Multimedia to Support Teaching and Learning

LaunchPad with LearningCurve Quizzing

• The LearningCurve quizzing system was designed based on the latest findings from learning and memory research. It combines adaptive question selection, immediate and valuable feedback, and a game-like interface to engage students in a learning experience that is unique to them. Each LearningCurve quiz is fully integrated with other resources in LaunchPad through the Personalized Study Plan, so students will be able to review with Worth’s extensive library of videos and activities. And state-of-the-art question analysis reports allow instructors to track the progress of individual students as well as their class as a whole.

• An interactive e-Book allows students to highlight, bookmark, and make their own notes, just as they would with a printed textbook.

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• Concept Practice, created by award-winning multimedia author Thomas Ludwig (Hope College) and John Krantz (Hanover College), helps students solidify their understanding of key concepts. With these in-depth tutorials, students explore a variety of important topics, often in an experimental context in the role of either researcher or subject. Tutorials combine animations, video, illustrations, and self-assessment.

• Video Activities include more than 100 engaging video modules that instructors can easily assign and customize for student assessment. Videos cover classic experiments, current news footage, and cutting-edge research, all of which are sure to spark discussion and encourage critical thinking.

• Labs offer an interactive experience that fortifies the most important concepts and content of introductory psychology. In these activities, students participate in classic and contemporary experiments, generating real data and reviewing the broader implications of those findings. A virtual host makes this a truly interactive experience.

• The Scientific American Newsfeed delivers weekly articles, podcasts, and news briefs on the very latest developments in psychology from the first name in popular science journalism.

• Deep integration is available between LaunchPad products and Blackboard. These deep integrations offer educators single sign-on and gradebook sync now with auto-refresh. Also, these best-in-class integrations offer deep linking to all Macmillan digital content at the chapter and asset level, giving professors ultimate flexibility and customization capability within their LMS.

Additional Student Supplements

• The CourseSmart e-Book offers the complete text of Psychology in an easy-to-use format. Students can choose to purchase the CourseSmart e-Book as an online subscription or download it to a personal computer or a portable media player, such as a smartphone or iPad. The CourseSmart e-Book for Psychology can be previewed and purchased at www.coursesmart.com.

• The Horse That Won’t Go Away by Thomas E. Heinzen, Scott O. Lilienfeld, and Susan A. Nolan is an engaging and accessible introduction to the need for psychological science. Starting with the strange case of Clever Hans, the horse that could count and do math, the authors take the reader on a tour of cases where science triumphed over self-deception.

• Pursuing Human Strengths: A Positive Psychology Guide by Martin Bolt of Calvin College is a perfect way to introduce students to the amazing field of positive psychology as well as their own personal strengths.

• Psychology and the Real World: Essays Illustrating Fundamental Contributions to Society, Second Edition, is a superb collection of essays by major researchers that describe their landmark studies. Published in association with the not-for-profit FABBS Foundation, the new edition of this engaging reader i ncludes Alan Kazdin’s reflections on his research on treating children with severe aggressive behavior, Adam Grant’s look at work and motivation, and Steven Hayes’s thoughts on mindfulness and acceptance and commitment therapy. A portion of all proceeds is donated to FABBS to support societies of cognitive, psychological, behavioral, and brain sciences.

Course Management

• Worth Publishers supports multiple Course Management Systems with enhanced cartridges for upload into Blackboard, Angel, Desire2Learn, Sakai, and Moodle. Cartridges are provided free upon adoption of Psychology and can be downloaded from Worth’s online catalog at www.worthpublishers.com. Deep integration is also available between LaunchPad products and Blackboard, Brightspace by D2L, and Canvas. These deep integrations offer educators single sign-on and gradebook sync now with autorefresh.

Assessment

• The Computerized Test Bank powered by Diploma includes a full assortment of questions totaling over 2500 items. This includes an array of multiple-choice and essay questions written to test students at specific levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. All the questions are matched to the outcomes recommended in the 2013 APA Guidelines for the Undergraduate Psychology Major. The accompanying gradebook software makes it easy to record students’ grades throughout a course, sort student records, view detailed analyses of test items, curve tests, generate reports, and add weights to grades.

• The i>Clicker Classroom Response System is a versatile polling system developed by educators for educators that makes class time more efficient and interactive. i>Clicker allows you to ask questions and instantly record your students’ responses, take attendance, and gauge students’ understanding and opinions. i>Clicker is available at a 10% discount when packaged with Psychology.

Presentation

• Interactive Presentation Slides are another great way to introduce Worth’s dynamic media into the classroom without lots of advance preparation. Each presentation covers a major topic in psychology and integrates Worth’s high-quality videos and animations for an engaging teaching and learning experience. These interactive presentations are complimentary to adopters of Psychology and are perfect for technology novices and experts alike.

• The Instructor’s Resource Manual features a variety of materials that are valuable to new and veteran teachers alike. In addition to background on the chapter reading and suggestions for in-class lectures, the manual is rich with activities to engage students in different modes of learning. The Instructor’s Resources can be downloaded at www.macmillanhighered.com/launchpad/Cervone1e.

• The Video Anthology for Introductory Psychology includes over 150 unique video clips to bring lectures to life. Provided complimentary to adopters of Psychology, this rich collection includes clinical footage, interviews, animations, and news segments that vividly illustrate topics across the psychology curriculum.

• Faculty Lounge is an online forum provided by Worth Publishers where teachers can find and share favorite teaching ideas and materials, including videos, animations, images, PowerPoint slides, news stories, articles, Web links, and lecture activities. Sign up to browse the site or upload your favorite materials for teaching psychology at www.worthpublishers.com/facultylounge.