Understanding Psychology (10th Ed)

1. Why might Bono’s family, friends, and fans react negatively to her decision to 
become a man?
2. How is Bono’s transsexualism diff erent from lesbianism?
3. Why do you think Bono believed herself to be a lesbian before deciding that she was 
really a man?
4. What diffi
culties might Bono encounter in her journey to become male?
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Ways of Informing Students
 COMPREHENSIVE CONTENT COVERAGE
Understanding Psychology
provides 
broad coverage of the fi eld of psychology, including the theories, research, and 
applications that permeate the discipline. Along with the traditional areas of psy-
chology (neuroscience, sensation and perception, states of consciousness, learn-
ing, memory, cognition, human development, personality, abnormal behavior and 
treatment, and social psychology), the applied topics of gender and sexuality 
(Chapter 11) and health psychology (Chapter 14) receive extensive attention.
 MODULAR ORGANIZATION
The text is organized into modules in which each 
of the 17 chapters is divided into three or four manageable, self-contained sec-
tions that include learning objectives and assessment opportunities. Each module 
ends with questions that assess learning on both an objective and more concep-
tual, higher-order level. 
Rather than facing a long and potentially daunting chapter, students can 
study material in smaller chunks, which psychological research long ago found to 
be the optimal way to learn. Moreover, instructors can customize assignments for 
their students by asking them to read only those modules that fi t their course 
outline and in the sequence that matches their syllabus. Alternatively, instructors 
who prefer to assign whole chapters can do so.