Psychology in Action, 12th Edition
By Karen Huffman, Katherine Dowdell, and Catherine A. Sanderson
Psychology in Action has been designed to engage and inspire your students through its streamlined, linear organization, and through Karen Huffman’s unique active-learning approach.
Backed by learning science and customer-driven development, the WileyPLUS course supports instructors with efficiency and data-driven insights so they can help students succeed in their coursework and beyond. Adaptive Assignments pinpoint learner knowledge gaps and offer personalized support, targeted content, video instruction, and answer explanations.
The WileyPLUS course contains a wealth of media content—including author videos, topical videos, activities and demonstrations, interactivities, and animations. This rich content will engage your students in the material and will provide them with a solid foundation in basic psychology. This foundation will serve students in their daily lives, no matter what their chosen fields of study or career paths.
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Adaptive Assignments
Adaptive Assignments ignite students’ confidence to succeed in the course. By continuously adapting to each student’s needs and providing achievable goals with just-in-time instruction, Adaptive Assignments close knowledge gaps to accelerate learning.
Chapter Introduction Videos
Author Catherine Sanderson introduces students to the topic they are about to study in a casual, conversational way to pique curiosity and give practical, everyday context.
Topical Videos
In each of these vibrant new video presentations, the authors go in depth on a key topic. Each video has a corresponding video quiz question set for instructors to use when creating assignments.
Animations
Animations that illustrate difficult-to-learn concepts from a real-world perspective are included within the module where the topic is being discussed.
Application Quizzes
These pre-created applied quizzes allow instructors to quickly assign a short set of multiple-choice questions that test students’ ability to apply the material they have just learned.
Key Features
- APA Undergraduate Learning Goals and Outcomes: For instructors, the test bank now has APA tagging and can be filtered by goals and outcomes.
- Grit and a Growth Mindset: Studies find that “grit” and a “growth mindset” may be even more important than IQ in determining individual success in work and academic settings. Each course section begins with a brief description of a famous figure who exemplifies both qualities and then references these stories later in the section to illustrate core concepts. The repeated stories of success reassure students that achievement is largely under their control and thereby inspires them to use grit and a growth mindset to achieve their own personal dreams and aspirations. Each course section includes a Psychology and a Contemporary Success or a Psychology and a Classical Success story.
- Personal and Professional Success: The course also includes two new features—Psychology and Your Personal Success in every section and Psychology and Your Professional Success in most sections—to further demonstrate how knowing psychology, along with a growth mindset and grit, can help students succeed in the real world.
- Support for Developing Critical Thinking Skills: A special “Critical Thinking” prologue and structured exercises throughout each course section provide the scaffolding and framework for students to develop their critical-thinking skills. Connections questions in each end-of-section Retrieval Practice activity strengthen students’ grasp of concepts and ability to relate concepts from one course section to another and to the seven major perspectives of psychology.
- Opportunities to Connect Concepts to Real Life: “Why Study Psychology?” and “Try This Yourself” features are among the many opportunities each course section provides for students to make connections between the concepts they’re learning and their everyday lives.
- Connections–Chapter-to-Chapter: These sections appear with the Retrieval Practice for each chapter section and allow students to see the interrelated connections from key concepts across course sections.
Karen Huffman is Professor Emerita of Psychology at Palomar College, San Marcos, California, where she taught full-time until 2010 and served as the psychology student advisor and co-coordinator for psychology faculty. She has received the National Teaching Award for Excellence in Community/Junior College Teaching, given by Division Two of the American Psychological Association (APA), and has received many other awards and accolades.
Karen Huffman is the author of several textbooks, including Psychology in Action, Real World Psychology, and the first edition of Psychological Science. Huffman’s research and presentation focus is on active learning and critical thinking. She has given presentations and been an invited or keynote speaker at numerous conferences and has conducted online and in-person seminars and teaching workshops throughout the United States and Puerto Rico, Canada, and Europe.
Catherine A. Sanderson is the Poler Family Professor of Psychology at Amherst College. She received a bachelor’s degree in psychology, with a specialization in health and development, from Stanford University, and received master’s and doctoral degrees in psychology from Princeton University.
Her research has received grant funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Health. Professor Sanderson has published over 25 journal articles and four college textbooks, including Psychology in Action, Real World Psychology, and the first edition of Psychological Science, which she co-authors with Karen Huffman. She has also published two trade books, The Positive Shift and Why We Act: Turning Bystanders Into Moral Rebels.
Professor Sanderson regularly speaks for public and corporate audiences on topics like the science of happiness, the power of emotional intelligence, the art of aging well, and the psychology of courage and inaction. These talks have been featured in numerous mainstream media outlets, including The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, USA Today, The Atlantic, CNN, and CBS Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley. She also writes a weekly blog for Psychology Today—“Norms Matter”—that examines the power of social influence on virtually all aspects of our lives. Catherine’s work on integrating DEI into the Introduction to Psychology course has been presented at national conferences and featured in the APA’s IPI Course Design Institute.
In 2012, she was named one of the country’s top 300 professors by The Princeton Review.
Katherine Dowdell is a professor of psychology at Des Moines Area Community College in Iowa where she teaches courses in introduction to psychology, abnormal psychology, lifespan development and social psychology. She also currently serves as district chair for behavioral sciences. Dowdell received her BA in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, and her MS in clinical psychology from the University of Pittsburgh. Dowdell’s experience as an instructor spans almost 30 years and incorporates a variety of creative techniques and innovative strategies. Dowdell began working with Karen Huffman and the Wiley psychology team as a Wiley Faculty Network mentor in 2007. In this role, she has taught and mentored faculty on best practices and the use of technology in teaching. She has conducted numerous online presentations and live workshops on student engagement and empirically-based teaching techniques, as well as published an Instructor’s Field Guide to online teaching. As a decade-long user of WileyPLUS, Dowdell has served as a development consultant on everything from WileyPLUS functionality and video content to instructional design, user-experience, and faculty training.
- Introduction and Research Methods
- Neuroscience and Biological Foundations
- Stress and Health Psychology
- Sensation and Perception
- States of Consciousness
- Learning
- Memory
- Thinking, Language, and Intelligence
- Life Span Development I
- Life Span Development II
- Gender and Human Sexuality
- Motivation and Emotion
- Personality
- Psychological Disorders
- Therapy
- Social Psychology
Optional Sections:
Industrial/Organizational Psychology
Psychology at Work in the Global Economy