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Discovering Psychology

Ninth Edition ©2022 Susan Nolan; Sandra Hockenbury

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Now with all digital content in Macmillan Learning's breakthrough platform, Achieve, the new edition of Discovering Psychology is more relevant, applied, and engaging than ever. It's the most effective presentation yet of the book's 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.

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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.

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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.


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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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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction and Research Methods
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

Susan A. Nolan

Susan Nolan turned to psychology after suffering a career-ending accident on her second workday as a bicycle messenger. Susan graduated from the College of Holy Cross and earned her PhD in clinical psychology from Northwestern University. She studies mental health stigma as well as the role of gender in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics; her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation. Susan is a professor of psychology at Seton Hall University. She served as a representative from the American Psychological Association (APA) to the United Nations and a past president of the Eastern Psychological Association (EPA) and the Society for the Teaching of Psychology. She was a U.S. Fulbright Scholar in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2015-2016 and in Australia in 2023. She is a fellow of the EPA, the APA, and the Association for Psychological Science. Susan’s academic schedule allows her to pursue her love of travel. She has ridden her bicycle across the United States (despite her earlier crash), swapped apartments to live in Montréal, and explored the Adriatic coast in a 1985 Volkswagen Scirocco. She and her husband, Ivan Bojanic, travel frequently to Bosnia and Herzegovina where they own a small house on the Vrbas River in the city of Banja Luka.

Sandra E. 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.

Don and Sandy’s daughter, Laura, is a college senior and geology major who, like her parents, has wide-ranging interests, including climate change, sustainable development, psychology, and the arts. A classical and improvisational pianist, co-director of her college comedy sketch group, and enthusiastic member of the 2011 Division III Ultimate college women’s championship team, Laura has recently taken up the mandolin.

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