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Psychology

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Publication Date: February 15, 2025

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Modern Minds, Modern Education: Your Comprehensive Resource for the Future of Introductory Psychology.

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Chapter 1: Psychology
Chapter 2: The methods of psychology
Chapter 3: Neuroscience and behaviour
Chapter 4: Sensation and perception
Chapter 5: Memory
Chapter 6: Learning
Chapter 7: Language and thought
Chapter 8: Consciousness
Chapter 9: Intelligence
Chapter 10: Emotion and motivation
Chapter 11: Cognitive development
Chapter 12: Social development
Chapter 13: Personality
Chapter 14: Social relationships
Chapter 15: Social groups
Chapter 16: Psychological disorders
Chapter 17: Mental health

British Psychological Society (BPS) aligned to reflect the global perspective of this adaptation, enhancing the learning experience by focusing on essential psychological concepts and providing students with a solid foundation in the field.
Focus on equity, diversity and inclusion: We have worked to incorporate cross-cultural examples that recognise and reflect the experiences of a global student population. This includes 20 additional videos (with accompanying activities) that have been curated by two instructors from Australian universities and include case studies of Indigenous Peoples and cross-cultural competencies.
Narrative style: Psychology 4e storytelling writing style captivates students by making complex concepts accessible, enriching their understanding and enjoyment of the subject.
Scientific literacy: Through the mindbugs approach, the new edition weaves scientific literacy into the fabric of learning. Preparing students for a future filled with meaningful insights by empowering them to explore complex concepts, evaluate information critically, and appreciate the dynamic nature of psychological science.
Achieve: This is the first edition of Psychology to be accompanied by Achieve, which empowers educators to track progress seamlessly, fostering a dynamic and interactive educational environment that transforms psychology into an engaging and accessible subject for all learners.

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Includes a variety of content updates that are meant to reflect our rapidly changing times, such as the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact of AI in the field of psychology.
A broadened emphasis on psychology as a global discipline is incorporated into every chapter from new research on mental health in UK undergraduate students during the COVID-19 pandemic to updated research demonstrating how cultural influences shape the nature of social interactions by looking at mother-child interactions in European households compared to those in Central Africa.
We have mapped the British Psychological Society (BPS) guidelines to student learning objectives that emphasise the core concepts required for the psychology degree.
New online platform, Achieve, ML’s adaptive reading experience, Assessment, Immersive Learning Activities, new videos, stronger analytics and more complete LMS integration abilities and options. Includes an AI Question Creator and new Groups feature, which assigns students into groups and guides them through consensus-building activities.
iClicker, our student response system (integrated with Achieve at no additional cost)
New Introductory Psychology Video Collection features over 120 in-demand clips from high-quality sources—classic and contemporary—as well as engaging original content. It’s a remarkably diverse and relevant resource, developed in partnership with a faculty and student advisory board.
Dozens of new and updated features have been incorporated throughout, inviting students to think like scientists and stretch their imagination: 17 new Hot Science features, 8 new Real World features, 6 new Cross-Cultural Comparison features, 5 new Psychomythology features, and 1 new Happiness Hacks feature.
The text has been thoroughly reviewed and updated for EDI coverage and to reflect our EDI standards.
Internationally relevant statistics and examples have been incorporated in each chapter, emphasising the global perspective that has been integral to this text since its first edition.
We have worked to incorporate cross-cultural examples that recognise and reflect the experience of the Indigenous peoples who are the traditional stewards of Australia and New Zealand. This includes 20 additional videos (with accompanying activities) that have been curated by two instructors from Australian universities and include case studies of Indigenous Peoples and cross-cultural competencies.

Daniel L. Schacter

Daniel Schacter is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. Dan received his B.A. degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He subsequently developed a keen interest in amnesic disorders associated with various kinds of brain damage. He continued his research and education at the University of Toronto, where he received his Ph.D. in 1981. He taught on the faculty at Toronto for the next six years before joining the psychology department at the University of Arizona in 1987. In 1991, he joined the faculty at Harvard University. His research explores the relation between conscious and unconscious forms of memory, the nature of distortions and errors in remembering, and how we use memory to imagine future events. Many of Schacters studies are summarized in his 1996 book, Searching for Memory: The Brain, The Mind, and The Past, and his 2001 book, The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers, both winners of the APAs William James Book Award. Schacter has also received a number of awards for teaching and research, including the Harvard-Radcliffe Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize, the Warren Medal from the Society of Experimental Psychologists, and the Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions from the American Psychological Association. In 2013, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Daniel T. Gilbert

Daniel Gilbert is Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. After attending the Community College of Denver and completing his B.A. from the University of Colorado, Denver, he went on to earn his Ph.D. from Princeton University. From 1985 to 1996, he taught at the University of Texas, Austin, and in 1996, he joined the faculty of Harvard University. He has received the American Psychological Associations Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology, the Diener Award for Outstanding Contributions to Social Psychology, and has won teaching awards that include the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize and the Harvard College Professorship. His research focuses on how and how well people think about their emotional reactions to future events. He is the author of the international best seller Stumbling on Happiness, which won the Royal Societys General Prize for best popular science book of the year, and he is the co-writer and host of the PBS television series, This Emotional Life.

Matthew K. Nock

Matthew Nock is a Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. Matt received his B.A. from Boston University (1995) and his Ph.D. from Yale University (2003), and he completed his clinical internship at Bellevue Hospital and the New York University Child Study Center (2003). Matt joined the faculty of Harvard University in 2003 and has been there ever since. While an undergraduate, Matt became very interested in the question of why people do things to intentionally harm themselves, and he has been conducting research aimed at answering this question ever since. His research is multidisciplinary in nature and uses a range of methodological approaches (e.g., epidemiologic surveys, laboratory-based experiments, and clinic-based studies) to better understand how these behaviors develop, how to predict them, and how to prevent their occurrence. He has received multiple teaching awards at Harvard and also four early career awards recognizing his research, and in 2011, he was named a MacArthur Fellow.

Bruce Hood

Bruce Hood is Professor of Developmental Psychology in Society at the University of Bristol and Director of the Bristol Cognitive Development Centre. He is a Fellow of the Society of American Psychological Science, the British Psychological Society and the Royal Institution of Great Britain. He is the author of five popular science books, SuperSense: From Superstition to Religion – the Brain Science of Belief, The Self Illusion: Why There is No ‘You’ Inside Your Head, The Domesticated Brain, Possessed: Why We Want More than We Need and The Science of Happiness: Seven Lessons for Living Well. In 2011 he delivered the prestigious Royal Institution Christmas Lectures Meet Your Brain, which were broadcast on the BBC.

We live in an increasingly digital world. As such, we are launching Macmillan Learning’s Achieve for Psychology with this new edition to ensure your students have access to the e-book, interactive learning activities, and additional resources whether they are learning at home, in lecture, or a combination of the two.

Achieve for Psychology 4e is an online learning system backed by extensive development and research. Proven to increase student engagement and boost performance. Achieve offers:

Access to the ebook to download, read and virtually annotate for a completely flexible experience.
Course and book-specific resources including adaptive quizzing to personalise the experience for students.
A grade book, assignable assessments with targeted feedback, insights and reporting, instructor resources - all with seamless integration options.
Integrated with iClicker so that instructors and students can benefit in class and remotely from an industry leading student response system.
Test Bank containing approximately 100 questions per chapter, all meticulously checked against updated text content and mapped to the BPS guidelines.
New Introductory Psychology Video Collection features over 120 in-demand clips from high-quality sources—classic and contemporary—as well as engaging original content. It’s a remarkably diverse and relevant resource, developed in partnership with a faculty and student advisory board.
AI Question Creator and new Groups feature, which assigns students into groups and guides them through consensus-building activities.

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A grade book, assignable assessments with targeted feedback, insights and reporting, instructor resources - all with seamless integration options.

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