Psychology2016

Learner-Centered Approach

Curiosity and Dialogue

Our goal is to awaken students’ curiosity and energize their desire to learn by having them read
and engage with the material. In the last edition, we extended that experience with the new REVEL format.
Fully digital and highly engaging, REVEL offers an immersive learning experience designed for the way today’s
students read, think, and learn. Enlivening course content with media interactives and assessments, REVEL
empowers educators to increase engagement with the course and to better connect with students. See
pearsonhighered.com/revel.

The fifth edition builds upon the REVEL experience. This edition was written with digital learning materials
clearly in mind. With the dynamic learning aids of previous editions as a foundation, the digital materials are
interactive, allowing students to experience figures, graphs, and tables in an active learning process. Instead of
simply looking and reading, the student is doing things with the digital materials. This format will truly help stu-
dents engage in the learning process and will also help instructors make classroom presentations more vivid and
attention grabbing.

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Watch the Video

THINKING CRITICALLY

How have you used the promise of a pleasurable consequence or reward to modify your own behavior or the behavior of others?After you have answered the question, watch the video to compare the answers of other students to yours.

The response entered here will be saved to your notes and may be collected by your instructor if he/she requires it.

Why study learning?

If we had not been able to learn, we would have died out as a species long ago. Learning is the process that allows us to adapt to the changing conditions of the world around us. We can alter our actions until we find the behavior

that leads us to survival and rewards, and we can eliminate actions that have been unsuccessful in the past. With-out learning, there would be no buildings, no agriculture, no lifesaving medicines, and no human civilization.

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Learning

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Chapter-Opening Journal Prompts and

Student Voice Videos

Chapters open with videos in which

psychology students share personal stories

about how the chapter theme directly

applies to their lives. For the fifth edition,

we’ve added the ability for students to

answer these questions for themselves

before watching the video responses.

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