New! LaunchPad, Worth’s new online course space, offers a set of prebuilt assignments, carefully crafted by a group of instructional designers and instructors with an abundance of teaching experience as well as deep familiarity with Worth content. Each LaunchPad unit contains videos, activities, and formative assessment pieces to build student understanding for each topic, culminating with a randomized summative quiz to hold students accountable for the unit. It also includes the LearningCurve formative assessment activities while incorporating the full range of Worth’s psychology media options: Video Activities, PsychInvestigator, PsychSim, Concepts in Action, and others. Based on the latest findings from learning and memory research, LearningCurve combines adaptive question selection, personalized study plans, immediate and valuable feedback, and state-of-the-art question analysis reports. LearningCurve’s gamelike nature keeps students engaged while helping them learn and remember key concepts.
Assign units in just a few clicks, and find scores in your gradebook upon submission. LaunchPad appeals not only to instructors who have been interested in adding an online component to their course but haven’t been able to invest the time, but also to experienced online instructors curious to see how other colleagues might scaffold a series of online activities. Customize units as you wish, adding and dropping content to fit your course.
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Instructor’s Resource Manual, Andrew N. Christopher, Albion College; Pam Marek, Kennesaw State University; and Scott Cohn, Western Colorado State University
Thoroughly updated from the last edition, this manual provides a variety of resources to help you plan your course and class sessions. Resources include annotated chapter outlines and lecture guides with tips on how to present the material, effective classroom activities (including both in-class activities and homework assignments) drawn from established sources as well as the authors’ own experiences, and suggestions for using Worth courseware, including LaunchPad, Worth’s online course space, and all of Worth’s video resources for introductory psychology.
Computerized Test Bank, Cynthia S. Koenig, St. Mary’s College of Maryland; Pam Marek, Kennesaw State University; Sherri L. Jackson, Jacksonville University; Richard A. Griggs, University of Florida; and Adrienne Williamson, Kennesaw State University
Tied to the pages of Psychology: A Concise Introduction, Fourth Edition, the Computerized Test Bank provides over 1,500 multiple-choice factual/definitional and conceptual questions. Powered by Diploma, it guides you through the process of creating a test, allowing you to add an unlimited number of questions, edit questions, create new questions, format a test, scramble questions, and include pictures and multimedia links. The accompanying Gradebook enables you to record student grades throughout your course and includes the capacity to track student records, view detailed analyses of test items, curve tests, generate reports, add weights to grades, and more. The disk provides the access point for Diploma Online Testing as well as Blackboard-formatted versions of the Test Bank.
Enhanced Course Management Solutions (Blackboard, Desire2Learn, Angel, Canvas, Moodle) allow adopters to access all of this edition’s teaching and learning resources in one central location (via their course management system) through one seamless, guided experience.
New! Worth Introductory Psychology Videos, produced in conjunction with Scientific American and Nature, is a breakthrough collection of NEW modular, tutorial videos on core psychology topics. This set includes animations, interviews with top scientists, and carefully selected archival footage and is available on flash drive or as part of the new Worth Video Anthology for Introductory Psychology.
New! The Worth Video Anthology for Introductory Psychology is a complete collection, all in one place, of our video clips from the Video Tool Kit, the Digital Media Archive, and the third edition of the Scientific American Frontiers Teaching Modules, as well as from the new Worth Introductory Psychology Videos coproduced with Scientific American and Nature. Available on DVD or flash drive, the set is accompanied by its own Faculty Guide.
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New! Interactive Presentation Slides for Introductory Psychology is an extraordinary series of PowerPoint® lectures. This is a dynamic yet easy-to-use new way to engage students during classroom presentations of core psychology topics. This collection provides opportunities for discussion and interaction, and includes an unprecedented number of embedded video clips and animations (including activities from our ActivePsych series).
PowerPoint© Slide Sets In addition to the Interactive Presentation Slides, there are two other PowerPoint® slide sets to accompany the text. For each chapter, we offer a set that includes chapter art and illustrations and a final lecture presentation set that merges detailed chapter outlines with text illustrations and artwork from outside sources. Each set can be used directly or customized to fit your needs.
All of the following can be packaged with Psychology: A Concise Introduction, Fourth Edition, for a nominal additional cost.
New! Psychology and the Real World: Essays Illustrating Fundamental Contributions to Society This recent project of the FABBS Foundation brought together a virtual “Who’s Who” of contemporary psychological scientists to describe—in clear, captivating ways—the research they have passionately pursued and what it means to the “real world.” Each contribution is an original essay written for this project.
Scientific American Reader to Accompany Psychology: A Concise Introduction To provide a relevant and inexpensive supplementary reader to Psychology: A Concise Introduction, the text author, Richard Griggs, went through the Scientific American database and selected 10 recent articles that best complement the 10 chapters in the text. The articles are sequenced to match the chapter topic order, and the chapter related to each article will adequately prepare the student to read the article. The Scientific American Reader provides another tool for enhancing lectures, encouraging discussion, and emphasizing the relevance of psychology to everyday life.
Pursuing Human Strengths: A Positive Psychology Guide, Martin Bolt, Calvin College Martin Bolt’s workbook aims to help students build up their strengths. Closely following the research, this book provides a brief overview of nine positive traits, such as hope, self-respect, commitment, and joy. It also offers self-assessment activities that help students gauge how much of the trait they have developed, and research-based suggestions for how they might work further toward fostering these traits.
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Critical Thinking Companion, Second Edition, Jane Halonen, University of West Florida; Cynthia Gray, Alverno College Tied to the main topics in introductory psychology, this handbook includes six categories of critical thinking exercises—pattern recognition, practical problem solving, creative problem solving, scientific problem solving, psychological reasoning, and perspective taking.