Hockenbury Discovering Psychology 5th txtbk

help make psychology concepts come alive, demonstrating psychology’s relevanceto today’s students.Award-winning illustrator Todd Buck brings a dynamic, crisp style to the fifthedition’s art and graphics. From nerve cells to body processes to experimental models,Todd has created incredibly clear, engaging illustrations that help explain psychologyconcepts.The new visual end-of-chapter concept maps show the relationships among conceptsand help students consolidate memory of new information. In combinationwith the new design and chapter-opening artwork, our new photo and art programgives the fifth edition a fresh, contemporary look that will appeal to today’s students.New Connections to the American PsychologicalAssociation’s Standards and OutcomesWe understand that across the country, more faculty and departments are creatinguniform standards for the psychology major and the introductory psychologycourse. Because we want to support faculty’s efforts on this front, the fifth editionoffers a new appendix on the APA’s Standards and Outcomes. In addition, the revised,fifth edition test bank ties questions directly to the APA Standards.State-of-the-Art Media OptionsThere has been a revolution in the educational use of the Web over the past severalyears. For the fifth edition, our book is accompanied by the latest in educational technologythat combines interactive, visually exciting media with high-quality assessment.This edition is accompanied by a Psychology Portal, an eBook, a Video Tool Kit, and anOnline Study Center. For more information about these supplements, please turn to theheading “The Teaching Package: Media Supplements,” or you can get more informationby going to our companion Web site at: www.worthpublishers.com/hockenbury.Major Chapter RevisionsAs you page through our new edition, you will encounter new examples, boxes,photos, and illustrations in every chapter. Below are highlights of some of the mostsignificant changes:Chapter 1, Introduction and Research Methods• New Prologue, “Miracle Magnets?” on magnet therapy introduces the topics ofpseudoscience, placebo effect, and psychology’s reliance on empirical evidence• Coverage added of Francis C. Sumner (now a boldfaced key person) andKenneth Bancroft Clark as influential figures in the history of psychology• Charles Darwin and evolution is covered in history of psychology section,stressing Darwin’s influence on the development of psychology; expandedcoverage of evolutionary psychology• Positive psychology is boldfaced and discussed as a formal perspective in psychology• Revised and updated box, “What Is Cross-Cultural Psychology?”• Forensic psychology, rehabilitation psychology, sports psychology, military psychology,and counseling psychology add to the expanded list of specialties• New data on specialty areas and employment settings for psychologists• New Science versus Pseudoscience Box: “What is a Pseudoscience?”• New section on the experimental method includes expanded discussion of agingko biloba experiment testing the placebo effect, and features Crum &Langer’s 2007 research on exercise and the placebo effectxxi