THINK Psychology

Description

Abigail A. Baird is a Professor of Psychology at Vassar College. She earned her undergraduate degree from Vassar College and both a M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. Following completion of her Ph.D. She was awarded a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, at Dartmouth College.  Her numerous articles and presentations have covered topics such as adolescent brain development, cognitive regulation of emotion, juvenile justice, and manifestations of racial bias in mind brain and behavior.
    Abigail’s research has received awards from Harvard University, the Society for Research on Psychopathology, and in 2008 the Association for Psychological Science named Abigail a “Rising Star in Psychological Science”. Her research has also led her to be elected to several scientific societies including the International Society for Behavioral Neuroscience and the Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research.  Abigail has been repeatedly recognized for her excellence in teaching. In 2000 she received Harvard’s George Goethals Teaching Prize, and in 2004 was awarded the Class of 1962 Excellence in Teaching Fellowship by Dartmouth College. Her professional accomplishments also include serving as secretary of the Association for Psychological Science, Honorary Faculty Member for the Order of Omega National Honor Society, Invited Faculty to the New York State Judicial Institute and Advisory Board member on the Campaign for Youth Justice.

For the second edition, we have updated the text’s organization and content based upon feedback from instructors.  Highlights of the improvements to the second edition include:  

Reorganized Table of Contents.  The chapters have been re-ordered to improve the flow of material.

NEW Chapter Openers.  All of the chapter openers are new to this edition, including the attention-grabbing introductory vignettes and photos.

NEW End-of-chapter tests for every chapter.  All of the end-of-chapter test questions are new and have been checked for accuracy.

New readings in THINK Psychology, 2e

Reading #1: After Chapter 2, Research Methods

A two-part reading:  A Picture’s Worth: Partner Photographs Reduce Experimentally Induced Pain and Pain Relief Through Photography

Reading #2: After Chapter 3, The Human Brain

Uncovering “Brainscams”

Reading #3: After Chapter 14, Social Psychology

Why Ordinary People Torture Enemy Prisoners

Reading #4: After Chapter 16 Personality and Individual Differences

Facebook Profiles Reflect Actual Personality, Not Self-Idealization         

Brief Contents

• Engaging visual design – designed for today’s students – clean, open, full- colour design with exciting infographics.
• 18 chapters – Informed by the latest research and the most current events.
• Chapter length – average 15 page chapter length.
• Value-Priced – less than half the costs of most introductory Psychology textbooks. 
• Current and relevant readings – selections from a range of well respected journals and popular press publications, allow instructors to introduce students to primary source material. See below for a list of these readings. Instructors can also package the APS Current Directions in Introductory Psychology reader, edited by Abigail Baird.
• TheThinkSpot – An open-access website with chapter-by-chapter quizzes, downloadable chapter-by-chapter study cards, and on-line flashcards.
• Audio version – downloadable individual audio chapters available for the entire text. Ideal for students when they are commuting, working out, etc.

Chapter Organisation

• Each chapter starts a high interest vignette and photograph, both designed to grab student’s attention and pull them into the chapter material
• Opening key questions are provided to frame important topics in the upcoming chapter  
• Running Glossary throughout the chapter gives students the list of key terms and definitions
• Streamlined presentation of the material helps ensure students read the content—and don’t skip over essential topics
• Chapter Summary outlines the main topics of the chapter—revisiting the opening key questions
• Test Your Understanding at the end of the chapter provides students with a sample test to assess their understanding of the chapter content

THINK Psychology covers the essentials every introductory psychology student should know. The chapters are briefer than a standard introductory text–allowing for a lower cost to students and using less printed paper. Unlike other brief texts, THINK Psychology includes 18 chapters of content–giving you the flexibility to choose what you want to study without the worry that skipping several chapters will mean leaving out hundreds of pages of content.

THINK Psychology provides currency and relevance through design, current examples and high-interest readings. The readings have been chosen from a range of well respected journals and popular press publications.

For introductory psychology courses at two and four year institutions.

THINK Currency

THINK Relevancy

THINK Psychology

THINK Psychology, 2/e covers the essentials every introductory psychology student should know. The chapters are briefer than a standard introductory text, allowing for a lower cost to students and using less printed paper. Unlike other brief texts, THINK Psychology includes 18 chapters of content giving instructors the flexibility to choose what they want to cover without the worry that skipping several chapters will mean leaving out hundreds of pages of content.

THINK Psychology, 2/e provides currency and relevance through design, current examples and high-interest readings. The readings have been chosen from a range of well respected journals and popular press publications. With the concise presentation of material in the chapters, instructors have the option of incorporating these readings and helping students connect to issues occurring outside of the classroom.

An engaging visual design developed with the benefit of extensive student feedback will appeal to students and deliver the key concepts of Psychology in a way they can understand.

The groundbreaking instructor supplements package will help bring the key concepts of Psychology to life, without the burden of too dense and too expensive teaching solutions. 

www.thethinkspot.com, the text’s open access website, provides students with a large number of  of tools to help them achieve a better grade.