Exploring Psychology, Twelfth Edition (9781319132118) | Macmillan Learning (2024)

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Features

Trusted author team. Exploring Psychology offers market-leading currency, instructor- and student-tested presentation, and class-tested resources that bring results for instructors and their students. All resources are mindfully integrated with the text content.The highly-regarded test bank is carefully revised to reflect the new content and research in the textbook and includes nearly 10,000 questions!

Research you can trust. For Myers and DeWall, it is their life passion to scrutinize each day’s research reports, offering you and your students the most up-to-date, representative presentation of Psychology’s broad subfields. As dedicated generalists, they take a careful, scientific approach to the balanced presentation of each topic. Both authors review dozens of journals (thousands of research studies) and periodicals to determine which studies to include in the text.

Over 1,000 new research citations dated 2018–2021. This is the most up-to-date set of introductory psychology course resources available. With so many exciting new findings, and every chapter updated with new examples and ideas, students will see the importance and value of psychological research, and how psychology can help them make sense of the world around them.

Focus on ENGAGING students and helping them RETAIN what they learn:

• ENGAGE icons highlight hands-on applications of the concepts
• RETAIN icons flag the most important opportunities for students to review and remember what they’re reading.

The authors choose all of their examples and illustrations, and develop their pedagogy with these goals in mind; the new icons point out key elements.

Inclusive of diverse student readers. From the first edition, the authors have endeavored to make no assumptions in terms of students’ gender identity, sexual orientation, culture, relationship or family status, age, economic background, or physical ability. By way of visual and written examples and explanations, the authors work to ensure that all students see themselves in these resources and feel engaged by the content. Since this text’s first edition, one of its Eight Guiding Principles has been “To convey respect for human unity and diversity.”

Immersive Learning Activities created by the authors—now in Achieve!

• How Would You Know? research activities build students’ critical thinking and scientific literacy skills. Students play the role of researcher, making choices about the best ways to test interesting questions, and learning their limits in interpreting results. Topics include: How Would You Know if Sleep Deprivation Affects Academic Performance?, How Would You Know if People Can Learn to Reduce Anxiety?, and How Would You Know if Schizophrenia Is Inherited?
• Assess Your Strengths activities allow students to apply what they are learning from the text to their own lives and experiences by considering key “strengths.” Each activity starts with a video introduction from the authors explaining how that strength ties into the content of the chapter. Next, students assess themselves on the strength (critical thinking, quality of sleep, self-control, relationship strength, belonging, hope, and more) using scales developed by researchers across psychological science. After students learn their results, they are offered tips for nurturing that strength in their own lives.

“Ask Yourself” questions throughout the book help students further engage with the course content. Applying the content to their own lives helps students make the material personally meaningful, and therefore more memorable.

“Thinking Critically About . . .” infographic activities (along with our popular “How Would You Know” research activities) for every chapter in Achieve.

New to This Edition

New!
Achieve for Exploring Psychology
Achieve sets a whole new standard for integrating assessments, activities, and analytics into your teaching. It brings together all of the high quality features that instructors and students love about its predecessor LaunchPad—interactive e-book, LearningCurve adaptive quizzing and other assessments, immersive learning activities, extensive instructor resources—in a powerful new platform that offers:

• A cleaner, more intuitive, mobile-friendly interface
• Powerful analytics
• Self-regulated learning and goal-setting surveys
• A fully integrated iClicker classroom response system, with questions available for each unit or the option to integrate your own

Available exclusively in Achieve starting Fall 2021
Introductory Psychology Video Collection
This extraordinary new video collection features over 120 in-demand clips from high-quality sources—classic and contemporary— as well as engaging original content. It’s a remarkably diverse and relevant resource, developed in partnership with a faculty and student advisory board, and encompassing such captivating topics as COVID and stress, Alzheimer’s, loneliness & the brain, Black Lives Matter/racial trauma & racial bias, online dating, and topics related to transgender youth. Videos are closed-captioned with warnings for sensitive content, and each clip includes assignable assessments, with results reporting into the Achieve gradebook.

Also in Achieve:

• LearningCurve
  In a game-like format, LearningCurve adaptive and formative quizzing helps get students more deeply involved in the coursework. It offers:
• A unique learning path for each student, with quizzes shaped by each individual’s correct and incorrect answers.
• A Personalized Study Plan, to guide students’ preparation for class and for exams.
• Feedback for each question with live links to relevant e-book pages, guiding students to the reading they need to do to improve their areas of weakness.
• iClicker Questions
  Our robust collection includes NEW questions for each chapter, created by Jennifer Zwolinski (University of San Diego), that test student understanding of that chapter’s research and research design examples. iClicker is now integrated with Achieve for easy access for you and your students.
• Gold Standard Instructor Resources
  Now, in Achieve, these resources have been updated and improved by award-winning instructor Elizabeth Hammer (Xavier University) and are easier to find and use! In addition, Salena Brody (University of Texas, Dallas) created new classroom activities for each chapter covering diversity in psychology topics. These resources are all designed to help instructors actively engage students in a variety of class settings and help them retain psychology’s key concepts.

New in the Text
Psychology TODAY
With over 1,000 new citations dated 2018 - 2021 in the Twelfth Edition, instructors know they will get the most up-to-date view of the field--a trademark of the Myers/DeWall texts. The References section now highlights all these new citations in blue.

Improved Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
A lot has changed in the field of psychology since the last edition was written, especially in the fast-moving subfields of cultural diversity, human sexuality, and gender psychology, and in the language we use to refer to varying groups of people. The authors sought extra reviews from experts and teaching psychologists and made extensive updates to this coverage.

NEW Instructor Activity Guides
Available for each chapter, the guides offer EVERYTHING you need to implement fun new in-person or remote classroom activities.

Introductory Psychology Initiative
Exploring Psychology Twelfth Edition and its resources offer a perfect match for those interested in following the IPI guidelines from the American Psychological Association (2021), with full text coverage of relevant content, and abundant student and classroom activities and assessment opportunities. You can see how the text and Achieve content meet the Integrative Themes and Learning Outcomes in Tables 1 and 2 in the Preface.

Improved Student Preface—Student Success: How to Apply Psychology to Live Your Best Life. When we ask teaching psychologists to share the most important lessons they wish to impart to students, they often tell us they want to teach students to think critically, and to apply psychology to their own lives so that they can live better and be more successful. This brief Student Success preface, which previews relevant resources in the text and in Achieve, helps get students on the right path with sections on
•Thinking Critically and Scientifically,
•Self-Control and Self-Improvement,
•Time Management and Study Tips,
•Social Life (including a new section, Embrace Diversity), and
•Finding Meaning and Pursuing Goals.

Patrick Cheek, University of Maine at Augusta
“I think its a good, accessible textbook for an intro psych class. It is approachable for majors and non-majors.”

Jennifer M. Hart, Eastern Wyoming College
“I have always liked this book as a great introductory text. It is written at an appropriate level for undergraduate students who are learning about psychology for the first time. It is clear and engaging. It is full of relevant and interesting examples.”

Dava Brock, Arkansas State University
“The concepts are presented in a way that I think students would understand. The textbook uses multiple charts and diagrams, and is in an outline form that students are used to. ...I have always liked David Myers textbooks. I think the textbook offers more information than many textbooks. This provides many concepts for professors to decide to teach.”

Elizabeth J. Moseley, Cleveland State Community College
“These [the tables, graphs, and other illustrations] were good. They helped support the content that was being presented.”

Cherry Sawyerr, Lone Star College - North Harris
“I like [the historical timeline] a lot! It was great, it can and will be useful. Nice pictures and a nice balance with women and men of different ethnicities.”

Widaad Zaman, University of Central Florida
“Students love the digital textbook, as well as the digital resources that come with the text.”

Kathy Coiner, Scott Community College
“The text does a wonderful job of using relevant pictures, cartoons, diagrams, graphs, etc. to expose the student to the content….Having used Myers/DeWall for over two decades says a lot… There is a reason this has been the top psychology textbook since who knows when so whatever youre doing, keep doing it!”

Kevin S. Autry, California State Polytechnic Pomona
“I appreciate the review sections placed throughout the chapter instead of just at the end.”

Larry Todd Allen, Three Rivers Community College
“I have taught [the Myers/Dewall] course study for about 15 years and find that many of my students have changed major and developed a more empathetic scope to their lives taking my psychology classes.”

Dawn Rodgers-DeFouw, Grace Christian University
“Each edition gets better!”