Psychology

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Macmillan, Jun 6, 2003 - Psychology - 741 pages
This 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
Emotion
497
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
Correlation and Causation 32
32
Evaluating Therapies 38
38
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David G. Myers is John Dirk Werkman Professor of Psychology at Hope College.

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