PsychologyThis new edition continues the story of psychology with added research and enhanced content from the most dynamic areas of the field—cognition, gender and diversity studies, neuroscience and more, while at the same time using the most effective teaching approaches and learning tools. |
Contents
The Story of Psychology | 1 |
CHAPTER | 8 |
Contemporary Psychology | 9 |
Your Study of Psychology | 15 |
Thinking Critically with Psychological | 18 |
The Scientific Attitude | 22 |
Naturalistic Observation | 29 |
Neuroscience and Behavior | 56 |
Principles of Test Construction | 434 |
Genetic and Environmental Influences | 441 |
CHAPTER 13 | 449 |
The Question of Bias | 450 |
Motivational Concepts | 456 |
The Psychology of Hunger | 463 |
The Need to Belong | 483 |
Motivating Achievement | 491 |
Neural Communication | 58 |
The Nervous System | 65 |
LowerLevel Brain Structures | 72 |
Our Divided Brains | 85 |
CHAPTER | 91 |
Left BrainRight Brain | 92 |
Our Biological Blueprint | 100 |
GeneEnvironment Interaction | 114 |
CHAPTER 4 | 121 |
The Nurture of Gender | 127 |
Prenatal Development and the Newborn | 136 |
Cognitive Development | 143 |
Social Development | 150 |
Adolescence | 159 |
Social Development | 166 |
CHAPTER 5 | 170 |
Sensation | 192 |
Sensory Adaptation | 198 |
Vision | 199 |
Color Vision | 208 |
A Noisy Noise Annoys | 214 |
Mind Over Matter | 223 |
Selective Attention | 231 |
Form Perception | 237 |
CHAPTER 7 | 262 |
Sleep and Dreams | 269 |
Why Do We Sleep? | 275 |
Dreams | 281 |
Hypnotic Age Regression A True | 289 |
Psychoactive Drugs | 295 |
Influences on Drug Use | 301 |
CHAPTER 8 | 303 |
Classical Conditioning | 312 |
Pavlovs Legacy | 319 |
CHAPTER 9 | 324 |
The Phenomenon of Memory | 344 |
CHAPTER 10 | 348 |
Retaining Information | 354 |
Thinking | 385 |
CHAPTER 11 | 392 |
Language | 401 |
Thinking and Language | 409 |
The Origins of Intelligence Testing | 419 |
Intelligence and Creativity | 427 |
CHAPTER 12 | 430 |
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Two Dimensions of Emotion | 504 |
Expressed Emotion | 510 |
The Effects of Facial Expressions | 516 |
CHAPTER 14 | 517 |
Happiness | 522 |
How to Be Happier | 528 |
Stress and Illness | 532 |
Stress and the Heart | 539 |
Promoting Health | 546 |
Modifying IllnessRelated Behaviors | 555 |
Correlation 30 | 558 |
For Those Who Want to Stop Smoking | 561 |
CHAPTER 15 | 568 |
Helpful Hints for Losing Weight | 570 |
The Psychoanalytic Perspective | 576 |
CHAPTER 16 | 585 |
The Humanistic Perspective | 587 |
How to Be a Successful | 596 |
Toward a More Positive Psychology | 604 |
The Modern Unconscious Mind | 614 |
Perspectives on Psychological Disorders | 620 |
Insanity and Responsibility | 626 |
Mood Disorders | 633 |
CHAPTER 17 | 637 |
Loneliness | 643 |
Understanding Schizophrenia | 649 |
Rates of Psychological Disorder | 656 |
Regressing from Unusual | 659 |
CHAPTER 18 | 660 |
Humanistic Therapies | 663 |
Cognitive Therapies | 669 |
Usual | 676 |
Commonalities Among Psychotherapies | 682 |
Electroconvulsive Therapy | 689 |
Social Thinking | 695 |
Conformity and Obedience | 703 |
Group Influence | 709 |
Aggression | 719 |
Parallels Between Smoking | 725 |
APPENDIX | 1 |
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