Laura King | Mark Holder | Dax Urbszat
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Overview
Why does orange juice taste so bad after you brush your teeth? Why do we remember things that didn’t happen and forget things that did? How does meditation really work? How many people on Tinder are married or in committed relationships?
The First Canadian Edition of King, The Science of Psychology, is an exciting new resource designed to engage students by sparking their curiosity. Through an active reading approach, questions like the above are weaved throughout the resource and explored in depth from a psychological perspective. The First Canadian Edition of King is unique in its approach of focusing on psychology with an appreciative view in mind. Rather than highlighting why things go wrong, King celebrates why things go right. The result is a rigorous and fascinating exploration of psychology that's ideal for any learner eager to understand the world around them.
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 What Is Psychology?
Chapter 2 What Is the Scientific Method in Psychology?
Chapter 3 What Are the Biological Foundations of Behaviour?
Chapter 4 What Are Sensation and Perception?
Chapter 5 What Is Consciousness?
Chapter 6 What Is Learning?
Chapter 7 What Is Memory?
Chapter 8 What Are Thinking, Intelligence, and Language?
Chapter 9 How Do Humans Develop?
Chapter 10 What Are Motivation and Emotion?
Chapter 11 Why Do Individual Differences, Such as Gender and Sex, Matter?
Chapter 12 What Is Personality?
Chapter 13 What Is Social Psychology?
Chapter 14 What Are Psychological Disorders?
Chapter 15 What Is Therapy?
Chapter 16 What Is Health Psychology?
An Innovative Authoring Process
We believe that learning changes everything, which is why we developed this Introductory Psychology resource with innovation and collaboration in mind.
Written in a cloud-based platform so our authors could collaborate with each other
A group of psychology instructors across Canada were invited to the cloud-based platform to review the resource during the authoring process
Every chapter was reviewed by Canadian Psychology instructors in real-time during authoring
Our authors were able to edit and modify content based on suggestions from their peers
The result is an exciting resource that’s unique, engaging, and designed exclusively for Canadian instructors and students
What's Inside
Digital Solutions: Connect
The First Canadian Edition of King is available within Connect. Connect is an award-winning digital teaching and learning solution designed to enhance your teaching style. It allows you to deliver, personalize and measure your course with ease. Plus, Connect can integrate with your LMS system to provide a seamless experience for you and your students.
Features
An Appreciative View: The First Canadian Edition of King provides a refreshing new view about the field of psychology. Rather than focusing on what’s wrong with people, King explores why things go right. Common themes include happiness and life satisfaction. This resource maintains a positive view by considering the strengths and potential of people through content that is informative and inspiring.
Active Reading: The First Canadian Edition was developed with active reading in mind. Each heading is posed as a question to spark interest and actively engage students with the text. The questions help to guide student focus, enabling them to uncover the answer.
Diverse Perspectives: Careful consideration was made to include research and examples that will resonate with Canadian readers. The result is a rich blend of Canadian and global examples that are diverse and relevant for today’s student.
SmartBook 2.0: Within Connect, students have access to SmartBook, an adaptive learning and reading tool that personalizes content to each student’s unique needs. Because SmartBook creates the ideal study path for each student, every minute they spend studying is the most effective minute possible. SmartBook highlights the key topics students should focus on, and supplies links to additional learning materials like slideshows, videos and more so they can enhance their understanding of key learning objectives.
Read Anywhere App: Our free ReadAnywhere App allows students to access SmartBook readings and assignments anywhere, anytime, online or offline so they never lose their place. With over 500,000 downloads and an average rating of 4.6 out of 5 in the App Store, you can trust that accessing readings, highlights, and notes across all smart devices has never been easier.
Lab Activities with Anatomy and Physiology Revealed: Psychology. Anatomy and Physiology Revealed is a virtual human anatomy and physiology lab that allows students to explore the connection between anatomy and the science of behavior, through real-life views of the human brain and body that are essential to the understanding of psychology.
Application-Based Activities: The Connect Application-Based Activities are highly interactive and automatically graded application and analysis-based exercises that allow students to immerse themselves in a clinical environment, analyze the situation, and apply their knowledge of clinical strategies. Students progress from understanding basic concepts to assessing and solving complex real-world scenarios.
Power of Process: Power of Process for The Science of Psychology helps students improve critical-thinking skills and allows instructors to assess these skills efficiently and effectively in an online environment. Available through Connect, preloaded journal articles are available for instructors to assign. Using a scaffolded framework such as understanding, synthesizing, and analyzing, Power of Process moves students toward higher-level thinking and analysis.
Writing Assignments: The Writing Assignment tool delivers a learning experience to help students improve their written communication skills and conceptual understanding. As an instructor you can assign, monitor, grade, and provide feedback on writing more efficiently and effectively.
SmartBook
SmartBook is an adaptive teaching and learning experience available within Connect, designed to create a customized learning path for every student. By identifying gaps in knowledge, SmartBook helps students study more efficiently by providing additional reinforcement where needed. With detailed insights on student performance, instructors can identify areas of weakness and strength among course topics to better inform their teaching approach and create a more engaging classroom.
Power of Process
Power of Process is a new feature in Connect designed to help students improve their critical thinking, while allowing instructors to effectively assess these skills via an online solution. Power of Process poses a variety of questions to students, asking them to think critically and engage deeply with the text through highlights, annotations and written responses.
The flexible design of Power of Process allows instructors to use McGraw-Hill reading selections, or to upload their own images or readings for analysis. Students may also upload their own reading selections or source materials.
A&P Revealed for Psychology
This virtual human anatomy and physiology visualization tool allows students to explore the connections between anatomy and the science of behaviour. These real-life views of the human brain and body are essential to the understanding of psychology.
Bloom’s Taxonomy for The Science of Psychology
Our solutions are designed to engage your students in course content to develop higher-order thinking skills. Here’s an overview of the tools available within Connect for the First Canadian Edition of King The Science of Psychology: An Appreciative View:
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About the Authors
Mark Holder
Mark Holder completed two years of undergraduate studies at Douglas College and then earned his B.A. (honours) at Simon Fraser University. With the help of an NSERC scholarship, he completed his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, where he learned to throw a Frisbee 11 different ways. He then worked as a research psychologist and adjunct professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he conducted behavioural neuroscience work, including brain transplants, in Dr. John Garcia’s lab.
As an assistant and later an associate professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland, he studied natural pain-killing chemicals that were released in the brains of people who ate chocolate chip cookies. During this time he worked as a biological consultant with the NutraSweet Company to determine whether aspartame is safe for pregnant mothers and their offspring. He also spent a research sabbatical at the University of Hawaii swimming with dolphins in studies of language.
Dr. Holder is now an associate professor at the University of British Columbia, where he studies positive psychology. His research team has identified factors (e.g., spirituality and personality) that contribute to the happiness of vulnerable people, including children, people living in challenging regions of the world (e.g., Zambia and Northern India), and people with psychological challenges (e.g., psychopathy and alexithymia). His team is also investigating strategies to enhance happiness in adults through experiences with nature and promoting their belief that they can change their well-being.
Dr. Holder has published over 85 academic articles, which have been cited over 3000 times. He has given keynotes and invited talks on the science of happiness on his travels to over 50 countries.
In his real life, Mark has a deep relationship with his carbon fibre mountain bike and he is happiest travelling the world and being in nature.
Dax Urbszat
Dax Urbszat began his post-secondary education by attaining a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Toronto with a specialist in psychology and a major in crime, law and deviance. This undergraduate training led to a law degree from Osgoode Hall Law School followed by a master’s and doctoral degree in psychology from the University of Toronto in the areas of personality, social, abnormal, and forensic psychology.
Dr. Urbszat is currently an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto and can be found teaching the huge Introduction to Psychology course as well as courses in social psychology, psychology and law, forensic psychology, and special topics in abnormal psychology. Dax believes strongly in providing an interactive learning environment and is known to make deliberate efforts to facilitate his students’ learning experience through demonstrations, class participation, experiential learning, and active student engagement. As evidence of his strong dedication to interactive teaching, Dax has been nominated numerous times to the top 20 in TVOntario’s Best Lecturer Competition, and has received many awards and commendations for teaching, including the student-voted Tri-campus Teaching Award of Excellence for the University of Toronto in 2008 and the Award of Excellence for Teaching at the University of Toronto at Mississauga in 2010.
Dr. Urbszat is also cross-appointed to the forensic science program at the University of Toronto, where he assists with the unique undergraduate forensic psychology specialist program and supervises research and internships focusing on areas where psychology and the legal system intersect, including jury selection and the challenge for cause, eyewitness identification, jury decision making, psychopathy, and psychopathology related to deviant and criminal behaviour. Dr. Urbszat also acts as a behavioural consultant for individuals, businesses, and the courts and legal system, and has been called as an expert witness in a high-profile homicide trial to testify on the issues of pretrial publicity and jury bias.
Away from campus Dax is a long-time practitioner of martial arts, including Judo, Kung Fu, Muay Thai, and Qigong. Dr. Urbszat has also been a long-time advocate and student of various forms of meditation, including mindfulness meditation and a secular version of transcendental meditation that he refers to as Focused Breathing. Also an accomplished musician (guitar, piano, bass, harmonica), singer, songwriter, and performer, Dax lends his musical talents each year to help support local charities and the university’s undergraduate psychology club, music club, and alumni association. Dax’s other interests include lucid dreaming and scuba diving.