Psychology Around Us

Psychology Around Us, Second Edition empowers students to build psychological literacy by tying together topics and sub-topics throughout. Following a familiar organization, the unique Tying It Together sections in Psychology Around Us highlight the significance of psychology’s big picture, rather than presenting the field as disjointed topics, chapter-by-chapter. The Psychology Around Us program is full of rich, powerful media resources and supplements that have been streamlined by a team of psychology instructors like you. Psychology Around Us offers professors and students a range of tools to successfully tie psychology all together, highlighting that psychology is an integrated science.

Every chapter begins with an opening vignette that shows the power of psychology in understanding a whole range of human behavior. This theme is reinforced throughout the chapter, celebrating the extraordinary processes that make the everyday possible.
Guided Learning allows students to be confident that they will master the material prior to beginning a chapter, and check for their understanding at the end of each section, this includes;
- A Learning Objective presented at the beginning of each chapter section identifies the most important material for students to understand while reading that section.
- Following each section is a Before You Go On feature that helps students check their mastery of the important items covered.
- What Do You Know? questions prompt students to stop and review the key concepts just presented.
- What Do You Think? questions encourage students to think critically on key questions in the chapter.
Each chapter includes special topics on Psychology Around Us that highlights interesting news stories, current controversies in psychology, and relevant research findings that demonstrate psychology around us. The Practically Speaking box emphasizes the practical application of everyday psychology.
Three NEW “Tying It Together, Your Brain & Behavior.” These exciting and accessible two-page photo essays appear throughout the book tying together how neuroscience affects every day behaviors as eating pizza, studying a second language, or speaking in public. These layouts, which include neuroimages and findings from both human and animal studies, draw students into the brain and provide them with up-to-date information about the neural mechanisms at work during their everyday experiences. New Tying It Together, Your Brain & Behavior include; Tying It Together, Your Brain & Behavior: As We Develop (Chapter 3), Tying It Together, Your Brain & Behavior: When We Sleep (Chapter 6), and Your Brain & Behavior: When We Feel Excluded (Chapter 14).
Study Tools throughout the chapters include;
- Key Terms are listed at the end of each chapter with page references.
- Marginal Definitions are defined in the margin next to their discussion in the text.
- Marginal Notes present interesting facts and quotes throughout the chapter.
Every chapter ends with a Tying It Together section, reiterating how material from other areas of psychology ties-in to the chapter’s topic.
Chapter Summary: The end-of-chapter Summary reviews the main concepts presented in the chapter with reference to the specific Learning Objectives. It provides students with another opportunity to review what they have learned as well as to see how the key topics within the chapter fit together.

Chapter Quizzes

Chapter exams give students a way to test themselves on course material before exams. Each chapter exam contains fill in the blank, application, and multiple choice questions that provide immediate feedback with the correct answer. Each question is also linked to a learning objective within the book to aid them in concept mastery.

Web Resources

Annotated web links put useful electronic resources for psychology into the context of your Introduction to Psychology course.

Chapter Quizzes

Instructor’s Manual

The Instructor’s Manual is designed to help instructors maximize student learning. The Instructor's Manual presents teaching suggestions for each chapter of the text, including lecture starters, lecture extensions, classroom discussions and activities, out of the classroom assignments, internet and print resources, and more!

Lecture PowerPoint Presentation

Every chapter contains a Lecture PowerPoint Presentation with a combination of key concepts, figures and tables, and examples from the textbook.

Media Enriched PowerPoint presentations

Media Enriched PowerPoint™ presentations, only available in WileyPLUS, contain embedded links to multimedia sources, both video and animation and can be modified according to your needs.

Test Bank

The Test Bank is available in a Word document format or through Respondus. The questions are available to instructors to create and print multiple versions of the same test by scrambling the order of all questions found in the Word version of the test bank. This allows instructors to customize exams by altering or adding new problems.

Web Resources

Annotated web links put useful electronic resources for psychology into the context of your Introduction to Psychology course.