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Written by a distinguished team of teachers, this fourth edition of Thinking About Psychology reflects up-to-date DSM-5 content and research, emphasizes psychology as a science, answers goal-oriented guiding questions, and provides a vast amount of assessment opportunities for students to

Written by a distinguished team of teachers, this fourth edition of Thinking About Psychology reflects up-to-date DSM-5 content and research, emphasizes psychology as a science, answers goal-oriented guiding questions, and provides a vast amount of assessment opportunities for students to regularly test their understanding.

Students are sure to be engrossed by the engaging and conversational tone of authors Charlie Blair-Broeker and Randy Ernst, who have a combined 54 years of high school teaching experience and have led Psychology workshops in more than 30 states!

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Look Inside Look Inside Cover: Thinking About Psychology, High School Version, 4th Edition by Charles Blair-Broeker; Randal Ernst

Emphasizing psychology as a science

Written by a distinguished team of teachers, this fourth edition of Thinking About Psychology reflects up-to-date DSM-5 content and research, emphasizes psychology as a science, answers goal-oriented guiding questions, and provides a vast amount of assessment opportunities for students to regularly test their understanding.

Students are sure to be engrossed by the engaging and conversational tone of authors Charlie Blair-Broeker and Randy Ernst, who have a combined 54 years of high school teaching experience and have led Psychology workshops in more than 30 states!

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Addresses the National Standards: Organized around the 2011 version of the National Standards for High School Psychology Curricula, Thinking About Psychologys 37 modules align with the disciplines benchmarks and objectives unlike any other text.

Modular Approach: The book is structured into modules which are shorter than chapters and better sustain student understanding and interest while providing more flexibility for teachers. Domains are divided into 3 to 7 modules each, for a total of 37 modules.

New! Module 1: This new Module introduces the book by bringing psychologys everyday applications to life through the eleven overarching themes of the discipline, as outlined by the APA National Standards. This new module also provides the rationale behind the organization of the text while providing a brief overview of whats to come in each Domain.

Learning Goals: The numbering system of the Learning Goals is key to the organization of the text. The Learning Goals appear in statement form at the beginning of each module to help orient students to the material they are about to read. These clear and measurable Learning Goals provide students with a preview of the section material, while allowing them to check off each objective as they master it. The objectives are repeated in an engaging question form within the module, and then used at the end of each module for review.

Boxes: Boxed features throughout the text provide expanded coverage, motivate introspection, and encourage scientific reasoning:

  • Psychology in the Real World boxes help students apply psychological research to their everyday world. Topics include detecting lies, managing anger, groupthink, and many others.
  • Thinking Like a Psychological Scientist boxes show how scientific methods are applied to psychological topics. Examples include closer looks at the brain and animal language.

New! Make It Stick!: This new feature, which replaces Before You Move On from the third edition, is comprised of 2-5 questions at the end of each Learning Goal section. The questions are either multiple-choice, true/false, or fill-in-the-blank and are intended to assess students understanding of the content theyve just read. Answers to these questions can be found in the Teachers Edition.

New! Think About Questions: Each boxed feature in the text is now paired with three open-ended, short-answer questions to consider about the features content. Answers to these questions can be found in the Teachers Edition.

New! Life Matters: This new margin feature brings additional focus to specific content on the page by demonstrating its relevance to students everyday lives.

New! Summative Assessment questions: Ten new multiple-choice questions have been added to the end of each module. The questions are cumulative in nature and address content areas covered throughout the module. With more than 300 new questions in the book, students will have plenty of opportunity to test themselves on the modules content. Answers to these questions can be found in the back of the book.

New! Positive Psychology: The Thinking About Positive Psychology boxes from the third edition have been converted into the text. In order to highlight this significant and trending area of psychology, weve introduced a positive psychology icon to draw attention to all such relevant content.

New! Labs: Affirming the belief that psychology is a science, this fourth edition offers Labs within each Domain. Found in the Teachers Resource Materials and authored by Stephen Foley from The Linsly School, each lab is written with the consideration of common, available resources and can be completed within a 50-minute class period.

On-Page Features:

Margin Glossary: Important terms are defined in the margins for easy reference. For a quick review, terms are also listed at the end of each module with reference to the page on which the term was introduced.

Key People: Contributions of key psychologists are listed on the page where the person is first introduced. For a quick review, key people are also listed at the end of each module with reference to the page on which the term was introduced.

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New! LearningCurve: This online learning tool helps students rehearse content at their own pace in a nonthreatening, game-like environment. The feedback for wrong answers provides instructional coaching and sends students back to the book for review. When LearningCurve is assigned, students come to class better prepared!

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Look Inside Look Inside Cover: Thinking About Psychology, High School Version, 4th Edition by Charles Blair-Broeker; Randal Ernst

Thinking About Psychology, High School Version

Fourth Edition| ©2019

Charles Blair-Broeker; Randal Ernst

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Look Inside Look Inside Cover: Thinking About Psychology, High School Version, 4th Edition by Charles Blair-Broeker; Randal Ernst

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Fourth Edition| 2019

Charles Blair-Broeker; Randal Ernst

Table of Contents

MODULE 1 Thinking About Psychology

Domain 1 - Scientific Inquiry

MODULE 2 History and Perspectives in Psychological Science

MODULE 3 Research Strategies

MODULE 4 Psychologys Statistics

Domain 2 - Biopsychology

MODULE 5 The Nervous System and the Endocrine System

MODULE 6 The Brain

MODULE 7 Sensation

MODULE 8 Perception

MODULE 9 Sleep, Dreams, and Body Rhythms

MODULE 10 Psychoactive Drugs

MODULE 11 Hypnosis and Other States of Consciousness

Domain 3 - Development and Learning

MODULE 12 Prenatal and Childhood Development

MODULE 13 Adolescence

MODULE 14 Adulthood and Aging

MODULE 15 Language Development

MODULE 16 Classical Conditioning

MODULE 17 Operant Conditioning

MODULE 18 Observational Learning

Domain 4 - Sociocultural

MODULE 19 Social Thinking and Social Influence

MODULE 20 Social Relations

MODULE 21 Nature and Nurture in Psychology

MODULE 22 The Psychology of Culture and Gender

Domain 5 - Cognition

MODULE 23 Information Processing

MODULE 24 Forgetting and Memory Construction

MODULE 25 Thinking

MODULE 26 Intelligence and Intelligence Testing

Domain 6 - Individual Variations

MODULE 27 Motivation

MODULE 28 Emotion

MODULE 29 Psychodynamic and Humanistic Perspectives on Personality

MODULE 30 Trait and Social- Cognitive Perspectives on Personality

MODULE 31 Introduction to Psychological Disorders

MODULE 32 Anxiety and Mood Disorders

MODULE 33 Dissociative, Schizophrenic, and Personality Disorders

Domain 7 - Applications of Psychological Science

MODULE 34 Psychological Therapies

MODULE 35 Biomedical Therapies

MODULE 36 Effects of Stress

MODULE 37 Promoting Wellness

Appendix A: Careers in Psychology

Appendix B: Answers to Summative Assessment Questions

Glossary/Glosario

References

Name Index

Subject Index

Look Inside Look Inside Cover: Thinking About Psychology, High School Version, 4th Edition by Charles Blair-Broeker; Randal Ernst

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Charles Blair-Broeker

Charles Blair-Broeker happily taught psychology for over 40 years, mostly at Cedar Falls (Iowa) High School. He has been involved in several American Psychological Association (APA) initiatives, serving as a member of the task force that authored the first set of national standards for high school psychology, as the first elected chair of Teachers of Psychology in Secondary Schools (TOPSS), and as coeditor of the fourth volume of the Activities Handbook for the Teaching of Psychology. Charlie served on the steering committee for three APA national conferences, including the 2017 Summit on High School Psychology, where he also delivered a keynote address. He taught Advanced Placement Psychology for over 20 years, beginning with the first year the exam was offered in 1992, and has been a test development committee member, question leader, rubric master, and table leader for AP Psychology. Charlie has written numerous articles about teaching high school psychology, has spoken at dozens of conferences and conducted over a hundred seminars across the nation. Among Charlie's teaching awards are the Grinnell College Outstanding Teacher Award, the University of Iowa Distinguished Teacher Award, and the APA Division 2 Teaching Excellence Award. In 2014, the APA-TOPSS Award for Excellence in Teaching was renamed the Charles T. Blair-Broeker Excellence in Teaching Award in his honor. Charlie has received an APA Presidential Citation for “exemplary efforts to promote high-quality instruction of and professionalism in teaching high school psychology.”


Charlie has been married to Lynn for almost 50 joyous years. They travel extensively and keep up with the adventures of their sons Carl (married to Liz) and Eric (married to Brittany and father of Marin and Louis). Charlie and Lynn do a lot of volunteer work and are mediocre but passionate pickleball players.


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Randal Ernst

Randal Ernst has a B.A. in psychology, an M.A. in historical studies, and an Ed.D. in learning and teacher education, and has benefitted from the work of those who came before him his entire life. He taught his first high school psychology class in 1986, and has been part of the high school psychology scene ever since. At the first-ever APA Summit for High School Psychology Education (which Randy originally called for and helped lead), he was awarded a Presidential Citation by APA President Antonio Puente for "pioneering leadership of modern day pedagogy of psychology" which reflected several "firsts" Randy has been a part of. For example, Randy was a member of the committee that founded TOPSS (Teachers of Psychology in Secondary Schools), and was an elected member of the TOPSS Executive Board for its first five years. Randy was also a member of the first AP Psychology Test Development Committee, and was the first high school teacher to be either a Question Leader or an Exam Leader. Randy was the first high school teacher to have an article published in the American Psychologist, and has also had articles published in the Journal of Teaching of Psychology and the Oxford Review of Education. To honor Randy's efforts to help teachers and improve the teaching of high school psychology, the APA started the Randal M. Ernst Lecture, which is given annually at the APA Convention. A long-time advocate of improving one's sense of well-being, Randy coined the phrase "Positive Education" while preparing a presentation on infusing positive psychology concepts into pre K-12 curriculum with Marty Seligman for the Australian Department of Education. After being name the Lincoln Public Schools Multicultural Educator of the Year, Randy co-founded the Cultural Competence Center, which runs workshops for organizations seeking to increase cultural awareness in its employees and practices. Randy has received teaching-related awards from the APA, the Center for Civic Education, the NAACP, the University of Nebraska, and other organizations. Randy's mentors include Drs. Mary Kay Reed, Thomas Christie, Cliff Fawl, and Ludy Benjamin. Influential teachers include Don Davis an Avon Crawford. He is an Emeritus Professor of Education at Nebraska Wesleyan University, the husband of Teresa Wanser-Ernst, and the father of Emily, Meredith, and Jocelyn.

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