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Exploring Psychology

Twelfth Edition ©2022 David G. Myers; C. Nathan DeWall

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With digital content available for the first time in the breakthrough online platform, Achieve, the new edition of Myers and DeWall’s bestseller, Exploring Psychology offers creative ways to help students connect with the course, retain psychology’s key principles, and do better in all their classes, not just psychology. Like all previous editions, the authors combine market-leading currency, fresh teaching ideas, fascinating applications, effective new study tools and technologies, and a compassionate and compelling storytelling voice.

Myers and DeWall base their text on the same guiding principles that made Myers the world’s bestselling introductory psychology author:

  • Facilitate understanding by teaching critical thinking, applying principles to students’ lives, and reinforcing learning at every step.
  • Demonstrate that psychology is a science by showing the process of inquiry and sharing the field’s most exciting new discoveries.
  • Emphasize psychology's big ideas, especially  respect for human unity and diversity--what drives us, distinguishes us, unifies us.

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.

Features

Trusted author team.  Exploring Psychology offers market-leading currency, instructor- and student-tested presentation, and class-tested resources that bring results for instructors and their students. All resources are mindfully integrated with the text content. The highly-regarded test bank is carefully revised to reflect the new content and research in the textbook and includes nearly 10,000 questions!

Research you can trust.  For Myers and DeWall, it is their life passion to scrutinize each day’s research reports, offering you and your students the most up-to-date, representative presentation of Psychology’s broad subfields. As dedicated generalists, they take a careful, scientific approach to the balanced presentation of each topic.  Both authors review dozens of journals (thousands of research studies) and periodicals to determine which studies to include in the text. 

Over 1,000 new research citations dated 2018–2021. This is the most up-to-date set of introductory psychology course resources available. With so many exciting new findings, and every chapter updated with new examples and ideas, students will see the importance and value of psychological research, and how psychology can help them make sense of the world around them.

Focus on ENGAGING students and helping them RETAIN what they learn:

  • ENGAGE icons highlight hands-on applications of  the concepts
  • RETAIN icons flag the most important opportunities for students to review and remember what they’re reading.

The authors choose all of their examples and illustrations, and develop their pedagogy with these goals in mind; the new icons point out key elements.

Inclusive of diverse student readers. From the first edition, the authors have endeavored to make no assumptions in terms of students’ gender identity, sexual orientation, culture, relationship or family status, age, economic background, or physical ability. By way of visual and written examples and explanations, the authors work to ensure that all students see themselves in these resources and feel engaged by the content. Since this text’s first edition, one of its Eight Guiding Principles has been “To convey respect for human unity and diversity.”

Immersive Learning Activities created by the authors—now in Achieve!

  • How Would You Know? research activities build students’ critical thinking and scientific literacy skills. Students play the role of researcher, making choices about the best ways to test interesting questions, and learning their limits in interpreting results.  Topics include: How Would You Know if Sleep Deprivation Affects Academic Performance?,  How Would You Know if People Can Learn to Reduce Anxiety?, and  How Would You Know if Schizophrenia Is Inherited?
  • Assess Your Strengths activities allow students to apply what they are learning from the text to their own lives and experiences by considering key “strengths.” Each activity starts with a video introduction from the authors explaining how that strength ties into the content of the chapter.  Next, students assess themselves on the strength (critical thinking, quality of sleep, self-control, relationship strength, belonging, hope, and more) using scales developed by researchers across psychological science.  After students learn their results, they are offered tips for nurturing that strength in their own lives.

“Ask Yourself” questions throughout the book help students further engage with the course content.  Applying the content to their own lives helps students make the material personally meaningful, and therefore more memorable.

“Thinking Critically About . . .” infographic activities (along with our popular “How Would You Know” research activities) for every chapter in Achieve.

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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 2021
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.

Also in Achieve:

  • LearningCurve
    In a game-like format, LearningCurve adaptive and formative quizzing helps get students more deeply involved in the coursework. It offers:
    • A unique learning path for each student, with quizzes shaped by each individual’s correct and incorrect answers.
    • A Personalized Study Plan, to guide students’ preparation for class and for exams.
    • Feedback for each question with live links to relevant e-book pages, guiding students to the reading they need to do to improve their areas of weakness.
  • iClicker Questions
    Our robust collection includes NEW questions for each chapter, created by Jennifer Zwolinski (University of San Diego), that test student understanding of that chapter’s research and research design examples.  iClicker is now integrated with Achieve for easy access for you and your students. 
  • Gold Standard Instructor Resources
    Now, in Achieve, these resources have been updated and improved by award-winning instructor Elizabeth Hammer (Xavier University) and are easier to find and use! In addition, Salena Brody (University of Texas, Dallas) created new classroom activities for each chapter covering diversity in psychology topics. These resources are all designed to help instructors actively engage students in a variety of class settings and help them retain psychology’s key concepts.  


New in the Text
Psychology TODAY
With over 1,000 new citations dated 2018 - 2021 in the Twelfth Edition, instructors know they will get the most up-to-date view of the field--a trademark of the Myers/DeWall texts.  The References section now highlights all these new citations in blue. 

Improved Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
A lot has changed in the field of psychology since the last edition was written, especially in the fast-moving subfields of cultural diversity, human sexuality, and gender psychology, and in the language we use to refer to varying groups of people. The authors sought extra reviews from experts and teaching psychologists and made extensive updates to this coverage.

NEW Instructor Activity Guides
Available for each chapter, the guides offer EVERYTHING you need to implement fun new in-person or remote classroom activities.

Introductory Psychology Initiative
Exploring Psychology Twelfth Edition and its resources offer a perfect match for those interested in following the IPI guidelines from the American Psychological Association (2021), with full text coverage of relevant content, and abundant student and classroom activities and assessment opportunities.  You can see how the text and Achieve content meet the Integrative Themes and Learning Outcomes in Tables 1 and 2 in the Preface. 

Improved Student Preface—Student Success: How to Apply Psychology to Live Your Best Life. When we ask teaching psychologists to share the most important lessons they wish to impart to students, they often tell us they want to teach students to think critically, and to apply psychology to their own lives so that they can live better and be more successful. This brief Student Success preface, which previews relevant resources in the text and in Achieve, helps get students on the right path with sections on
• Thinking Critically and Scientifically,
• Self-Control and Self-Improvement,
• Time Management and Study Tips,
• Social Life (including a new section, Embrace Diversity), and
• Finding Meaning and Pursuing Goals.

Patrick Cheek, University of Maine at Augusta
“I think it's a good, accessible textbook for an intro psych class. It is approachable for majors and non-majors.”
 
Jennifer M. Hart, Eastern Wyoming College
“I have always liked this book as a great introductory text. It is written at an appropriate level for undergraduate students who are learning about psychology for the first time. It is clear and engaging. It is full of relevant and interesting examples.”
 
Dava Brock, Arkansas State University
“The concepts are presented in a way that I think students would understand.  The textbook uses multiple charts and diagrams, and is in an outline form that students are used to. ...I have always liked David Myers' textbooks.  I think the textbook offers more information than many textbooks. This provides many concepts for professors to decide to teach.”

Elizabeth J. Moseley, Cleveland State Community College
“These [the tables, graphs, and other illustrations] were good.  They helped support the content that was being presented.”

Cherry Sawyerr, Lone Star College - North Harris
“I like [the historical timeline] a lot! It was great, it can and will be useful.  Nice pictures and a nice balance with women and men of different ethnicities.”

Widaad Zaman, University of Central Florida
“Students love the digital textbook, as well as the digital resources that come with the text.”

Kathy Coiner, Scott Community College
“The text does a wonderful job of using relevant pictures, cartoons, diagrams, graphs, etc. to expose the student to the content….Having used Myers/DeWall for over two decades says a lot… There is a reason this has been the top psychology textbook since who knows when so whatever you're doing, keep doing it!”

Kevin S. Autry, California State Polytechnic Pomona
“I appreciate the review sections placed throughout the chapter instead of just at the end.”

Larry Todd Allen, Three Rivers Community College
“I have taught [the Myers/Dewall] course study for about 15 years and find that many of my students have changed major and developed a more empathetic scope to their lives taking my psychology classes.”

Dawn Rodgers-DeFouw, Grace Christian University
“Each edition gets better!”

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Table of Contents

Instructor Preface 
Student Preface: Student Success—How to Apply Psychology to Live Your Best Life 
Chapter 1: Thinking Critically With Psychological Science 
Chapter 2: The Biology of Behavior 
Chapter 3: Consciousness and the Two-Track Mind 
Chapter 4: Developing Through the Life Span 
Chapter 5: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
Chapter 6: Sensation and Perception 
Chapter 7: Learning 
Chapter 8: Memory 
Chapter 9: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence 
Chapter 10: Motivation and Emotion 
Chapter 11: Stress, Health, and Human Flourishing 
Chapter 12: Social Psychology 
Chapter 13: Personality 
Chapter 14: Psychological Disorders 
Chapter 15: Therapy 
Appendix A: Statistical Reasoning in Everyday Life
Appendix B: Psychology at Work
Appendix C: The Story of Psychology: A Timeline
Appendix D: Career Fields in Psychology
Appendix E: Complete Chapter Reviews
Appendix F: Answers to the Retrieve It and Experience the Testing Effect Questions
Glossary 
References 
Name Index 
Subject Index

David G. Myers

David Myers received his B.A. in chemistry from Whitworth University, and his psychology Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. He has spent his career at Hope College, Michigan, where he has taught dozens of introductory psychology sections. Hope College students have invited him to be their commencement speaker and voted him “outstanding professor.” His research and writings have been recognized by the Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize, an Honored Scientist award from the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences, an Award for Distinguished Service on Behalf of Social-Personality Psychology, a Presidential Citation from APA Division 2, election as an American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow, and three honorary doctorates.

With support from National Science Foundation grants, Myers’ scientific articles have appeared in three dozen scientific periodicals, including Science, American Scientist, Psychological Science, and American Psychologist. In addition to his scholarly and textbook writing, he digests psychological science for the general public. His writings have appeared in four dozen magazines, from Today’s Education to Scientific American. He also has authored six general audience books, including, in 2022, How Do We Know Ourselves? Curiosities and Marvels of the Human Mind. And he blogs about psychology and life at TalkPsych.com.

David Myers has chaired his city’s Human Relations Commission, helped found a thriving assistance center for low-income families, and spoken to hundreds of college, community, and professional groups worldwide. Drawing on his experience of hearing loss, which now includes a cochlear implant, he also has written articles and a book (A Quiet World) about hearing loss, and he is advocating a transformation in U.S. assistive listening technology (see HearingLoop.org). For his leadership, he has received awards from the American Academy of Audiology, the hearing industry, and the Hearing Loss Association of America.

David and Carol Myers met and married while undergraduates, and have raised sons Peter and Andrew, and a daughter, Laura. They have one grandchild, Allie.

C. Nathan DeWall

Nathan DeWall is professor of psychology at the University of Kentucky. He received his bachelor’s degree from St. Olaf College, a master’s degree in social science from the University of Chicago, and a master’s degree and Ph.D. in social psychology from Florida State University. DeWall received the College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award, which recognizes excellence in undergraduate and graduate teaching. The Association for Psychological Science identified DeWall as a “Rising Star” early in his career for “making significant contributions to the field of psychological science.” He has been included in the top 1 percent of all cited scientists in psychology and psychiatry on the Institute for Scientific Information list, according to the Web of Science. DeWall conducts research on close relationships, self-control, aggression, the psychology of religion, and intellectual humility. With funding from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the John Templeton Foundation, he has published 225 scientific articles and chapters. DeWall’s research awards include the SAGE Young Scholars Award from the Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology, the Young Investigator Award from the International Society for Research on Aggression, and the Early Career Award from the International Society for Self and Identity. His research has been covered by numerous media and entertainment outlets, including Good Morning America, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Harvard Business Review, USA Today, National Public Radio, The Guardian, the BBC, and Netflix. He has lectured nationally and internationally, including in Hong Kong, China, the Netherlands, England, Greece, Hungary, Sweden, Australia, and France.

Nathan is happily married to Alice DeWall and is the proud father of Beverly “Bevy” and Ellis. He also enjoys taking care of the family dog, “Artie.” As an ultramarathon runner, he completed numerous races, including the Badwater 135 in 2017 (dubbed “the World’s toughest foot race”). In his spare time now, he enjoys hiking, attending live concerts, setting up and maintaining aquariums, watching sports, and playing guitar and singing in local rock bands.

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