What is included with this book?
All chapters begin with “Chapter Outline” and conclude with “A Deeper Level: Recap and Thought Questions.”
Using Psychology to Learn Psychology.
Organization, Organization, Organization.
Connections Across Topics.
Learning Without Straining.
Illustrations: Showing and Telling.
1. The Science of Psychology: Yesterday and Today.
Psychological Science: Getting to Know You.
Psychology Then and Now.
The Science of Psychology: Designed to Be Valid.
2. The Brain: The Psychological Organ.
Brain Circuits: Making Connections.
The Nervous System: An Orchestra with Many Members.
Probing the Brain.
Genes, Brain, and Environment: The Brain in the World.
3. Sensation and Perception: How the World Enters the Mind.
Sensing and Selecting: Opening Up to the World.
Sensing in Other Ways.
Cognitive and Social Learning.
5. Memory: Living with Yesterday.
Memory: A Many-Splendored Thing.
Encoding and Retrieving Information from Memory.
Fact, Fiction, and Forgetting: When Memory Goes Wrong.
Improving Memory: Tricks and Tools.
6. Language, Thinking, and Intelligence.
Language: More Than Meets the Ear.
Foundations of Thought.
Logic, Reasoning, and Decision Making.
Is There More Than One Way to Be Smart?
What Makes Us Smart: Nature and Nurture.
7. Emotion and Motivation: Feeling and Striving.
Emotion: I Feel, Therefore I Am.
Motivation and Reward: Feeling Good.
Hunger and Eating: Not Just About Fueling the Body.
Sex: Not Just About Having Babies.
8. Personality: Vive La Difference!
What Is Personality?
The Brain: The Personality Organ.
The Person: Beliefs and Behaviors.
The World: Social Influences on Personality.
9. Psychology over the Lifespan: Growing Up, Growing Older, Growing Wiser.
In the Beginning: From Conception to Birth.
Infancy and Childhood: Taking Off.
Adolescence: Between Two Worlds.
Adulthood and Aging: The Continuously Changing Self.
10. Stress, Health, and Coping.
What Is Stress?
Stress, Disease, and Health.
Strategies for Coping.
11. Psychological Disorders.
Identifying Disorders: What's Abnormal?
Anxiety and Mood Disorders.
Other Axis I Disorders: Dissociative and Eating Disorders.
A Cautionary Note About Diagnosis.
Behavior and Cognitive Therapy.
Which Therapy Works Best?
13. Social Psychology: Meeting of the Minds.
Social Cognition: Thinking about People.
Social Behavior: Interacting with People.
A Final Word: Ethics and Social Psychology.
Appendix A: Statistics.
Appendix B: How to Read, Critically Evaluate, and Write Research Papers.