Affordable resource that succinctly introduced key psychological concepts
Updated, engaging and relevant topics to captivate student interest
Prepares students for studying psychology in VCE
Engaging new digital resources
Interactive digital resources bring the study of psychology to life with:
- auto-marked quizzes enabling students to quickly check their understanding;
- content-specific videos to summarise, clarify or extend student knowledge;
- rollover definitions that immediately define key terms;
- checklists to identify areas that may require more clarification and revision;
- Workspaces for students to enter written answers online;
- self-assessment tools enabling students to check answers, mark their own work, rate their confidence, develop responsibility for their own learning and communicate progress and performance to their teacher;
- QR codes in the printed textbook provide instant access to further related content and are ideal for homework use;
- the Scorcher competition, a series of rapid-fire questions at the end of each chapter to aid comprehension and revision.
Get Psyched! introduces Year 10 students to key concepts in psychology including the brain, mental health, personality disorders, sleep, happiness, ethics and relationships. This new edition includes a completely new chapter on performance psychology, as well as a focus on other areas of psychology including neuropsychology, forensic psychology, positive psychology, humanistic psychology, socio-biological and socio-cognitive psychology.
Written specifically to engage Year 10 students, Get Psyched! includes:
- updated local and international topics – such as criminal behaviour, dreams, psychopathy, addiction, mindfulness and body language – with the most recent information to interest students and explain theory using examples from everyday life;
- a significant study on the Chelmsford Hospital scandal which encourages students to explore how ethical principles are applied in the real world;
- useful and stimulating Did you know boxes containing short facts of interesting information related to psychology.
Get Psyched! equips students for a seamless transition into VCE Psychology and includes:
- end-of-chapter tests utilising the VCE assessment structure of multiple-choice, short-answer and extended-response questions to further check understanding of the chapter content, as well as the opportunity to practise answering exam-style questions;
- review questions to check students’ ability to recall and apply key ideas;
- chapter activities and questions which encourage students to incorporate scenarios into their responses and understand how topics interrelate;
- topic-specific words highlighted throughout the text, defined nearby to aid immediate comprehension, and listed in the glossary definitions at the back of the book for revision and easy reference.
