Focus
on Psychology: A Guide to Mastering
Peter Gray's Psychology
Mary Trahan
The comprehensive study guide helps
drive home concepts through active,
participatory learning. The study
guide is designed to be used in tandem
with the reading of each textbook
chapter, and its contents are linked
to Psychology, Fifth Edition's
marginal Focus Questions. Each chapter
features an introduction, integrated
study material for each section of
the chapter, two self-tests with answers,
and answers for selected study questions.
Pursuing
Human Strengths: A Positive Psychology
Guide
Martin Bolt, Calvin College
By using the scientific
method in its efforts to assess, understand,
and then build human strengths, positive
psychology balances the investigation
of weakness and damage with a study
of strength and virtue. this brief
Positive Psychology Guide gives instructors
and students alike the means to learn
more about this relevant approach
to psychology.
Making
Sense of Psychology on the Web with
Research Assistant HyperFolio CD-ROM
Connie K. Varnhagen, University of
Alberta
http://www.worthpublishers.com/book.asp?1248000025
Useful for the novice researcher as well as the experienced Internet user, Making Sense of Psychology on the Web is a brief booklet that helps students to become discriminating Web users and researchers. The guide also includes a CD-ROM containing Research Assistant HyperFolio, innovative, intuitive software that enables students to clip bits and pieces of Web sites and other electronic resources (snippets of text, illustrations, video clips, audio clips, and more) and compile them into worksheets and an easily-accessible electronic "filing cabinet."
Critical
Thinking Companion, Second Edition
Jane
Halonen, University of West Florida,
and Cynthia Gray, Alverno College
http://www.worthpublishers.com/book.asp?1124001346
Tied to the main topics in psychology, this engaging handbook includes six categories of critical thinking exercises: pattern recognition, practical problem solving, creative problem solving, scientific critical thinking, psychological reasoning, and perspective taking, which connect to the six categories used in the Critical Thinking Exercises available in the Student Study Guide.
FROM
THE PAGES OF SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
New!
Scientific American Mind: A Collector's
Edition
This new magazine explores riveting breakthroughs in psychology, neuroscience, and related fields.
Improving
the Mind and Brain: A Scientific American
Special Issue
This single-topic issue from Scientific American magazine features 8 articles from the most distinguished researchers in the field.
Scientific
American Explores The Hidden Mind:
A Collector's Edition
In a special collector's edition,
Scientific American provides a compilation
of updated feature articles that explore
and reveal the mysterious inner workings
of the mind and brain.
Scientific
American Reader to accompany Psychology,
Fifth Edition
Drawn from Scientific American and handpicked by Peter Gray, this is a collection of 8 classic articles tied to topics discussed in the text. A brief introduction and series of discussion questions (written by Peter Gray) accompany each article.
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