Interactive Psychology is more than a textbook.
Authored by award-winning teachers and researchers, Interactive Psychology delivers high-quality scientific content that pairs current and classic research with compelling applications and inclusive examples. The result is a dynamic, groundbreaking learning experience.
See for yourself how Interactive Psychology turns reading into doing.
More than 150 embedded active learning opportunities immerse students in key phenomena, test their intuition, examine 3D brain structures and functions, and bring concepts to life through video. In every chapter, our authors identified the concepts best learned interactively and organized them into an Active Learning Framework: four categories that align with common course goals.
Explore the Science
Investigate how psychologists conduct research and analyze scientific data.
Which Method Would You Choose? (Study Unit 11.2)
Design your own study using cross-sectional, longitudinal, and sequential research designs.
Experience It Yourself
Try psychological concepts and methods firsthand, and reflect on your own behaviors and beliefs.
Are You Susceptible to False Memories? (Study Unit 7.2)
Test your own potential for creating false memories by examining six scenes and recalling whether certain items appeared.
Interpret the Example
Apply psychological concepts to everyday life.
Stages of Moral Reasoning (Study Unit 11.19)
Review the three stages of moral reasoning, then match example justifications of Heinz’s actions to each stage.
Integrate Different Perspectives
See how psychology’s subfields fit together while exploring the breadth and diversity of human experiences.
Memory in Perspective (Study Unit 7.16)
Trace how your memory changes across your lifetime from the developmental, cognitive, and biological perspectives.
Make challenging topics easier to teach and easier to learn
Designed based on psychological research about how students learn best, brief modular study units cognitively “chunk” content to help students organize, learn, and remember key concepts. Assignable retrieval practice questions at the end of every study unit provide just-in-time feedback.
What's New in Edition 3.0
- New "Integrate Different Perspectives" embedded activities
- Students examine a single concept—like adolescent development—through multiple subfields, connecting ideas across chapters and building the critical thinking skills to see psychology from every angle.
- New streamlined and updated core chapters (Brain; Memory; Thinking, Language, and Intelligence; Motivation and Emotion) improve clarity, organization, and student comprehension.
- In consultation with Dr. Melissa Maffeo (Wake Forest University), neuroscience coverage now begins with neurons and progresses to larger networks in the body, offering a more student-friendly sequence.
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