor LaunchPad—interactive e-book, LearningCurve adaptive quizzing and other assessments, immersive learning activities, extensive instructor resources—in a powerful new platform that offers:
- A cleaner, more intuitive, mobile-friendly interface
- Powerful analytics
- Self-regulated learning and goal-setting surveys
- A fully integrated iClicker classroom response system, with questions available for each unit or the option to integrate your own
Available exclusively in Achieve starting Fall 2022
Introductory Psychology Video Collection
This extraordinary new video collection features over 120 in-demand clips from high-quality sources—classic and contemporary— as well as engaging original content. It’s a remarkably diverse and relevant resource, developed in partnership with a faculty and student advisory board, and encompassing such captivating topics as COVID and stress, Alzheimer’s, loneliness & the brain, Black Lives Matter/racial trauma & racial bias, online dating, and topics related to transgender youth. Videos are closed-captioned with warnings for sensitive content, and each clip includes assignable assessments, with results reporting into the Achieve gradebook.
New! Tell Me More
In these short videos, author Susan Nolan dives deeper into high-interest topics such as the replication crisis, learned helplessness and discrimination, cognitive errors and misinformation, and the gender mosaic. All videos come with assessment and are closed captioned.
New in the Text
A new chapter on Gender and Sexuality (Chapter 10)
The new chapter includes updated language throughout based on extensive feedback from GLAAD, and covers everything from updated research on changes in gender stereotypes and cognitive gender differences to new research on intersex people, gender identity, and sexual orientation.
New and updated diversity, equity, and inclusion coverage
Along with the new Gender and Sexuality chapter, there are updated “Culture and Human behavior boxes. There is new research related to the negative effects of discrimination (in the chapters on Learning, Social Psychology, Disorders, and the Appendix on Industrial and Organizational Psychology) and there is new research on non-WEIRD populations within the research methods coverage.
A completely revised Chapter 2 (Neuroscience and Behavior)
The chapter includes revised art and 55 new references. In addition, Focus on Neuroscience boxes in most chapters reflect the exciting trends in the discipline.
Coverage of COVID and the pandemic
The authors discuss the influence of memory research on contact tracing, the increase in psychological disorders; the expansion of telehealth, and the rise in remote work.
Increased inclusion of the contributions of pioneering psychologists from underrepresented groups
Experts include Mamie Phipps Clark, Charles Henry Turner, Robert Williams, Leta Hollingworth, James Jackson, Carolyn Attneave, Martha Bernal, and more.
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With Achieve, our most powerful learning option is also our most affordable. Achieve brings all of the best aspects of the text and digital resources together in one place. Built on best practices in research in psychology and learning science, Achieve provides students with robust tools to succeed in their introductory course, while giving instructors insights into their students understanding and performance. And it is the exclusive home of the extraordinary new resource, the Introductory Psychology Video Collection.
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Now with all digital content in Macmillan Learnings breakthrough platform, Achieve, the new edition of Discovering Psychology is more relevant, applied, and engaging than ever. Its the most effective presentation yet of the books signature approach to developing scientific literacy and exploring the real impact of psychology across the breadth of cultural diversity. Highlighting the new content is coverage of applied behavioral neuroscience from expert contributor Abigail Baird (Vassar College), as well as coverage related to the COVID pandemic, and updated discussions of gender, sexuality, diversity, and inclusion.
With Achieve, our most powerful learning option is also our most affordable. Achieve brings all of the best aspects of the text and digital resources together in one place. Built on best practices in research in psychology and learning science, Achieve provides students with robust tools to succeed in their introductory course, while giving instructors insights into their students understanding and performance. And it is the exclusive home of the extraordinary new resource, the Introductory Psychology Video Collection.
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