Psychology:
Concepts and Applications
First Edition
Jeffrey S. Nevid, St. John's University
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Chapter Review
Walkthrough Preface Icebreakers can be used to build community within your class, to introduce the upcoming topic matter, and to keep students engaged in the chapter materials. Parting Ways Activities provides instructors with a closure activity for each topic. These vivid and engaging experiences will assist students in remembering the central information in each module.
Multimedia Presentation Tools
Use these slide presentations to help teach your course. You can display them on a computer monitor or through a projector, or print them out. You may edit their content to match the way you teach your course. PowerPoint
Slides, Version 1 Use these updated slide presentations to help you teach your course. As well as lecture outlines, this revised version offers extensive art and tables from the textbook. Updated PowerPoint Slides, Version 2
Instructional Strategies
Concept Charts Taken from the text, these summarize and review major concepts within each module and chapter. A useful learning and review tool. Concept Webs provide relational connections between topics within each chapter module for effective topic review and discussion. Nevid Guide to Positive Psychology Coverage
Emphasizing the growing movement of Positive Psychology in your introductory course? Nevid, Psychology: Concepts and Applications provides an essential tool for reviewing, selecting, and utilizing the integrated positive psychology coverage throughout the text. Provided is a comprehensive listing of positive psychology coverage and page number references for your use in classroom lecture, discussions, and testing. Research Updates Review updated research citations related to each chapter of your textbook. Nevid Guide to Sociocultural Gender Coverage
One primary objective of Nevid, Psychology: Concepts and Applications is to raise students' awareness of the importance of issues relating to diversity. Discussion of cultural and gender issues is fully integrated within the main body of the text rather than relegated to boxed features. The following provides a quick reference to the sociocultural coverage in the text along with page numbers for easier location and use in planning your lectures. IRM Use the Instructor's resource manual to enhance learning, engage student interest, help students sharpen their critical thinking skills, and incorporate technology that serves as a tool for learning.
Course Management & Assessment Tools
Practical advice on running your classroom, whether you're a seasoned instructor or a newcomer.
CRS - Classroom Response System (CRS) offer you a dynamic way to facilitate interactive learning with your students. A CRS allows you to perform "on-the-spot" assessments, deliver quick quizzes, gauge your students’ understanding of a particular question or concept, and take your class roster easily. Use Houghton Mifflin’s text-specific slides to pose multiple-choice questions to your students and challenge them to answer using their wireless "clickers."
Psychology Today Psychology is everywhere--in the news, in movies and TV shows, in books. Read short articles about the latest connections between psychology and what's happening in the world. Psych in the News, on the Shelves, and on the Screen
