WHAT IS PSYCHOLOGY? FOUNDATIONS, APPLICATIONS, AND INTEGRATION includes innovative features to get students excited about psychology. Authors Pastorino and Doyle-Portillo organize the text around the foundational areas of psychology emphasized in the latest version of the APA guidelines. They also incorporate their successful and engaging teaching approach, which motivates students to read and captures their curiosity from the very beginning. Parts open with attention-grabbing case studies that have drawn rave reviews from students. Each case study is threaded throughout the part's chapters, providing students with a view of the content that is both integrated and applied to real life. The MindTap® online learning platform further integrates the case studies; each chapter in MindTap® opens with a discussion activity that encourages students to apply psychology lessons to their own lives.

1. The Science of Psychology.
Part I: FOUNDATIONS IN BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY.
2. Neuroscience.
3. Sensation and Perception.
4. Consciousness.
5. Motivation and Emotion.
Part II: FOUNDATIONS IN COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY.
6. Learning.
7. Memory.
8. Cognition, Language, and Intelligence.
Part III: FOUNDATIONS IN DEVELOPMENTAL AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY.
9. Human Development.
10. Social Psychology.
11. Personality.
Part IV: FOUNDATIONS IN PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH.
12. Health, Stress, and Coping.
13. Mental Health Disorders.
14. Mental Health Therapies.
Appendix A. Statistics in Psychology.
Appendix B. Applying Psychology in the Workplace.

WHAT IS PSYCHOLOGY? FOUNDATIONS, APPLICATIONS, AND INTEGRATION includes innovative features to get students excited about psychology. Authors Pastorino and Doyle-Portillo organize the text around the foundational areas of psychology emphasized in the latest version of the APA guidelines. They also incorporate their successful and engaging teaching approach, which motivates students to read and captures their curiosity from the very beginning. Parts open with attention-grabbing case studies that have drawn rave reviews from students. Each case study is threaded throughout the part's chapters, providing students with a view of the content that is both integrated and applied to real life. The MindTap® online learning platform further integrates the case studies; each chapter in MindTap® opens with a discussion activity that encourages students to apply psychology lessons to their own lives. Current Research: Updates throughout the book, including more than 500 new references, reflect recent research findings. New Content: This edition covers hundreds of interesting new topics, including the controversy over whether MDMA can be used to treat depression and other mental health issues, the #TheDress viral phenomenon as an example of color constancy processes, stress during development and optimal stress levels in adulthood, online fat-shaming, effects of concussions on the brain, criticisms of the Stanford Prison Experiment, Type D personality and health, and many others. Topics Relevant to Students' Lives: New and updated topics in the popular Psychology Applies to Your World features include "Can Exposure to Wi-Fi Hotspots Affect the Brain?" (Ch. 2); the introduction of flakka in "The Mystery of Bath Salts" (Ch. 4); and "The Duplex Mind and Prejudice" (Ch. 10). Learning Objectives: Each chapter opens with a list of learning objectives tied to the latest APA guidelines. Foundations Approach: Content is arranged in thematic parts reflecting the foundational areas of psychological research. The text opens with the scientific research methods that inform all study of mental processes and behavior. Remaining chapters are organized around four foundational areas: the biological, cognitive, developmental and social, and physical and mental health areas of psychology. Applications: One of the best ways to motivate students to read is to capture their curiosity from the very beginning. Each of the four foundational sections of the text opens with a compelling case study that is threaded through the chapters of that section to help students understand the behavior and mental processes of a real-life person. Similar case studies in the authors' previous texts drew rave reviews from students. Integration: Each chapter closes with a section called Integrating Psychology: The Big Picture. This feature revisits the section case study, enabling students to begin to see that all of the material fits together -- and that what has been learned informs what is yet to be learned. Indexing: Numeric indexing throughout the text helps students quickly locate relevant information. This coding scheme allows students to quickly relate objectives and content to the relevant section of the text. Strong Diversity Coverage: The authors cite and highlight research that reflects many aspects of diversity, including gender, racial diversity, sexual orientation, cultural diversity, age differences, socioeconomic levels, and physical and/or mental health challenges. In all, they reference people from over 120 countries and/or cultural groups.