Essentials of understanding psychology 14th edition ebook
ROBERT S. FELDMAN is Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Senior Advisor to the Chancellor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. A recipient of the College Distinguished Teacher Award, he teaches psychology classes ranging in size from 15 to nearly 500 students. During the course of more than three decades as a college
instructor, he has taught undergraduate and graduate courses at Mount Holyoke College, Wesleyan University, and Virginia Commonwealth University in addition to the University of Massachusetts. Professor Feldman, who initiated the Minority Mentoring Program at the University of Massachusetts, also has served as a Hewlett Teaching Fellow and
Senior Online Teaching Fellow. He initiated distance-learning courses in psychology at the University of Massachusetts. A Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Professor Feldman received a BA with High Honors from Wesleyan
University and an MS and PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
He is a winner of a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer Award and the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Wesleyan. He is past President of the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS) Foundation, which advocates for the field of psychology, and is on the board of the Social Psychology Network (SPN). He has
written and edited more than 250 books, book chapters, and scientific articles. He has edited Development of Nonverbal Behavior in Children, Applications of Nonverbal Behavioral Theory and Research, and Improving the First Year of College: Research and Practice, and co-edited Fundamentals of Nonverbal Behavior. He is also author of P.O.W.E.R.
Learning: Strategies for Success in College and Life. His textbooks, which have been used by more than 2 million students around the world, have been translated into Spanish, French, Portuguese, Dutch, German, Italian, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese. His research interests include deception and honesty in everyday life, work that he described in
The Liar in Your Life, a trade book published in 2009. His research has been supported by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute on Disabilities and Rehabilitation Research. Professor Feldman loves music, is an enthusiastic pianist, and enjoys cooking and traveling. He serves on the Executive Committee and
Board of New England Public Radio. He and his wife, also a psychologist, live in western Massachusetts in a home overlooking the Holyoke mountain range. HOLLIE DRAKE teaches at Overland High School in the Cherry Creek School District in Aurora, Colorado. She has been teaching the AP Psychology course since 2007. Hollie has served as a
reader for the AP Psychology exam for the past five years. Early in 2018, Hollie served as a consultant for the 2019 AP Psychology Course and Exam Description Guide. JESSICA FLITTER has been teaching AP Psychology since 2004. She has been involved with the AP Reading since 2013, serving as a reader, table leader, and rubric master. Jessica
was awarded the 2015 APA TOPSS Charles T. Blair-Broeker Excellence in Teaching Award. She is also co-author of the review book AP Psychology: All Access and contributing author to the blog Books for Psychology Class. Robert Feldman Essentials of Understanding Psychology 14 2021 September 3, 2020 9781260829013 Students First. Designed
for student success, Essentials of Understanding Psychology provides students with a brief and powerful learning framework to help them connect, engage, and feel excited about psychology. Dr. Feldman believes that an effective introduction to a discipline must be oriented to students—informing them, engaging them, and exciting them about the
field and helping them connect it to their world. ISBN10: 1260829014 | ISBN13: 9781260829013 * The estimated amount of time this product will be on the market is based on a number of factors, including faculty input to instructional design and the prior revision cycle and updates to academic research-which typically results in a revision cycle
ranging from every two to four years for this product. Pricing subject to change at any time. Students First. Designed for student success, Essentials of Understanding Psychology provides students with a brief and powerful learning framework to help them connect, engage, and feel excited about psychology. Dr. Feldman believes that an effective
introduction to a discipline must be oriented to students—informing them, engaging them, and exciting them about the field and helping them connect it to their world. 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 of Behavior Module 6 The Nervous System and the Endocrine System: Communicating with the Body Module 7: The BrainChapter 3 Sensation and Perception Module 8 Sensing the World Around Us Module 9 Vision: Shedding Light on the Eye
Module 10 Hear and the Other Senses Module 11 Perceptual Organization: Constructing Our View of the WorldChapter 4 States of Consciousness Module 12 Sleep and Dreams Module 13 Hypnosis and Meditation Module 14 Drug Use: The Highs and the Lows of Consciousness Chapter 5 Learning Module 15 Classical Conditioning Module 16 Operant
Conditioning Module 17 Cognitive Approaches to LearningChapter 6 Memory Module 18 The Foundations of Memory Module 19 Recalling Long-Term Memories Module 20 Forgetting: When Memory FailsChapter 7 Thinking, Language, and Intelligence Module 21 Thinking Module 22 Language Module 23 IntelligenceChapter 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
AdulthoodChapter 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 DistinctiveChapter 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 WellnessChapter 12 Psychological Disorders Module 37 Normal Versus Abnormal: Making the Distinction Module 38 The Major Psychological Disorders Module 39 Psychological Disorders in PerspectiveChapter 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 TreatmentChapter 14 Social Psychology Module 43 Attitudes and Social Cognition Module
44Social Influence and Groups Module 45 Prejudice and Discrimination Module 46 Positive and Negative Social BehaviorEpilogue Diversity, Culture, Conflict, and Cooperation Diversity and Culture Conflict and Cooperation: Striving for a Just and Peaceful World Main Features LMS Integration Print/Loose-Leaf Book Add-On Availability Presentation
Slides & Instructor Resources Question & Test Banks Adaptive Assignments Student Progress Reporting & Analytics Essay Prompts Polling Prebuilt Courses Interactive Exercises eBook Access (ReadAnywhere App) Remote Proctoring (Proctorio) Subject-Specific Tools