New visual “advance organizer.” The opening page to each major section of the text now contains a visual overview of the section material's conceptual organization. Studies have shown that viewing an advance organizer before reading a passage increases retention of the content of the passage.
Increased coverage of positive psychology and evolutionary psychology highlights these hot new areas in the discipline.
New information addresses developmental changes in the brain and their relations to changes in behavior and mental processes, keeping the book in step with the latest advances in psychology.
A PowerWeb access card is now bound into each new copy of the text, providing even more value to the extensive teaching package. This outstanding online resource provides students with current articles, curriculum-based materials, weekly updates with assessment, informative and timely world news, refereed Web links, research tools, study tools, and interactive exercises. Each chapter of the text ends with an exercise that draws on this valuable tool.
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