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Essentials of understanding psychology

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Students first.
If I were to use only a few words to summarize my goal for this book, as well as my teaching philosophy, that's what I would say. I believe that an effective textbook must be oriented to students—informing them, engaging them, exciting them about the field, and expanding their intellectual capabilities. When students are engaged and challenged, they understand psychology at a deep and meaningful level. Only then are they able to learn and retain the material.
Luckily, psychology is a science that is inherently interesting to students. It is a discipline that speaks with many voices, offering a personal message to each student. To some, psychology provides a better understanding of others' behavior. Some view psychology as a pathway to self-understanding. Still others see the potential for a future career, and some are drawn to psychology by the opportunity for intellectual discovery that its study provides.
No matter what brings students into the introductory course and regardless of their initial motivation, Essentials of Understanding Psychology, Eighth Edition, is designed to draw students into the field and stimulate their thinking. This revision integrates a variety of elements that foster students' understanding of psychology and its impact on our everyday lives. It also provides instructors with a fully inte¬grated assessment package to objectively gauge their students' mastery of psychol¬ogy's key principles and concepts.
A Framework for Learning
and Assessment
Essentials of Understanding Psychology, Eighth Edition, is the core of a learning-centered multimedia package that comprises a complete framework for learning and assessment. Conforming to recommendations of a 2002 APA task force report on undergraduate student competencies (Board of Educational Affairs, 2002), every com¬ponent of the package is tied to specific psychological concepts and their application in everyday life. Though the book forms the core of this framework, its power to enrich and empirically demonstrate learning is expanded through a unique library of electronic activities with concept-based quizzes, all developed to accompany this text. Instructors can create a seamless, custom set of assignments from the available resources, or they can opt for a traditional, text-based approach, depending on their specific needs. Figure 1 on the following page indicates how the features of the text¬book directly address the APA student competencies. Equally important, every one of the thousands of test items in the Test Banks available to instructors is keyed to its corresponding APA competency in a document that is available on the text website.

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Ketersediaan

Informasi Detail

Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

150 Fel e

Penerbit

New York : Mc Graw-Hill., 2009

Deskripsi Fisik

li, 636 hal. : il. ; 28 cm.

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780073370200

Klasifikasi

150

Tipe Isi

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Tipe Media

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Tipe Pembawa

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Edisi

Ed. VIII

Subjek

Psikologi

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