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Scientific American: Presenting Psychology
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Scientific American: Presenting Psychology empowers instructors and students for success with unique features like 10 Challenges, the new Chapter 0: Are You Ready For This?, engaging personal stories that students really connect with, and full-page infographics.<...
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Presenting Psychology Helps You Tackle Your Top Ten Challenges whether you are a student or an instructor.
Scientific American: Presenting Psychology empowers instructors and students for success with unique features like 10 Challenges, the new Chapter 0: Are You Ready For This?, engaging personal stories that students really connect with, and full-page infographics.
Throughout the text the author teams focuses on the top 10 Challenges facing instructors. Do you face any of these in your classroom?
- Creating relevance and student engagement
- Demonstrating that psychology is a science
- Helping students see the “big picture”
- Teaching and student mastery of the most challenging concepts
- Providing high-quality accessible visuals that make a difference!
- Illustrating real-world applications
- Maintaining a positive perspective of psychology
- Emphasizing gender and cultural diversity
- Dispelling myths
- Providing quality assessments
The unique “Chapter 0: Are You Ready For This?” provides students with a general sense of what the science of psychology is (and isn’t), a quick test of their current knowledge of psychology, why the discipline matters to all of us, the importance of critical thinking skills, and how to get the most out of the field of psychology. What students take from psychology will help them become a more successful student, professional, friend, partner, parent, brother, or sister—a better citizen of the world. Chapter 0 prepares them for their journey.
Presenting Psychology is filled with high-interest examples and features, including full-page infographics and seven distinct themes that help students understand and retain key concepts.
In the second edition, tech-savvy professors, Deborah Licht and Misty Hull, combine years of research and teaching insights with the journalistic skill of science writer, Coco Ballantyne, from Scientific American.
Together, they have created an introductory psychology textbook and online learning platform helps turn your 10 Challenges into student engagement and success. From preparing them for the course with Chapter 0 to breaking down difficult concepts with infographics. As well written profiles and video interviews of real people and their stories to help students better understand and relate to psychology’s foundational concepts.
This innovative collaboration between Worth Publishers and Scientific American reflects a commitment to engaging and educating all students, including those who sometimes seem difficult to engage—in the contemporary style of the world’s most respected science magazine.
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Lynn Garrioch, Colby-Sawyer College“This is the best introductory text I’ve come across.”
Rachel Laimon, Mott Community College“Presenting Psychology is a text that engages readers like no other with its use of real life stories that relate to the material. It’s the only book that does it.”
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Table of Contents
Chapter 0: Are You Ready for This? Introduces students to the science of psychology using the harrowing story of 33 Chilean miners who spent 10 weeks trapped in a cave.Chapter 1: Introduction to the Science of Psychology Explores the history of psychology and research fundamentals with the help of Samantha Futerman and Anaïs Bordier, identical twin sisters who were separated at birth and reunited at age 25.
Chapter 2: Biology and Behavior interweaves biological concepts with the story of Iraq War veteran Brandon Burns, who experienced a miraculous recovery from a brain injury, and Christina Santhouse, who has thrived despite having nearly half her brain surgically removed.
Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception examines the rich sensory experiences of Mandy Harvey, a singer and musician who is completely deaf.
Chapter 4: Consciousness shares the unique insights of anesthesiologist and neuroscientist Dr. Divya Chander, and follows Matt Utesch as he deals with the challenges of narcolepsy.
Chapter 5: Learning illustrates how learning principles relate to the life story of “The Dog Whisperer” Cesar Millan.
Chapter 6: Memory tells the poignant tale of Clive Wearing, a man who has suffered profound and extensive memory loss as a result of a brain infection.
Chapter 7: Cognition, Language, and Intelligence explores the cognitive breakdown and incredible recovery of stroke survivor Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor.
Chapter 8: Human Development profiles the extended family of Ericka Harley, a teenage mother who earned her college degree while raising her daughter.
Chapter 9: Motivation and Emotion details the journey of Ivonne Mosquera-Schmidt, a triathlete and Paralympian runner who is completely blind, and explores the emotions of combat veteran Ibrahim Hashi.
Chapter 10: Personality examines the personality development of intersex advocate Sean “Saifa” Wall.
Chapter 11: Social Psychology tells the story of Alexa and Dennis Conforti, a married couple that met through the dating app Tinder, and profiles Julius Achon, an Olympic runner who adopted 11 orphans from his homeland of Uganda.
Chapter 12: Stress and Health offers a glimpse into the stressful but rewarding careers of police lieutenant Christy Sheppard and firefighter-paramedic Kehlen Kirby.
Chapter 13: Psychological Disorders tells the story of Ross Szabo, a young man with bipolar disorder, and Melissa Hopely, young woman with obsessive compulsive disorder.
Chapter 14: Treatment of Psychological Disorders focuses on the life and work of two clinical psychologists—Dr. Daniel Foster, who works on an Indian Reservation, and Dr. Nneka Jones Tapia, who works as a jail warden.
Authors
Deborah Licht
Deborah Licht is a professor of psychology at Pikes Peak Community College in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She has over two decades of teaching and research experience in a variety of settings, ranging from a small private university in the midwest to a large public university in Copenhagen, Denmark. She has taught introductory psychology, psychology of the workplace, abnormal psychology, the history of psychology, child development, and elementary statistics. She has experience in traditional, online, and hybrid courses, and is particularly inspired by first-generation college students who turn to community colleges to pursue their education. She received a BS in psychology from Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio; an MA in clinical psychology from the University of Dayton; and a PhD in psychology (experimental psychopathology) from Harvard University. She continues to be interested in research on causal beliefs and their influence on behavior, particularly in relation to how college students think about their successes and failures as they pursue their degrees.
Misty Hull
Misty Hull is a professor of psychology at Pikes Peak Community College in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She has taught a range of psychology courses at Pikes Peak Community College, including introductory psychology, human sexuality, and social psychology in a variety of delivery formats (traditional, online, and hybrid). Her love of teaching comes through in her dedication to mentoring new and part-time faculty in the teaching of psychology. She received her BS in human development and family studies from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, and an MA in professional counseling at Colorado Christian University in Lakewood, Colorado. She has served in a variety of administrative roles at Pikes Peak Community College, including interim associate dean, and coordinator of the Student Crisis Counseling Office. In addition, she has helped to facilitate the state system’s approach to teaching psychology, as the state psychology discipline chair of the Colorado Community College System from 2002 to 2010. One of her many professional interests is research on the impact of student persistence in higher education.
Coco Ballantyne
Coco Ballantyne is a New York–based journalist and science writer with a special interest in psychology. Before collaborating with Misty Hull and Deborah Licht on Scientific American: Psychology and Scientific American: Presenting Psychology, Coco worked as a reporter for Scientific American online, covering the health, medicine, and neuroscience beats. She has also written for Discover magazine and Nature Medicine. Coco earned an MS from the Columbia University School of Journalism, where she received a Horgan Prize for Excellence in Critical Science Writing. Prior to her journalistic career, Coco worked as a teacher and tutor, helping high school and college students prepare for standardized tests such as the SAT, GRE, and MCAT. She also worked as a physics and math teacher at Eastside College Preparatory School in East Palo Alto, California, and as a Human Biology course associate at Stanford University, where she earned a BA in human biology.
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