Mastering the World of Psychology (5th Edition)
Denise Boyd, Samuel E. Wood, Ellen Green Wood
Language: English
Pages: 625
ISBN: B00DJE1L2A
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Mastering the World of Psychology, 5/e, provides students with more support than ever before, thanks to the Survey, Question, Read, Recite, and Review Learning Method, or SQ3R, which is integrated throughout the text. SQ3R shows students the relationship between psychological theory and learning. It is the strongest and most comprehensive program for measuring progress and attaining successful outcomes in Introductory Psychology.
MyPsychLab is an integral part of the Wood/Wood/Boyd program. Engaging activities and assessments provide a teaching and learning system that measures students’ success. With MyPsychLab, students can watch videos on psychological research and applications, participate in virtual classic experiments, and develop critical thinking skills through writing.
Brief Contents
APA Correlation APA-1
1 Introduction to Psychology 1
2 Biology and Behavior 38
3 Sensation and Perception 75
4 Consciousness 115
5 Learning 144
6 Memory 178
7 Cognition, Language, and Intelligence 212
8 Human Development 251
9 Motivation and Emotion 294
10 Health and Stress 328
11 Personality Theory and Assessment 363
12 Psychological Disorders 392
13 Therapies 425
14 Social Psychology 453
APPENDIX: Statistical Methods AP-1
Answers to Study Guide Questions AN-1
minutes of shut-eye? To put it differently, what’s your chronotype ?If you’re among the early-rising go-getters, you are a lark, but if you’re a habitual snooze-button-pusher, the owl chronotype might be a better fit for you. Take this quiz to find out which chronotype best suits you. Give yourself 1, 3, or 5 points for each answers as indicated in the parentheses. 1. On days when I can get up when I choose, I am usually up: _____ Before 7:00 a.m. (1) _____ Between 7 and 9 a.m. (3) _____ After 9
2000). You might think that airline employees who regularly fly across time zones would adjust to their schedules. However, research indicates that experienced airline workers are just as likely to suffer from jet lag as passengers on their first intercontinental flight (Ariznavaretta et al., 2002). Melatonin supplements have been found to be helpful for alleviating jet lag in some long-distance travelers (Doghramji, Brainard, & Balaicuis, 2010). However, melatonin is most effective when taken
sugared beverages and the insulin response will be maintained. In Chapter 4, we discussed that learning plays an important role in psychological drug addiction. Through classical conditioning, environmental cues associated with drug use become conditioned stimuli and later produce the conditioned responses of drug craving (Epstein, Willner-Reid, & Preston, 2010). The conditioned stimuli associated with drugs become powerful, often irresistible forces that lead individuals to crave the pleasurable
left index finger, as shown in the drawing. Then try balancing it on your right index finger. Most people are better with their dominant hand—the right hand for right-handers, for example. Is this true for you? Now try this: Begin reciting the ABCs out loud as fast as you can while balancing the stick with your left hand. Do you have less trouble this time? Why should that be? The right hemisphere controls the act of balancing with the left hand. However, your left hemisphere, though poor at
auditory canal and strike it. The middle ear is no larger than an aspirin tablet. Inside its chamber are the ossicles, the three smallest bones in the human body. Named for their shapes, the ossicles—the hammer, the anvil, and the stirrup—are connected in that order, linking Hearing and Balance OUTER EAR Pinna Curved flaps of cartilage and skin attached to sides of head INNER EAR Auditory canal Hair-lined tube through which sound travels Semicircular canals Fluid-filled tubular canals that