Psychology and Everyday Life: Teaching students about the science of psychology while helping them make connections between the discipline and everyday life has been a goal of this text from the beginning. A wealth of new features in this new edition, on the PsychInteractive CD-ROM, and on the Online Learning Center extend and enrich this theme.

     "Applying Psychology in the 21st Century": Boxes in each chapter discuss applications of psychologicaltheory and research current problems, as well as applications we are likely to see in the future.

     "Exploring Diversity": In addition to a substantial amount of material relevant to diversity integrated throughout the text, a special section in each unit explores a racial, ethnic, gender, or cultural diversity topic.

     "Becoming an Informed Consumer of Psychology": Specific sections in each chapter are designed to give readers the ability to evaluate critically what the field of psychology offers.

     Framework for Learning and Assessment: Conforming to the recommendations of an APA task force report on undergraduate student competencies, every component of the text and support materials is tied to the mastery of specific psychological concepts. The book forms the core of this framework, but its power to enrich and empirically demonstrate learning comes from a unique library of electronic interactivities (with video), conceptually based quizzes, and an easy-to-use electronic gradebook, all specifically created for this new edition and available both on the PsychInteractive student CD-ROM and on the text's companion website. Added questions in both Test Banks and materials in the Instructor's Manual enable instructors to effectively employ the interactivities in their teaching.

     Modular Organization: The text breaks up the 14 major topics that formerly made up the chapters of the book into 48 short, self-contained modules for optimal study and learning, so instructors can easily tailor the book to the specific needs of their course.

     Recall/Evaluate/Rethink: The text pedagogy includes review summaries and questions, plus questions that prompt students to think critically about the concepts covered in each module and apply those concepts to the world around them.