Thanks to everyone in the Noba community who has sent us feedback on our instructional resources. We're pleased that you like them so much and appreciate the suggestions for making them even better. We're happy to say that now there are a lot more of these resources to love!

Modules with newly added Instructor Manual, PowerPoint presentations, and Reading Anticipation Guides:

1. Creativity
2. Factors Influencing Learning
3. Multimodal Perception
4. Sensation and Perception
5. History of Psychology
6. The Replication Crisis
7. Emotional Intelligence
8. Hormones and Behavior
9. Social Anxiety
10. Psychopathy
11. History of Mental Illness
12. Dissociative Disorders
13. Adolescent Development
14. Emerging Adulthood
15. The Developing Parent
16. Categories and Concepts
17. Neurons
18. Introduction to the Science of Social Psychology
19. Research Methods
20. Family
21. Culture
22. Social Comparison
23. Cooperation
24. Relationships and Well-being

We've added more than 850 new items to our test bank covering 33 previously unsupported modules! To get a copy the full test bank (formatted for your LMS) just send us a request HERE and after faculty verification we'll send you download instructions for instant access.

Modules with newly added test items:

1. Introduction to the Science of Social Psychology
2. Research Methods in Social Psychology
3. Social Neuroscience
4. Theory of Mind
5. The Psychology of Groups
6. The Family
7. Culture
8. Social Comparison
9. Functions of Emotions
10. Aggression and Violence
11. Helping and Pro-social Behavior
12. Cooperation
13. Attraction and Beauty
14. Positive Relationships
15. Love, Friendship, and Social Support
16. Attachment Through the Life Course
17. Relationships and Well-being
18. Industrial/Organizational Psychology
19. Creativity
20. Factors Influencing Learning
21. Multimodal Perception
22. The Replication Crisis in Psychology
23. Emotional Intelligence
24. Hormones and Behavior
25. Social Anxiety
26. Psychopathy
27. History of Mental Illness
28. Dissociative Disorders
29. Adolescent Development
30. Emerging Adulthood
31. The Developing Parent
32. Categories and Concepts
33. Neurons

We've added 19 more self-study quizzes for students to the Noba website. These quiz items are coordinated with, though not the same as, the Noba test bank items available only to verified instructors. Students can find the quizzes directly after the main content of the online learning modules and can return to them as often as they like for review. Review sessions will emphasize items that individual learners have missed in previous sessions.

The quizzes can be found in these modules-

1. Introduction to the Science of Social Psychology
2. Research Methods in Social Psychology
3. Statistical Thinking
4. Social Neuroscience
5. Theory of Mind
6. The Psychology of Groups
7. The Family
8. Culture
9. Social Comparison
10. Functions of Emotions
11. Aggression and Violence
12. Helping and Pro-social Behavior
13. Cooperation
14. Attraction and Beauty
15. Positive Relationships
16. Love, Friendship, and Social Support
17. Attachment Through the Life Course
18. Relationships and Well-being
19. Industrial/Organizational Psychology

The quizzes make use of the Cerego learning platform. Cerego is an adaptive learning technology that uses distributed practice as the basis for memory retention. See more about Cerego by visiting their website and in the video below.

We expect to add 16 more student quizzes by October 2016. We'll be offering instructor-tracking of student quizzes by October as well.

We've just added seven new modules to the Noba collection (which brings us to 100 total!). The new additions are each in the area of social psychology and will be included in our forthcoming textbook Together: The Science of Social Psychology. 

An Introduction to the Science of Social Psychology - By Robert Biswas-Diener, Portland State University

Cooperation - By Paul Piff and Jake P. Moskowitz, University of California, Irvine

Culture - By Neil Thin, University of Edinburgh

The Family - By Joel A. Muraco, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay

Relationships and Well-being - By Louis Tay and Kenneth Tan, Purdue University

Research Methods in Social Psychology - By Rajiv Jhangiani, Kwantlen Polytechnic University

Social Comparison - By Stephen Garcia and Arnor Halldorsson, University of Michigan

We have added close to 400 new items to the existing test bank collection. Please see below for details of which modules have received new items. We’ve also added test items for 3 new modules that had not previously been supported with a test bank - The Brain and the Nervous System, States of Consciousness and Sensation and Perception.

• Aging – 8 new items
• Anxiety and Related Disorders – 5 new items
• The Brain – 17 new items
• Cognitive Development in Childhood – 9 new items
• Conducting Psychology Research in the Real World – 14 new items
• Conformity and Obedience – 15 new items
• Consciousness – 13 new items
• Culture and Emotion – 12 new items
• Drive States – 4 new items
• Evolutionary Theories – 10 new items
• Eyewitness Testimony and Memory Biases – 11 new items
• Gender – 11 new items
• Happiness – 1 new item
• Hearing – 4 new items
• Intelligence – 7 new items
• Judgment and Decision-Making – 9 new items
• Language and Language Use – 9 new items
• Mood Disorders – 10 new items
• Motives and Goals – 9 new items
• The Nature-Nurture Question – 5 new items
• Nervous System – 15 new items
• Personality Assessment – 11 new items
• Personality Disorders – 18 new items
• Personality Traits – 1 new item
• Persuasion: So Easily Fooled – 12 new items
• Prejudice, Discrimination and Stereotyping – 14 new items
• Psychopharmacology – 8 new items
• Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders – 16 new items
• Self and Identity – 13 new items
• Sensation and Perception - 20 new items
• Social and Personality Development in Childhood – 8 new items
• Social Cognition and Attitudes – 9 new items
• States of Consciousness – 25 new items
• The Brain and the Nervous System – 20 new items
• The Unconscious – 14 new items

To get access to the expanded test bank, please fill out a request form and we will send verified instructors download details. 

The modules below have been updated to include new/additional images and captions.

1. Aggression and Violence

2. Attachment through the Life Course

3. Attraction and Beauty

4. Emotional Intelligence

5. Functions of Emotions

6. Helping and Prosocial Behavior

7. History of Psychology

8. IO Psychology

9. Love, Friendship and Social Support

10. Multimodal Perception

11. Positive Relationships

12. Psychology of Groups

13. Social Neuroscience

14. Statistical Thinking

15. Theory of Mind

The following modules have received minor updates and are now fully compatible with DSM 5.

• Anxiety and Related Disorders
• Dissociative Disorders
• History of Mental Illness
• Personality Disorders
• Psychopathy

The modules below have been updated to include new/additional images and captions.

1. Intellectual Abilities, Interests, and Mastery
2. ADHD and Behavior Disorders in Children
3. Dissociative Disorders
4. History of Mental Illness
5. Psychopathy
6. Autism: Insights from the Study of the Social Brain
7. Failures of Awareness: The Case of Inattentional Blindness
8. Time and Culture
9. Touch and Pain
10. Taste and Smell
11. The Vestibular System
12. Optimal Levels of Happiness
13. Positive Psychology

We're pleased to announce the addition of two new modules to the Noba catalog - States of Consciousness & Sensation and Perception. Both of these modules have been created as the result of feedback from Intro-to-Psych instructors using Noba. While Noba already offers two modules covering Consciousness and The Unconscious as well as nine modules coverings various sub-topics of sensation and perception in greater detail,  the States of Consciousness and Sensation and Perception modules are aimed at helping instructors cover the most critical concepts in these subject areas more efficiently within the time constraints of a typical Intro-to-Psych course.

Each of these new modules are supported with Instructor Manual, PowerPoint presentations and Test Bank items.

States of Consciousness

Abstract:

No matter what you’re doing--solving homework, playing a video game, simply picking out a shirt--all of your actions and decisions relate to your consciousness. But as frequently as we use it, have you ever stopped to ask yourself: What really is consciousness? In this module, we discuss the different levels of consciousness and how they can affect your behavior in a variety of situations. As well, we explore the role of consciousness in other, “altered” states like hypnosis and sleep.

Sensation and Perception

Abstract:

The topics of sensation and perception are among the oldest and most important in all of psychology. People are equipped with senses such as sight, hearing and taste that help us to take in the world around us. Amazingly, our senses have the ability to convert real-world information into electrical information that can be processed by the brain. The way we interpret this information-- our perceptions-- is what leads to our experiences of the world. In this module, you will learn about the biological processes of sensation and how these can be combined to create perceptions.

The following modules have been updated with minor edits to improve readability and clarity of difficult concepts for students.

 Culture and Emotion

• Minor sentence/paragraph level edits for greater clarity
• Added examples to better illustrate difficult concepts
• Two new terms added to vocabulary section

Drive States

• Minor sentence/paragraph level edits for greater clarity
• Added examples to better illustrate difficult concepts
• Text box added discussing APA/CIA torture controversy
• One new term added to vocabulary section

Memory (Encoding, Storage, Retrieval) 

• Minor sentence/paragraph level edits for greater clarity
• Added examples to better illustrate difficult concepts
• Changed some US-centric examples to more internationally recognized ones

Motives and Goals

• Updated intro paragraph (expansion of original paragraph)
• Expanded conclusion
• Minor sentence/paragraph level edits for greater clarity
• Added examples to better illustrate difficult concepts

Social Cognition and Attitudes

• Minor sentence/paragraph level edits for greater clarity
• Added examples to better illustrate difficult concepts

Therapeutic Orientations

• Minor sentence/paragraph level edits for greater clarity
• Added examples to better illustrate difficult concepts