Feature Summary

Proven Lahey Features:

• Proven pedagogical design -each chapter begins with an "advance organizer" that provides the student with a cognitive structure on which to hang new information. Section reviews reinforce the cognitive structure, self-quizzes check the learning of facts, and critical thinking questions encourage deep processing.
• Each copy of the text is packaged with practice tests to help students prepare for exams.
• Hierarchial outlines at the end of each chapter tie together information from several sections.
• The text is clearly written, with a relaxed, personal style that students enjoy.
• Lahey's narrative style manages to bridge the gap between scientific accuracy and student clarity.

Content Highlights:

• Increased coverage of neuroscience and the sociocultural perspectives which are two of the hottest areas in psychology.
• Current topics such as social and evolutionary theories on gender differences, advances in the study of achievement motivation, the latest findings on intelligence and its role in modern society, and research on the process of the addiction to nicotine have been added to keep the book in step with the advances in psychology. These topics were also expanded to help students apply difficult biological information in the hopes of increasing comprehension.

New Pedagogical Features:

• Study Skills Pre-Chapter has been added to help students learn and apply good study habits which will lead to success in this and future courses.
• Visual Reviews have been expanded to help visual learners process information more effectively.
• Practice Tests are packaged with each copy of the text to help students in exam preparation and to aid in overcoming test anxiety.
• Concept Web Links in the margins of the text, specifically targets the two to three most difficult concepts in each chapter by providing the most useful web links available as additional study aids. Icons donate the concepts location in the text. The name of the concept and the book's URL, which houses the web links, are placed below the icons for clarity.
• Interactive Visual Reviews have been retained from the 7th edition text and turned into interactive exercises that can be found on the book's online learning center. These visual reviews are designed to facilitate student learning and can be found at the end of chapters, such as Biological Foundations of Behavior, Sensation and Perception, and Personality Theories and Assessment. An icon is placed next to those figures that are interactive.