Essentials of Psychology
Seventh Edition Franzoi, © 2022, 765 pages
Essentials of Psychology encourages students to analyze the scientific journey of discovery in psychology. The text also facilitates a personal journey of discovery and includes more than 20 Self-Discovery questionnaires that ask how the specific text material relates to students’ lives.
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Description
The seventh edition of Essentials of Psychology has a good deal of new content, including many new photos, figures, and tables, as well as more than 200 new references. Other significant changes in this new edition include:
Chapter 1
• New chapter-opening story
• New discussion on pseudoscience
Chapter 2
• Discussion of how individual differences in the levels of the hormone oxytocin might have affected people’s reactions to social distancing measures during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Expanded discussion of sex and gender
Chapter 3
• New research on the development of self-regulation in children
• Expanded coverage of emerging adulthood
• New research on cross-sex friendships
• New discussion of intensive parenting
Chapter 4
• Expanded discussion of the olfactory system
• New coverage of inattentional blindness
Chapter 5
• New chapter-opening story
• New coverage of alcohol use disorder
Chapter 6
• New research on violence in video games
Chapter 7
• New Closer Look exercise on semantic networks
• Revised discussion of levels of information processing
• Expanded coverage of absentmindedness
Chapter 8
• New chapter-opening story
Chapter 9
• New chapter-opening story
• New research on obesity and excessive eating
• Expanded coverage of cultural thinness standards
• New research on gender comparisons in sexual motivation
• New research on sexual assaults
Chapter 10
• New research on the five-factor model
Chapter 11
• New research on COVID-19 mental health issues
• New discussion of the stigma surrounding mental illness
• New discussion of clinical depression and the COVID-19 pandemic
• New research on personality disorders
Chapter 12
• New research on therapy through a managed care system
• New section on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
• New section on online therapy during the COVID-19 pandemic
Chapter 13
• New chapter-opening story
• New section on stress experienced by minority groups due to prejudice
• New Closer Look box on stress during the COVID-19 pandemic
Chapter 14
• New chapter-opening story
• Completely revamped chapter
• New research on the mere exposure effect
• New section on how race-based appearance cues can trigger discrimination
• New section on sexism
• New research on obedience
• New research on the biology of aggression
• New section on aggressive cues triggering violence
• New discussion on how expressing gratitude benefits romantic relationships
• Expanded Psychological Applications section on how the internet can influence voting behavior