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Eighth Edition ©2018 Sandra E. Hockenbury; Susan Nolan

This acclaimed classroom favorite makes the science of psychology (and through that, the process of science itself) come alive for students, with personal stories that exemplify important concepts in a student-friendly way, and with coverage of the field’s scientific foundations and advances that is...
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This acclaimed classroom favorite makes the science of psychology (and through that, the process of science itself) come alive for students, with personal stories that exemplify important concepts in a student-friendly way, and with coverage of the field’s scientific foundations and advances that is accessible without being oversimplified.

The substantially updated new edition extends the book’s focus on developing scientific literacy in the context of psychology, with new features in print and in the book’s new online course space, LaunchPad. These features are the result of the book’s most dramatic addition—Sandra Hockenbury’s new writing partnership with co-author, Susan Nolan, who shares her belief that the introductory course can help all kinds of students develop a real understanding of psychology and lasting scientific literacy without sacrificing the field’s research core.

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Sandra Hockenbury and Susan Nolan

The enduring, distinctive voice of Psychology is hallmark Hockenbury and Nolan. As teachers and writers and researchers--and also travelers and friends and people with families—these authors readily engage the reader with relatable, everyday examples that make abstract concepts understandable. This book’s narrative approach is often praised as an effective teaching method, helping to link familiar stories to important concepts and ideas. As part of this approach, the 8th edition includes two new Chapter Prologues: "Identical Twins?" (Chapter 11, Personality) helps us understand personality differences through the incredible story of Colombian twins switched at birth; and "The EyeWriter" (Chapter 7, Thinking, Language, and Intelligence) introduces a team whose problem-solving and creativity enables a graffiti artist paralyzed by ALS to create art.

Emphasis on Scientific Literacy and Scientific Thinking

With Hockenbury and Nolan’s Psychology, introductory psychology students will gain a solid understanding of the scientific nature of the discipline. In every chapter, students are guided through details of experiments and studies, helping them to see how the scientific method is applied. This emphasis includes trademark Science Versus Pseudoscience boxes; Critical Thinking boxes, especially "How to Think Like a Scientist"; and Think Like a Scientist, the acclaimed digital activities authored by Sandra Hockenbury and Susan Nolan specifically for Psychology.

Cultural and Gender Coverage

Sandra Hockenbury and Susan Nolan are committed to expanding students’ awareness of cultural and gender influences, with a rich program of main-text discussion, focused boxes, and prominent illustrations.

New to This Edition

Major Updates
Hundreds of new references. New sections on important research developments and trends in a wide range of areas such as sleep stages, impacts of the “gig economy,” “learning styles,” autism spectrum disorder, animal personality, increasing access to mental health care, and the use of social media for diagnosis.


Curating Psychology: Streamlining Coverage for Effective Instruction
As part of the significant updates in this edition, Sandra Hockenbury and Susan Nolan have taken very seriously their role as curators of psychology, helping the instructor of introductory psychology to survey the vast field without overwhelming beginning students in details and data. Just as important as choosing what new studies to add and which research trends to emphasize is choosing which topics to condense, reorganize, or deemphasize. In Psychology 8e, the authors have carefully asked themselves again and again, “What does the introductory student need to know?” The end result: Despite significant new material, each chapter in the 8th edition is pages shorter than in the previous edition, and even more effectively focused for an introductory audience.


Pedagogical System Carefully designed to help students identify important information, test for retention, and learn how to learn. Sandra Hockenbury and Susan Nolan continue to adapt and improve Psychology’s proven system; in this edition,  replacing the Key Points section, new visual end-of-chapter Concept Maps show the relationships among concepts and help students consolidate memory of new information. And, in recognition of the far more effective self-testing opportunity available in LearningCurve, the static, in-text Concept Reviews of previous editions have been dropped. Now, at the end of major sections, there is more emphasis on prompting students to test their understanding with LearningCurve’s adaptive quizzing.


Increased Integration of Successful Digital Package
In addition to Psychology’s unique, acclaimed Think Like a Scientist feature, highlighted in the margins of each chapter is an all-new array of LaunchPad videos and activities that have been carefully selected by Sandra Hockenbury and Susan Nolan for precise relevance to specific topics as they are covered in this edition.

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Achieve Read & Practice marries Macmillan Learning’s mobile-accessible eBook with the acclaimed LearningCurve adaptive quizzing. It is an easy-to-use yet exceptionally powerful teaching and learning option that streamlines the process of increasing student engagement and understanding. instructors can assign reading simply, students can complete assignments on any device, and the cost is significantly less than that of a printed book.

With Achieve Read & Practice:
• Instructors can arrange and assign chapters and sections from the eBook in any sequence they prefer.
• Assignments come with LearningCurve quizzes offering individualized question sets, feedback, and eBook references that adapt to correct and incorrect answers. If students struggle with a particular topic, they are encouraged to re-read the material and answer a few short additional questions.
• The Read & Practice gradebook tracks student performance individually and for the whole class, helping instructors prepare for class and one-on-one discussions.

 

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Table of Contents

Section 1: Introducing Psychology
Chapter 1: Introduction and Research Methods

Section 2: Psychobiological Processes
Chapter 2: Neuroscience and Behavior
Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception
Chapter 4: Consciousness and Its Variations

Section 3: Basic Psychological Processes
Chapter 5: Learning
Chapter 6: Memory
Chapter 7: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence
Chapter 8: Motivation and Emotion

Section 4: The Development of The Self
Chapter 9: Lifespan Development
Chapter 10: Gender and Sexuality
Chapter 11: Personality

Section 5: The Person in Social Context
Chapter 12: Social Psychology

Section 6: Psychological Problems, Disorders, and Treatment
Chapter 13: Stress, Health, and Coping
Chapter 14: Psychological Disorders
Chapter 15: Therapies

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.

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.

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