Psychology Around Us, 2e
by Ronald Comer, Elizabeth Gould
ISBN: 978–1–1180–1207–9

The Story

Psychology Around Us 2nd Edition empowers students to build psychological literacy by tying together topics and sub–topics throughout. Following a familiar organization, the unique Tying It Together sections in Psychology Around Us, highlight the significance of psychology’s big picture, rather than presenting the field as disjointed topics, chapter–by–chapter. The Psychology Around Us program is full of rich, powerful media resources and supplements that have been streamlined by a team of psychology instructors like you. Psychology Around Us offers professors and students a range of tools to successfully tie psychology all together, highlighting that psychology is an integrated science.

Tying It Together

Through an innovative series of elements woven through every chapter, Psychology Around Us, 2nd Edition presents the discipline as a cohesive, integrated science. Every chapter helps students Tie Together topics so they see the significance of psychology's big picture.

What Happens in the Brain
How We Differ
How We Develop
When Things Go Wrong

At the chapter’s end, the "Tying It Together" summary reiterates how these themes integrate with the chapter topics, to illustrate how psychology is an integrated science.

Tying It Together:
Your Brain and Behavior

Exciting and accessible "Tying it Together: Your Brain and Behavior" two–page layouts appear throughout the book illustrating what happens in the brain when people are performing such common behaviors as eating pizza, learning to play a video game, acquiring a second language, and more. These "visual essays," which include neuroimages and findings from both human studies and relevant animal experiments, draw students into the brain and provide them with up–to–date information about the neural mechanisms at work during their everyday experiences.

The second edition of Psychology Around Us features two new "Tying It Together, Your Brain & Behavior" two–page spreads.

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Table of Contents

I liked the examples. They were very clear and to the point. Some of the topics I had learned in a different class, but felt I understood them more after reading it in your book.

—Student, Kaitlyn Purinton, Arizona State University
The information was presented in a clear and concise way that made it more interesting to read and understand.

—Student, Alexandria Lytle, University of Toledo
It makes things much more easier for me to understand, and lets me know what topics are together without having to look all through a chapter for material that is related together.

—Student, Quamia Allen, North Carolina Central University
The text is very appealing visually, which makes it easier to focus. Plus, the text is arranged in a way that's easy to follow.

—Student, David Martin, University of Toledo
I liked the reading, and the illustrations. It helped me get into what I was reading.

–Student Jami Lewis, Bowling Green State University
An easy read, appealing book with good visuals, makes for a good understanding of the information.
–Student, Michelle Ferris, University of Toledo

The Story

Tying It Together

Tying It Together:Your Brain and Behavior

Tying It Together:
Your Brain and Behavior