Updates Coming to Noba in the Summer of 2020
Posted June 5, 2020
At Noba, we take care to ensure that our content is accurate and up-to-date. This means that we periodically review material and make revisions when they are warranted. We also rely on helpful commentary from our users. When we make revisions, we also audit the ancillary instructor materials such as our test bank and power points to make certain all materials are in line with the latest version of the text. We are planning on finishing all of our updates by June 12th, 2020 to the following modules:
Conformity and Obedience Module: You may be aware that Milgram’s classic study (studies) have been the source of recent scrutiny. As a result, our editorial team reviewed the research and the Noba coverage of it. We are pleased to say that our discussion of this research holds up well. Even so, we are going to add an additional paragraph to this module emphasizing the participants who did not obey, including in a modern replication of Milgram’s paradigm. This is an opportunity for instructors to broaden the discussion of obedience to include standing up to authority.
Memory Module: In the paragraph on the encoding specificity principle, we will remove the final two sentences.
Emerging Adulthood Module: In an effort to promote more sensitive language, we will remove the adjectives “developing” and “developed” when describing nations or societies. We will attempt—where it was linguistically possible—to replace this with the more accurate phrases “economically developing” or “industrialized” and “non-industrialized”.
Sensation & Perception Module: We will make several changes to this module to offer a more precise discussion of a number of topics. When covering “signal detection,” for example, we have now modified the paragraph to include an example of research that distinguishes between “ascending” and “descending trials,” and between “correct rejection” and “false alarm.” Similarly, we will make very small but technical changes in our discussion of sensory adaptation. Finally, we will remove a reference to “color blindness” and replace it with “color deficient vision.”
