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Psychology: The Science of Person, Mind, and Brain

First Edition ©2015 Daniel Cervone; Tracy L. Caldwell

In Psychology: The Science of Person, Mind, and Brain, experienced teacher, researcher, and author Daniel Cervone provides students with a new and exciting way of understanding psychology.  Cervone organizes material around three levels of analysis -- person, mind, and brain -- and emplo...
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Look Inside Look Inside Psychology: The Science of Person, Mind, and Brain by Daniel Cervone; Tracy L. Caldwell - First Edition, 2015 from Macmillan Student Store

In Psychology: The Science of Person, Mind, and Brain, experienced teacher, researcher, and author Daniel Cervone provides students with a new and exciting way of understanding psychology.  Cervone organizes material around three levels of analysis -- person, mind, and brain -- and employs a person-first format that consistently introduces topics at the person level: theory and research on the lives of people in sociocultural contexts. Students are able to make sense of the latest research through what they understand best: people.

With fellow teacher and researcher Tracy Caldwell, Cervone has conceived a text beyond the print experience from the ground up, integrating online immersive research experiences and assessment tools that capitalize on research findings on pedagogy and student learning (e.g., the testing effect).　

Pedagogical Author, Tracy L. Caldwell
Working closely with Daniel Cervone, fellow teacher and researcher Tracy Caldwell of Dominican University developed the book’s pedagogical program from the Preview Questions at the beginning of each section to the Self-Tests at the end of each chapter. The pedagogy is designed to engage students at multiple levels of Bloom’s taxonomy and at multiple points in each chapter.

Features

PEDAGOGICAL FEATURES

  • Preview Questions before major chapter subsections pose questions that are answered in the reading. The Chapter Review repeats and answers these same questions.

  • Think About It asks students to pause and think critically about a particular topic from the perspective of a psychological scientist.

  • The boxed In Your Life questions appear throughout each chapter in the margins to help students identify applications of the material to their own lives.

  • What Do You Know? appears at the end of each section so students can immediately test their understanding of the material through the first three levels of Bloom’s taxonomy.

  • Questions for Discussion in the end-of-chapter material support the higher levels of Bloom’s taxonomy through Level 5 Synthesis.

  • An end-of-chapter Self-Test consisting of 15 multiple-choice questions is designed to challenge students through the first four levels.


PERSON, MIND, AND BRAIN (PMB) FEATURES

PMB In Action introduces a question central to the chapter and shows how it can be understood at the combined levels of person, mind, and brain. In this chapter, readers can see how information from all three levels contributes to our understanding of Capgras syndrome, introduced in the opening vignette.

PMB Connections shows students where related topics can be found in other parts of the book. Not only does this orient students to helpful information in other chapters, it also shows them how the information they are learning fits in with the discipline as a whole, allowing them to comprehend and scaffold the material more effectively.


ENRICHMENT FEATURES

The text highlights several key topics in every chapter, including methods, culture, and new research with a series of enrichment features: 

  • The Research Toolkit shows readers how psychology is a science built on experiments and discoveries. Among the methods highlighted is fMRI in Chapter 3.
  • Cultural Opportunities explores the many ways in which culture influences human behavior and how we use our brains.
  • This Just In points to highly significant and new research that has overturned a previous way of thinking. Chapter 3 features the 2010 discovery of a new form of neural communication. These features are not boxed and segregated as is traditional, but are integrated within the flow of the narrative, precisely where students will understand their connection to the related topic/concept.


    INTEGRATED MEDIA

    New Online Feature—Try This!
    Psychology: The Science of Person, Mind, and Brain is unique in that it integrates the very experience of participating in research. Each chapter features an activity called Try This! which requires students to complete an online research task in LaunchPad, giving them firsthand experience with topics such as false memory, the Stroop test, and mental rotation. After completing each activity and receiving their results, students’ experience with each task is then discussed within the text to deepen their knowledge and engagement.


    LaunchPad
    Psychology: The Science of Person, Mind, and Brain has its own dedicated version of Worth Publishers’ new online course space, LaunchPad. LaunchPad offers acclaimed media content, curated and organized for easy assignability and presented in an intuitive interface that combines power and simplicity. A demo of LaunchPad for this title will be available March 1, 2015, at www.pmbpsychology.com.

    Developed with extensive feedback from instructors and students, LaunchPad offers:

    • Pre-built units for each chapter, curated by experienced educators, with media for that chapter organized and ready to assign or customize to suit your course.
    • All online resources for the text in one location, including an interactive e-book, LearningCurve adaptive quizzing (see below), the online component of the textbook feature, Try This! and more.
    • Intuitive Gradebook that lets you see how your class is doing individually and as a whole.
    • A streamlined interface that lets you build an entire course in minutes.


    LearningCurve
    In a game-like format, LearningCurve adaptive and formative quizzing provides an effective way to get students 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.

    • New to This Edition

    Digital Options

    Table of Contents

    Introduction
    1. Introducing Psychology
    2. Research Methods

    Brain: Biological Foundations of Experience and Behavior
    3. The Brain and the Nervous System
    4. Nature, Nurture, and Their Interaction
    5. Sensation and Perception

    Mind: Psychological Systems of Thought, Emotion, and Motivation
    6. Memory
    7. Learning
    8. Thinking, Language, and Intelligence
    9. Consciousness
    10. Emotion, Stress, and Health
    11. Motivation

    Person:  The Individual in Social Context
    12. Social Psychology
    13. Personality
    14. Development
    15. Psychological Disorders I: Anxiety and Mood Disorders
    16. Psychological Disorders II: Schizophrenia, Personality Disorders, and Dissociative Disorders

    Appendix A: Statistics
    Appendix B: Chapter Summaries and Answers

    Daniel Cervone

    Daniel Cervone is Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he has spent his entire career. He earned his B.A. at Oberlin College and his PhD from Stanford University, where he was a student of Albert Bandura. He has held visiting faculty positions at the University of Washington and the University of Rome "La Sapienza," and has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.

    In addition to introductory psychology, Dan teaches personality psychology, social cognition, and research methods. He is graduate advisor to doctoral students in social/personality and clinical psychology, and serves as a Fellow in UIC’s undergraduate Honors College. 

    Dan is the author of a graduate-level and undergraduate texts in personality, and co-editor of four volumes in personality science. He has published numerous scientific articles, primarily in the study of social-cognitive processes and personality. He has served as the Program Chairperson of the annual convention of the Association for Psychological Science on three occasions, and is the U.S.-based Chairperson of the inaugural International Convention of Psychological Science.

    Tracy L. Caldwell (pedagogical author)

    Tracy L. Caldwell is Associate Professor of Psychology at Dominican University, where she was recently appointed a Diversity Fellow. She earned her B.A. at The College of New Jersey and her Ph.D. in personality and social psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

    Tracy caught the teaching bug during graduate school, when as a teaching assistant for a large section of introductory psychology, she led several smaller discussion sections. In her post as visiting faculty at North Central College, she had the opportunity to teach smaller sections of introductory psychology and to develop her pedagogical skills.

    In addition to teaching introductory psychology, Tracy teaches personality psychology, social psychology, the psychology of gender, and research methods and statistics. She has also taught seminars in social cognition and the psychology of romantic relationships. She is the faculty advisor for Dominican University’s Psychology Club and its chapter of Psi Chi, the International Honors Society in Psychology.

    Tracy has published articles on a variety of topics including how stereotypes are formed, how people with a repressive coping style process threat, and on how to best assess humor styles. She currently conducts research on the scholarship of teaching and learning, sex differences in the attractiveness of humor in romantic relationships, and on the accommodation of learning styles.

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