More popular than ever in colleges and universities worldwide, today's Essentials of Understanding Psychology has been completely redesigned and revised to provide excellent support and solutions for instructors teaching the introductory course. This major revision integrates a variety of media elements that not only foster student understanding of psychology and of how psychology impacts on students' everyday lives, but also allow students and instructors to assess students' mastery of psychology's key principles and concepts. Essentials of Understanding Psychology includes 12 fewer modules than Understanding Psychology does, combined and rewritten to produce a seamless brief version of the big book.

     An increased coverage of biology is integrated throughout the book which include numerous citations from the 21st century.

     A new Mastery feature (replacing 7e Visual Essays) has been designed to help students master 6 difficult core concepts in Introductory Psychology. The Mastery feature covers topics from Persuasion to Operant Conditioning.

     An improved integration of modules within the chapter structure of the text provide students a clearer flow to understanding the chapters content. Chapter 7,(Memory) has been organized to be more student-friendly.

     New Instructor Resource: PrepCenter. PrepCenter is the when-ever, where-ever, how-ever approach to creating a more engaging classroom experience every time you step in front of your class. This new online instructor resource allows you to search our assets by chapter, by concept, or by media type (PowerPoints, videos, images, activities, etc.) PrepCenter puts the power in your hands and is available through the Online Learning Center.

     The new PsychInteractive Online is available to be used in an online course, as a lab component, or just as further review of key concepts. It includes more than 70 interactivities and reference pages, all with accompanying practice quizzes, personal insight surveys, and study pages.