Essentials of Understanding Psychology

Students First.  Designed for student success, Feldman provides students with a powerful learning framework to help them connect, engage, and feel excited about psychology. Using a revolutionary revision process, Essentials of Understanding Psychology is a fully integrated learning system that brings the “Students First” goal to a new level. With the adaptive learning program, SmartBook™, every student has a unique experience personalized to their needs. The new edition has continued to use the “HeatMap” technology to advise the revision. Systematic and precise feedback from thousands of students was anonymously collected using LearnSmart™.  Because virtually every paragraph in the previous edition is tied to several questions students answer in LearnSmart, the author was able to see where students struggled most…the “hot spots”…and in turn refine and update these areas to be more clear, more concise, and more impactful. The 12th edition continues with Feldman's accessible pedagogy and hallmark research, as well as his modules-within-chapters format that is both manageable for students and allows every professor the flexibility to assign and cover what they want.

Table of Contents:
Table of Contents Chapter 1: Introduction to Psychology     MODULE 1: Psychologists at Work     MODULE 2: A Science Evolves: The Past, the Present, and the Future     MODULE 3: Research in Psychology     MODULE 4: Critical Research Issues Chapter 2: Neuroscience and Behavior     MODULE 5: Neurons: The Basic Elements     MODULE 6: The Nervous System and the Endocrine System: Communicating Within the Body     MODULE 7: The Brain Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception     MODULE 8: Sensing the World Around Us     MODULE 9: Vision: Shedding Light on the Eye     MODULE 10: Hearing and the Other Senses     MODULE 11: Perceptual Organization: Constructing Our View of the World Chapter 4: States of Consciousness     MODULE 12: Sleep and Dreams     MODULE 13: Hypnosis and Meditation     MODULE 14: Drug Use: The Highs and Lows of Consciousness Chapter 5: Learning     MODULE 15: Classical Conditioning     MODULE 16: Operant Conditioning     MODULE 17: Cognitive Approaches to Learning Chapter 6: Memory     MODULE 18: The Foundations of Memory     MODULE 19: Recalling Long-Term Memories     MODULE 20: Forgetting: When Memory Fails Chapter 7: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence     MODULE 21: Thinking and Reasoning     MODULE 22: Language     MODULE 23: Intelligence Chapter 8: Motivation and Emotion     MODULE 24: Explaining Motivation     MODULE 25: Human Needs and Motivation: Eat, Drink, and Be Daring     MODULE 26: Understanding Emotional Experiences Chapter 9: Development     MODULE 27: Nature and Nurture: The Enduring Developmental Issue     MODULE 28: Infancy and Childhood     MODULE 29: Adolescence: Becoming an Adult     MODULE 30: Adulthood Chapter 10: Personality     MODULE 31: Psychodynamic Approaches to Personality     MODULE 32:  Trait, Learning, Biological and Evolutionary, and Humanistic Approaches to Personality     MODULE 33: Assessing Personality: Determining What Makes Us Distinctive Chapter 11: Health Psychology: Stress, Coping, and Well-Being     MODULE 34: Stress and Coping     MODULE 35: Psychological Aspects of Illness and Well-Being     MODULE 36: Promoting Health and Wellness Chapter 12: Psychological Disorders     MODULE 37: Normal Versus Abnormal: Making the Distinction     MODULE 38: The Major Psychological Disorders     MODULE 39: Psychological Disorders in Perspective Chapter 13: Treatment of Psychological Disorders     MODULE 40: Psychotherapy: Psychodynamic, Behavioral, and Cognitive Approaches to Treatment     MODULE 41: Psychotherapy: Humanistic, Interpersonal, and Group Approaches to Treatment     MODULE 42: Biomedical Therapy: Biological Approaches to Treatment Chapter 14: Social Psychology     MODULE 43: Attitudes and Social Cognition     MODULE 44: Social Influence and Groups     MODULE 45: Prejudice and Discrimination     MODULE 46: Positive and Negative Social Behavior MHE CONNECT: McGraw-Hill Education Psychology APA Documentation Style Guide

About the Author :
Bob Feldman still remembers those moments of being overwhelmed when he started college at Wesleyan University. I wondered whether I was up to the challenges that faced me, he recalls, andalthough I never would have admitted it at the timeI really had no idea what it took to be successful at college. That experience, along with his encounters with many students during his own teaching career, led to a life-long interest in helping students navigate the critical transition that they face at the start of their own college careers. Professor Feldman, who went on to receive a doctorate in psychology from the University of WisconsinMadison, is now Deputy Chancellor and Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is founding director of POWER Up for Student Success, the first-year experience course for incoming students. Professor Feldmans proudest professional accomplishment is winning the College Outstanding Teaching Award at UMass. He also has been named a Hewlett Teaching Fellow and was Senior Online Instruction Fellow. He has taught courses at Mount Holyoke College, Wesleyan University, and Virginia Commonwealth University. Professor Feldman is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a winner of a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer award and has written over 200 scientific articles, book chapters, and books. His books, some of which have been translated into Spanish, French, Portuguese, Dutch, Japanese, and Chinese, include Improving the First Year of College: Research and Practice; Understanding Psychology, 12/e; and Development Across the Life Span, 7/e. His research interests encompass the study of honesty and truthfulness in everyday life, development of nonverbal behavior in children, and the social psychology of education. His research has been supported by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute on Disabilities and Rehabilitation Research. With the last of his three children completing college, Professor Feldman occupies his spare time with pretty decent cooking and earnest, but admittedly unpolished, piano playing. He also loves to travel. He lives with his wife, who is an educational psychologist, in a home overlooking the Holyoke mountain range in western Massachusetts.