Psychology is evolving into an integrative, multidisciplinary field, and this innovative book offers an opportunity to learn about it. Authors John Cacioppo and Laura Freberg highlight connections within psychology as well as between psychology and other disciplines. The writing and features are smart and engaging, and consistently illustrate the benefit of using multiple perspectives within psychology. Cacioppo and Freberg offer the best science possible, including exciting new research findings likely to expand readers' understanding of psychology as a scientific field of study. Features and images coordinate with and enhance the book, providing many additional opportunities for critical thinking and connecting ideas.
Sue Savage-Rumbaugh with Kanzi Kanzi, a bonobo, communicates by pressing symbols on a computer keyboard. Kanzi uses the symbols to communicate requests and intentions — and even, when alone, to "talk" to himself.
The original appearance of the allele for blond hair was probably the result of a random mutation that occurred in northern Europe some 10,000 years ago (Frost, 2006). Migration, or rather the lack of it, might account for the ...
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Discovering Psychology
The substantially updated new edition extends the book's focus on developing scientific literacy in the context of psychology, with new features in print and in the book's new online resources, LaunchPad and Achieve: Read & Practice.
This is especially true in the area of cutting-edge neuroscience, which the Hockenburys make extremely teachable and utterly absorbing without oversimplifying the presentation.
Psychology: AP Edition with Discovery Psychology
You will also find definitions for key terms and concepts in the glossary that appears in the back of the Hockenbury textbook , Discovering Psychology . • REVIEW EXERCISES These study activities are intended to help you learn and ...
Discovering Psychology + Read and Practice for Discovering Psychology, Six Months Access
The leading proponent of this idea was a German physiologist named Wilhelm Wundt (Gentile & Miller, 2009). Wundt used scientific methods to study fundamental psychological processes, such as mental reaction times in response to visual ...