What Is MyPsychLab?
The moment you know.
Educators know it. Students know it. It’s that inspired moment when something that was difficult to understand suddenly makes perfect sense. Our MyLab products have been designed and refined with a single purpose in mind–to help educators create that moment of understanding with their students.
The new MyPsychLab delivers proven results in helping individual students succeed. It provides engaging experiences that personalize, stimulate, and measure learning for each student. And, it comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students, instructors, and departments achieve their goals.
MyPsychLab can be used by itself or linked to any learning management system. To learn more about how the new MyPsychLab combines proven learning applications with powerful assessment, visit http://www.pearsonhighered.com/newmylabs.
Appropriate Courses
MyPsychLab is available for Introductory Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, Biopsychology, and Social Psychology courses.
Features and Benefits
MyPsychLab delivers proven results in helping individual students succeed.
- Pearson MyLabs are currently in use by millions of students each year across a variety of disciplines.
- In a survey of over 700 students, more than 96% reported that they were satisfied with their MyPsychLab experience, 90% agreed that it was easy to use, and 85% recommended its continued use.
- MyPsychLab works–but don’t take our word for it. Visit our MyLab / Mastering site to read white papers, case studies, and testimonials from instructors and students that consistently demonstrate the success of our MyLabs.
MyPsychLab provides engaging experiences that personalize, stimulate, and measure learning for each student.
- Comprehensive, current, and cutting edge, the new MyPsychLab Video Series features 17 original thirty-minute videos covering the most recent research, science, and applications and utilizing the latest in film and animation technology.
- A new experiments tool allows students to participate in experiments online to reinforce what they’re learning in class and in their book.
- BioFlix animations bring difficult-to-teach biological concepts to life.
- Speaking Out: The DSM in Context videos help students understand how the DSM criteria apply to real people with psychological disorders. Interviews with real patients, along with their friends and family, enable students to see symptoms of various conditions as well as understand the impact of these symptoms on the individual’s daily functioning. (Available with Abnormal Psychology course only.)
- A 3D Virtual Brain simulation enables students to better visualize the workings of the brain. This hands-on experience engages students while helping to make course content and terminology relevant.
- The Pearson eText lets students access their textbook anytime, anywhere, and any way they want–including listening online or downloading to iPad.
- A personalized study plan for each student, based on Bloom’s Taxonomy, arranges content from less complex thinking–like remembering and understanding–to more complex critical thinking–like applying and analyzing. This layered approach promotes better critical-thinking skills, and helps students succeed in the course and beyond.
- Assessment tied to every video, application, and chapter enables both instructors and students to track progress and get immediate feedback. With results feeding into a powerful gradebook, the assessment program helps instructors identify student challenges early–and find the best resources with which to help students.
- An assignment calendar allows instructors to assign graded activities, with specific deadlines, and measure student progress.
- Class Prep collects the very best class presentation resources in one convenient online destination, so instructors can keep students engaged throughout every class.
MyPsychLab comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students, instructors, and departments achieve their goals.
- Pearson supports instructors with workshops, training, and assistance from Pearson Faculty Advisors–so you get the help you need to make MyPsychLab work for your course.
- Pearson gathers feedback from instructors and students during the development of content and the feature enhancement of each release–to ensure that our products meet your needs
