Psychology in Modules, Thirteenth Edition (9781319132095) | Macmillan Learning (2024)

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Achieve
Help students get better results.
Built around the most common issues faced in the classroom, Achieve gives students a complete e-book with all interactive features including LearningCurve adaptive quizzing. For instructors, LaunchPad offers everything they need to quickly set up a course, customize a syllabus,create presentations and lectures, assign and assess activities, and guide the progress of individual students and the class as a whole.

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How Would You Know?
These online activities engage students in the scientific process, showing how psychological research begins with a question—and how key decision points can alter the meaning and value of a psychological study.

Assess Your Strengths
For each of these activities, the authors start by offering a personalized video introduction, then ask students to assess themselves on the strength. After showing students their results, the authors offer tips for nurturing that strength in students’ own lives. Finally, students take a quiz to help solidify their learning.

"Thinking Critically About…" Infographic Activities
Like the infographics in the book itself, the online interactive versions have all been revised and updated for the new edition, plus there are two entirely new pieces: "Sexual Aggression" and "How to Be Persuasive."

Achieve Read & Practice
E-book + LearningCurve adaptive quizzing
Achieve Read & Practice marries Macmillan Learning’s mobile, accessible e-book with the acclaimed LearningCurve adaptive quizzing. It is an easy-to-use yet exceptionally powerful teaching and learning option that streamlines the process of increasing student engagement and understanding—and the cost is significantly less than that of a printed book.

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Trusted author team
Psychology, Thirteenth Edition in Modules offers the quality of writing and resources that instructors and students can rely on. This quality extends to the student media and instructor resources which are author-driven and integrated with the textbook. Both David Myers and Nathan DeWall bring their teaching and research experience into every page of the text and also into the activities in Achieve.

A focus on teaching critical thinking.
Throughout the text, the authors help students think critically. By examining sources and evidence, students can apply psychology’s concepts to their own lives and to their studies—using evidence-based principles to boost their relationships, academic success, stress-management, and so much more. "To teach critical thinking" has been the first of the "Eight Guiding Principles" that have guided the authors’ work on this text since the first edition.

New to This Edition

2100 citations, dated 2015-2020.
This edition presents the field of psychology in its current state, including each sub-discipline’s latest research insights. The authors want students to walk away with the most accurate, current understandings of psychology to apply in their own lives and work. The end-of-book References section (fully updated for the APA’s new 7th Edition Publication Manual) highlights these recent citations in blue.

Heavily revised coverage of gender identity and sexual orientation.
The authors have worked to be appropriately inclusive and fully up-to-date in their presentation of gender and sexual identity, representing the abundance of current research in this area, but also encompassing the lived experiences of many people, which may not yet be well represented in the literature.

Coordination with APA’s 2020 Introductory Psychology Initiative (IPI).
Psychology, 13^th Edition in Modules, and its resources are a perfect match for those interested in following these new guidelines, with full text coverage of required content and abundant student and classroom activities and assessment opportunities.

"Thinking Critically About…" Infographic Activities.
All of these infographics in the text have been revised and updated for the new edition, with two entirely new pieces on "Sexual Aggression" (Module 12) and "How to Be Persuasive" (Module 40). They are also now accompanied by new corresponding activities in Achieve.

Ask Yourself Questions.
New "Ask Yourself" questions appear periodically throughout each module to help students apply what they are learning to their own lives. This helps make the material more meaningful, and memorable.

New Student Preface, "How to Use Psychology to Live Your Best Life."
This student preface includes a discussion of "Thinking Critically and Scientifically."

"The Story of Psychology: A Timeline".
This timeline is now illustrated and has been revised toinclude the many diverse contributions to psychology’s history.

New research and research design-oriented iClicker questions.
We have new iClicker questions for each group of modules that help engage students on research topics, such as designing an effective study, considering the component parts of key research that’s presented in the text, and weighing the implications of research results.

“The best parts are exciting students about the many aspects and fields of psychology.”
Elaine O’Reilly, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

“I have been very pleased with this text. I have had very positive feedback with the modules and how the modules are easy to navigate as well as the content.”
Kamara Taylor, Michigan Technological University

“This text has worked quite well in my class. I think the “shorter chunks” of information in module form makes it easier for students to learn and digest the material.”
John O’Brien, University of Maine at Augusta