Experience Psychology

by Laura A. King

Do you want your students to just take psychology or to experience psychology?

Experience Psychology is a first.

Its groundbreaking adaptive questioning diagnostic and personalized study plan help students “know what they know” while guiding them to experience and learn what they don’t know through engaging interactivities, exercises, and readings.

After all, to truly understand psychology and all its wonders, one must experience it firsthand. And, luckily, there are so many natural opportunities to do so.

Psychology is all around us—in our relationships, our homes, our communities, our schools, and our work. But linking everyday experiences to the academic discipline of Psychology is not always so easy. Laura King’s Experience Psychology was built to do just that.

Experience Psychology introduces function before dysfunction, building student awareness and understanding by looking first at typical, everyday behavior before delving into the less common—and likely less personally experienced—rare and abnormal.

Experience Psychology places the science of psychology and the research that helps students see the academic underpinnings at the forefront of the course and at the same time offers an abundance of applications that helps students connect the science of psychology to the world around them. At the same time, “Intersections” ensure students experience psychology as the interconnected discipline it is.

Experience Psychology helps students to perform to their maximum potential in and out of the classroom, fully engaging them in the content and experiences that comprise the world’s most popular undergraduate major.

Genres: Psychology, School, Nonfiction, Textbooks, College, Teaching, Science

640 pages, Paperback

First published November 4, 2009

Reviews

[Samuel · Rating 2 out of 5]

Eh. Just eh. This book had quite a lot to offer, but it was lacking in the delivery. Some of the sample test questions, which were paired with answers located in the back of the book, didn't match up with the required readings. Some of them even offered incorrect answers. Also, King tried to make things so relevant to the "NOW" generation that she provided some stories and characters, pulled while drifting in the WWW, which didn't even turn out to be accurate.

2 out of 5! Sadly, my lowest score yet.

[♥︎quinn *editing reviews & shelves* · Rating 1 out of 5]

i mean, the material itself might have been quite interesting--but the delivery was not anywhere near decent, as well as the segments it was divided into. there wasn't really enough methods to help memorize the information either, the self-quizzes were too short.

[Alyssa Miller · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good overall teaching of Psychology. Interesting.

[Elena Dishsoap · Rating 1 out of 5]

Terrible terrible long stupid book I do not recommend

[Emma · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a college textbook of mine, and I thought it to be very interesting as far as content, with convenient key term sections to memorize, though the delivery could have been better.

[Linda Branham · Rating 5 out of 5]

A good overall teaching of psychology. It has many good examples and questions for the students - which I will use as class discussions. However it will need to be updated with the new DSM-V material instead of the DSM-IV which it uses now

[Daniel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really good textbook to learn basic psychology. It takes you through all the basics, the people, theories, and what they all mean. If you know very little about psychology and are interested in what it is all about, I recommend this book.

[Jenny · Rating 4 out of 5]

Yaay...I'm done!

[Liz Adkins · Rating 3 out of 5]

Woohoo! We have completed the book! This one I did read...because of the quizzes :)

[Matthew · Rating 3 out of 5]

Technically I did... ^_^