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The Enhancing Well-Being with Psychology section at the end of each chapterprovides specific suggestions to help you deal with real-life concerns. Thesesuggestions are based on psychological research, rather than opinions, anecdotes,or pop psych self-help philosophies. The Enhancing Well-Being sections show youhow psychology can be applied to a wide variety of everyday concerns. We hopethat these sections make a difference in your life. Because the Enhancing Well-Beingsections for Chapters 5, 6, and 8 deal with setting and achieving goals and enhancingmotivation and memory, you may want to skip ahead and read them afteryou finish this student preface.There are two special appendices at the back of the text. The Statistics: UnderstandingData appendix discusses how psychologists use statistics to summarizeand draw conclusions from the data they have gathered. The Industrial/Organizational Psychology appendix describes the branch of psychology thatstudies human behavior in the workplace. Your instructor may assign one or bothof these appendices, or you may want to read them on your own.Also at the back of this text is a Glossary containing the definitions for all KeyTerms in the book and the pages on which they are discussed in more detail. Youcan use the Subject Index to locate discussions of particular topics and the NameIndex to locate particular researchers. Finally, interested students can look up thespecific studies we cite in the References sections.The Discovering PsychologyWeb Companion SiteThe Discovering Psychology Web Companion site provides you with a freevirtual study guide, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You can access the companionWeb site at the following Internet address: www.worthpublishers.com/hockenburyThe Discovering Psychology Web Companion has a wealth of helpful study aidsfor each chapter. Below are some suggestions for how you can use those resourcesto your advantage.• Print the Learning Objectives to provide a detailed list of the information thatyou should master for each chapter.• Take the Self-Scoring Quizzes and use the Flashcards to test yourself on theKey Terms and Key People. The Web site also offers a Spanish language versionof the Flashcards.• Utilize the Crossword Puzzles as a fun way to test your knowledge of KeyTerms and Key People. There are two crossword puzzles for each chapter andone for each appendix.• Interactive computer simulations, demonstrations, and other activitieswill help you apply and reinforce your understanding of important chapterconcepts.• Critical Thinking Exercises are linked to other Web sites.If you would like more online quizzes and activities than the free companion Website offers, follow the links online to the Online Study Center or the Psych2GoMP3 audio recordings. The Online Study Center can help you focus your studytime. You can take a Pre-Lecture Quiz to assess how well you understand a particularchapter before coming to class. Or, you can take a Mastery Quiz to test yourknowledge whenever you choose. Feedback from taking those quizzes is in the formof a Personalized Study Plan, which provides direct links to resources that willhelp you focus on where you need to study most.xlv