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.