What is MyPsychLab?
MyPsychLab is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program that truly engages students in learning. It helps students better prepare for class, quizzes, and exams—resulting in better performance in the course. It provides educators a dynamic set of tools for gauging individual and class performance. And, MyPsychLab comes from Pearson—your partner in providing the best digital learning experiences.
MyPsychLab is available for Introductory Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, Social Psychology, and Biopsychology.
Features
MyPsychLab Overview Back to top
MyPsychLab engages students through personalized learning and helps instructors with course preparation, content delivery, and assessment.
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MyPsychLab writing assessments help students build their knowledge of important psychological concepts. After viewing a MyPsychLab video series segment, students answer the writing prompts. The MyLab auto-grader provides feedback on both content and mechanics. An overall score feeds into the MyLab gradebook. Available for Introductory Psychology courses.
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This interactive virtual brain is designed to help students better understand neuroanatomy, physiology, and human behavior. Fourteen virtual brain modules bring to life challenging topics. This hands-on experience engages students and helps make course content and terminology relevant. Available for Biopsychology and Introductory Psychology courses.
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Students participate in virtual classic psychology experiments and research-based inventories with the MyPsychLab Simulations. The simulations help reinforce your classroom teachings and textbook. Available for Introductory Psychology and Research Methods courses.
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Operation ARA is an interactive role-playing game, driven by a "save the world" plot that teaches critical thinking skills. To succeed, the player must develop a set of skills with which they can interrogate suspected extraterrestrials to foil the plot and save humanity. Available for Introductory Psychology and Research Methods courses in MyPsychLab and standalone.
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The MyPsychLab Video Series features over a hundred original videos clips. Each 4-6 minute video clip includes automatically graded assessment questions. This video series covers the most recent psychological research, science, and applications and utilizes the latest in film and animation technology. Available for Introductory Psychology courses.
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The Social Psychology Video Series covers recent social psychological research, science, and applications and utilizes the latest in film and animation technology. Each 4-6 minute video clip has automatically graded assessment questions. Watch clips from ABC's What Would You Do? series and discover how real people in real-world scenarios bring to life classic concepts in social psychology. Available for Social Psychology courses.
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This video series includes Speaking Out: DSM in Context which help students understand how the DSM criteria applies to real people with psychological disorders. Interviews with real patients, friends and family enable students to see symptoms of various conditions and understand the impact of these symptoms on the individual’s daily functioning. Available for Abnormal Psychology courses.
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Like the printed text, students can highlight relevant passages and add notes. The Pearson eText can be accessed through laptops, iPads, and tablets. Download the free Pearson eText app to use on tablets. Students can also listen to their text with the Audio eText.
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The intuitive assignment calendar lets instructors drag and drop assignments to the desired date and gives students an excellent course organizer.
Play video ›Assessment and Gradebook Back to top
Homework and exam assessment help both instructors and students to track progress and get immediate feedback. Automatically graded assessment flows into the gradebook, which can be used in the MyLab or exported.
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Students’ personalized plans promote better critical thinking skills. The study plan organizes students’ study needs into sections, such as Remembering, Understanding, Applying, and Analyzing.
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Students can study key terms and concepts with their own personal set of flashcards. Spanish Flashcards also available for select courses.
Annotated Instructor’s eText Back to top
Instructors have easy access to videos, readings, and more all in one place within their instructor’s eText.
Class Preparation Tool Back to top
Class Preparation Tool collects the very best class presentation resources in one convenient online destination, so instructors can keep students engaged throughout every class.
Launch Tutorial ›Fully Customizable Back to top
MyPsychLab is customizable. Instructors choose what students’ course looks like. Homework, applications, and more can easily be turned off and off.
Play video ›Writing Space Back to top
Writing Space is the best way to develop and assess concept mastery and critical thinking through writing. Writing Space provides a single place within MyLab to create, track, and grade writing assignments, access writing resources, and exchange meaningful, personalized feedback quickly and easily to improve results. Writing Space can also check for plagiarism by comparing it against the world's most accurate text comparison database available from Turnitin.
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