Synopses & Reviews
For the past two decades, Karen Huffman's active-learning approach to introductory psychology has established a proven track record of motivating students and directly involving them in their own learning. Now more active than ever, her new Eighth Edition features a refined and expanded pedagogical framework that gets results.
The text helps students examine their own personal studying and learning styles and apply what they are learning to their everyday lives, while offering ongoing study tips and psychological techniques for mastering the material. Most importantly, students are provided with numerous opportunities to immediately assess their understanding. As its name implies, Psychology In Action has become the acknowledged leader of active learning and student success.
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The perfectly choreographed learning experience!
As a full-time teacher of psychology, Karen Huffman knows that covering all the major concepts and theories, while still presenting the exciting and practical applications of psychology, is a challenge. To meet it, you need a fully integrated text and supplements package that sets the stage for a perfectly choreographed learning experience.
The complete "Psychology in Action" learning package:
WileyPLUS: Helps instructors create a learning environment where students can reach their full potential. Includes homework management, presentation resources, a grade book, a complete online text, and more. www.wiley.com/college/wileyplus Online Animations, Simulations, and Videos: A robust suite of multimedia learning resources, including animations, interactive exercises, simulations and virtual experiments, and brief video clips from ScienCentral. dditional Videos: A full catalog is available at www.wiley.com/college/psychology. Available from Films for the Humanities. Student Companion Web Site: Includes interactive key term flash cards, chapter review quizzes, an online web research guide, and annotated web links. Student Study and Review Guide: Offers students an easy way to review the material before quizzes and exams. Instructor Resource Web Site: Helps instructors prepare for class, enhance presentations, and assess students' progress. Instructor’ s Resource Guide: Lecture lead-ins, active learning exercises, and much more. PowerPoint Presentations and Image Gallery: PowerPoints highlighting major terms and concepts, as well as online files for most figures and tables in the text. Computerized Test Bank: Includes nearly2,000 test items. Wiley Faculty Network: Peer-to-peer teaching advice and technical support from college psychology teachers. www.wherefacultyconnect.com WebCT and Blackboard courses are also available.
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Keeping up-to-date with the rapidly changing field of psychology can be overwhelming. In the new eighth edition, Huffman engages readers by showing how the latest concepts and theories are applied in their everyday lives. She follows a modular approach to the study of psychology, providing ongoing study tips and psychological techniques for mastering the material. This approach motivates the reader while quickly expanding their understanding of the subject.
Table of Contents
Introduction and Research Methods
1. Introducing Psychology
2. Origins of Psychology
3. The Science of Psychology
4. Research Methods
5. Tools for Student Success
Neuroscience and Biological Foundations
6. Neural Bases of Behavior
7. Nervous System Organization
8. A Tour Through the Brain
9. Our Genetic Inheritance
Stress and Health Psychology
10. Understanding Stress
11. Stress and Illness
12. Healthy Psychology in Action
13. Health and Stress Management
Sensation and Perception
14. Sensation
15. Perception
States of Consciousness
16. Consciousness, Sleep and Dreams
17. Drugs and Other Routes to ASCs
Learning
18. Classical Conditioning
19. Operant Conditioning
20. Cognitive-Social Learning
21. The Biology of Learning
Memory
22. The Nature of Memory
23. Forgetting
24. Biological Bases of Memory
Thinking, Language, and Intelligence
25. Thinking
26. Language
27. Intelligence
Life Span Development I
28. Fundamentals of Development
29. Cognitive Development
30. Social-Emotional Development
Life Span Development II
31. Moral and Personality Development
32. Meeting the Challenges of Adulthood
Gender and Human Sexuality
33. Sex and Gender
34. Sexual Behavior and Problems
Motivation and Emotion
35. Motivation
36. Emotion
37. Critical Thinking About Motivation and Emotion
Personality
38. Trait Theories
39. Psychoanalytic/Psychodynamic Theories
40. Other Major Theories
41. Personality Assessment
Psychological Disorders
42. Studying Psychological Disorders
43. Anxiety Disorders
44. Mood Disorders
45. Schizophrenia
46. Other Disorders
Therapy
47. Insight Therapies
48. Behavior Therapies
49. Biomedical Therapies
50. Therapy and Critical Thinking
Social Psychology
51. Our Thoughts About Others
52. Our Feelings About Others
53. Our Actions Towards Others
54. Applying Social Psychology to Social Problems