The Science of Psychology: An Appreciative View, AP* Edition (King), 3rd Edition

New to this Edition

The third edition of The Science of Psychology has been thoroughly updated to reflect current developments in the field of psychology while retaining Laura King’s contemporary, engaging and personal writing style known for drawing students into the text.

Some of the key content changes include:

• Now updated to reflect the DSM-5

• Renewed emphasis on psychology as a science with expanded intensive coverage of foundational research concepts, including:

  • independent and dependent variables,

  • hypotheses

  • predictions

  • basic descriptive and inferential statistical concepts

• Increased attention to the biological bases for behavior with new comparison between neurons and glial cells and expanded coverage of unresolved questions regarding neurotransmitters in the brain

• New coverage of learning, including comparisons of fixed-ratio and fixed-interval schedules with examples, and expanded coverage of classical conditioning

• Updated coverage of the process of reasoning, including:

  • bottom-up processing

  • inductive reasoning

  • decision-making

  • confirmation bias

• Expanded coverage of strategies for improving short-term memory

• Expanded coverage of social psychology with new attention to the impact of socioeconomic status on prosocial behavior, the Stanford prison experiment and obedience, and group influence