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Psychology And Life Australasian edition
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Bringing the science of psychology to life!
Introductory psychology courses need to be supported by a text which not only excites and motivates students to learn but is also reliable, comprehensive and written to provide a solid foundation for their further studies.
Now carefully adapted to offer a local context, this classic psychology text emphasises the science of psychology, with a special focus on applying that science to students’ everyday lives. Australasian research, examples and statistics help make the theory even more relevant for today’s students. As a result of lecturer reviews, surveys and focus groups, the area of cross-cultural and indigenous psychology from an Australian perspective has been thoroughly integrated throughout the text.
Psychology and Life provides a rigorous, research-centred survey of the discipline while offering students special features and learning aids that will make the science of psychology relevant, spark their interest and excite their imaginations.
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How familiar are your students with the scientific process? How do you get students to understand that psychology is a rigorous science?
An important goal of Psychology and Life is to teach the scientific basis of psychological reasoning. Within each chapter we integrate directly into the text descriptions of classic and cutting edge research studies, identified by a vertical blue line next to the text, that showcase the how and why behind key psychological research.
These research studies include:
- plasticity in the visual cortex of adult rats;
- the impact of environment on the IQ of Indigenous children
- the impact of culture on judgments of which category members are typical; the impact of emotions on memory for visual details;
- animal cognition
- the stigma of mental illness in Indigenous and NESB (non-English speaking background) communities
- family therapy for children’s anxiety disorders;
- longitudinal study of the social development of Australian children
- links between genetics and obesity
Do your students ask themselves: "Why am I here? When will I use this information?" How do you motivate them to see that psychology is a dynamic, relevant discipline?
1. Our local authors have been able to provide greater relevance to our students through the addition of local research, examples, pictures and statistics.
Such examples include:
- section of careers in psychology in Australia (Ch 1)
- Psychology in Your Life box on relationships on the internet (Ch 16)
- new section on violence in video games (Ch 17)
2. Psychology in Your Life sections show students how psychological knowledge is directly relevant to the decisions they make everyday by presenting and exploring questions posed by psychology students themselves.
Psychology in Your Life topics include:
- Why Does Music Have An Impact on How You Feel? (Chapter 3)
- Do You Get Enough Sleep? (Chapter 5)
- Do Theories of Intelligence Matter? (Chapter 9)
- Will Your Brain Work Differently as You Age? (Chapter 10)
- Why Are Some People Happier than Others? (Chapter 12)
- How Might Reconciliation Be Possible? (Chapter 17)
How are your students’ critical thinking skills? Do you find yourself in the position of having to "unteach" some of the notions about psychology they may have acquired through the popular media?
Recognising that students quite often have acquired partial or even incorrect understandings of psychological concepts from the popular media, we have a feature we call Critical Thinking in Your Life in which we seek to confront students directly with the experimental basis of critical conclusions to teach them how to interpret and evaluate what they hear in the media and become wiser consumers of the abundance of research studies and surveys cited.
Critical Thinking in Your Life topics include:
- How Can You Evaluate Psychological Information on the Web? (Chapter 2)
- What Does “It’s Genetic” Mean? (Chapter 3)
- Can Technology Restore Sight? (Chapter 4)
- Are breastfed children more intelligent? (Chapter 9)
- Can lasting relationships form on the internet? (Chapter 16)
We also reinforce critical thinking skills in several other ways:
- Critical Thinking questions with every Concept Questions box (at the end of each major chapter section)
- Probing questions paired with photos and figures
- Essay questions at the end of each chapter.
Are you looking for a text with strong coverage of social psychology?
We cover social psychology in two chapters.
- Chapter 16, Social Cognition and Relationships, covers classic and contemporary social psychological research on social cognition and relationships.
- In Chapter 17, Social Processes, Society, and Culture, we show students how psychology influences public policy and how psychologists participate responsibly in society. We include current research on social behaviour in a cross-cultural perspective, moral judgments, aggression and prejudice, authority influences, and political and peace psychology.
How do you keep your brightest students motivated without leaving other students behind?
Psychology and Life has maintained a reputation for presenting the science of psychology in a way that is challenging, yet accessible, to a broad range of students. To enhance students’ experience with the book, we include several pedagogical features and have thoroughly integrated our innovative, interactive online technology.
- Concept Questions. This feature appears at the end of every major section and provides students with thought-provoking questions to test their mastery of material before moving on.
- Recap Checkpoint. This feature distils key concepts into a dot-point summary at the end of each major section.
- Practice Test. Each chapter concludes with a practice test with multiple choice questions based on the material in both the main text and the boxes. In addition, we’ve provided sample essay questions that allow students to think more broadly about the content of each chapter.
- MYPSYCHLAB with E-book. This interactive online learning tool is available and integrated throughout every text. What Is MyPsychLab? MyPsychLab is where you save time and improve results. It combines multimedia, tutorials, video, simulations, animations, tests and quizzes to make teaching and learning fun! Fully customisable and easy to use, MyPsychLab for introductory psychology meets the individual teaching and learning needs of every instructor and every student. Visit the site at www.pearsoned.com.au/mypsychlab.
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1.Psychology and life
2.Research methods in psychology
3.The biological and evolutionary bases of behaviour
4.Sensation and perception
5.Mind, consciousness, and alternate states
6.Learning and behavior analysis
7.Memory
8.Cognitive processes
9.Intelligence and intelligence assessment
10.Human development across the life span
11.Motivation
12.Emotion, stress and health
13.Understanding human personality
14.Psychological disorders
15.Therapies for psychological disorders
16.Social cognition and relationships
17.Social processes, society and culture
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Adapting authors:
Dr Andrew Campbell is a Lecturer in Psychology at The University of Sydney and has been conducting research into the use of the Internet, computer games and multimedia in regards to their impact and influence on human behaviour.
Andrew is the Director of Prometheus (www.prometheus.net.au), a unique research group located in the Faculty of Health Sciences at The University of Sydney. Prometheus is dedicated to the research and application of technology towards the advancement of mental health treatments in such disorders as Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD), depression, anxiety, stress, self-esteem, and identity formation of children and adolescents. He is also a registered psychologist in New South Wales and runs a clinic at the Brain and Mind Research Institute in
Sydney which is dedicated to the treatment of child and adolescent psychological disorders. This clinic specialises in established psychological disorders such as AD/HD, depression and anxiety, as well as emerging problems with youth, such as computer game obsession behaviour (computer game addiction).
Dr. Steven Cumming. Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, School of Behavioural and Community Health Sciences, University of Sydney. Areas of expertise: clinical and cognitive psychology.
Dr Fiona J. Wilkes. Associate Lecturer, University of Western Sydney, Undergraduate Course Advisor for School of Psychology at UWS. Fiona has been working in and researching psychology for the last 13 years. Her current research areas include clinical assessment of olfaction and gustation in children and impact of health and disease on sensory functioning with a focus on indigenous children.
Original authors:
Richard J. Gerrig is a professor of psychology at Stony Brook University. Before joining the Stony Brook faculty, he taught at Yale University, where he was awarded the Lex Hixon Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Social Sciences. His research on cognitive psychological aspects of language use has been widely published. One line of work examines the mental processes that underlie efficient communication. A second research program considers the cognitive and emotional changes readers experience when they are transported to the worlds of stories. His book Experiencing Narrative Worlds was published by Yale University Press. Richard is a Fellow of both the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science. He is also an associate editor of Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. He is the proud father of Alexandra, who at age 16 provides substantial and valuable advice about many aspects of psychology and life in the 21st century. Life on Long Island is greatly enhanced by the guidance and support of Timothy Peterson.
Philip G. Zimbardo is an emeritus professor of psychology at Stanford University, where he has taught since 1968, after earlier teaching at Yale University, New York University, and Columbia University. He also continues to teach at the Naval Post Graduate School in Monterey. Zimbardo is internationally recognized as the “voice and face of contemporary psychology” through his widely seen PBS-TV series, Discovering Psychology, his media appearances, best-selling trade books on shyness, and his classic research, The Stanford Prison Experiment. His current research interests are in the domain of experimental social psychology, with a scattered emphasis on everything interesting to study from shyness to time perspective, persuasion, cults, madness, violence, vandalism, political psychology and terrorism. He has been a prolific, innovative researcher across a number of fields in social and general psychology, with more than 300 professional articles and chapters and 50 books to his credit. To recognise the breadth of his research achievements, the American Psychological Association presented Philip with the Ernest Hilgard Award for lifetime contributions to general psychology. He has also won the Vaclav Havel Foundation Award for his body of research on the human condition. Philip has been President of the Western Psychological Association (twice), President of the American Psychological Association, Chair of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents (CSSP), and now Chair of the Western Psychological Foundation and Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Policy, Education, and Research on Terrorism. He is most excited about the publication of his new trade book in March 2007 (Random House), which he has been working on intensely for the past several years. Its domain is the psychology of evil; its provocative title: “The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil.”
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