Organized to the Fall 2019 AP® Course Framework. This updated edition includes 100% of the new course content in the new nine-unit structure. Supplements are being reorganized too. Modular Approach: This book is organized by units and modules for easier assignability and readability. Units are divided into 3 to 10 modules each. Each module breaks the course material into a pedagogically appropriate "chunk" that is designed to be presented in one or two class periods, with additional class periods for activities, demonstrations, and reinforcement, as needed. Learning Targets: The numbering system of the learning objectives is key to the organization of the text. The Learning Targets appear in statement form at the beginning of each module to help orient you to the material you are about to read. These clear and measurable Learning Targets provide you with a snapshot preview of the section material, while allowing you to "check off" each objective as you master it. The objectives are repeated in an engaging question form in context within the module, and then used at the end of each module for review. Check Your Understanding features, found at the end of major sections of text, include Ask Yourself questions, which encourage students to apply new concepts to their own experiences, as well as Test Yourself questions (with answers in Appendix E) that assess mastery and encourage big-picture thinking. Module Reviews repeat the numbered objective questions (Learning Targets) and address them with a bulleted summary. Unit Review Sections include page-referenced Terms and Concepts to Remember as well as a list of Key Contributors discussed in the unit. A full-length AP®-style practice exam is included at the end of the text to ensure your students have nailed down the content and are ready to tackle the exam in May. A Key Contributors list appears at the end of each unit to highlight the influential figures in psychology your students should know. Margin Features: AP Exam Tips: Offer invaluable advice upon which concepts to focus and how to avoid common pitfalls so students can be successful in the course and on the exam. Try This boxes help students connect more deeply with the concepts they're learning by putting concepts into real-life practice. FYI boxes are interesting tidbits of information that help connect the content your students are reading with real-life examples and research studies. Margin Glossary provides a highlight of the vocabulary students need to realize success on the AP® exam.

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Organized to the Fall 2019 AP® Course Framework: This updated edition includes 100% of the new course content in the new nine-unit structure. Supplements are being reorganized too. Thinking Critically Infographics: Formerly boxed features in previous editions, these new infographics provide a description through images. The infographics will sharpen students' analytical skills by modeling a critical thinking approach to key issues and current topics in psychology. "Close-Up" Boxes: These concepts can now be found in the text narrative and tables. New/Updated Review Questions: This edition boasts more than 100 new multiple-choice questions and approximately 40 new FRQs-all other questions have been revised/updated. New/Revised AP® Exam Tips LearningCurve: Teachers love LearningCurve, so we've added more questions to make sure each module has a good amount of questions and reorganizing so that each Module is its own "topic". All New Lecture Presentation Slides Design: A new, more efficient design reduces the length of the text and emphasized important features on each page.

UNIT 1: Scientific Foundations of Psychology
Part I Psychologys History and Approaches
Module 1 Psychology and Its History
Module 2 Today's Psychology and Its Approaches
Module 3 Subfields in Psychology
Part II Research Methods: Thinking Critically With Psychological Science
Module 4 The Need for Psychological Science
Module 5 The Scientific Method and Description
Module 6 Correlation and Experimentation
Module 7 Research Design and Ethics in Psychology
Module 8 Statistical Reasoning in Everyday Life

UNIT 2: Biological Bases of Behavior
Part I Biological Bases of Behavior
Module 9 Biological Psychology and Neurotransmission
Module 10 The Nervous and Endocrine Systems
Module 11 Studying the Brain, Older Brain Structures, and the Limbic System
Module 12 The Cerebral Cortex
Module 13 Brain Hemisphere Organization and the Biology of Consciousness
Module 14 Behavior Genetics: Predicting Individual Differences
Module 15 Evolutionary Psychology: Understanding Human Nature
Part II States of Consciousness
Module 16 Sleep Patterns and Sleep Theories
Module 17 Sleep Deprivation, Sleep Disorders, and Dreams
Module 18 Psychoactive Drugs
Module 19 Understanding Consciousness and Hypnosis* (optional)

UNIT 3: Sensation and Perception
Module 20 Basic Concepts of Sensation and Perception
Module 21 Influences on Perception Module 22 Vision: Sensory and Perceptual Processing
Module 23 Visual Organization and Interpretation Module 24 Hearing
Module 25 The Other Senses

UNIT 4: Learning
Module 26 How We Learn and Classical Conditioning
Module 27 Operant Conditioning
Module 28 Operant Conditioning's Applications, and Comparison to Classical Conditioning
Module 29 Biology, Cognition, and Learning
Module 30 Observational Learning

UNIT 5: Cognitive Psychology Part I Cognition
Module 31 Studying and Encoding Memories
Module 32 Storing and Retrieving Memories
Module 33 Forgetting, Memory Construction, and Improving Memory
Module 34 Thinking, Concepts, and Creativity
Module 35 Solving Problems and Making Decisions
Module 36 Thinking and Language Part II Testing and Individual Differences
Module 37 Introduction to Intelligence
Module 38 Assessing Intelligence
Module 39 The Dynamics of Intelligence
Module 40 Studying Genetic and Environmental Influences on Intelligence
Module 41 Group Differences and the Question of Bias

UNIT 6: Developmental Psychology
Module 42 Developmental Issues, Prenatal Development, and the Newborn
Module 43 Infancy and Childhood: Physical Development
Module 44 Infancy and Childhood: Cognitive Development
Module 45 Infancy and Childhood: Social Development
Module 46 Gender Development
Module 47 Parents, Peers, and Early Experiences
Module 48 Adolescence: Physical and Cognitive Development
Module 49 Adolescence: Social Development and Emerging Adulthood
Module 50 Sexual Development
Module 51 Adulthood: Physical, Cognitive, and Social Development

UNIT 7: Motivation, Emotion, and Personality
Part I Motivation, Emotion, and Stress
Module 52 Motivational Concepts
Module 53 Hunger Motivation
Module 54 Sexual Motivation
Module 55 Affiliation and Achievement
Module 56 Theories and Physiology of Emotion
Module 57 Expressing Emotion Module 58 Stress and Illness
Module 59 Health and Happiness
Part II Personality
Module 60 Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Theories
Module 61 Humanistic Theories
Module 62 Trait Theories Module 63 Social-Cognitive Theories
Module 64 Exploring the Self

UNIT 8: Clinical Psychology
Part I Abnormal Behavior
Module 65 Introduction to Psychological Disorders
Module 66 Anxiety Disorders, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Module 67 Depressive Disorders, Bipolar Disorder, Suicide, and Self-Injury
Module 68 Schizophrenia
Module 69 Other Disorders
Part II Treatment of Abnormal Behavior
Module 70 Introduction to Therapy, and Psychodynamic and Humanistic Therapies
Module 71 Behavior, Cognitive, and Group Therapies
Module 72 Evaluating Psychotherapies
Module 73 The Biomedical Therapies and Preventing Psychological Disorders

UNIT 9: Social Psychology
Module 74 Attribution, Attitudes, and Actions
Module 75 Conformity and Obedience
Module 76 Group Behavior
Module 77 Prejudice and Discrimination
Module 78 Aggression
Module 79 Attraction
Module 80 Altruism, Conflict, and Peacemaking

Enrichment Modules
Module 81 Influences on Drug Use Module 82 Psychology at Work
Module 83 Animal Thinking and Language Appendices

Appendices
Appendix A: Practice AP-Style Exam
Appendix B: AP Tips
Appendix C: Psychological Science's Key Contributors
Appendix D: Preparing for Further Psychology Studies
Appendix E: Answers to Test Yourself Questions

Glossary / Glosario en Espanol
References
Index