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Scientific American: Psychology
Third Edition| ©2020 Deborah Licht; Misty Hull; Coco Ballantyne
In this breakthrough student resource, two committed, tech-savvy professors, Deborah Licht and Misty Hull, combine years of research and teaching insights with the journalistic skill of science writer, Coco Ballantyne, who came to the project directly from Scientific American. Together, they have...
In this breakthrough student resource, two committed, tech-savvy professors, Deborah Licht and Misty Hull, combine years of research and teaching insights with the journalistic skill of science writer, Coco Ballantyne, who came to the project directly from Scientific American. Together, they have created an introductory psychology textbook and online learning and comprehension system that draws on written profiles and video interviews of real people and their stories to help students better understand and relate to psychology's foundational concepts and ideas as well as solutions for the 10 challenges that face both students and instructors in the introductory course today.
Beginning with addressing the top 10 Challenges facing instructors (creating relevance, student engagement, seeing psychology as a science, teaching the hardest concepts, and dispelling myths) and students (students see the big picture, learning the toughest concepts, seeing the connections between life and psychology, relevancy to the real world, and diversity) in the Preface, Scientific American: Psychology 3e is filled with high-interest examples and features, including full-page infographics that help students understand and retain key concepts.
With a renewed emphasis on research methods in a brand new stand-alone Chapter 2 (Research Methods), 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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In this breakthrough student resource, two committed, tech-savvy professors, Deborah Licht and Misty Hull, combine years of research and teaching insights with the journalistic skill of science writer, Coco Ballantyne, who came to the project directly from Scientific American. Together, they have created an introductory psychology textbook and online learning and comprehension system that draws on written profiles and video interviews of real people and their stories to help students better understand and relate to psychology's foundational concepts and ideas as well as solutions for the 10 challenges that face both students and instructors in the introductory course today.
Beginning with addressing the top 10 Challenges facing instructors (creating relevance, student engagement, seeing psychology as a science, teaching the hardest concepts, and dispelling myths) and students (students see the big picture, learning the toughest concepts, seeing the connections between life and psychology, relevancy to the real world, and diversity) in the Preface, Scientific American: Psychology 3e is filled with high-interest examples and features, including full-page infographics that help students understand and retain key concepts.
With a renewed emphasis on research methods in a brand new stand-alone Chapter 2 (Research Methods), 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.
Features
Stories and Videos of Real People, Woven Through Each Chapter
In Scientific American: Psychology, chapters don’t just feature opening stories. They are stories—stories of real people, carefully chosen for their memorability and relevance to chapter content. Based on interviews, the stories are woven through each chapter from beginning to end, but they don’t just exist on the page. In Their Own Words and You Asked, They Answered QR codes in the book link students to online video interviews with chapter subjects, making them, and the relevance of their stories to course content, even more memorable. An integrated case study assessment in Achieve further reinforces the connection between the stories and important psychological concepts.
Unique Author Team
This mix of authors allows for a blend of authority on psychological topics and attention to the struggles of community college students all in the journalistic style of writing that students are so closely attuned to reading.
Along with student engagement with the personal stories, Psychology 3e also aims to:
- Demonstrate that psychology is a science
- Help students see the "big picture"
- Provide high-quality accessible visuals that make a difference!
- Illustrate real-world applications
- Maintain a positive perspective of psychology
- Emphasize gender and cultural diversity
- Help dispel myths
- Provide quality assessments
- Create interactive, technology-based learning that appeals to students
Highly Visual Infographics That Clarify Complex Concepts
Driven by extensive research into the concepts students and instructors consider difficult, innovative infographics helps unravel complex concepts by combining memorable images and clear, step-by-step explanations into a single, large-scale storyboard.
Thematic Features Integrated into Each Chapter
As students progress through the book, they will come across six recurring themes: nature and nurture, culture, gender, 21st-century skills, and positive psychology. These thematic features serve as extended examples to help students grasp important ideas. They appear only when they can help illustrate the content at hand, within and a part of the narrative, instead of as an aside. Themes include:
- Social Media and Psychology highlights contemporary research on the impact of Facebook, Twitter, and other social media applications on behavior
- Across the World highlights fascinating research on behavior variation across cultures
- Nature and Nurture looks at twin studies, genetic research, and heritability studies to give students a sense of how heredity and environment shape human behavior
- Didn’t See That Coming details unexpected, high-interest, and newsworthy developments related to the chapter’s theme
- Controversies examines debates over contemporary research and issues in the psychological community.
- Think Again helps students improve their critical thinking by digging deeper into key concepts or deconstructing popular psychological myths
- Connections provides annotated cross-references to material in previous chapters to explain relationships among topics.
- "Try This" offers students a quick applications exercise relevant to their understanding of experimentation in psychology.
- "Apply This" features in each chapter call students attention to ways in which the science of psychology comes to life in the real world. Designed to show students how psychological science is applicable to everyone, sometimes in surprising ways.
Digital Authorship Beyond the Book
Licht, Hull, and Ballantyne’s belief in aligning text, video, and assessment with learning objectives, in both the print and digital environments, makes this project a trustworthy teaching and assessment resource for instructors and administrators in the digital age. The authors’ work goes beyond the printed page: they are also the curators of the scaffolded online assignments in Achieve, authors of thousands of questions for the book in Worth’s acclaimed online adaptive quizzing system, LearningCurve, and the new Achieve: Read & Practice student resource.
New to This Edition
Right from the Start!
A brand new stand-alone chapter on research methods (Chapter 2: Research Methods) provides a laser focus on this important topic and delves into cutting edge methods of research.
A whole new visual design enhances the reading experience and provides a consistent learning system that helps students master the foundational concepts of psychology.
Collaborate and Report features are active learning activities which prompt students to apply material and generate ideas in small groups.
A new Career Connections feature that helps students to see occupations and career situations where psychology can be applied and/or play a role.
New Infographics including one on critical thinking using global warming as the example (Ch 1), perceptual illusions (Ch 3), the effects of psychoactive drugs (Ch 4), the four partial reinforcement schedules (Ch 5), the causes and symptoms of CTE (Ch 6), and pathways to happiness (Ch 9), among several more.
New integrated stories (and accompanying Online Video Profiles) about Anais Bordier and Samantha Futerman, identical twins separated at birth and reunited 25 years later with the help of social media (Ch 1), Mandy Harvey, a singer/musician who is completely deaf (Ch 3), Dr. Divya Chander, a neuroscientist and anesthesiologist who studied consciousness using technologies such as optogenetics (Ch 4), the "dog whisperer" Cesar Millan, examining how learning processes have played a role in his life and work, former NFL linebaker Harry Carson, who suffers from language difficulties that appear to be linked to football and CTE, the multigenerational family of Ericka Harley, who work with teen parents striving to attain college degrees, and about the personality development of intersex activist Sean Saifa, and four more.
A number of new tables and Infographics, including an outline of the characteristics of critical thinkers, how to cultivate 21st century skills (Ch 1), the functions of various regions in the brain’s cortex (Ch 3), mnemonic devices to remember the characteristics of light and sound waves (Ch 4), terms to describe the stimulus and response in classical conditioning (Ch 6), illustrating newborn reflexes with photos (Ch 9), comparing classical and operant conditioning (Ch 6), new treatments for eating disorders (Ch 14), among others.
New From the Pages of Scientific American features including new articles on how parents often fail to set a good example for their children when it comes to limiting screen time (Ch 1), on the potential drawbacks of high emotional intelligence (Ch 7), role of memory in exposure therapy (Ch 14), about how financial stress influences pain perception (Ch 12), and personality changes over the life span (Ch 10), and many more.
A completely revised and revamped Test Bank and instructor supplements package as well as new author created content in Achieve, LearningCurve, and Achieve: Read & Practice.


Scientific American: Psychology
Third Edition| ©2020
Deborah Licht; Misty Hull; Coco Ballantyne
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Scientific American: Psychology
Third Edition| 2020
Deborah Licht; Misty Hull; Coco Ballantyne
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: An Introduction to Psychology familiarizes students with the field of psychology using the harrowing story of a Thai soccer team that spent 17 days trapped in a flooded cave.
Chapter 2: Research Methods Introduces the fundamentals of research and statistics with the help of Samantha Futerman and Anaïs Bordier, identical twin sisters who were separated at birth and reunited at age 25.
Chapter 3: 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 4: Sensation and Perception examines the rich sensory experiences of Mandy Harvey, a singer and musician who is completely deaf.
Chapter 5: 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 6: Learning illustrates how learning principles relate to the life story of “The Dog Whisperer” Cesar Millan.
Chapter 7: 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 8: Cognition, Language, and Intelligence explores the cognitive breakdown and incredible recovery of stroke survivor Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor.
Chapter 9: Human Development profiles the extended family of Ericka Harley, a teenage mother who earned her college degree while raising her daughter.
Chapter 10: 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 11: Sexuality and Gender shares the unique insights of sex therapist Dr. Stephanie Buehler, and explores the concept gender with the help of nurse Stephen Patten.
Chapter 12: Personality examines the personality development of intersex advocate Sean “Saifa” Wall.
Chapter 13: 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 14: Stress and Health offers a glimpse into the stressful but rewarding careers of police lieutenant Christy Sheppard and firefighter-paramedic Kehlen Kirby.
Chapter 15: Psychological Disorders tells the story of Ross Szabo, a young man with bipolar disorder, and Melissa Hopely, young woman with obsessive compulsive disorder.
Chapter 16: 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.


Scientific American: Psychology
Third Edition| 2020
Deborah Licht; Misty Hull; Coco Ballantyne
Authors

Deborah Licht
Deborah Licht is a professor of psychology at Pikes Peak State 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 State 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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Deborah Licht; Misty Hull; Coco Ballantyne
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