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Exploring psychology
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Table of Contents
From the Book - Ninth edition.
Preface
Time management: Or, how to be a great student and still have a life
CHAPTER 1. Thinking Critically With Psychological Science:
- What Is Psychology? Psychology's roots
- Contemporary Psychology:
Psychology's biggest question
Psychology's three main levels of analysis
Psychology's subfields
Need For Psychological Science:
What about intuition and common sense?
Scientific attitude: curious, skeptical, and humble
Critical thinking
How Do Psychologists Ask And Answer Questions?:
Scientific method
Description
Correlation
Experimentation
Frequently asked questions about psychology
Improve your retention-and your grades
Biology Of Behavior:
Biology and behavior
Neural Communication:
Neurons
Neural impulse
How neurons communicate
How neurotransmitters influence us
Nervous System:
Peripheral nervous system
Central nervous system
Endocrine system
Brain:
Older brain structure
Close Up: Tools of discovery-having our head examined
Cerebral cortex
Our divided brain
Right-left differences in the intact brain
Behavior Genetics: Predicting Individual Differences:
Genes: our code for life
Twins and adoption studies
Gene-environment interaction
Evolutionary Psychology: Understanding Human Nature:
Natural selection and adaptation
Evolutionary success helps explain similarities
Consciousness And The Two-Track Mind:
Brain And Consciousness:
Dual processing: the two-track mind
Selective attention
Sleep And Dreams:
Biological rhythms and sleep
Sleep theories
Sleep deprivation and sleep disorders
Dreams
Hypnosis:
Frequently asked questions about hypnosis
Explaining the hypnotized state
Drugs And Consciousness:
Tolerance, dependence, and addiction
Thinking Critically About: Addiction
Types of psychoactive drugs
Influences on drug use
Developing Through The Life Span:
Developmental psychology's major issues Prenatal Development And The New Born:
Conception
Prenatal development
Competent newborn
Infancy And Childhood:
Physical development
Cognitive development
Close Up: Autism and mind-blindness
Social development
Reflections on nature and nurture
Adolescence:
Physical development
Cognitive development
Social development
Thinking Critically About: How much credit or blame do parents deserve?
Emerging adulthood
Reflections on continuity and stages
Adulthood:
Physical development
Cognitive development
Social development
Reflections on stability land change
Gender And Sexuality:
Gender Development:
Genes: how are we alike? How do we differ?
Nature of gender: our biology
Nurture of gender: our culture
Human Sexuality:
Physiology of sex
Psychology of sex
Close Up: Sexualization of girls
Sexual orientation:
Environment and sexual orientation
Biology and sexual orientation
Evolutionary Explanation Of Human Sexuality:
Gender differences in sexuality
Natural selection and mating preferences
Critiquing the evolutionary perspective
Reflections on gender, sexuality, and nature-nurture interaction
Sensation And Perception:
Basic Principles Of Sensation And Perception:
Transduction
Thresholds
Thinking Critically About: Can subliminal messages control our behavior?
Sensory adaptation
Perceptual set
Context effects
Emotion and motivation
Vision:
Stimulus input: light energy
Eye
Visual information processing
Color vision
Visual organization
Visual interpretation
Hearing:
Stimulus input: sound waves
Ear
Other Senses:
Touch
Pain
Taste
Smell
Body position and movement
Sensory Interaction:
Thinking Critically About: ESP- Perception Without Sensations?
Learning:
How do we learn?
Classical Conditioning:
Pavlov's experiments
Pavlov's legacy
Operant Conditioning:
Skinner's experiments
Skinner's legacy
Close Up: Training our partners
Contrasting classical and operant conditioning
Biology, Cognition, And Learning:
Biological constraints on conditioning
Cognition's influence on conditioning
Learning By Observation:
Mirrors and imitation in the brain
Applications of observational learning
Thinking Critically About: Does viewing media violence trigger violent behavior?
Memory:
Studying Memory:
Memory models
Building Memories: Encoding:
Dual-track memory: effortful versus automatic processing
Automatic processing and implicit memories
Effortful processing and explicit memories
Memory Storage
Retaining information in the brain
Synaptic changes
Retrieval: Getting Information Out:
Measuring retention
Retrieval cues
Forgetting:
Forgetting and the two-track mind
Encoding failure
Storage decay
Retrieval failure
Memory Construction Errors:
Misinformation and imagination effects
Source amnesia
Discerning true and false memories
Children's eyewitness recall
Repressed or constructed memories of abuse?
Improving memory.
Thinking Language, And Intelligence:
Thinking:
Concepts
Problem solving: strategies and obstacles
Forming good and bad decisions and judgments
Thinking Critically About: Fear factor-why we fear the wrong things
Thinking creatively
Close Up: Fostering your own creativity
Do other species share our cognitive skills?
Language:
Language structure
Language development
Brain and language
Do other species have language?
Thinking And Language:
Language influences thinking
Thinking in images
Intelligence:
What is intelligence?
Assessing intelligence
Aging and intelligence
Close Up: Extremes of intelligence
Genetic and environmental influences on intelligence
Group differences in intelligence test scores
Motivation And Emotion:
Motivational Concepts:
Instincts and evolutionary psychology
Drives and incentives
Optimum arousal
Hierarchy of motives
Hunger:
Physiology of hunger
Psychology of hunger
Obesity and weight control
Close Up: Waist management
Need To Belong:
Benefits of belonging
Pain of being shut out
Connecting and social networking
Close Up: Managing your social networking
Achievement motivation
Emotion: Arousal, Behavior, And Cognition:
Historical emotion theories
Schachter-Singer Two Factor Theory: Arousal + Label = Emotion
Zajonc, LeDoux, and Lazarus: does cognition always precede emotion?
Embodied Emotion:
Basic emotions
Emotions and the autonomic nervous system
Physiology of emotions
Thinking Critically About: Lie detection
Expressed And Experienced Emotion:
Detecting emotion in others
Gender and emotion
Culture and emotion
Effects of facial expressions
Stress, Health, And Human Flourishing:
Stress And Health:
Stress: some basic concepts
Stress and illness
Close Up: Tips for handling anger
Coping With Stress:
Personal control
Optimism versus pessimism
Social support
Close Up: Pets are friends, too
Reducing Stress:
Aerobic exercise
Relaxation and meditation
Faith communities and health
Happiness:
Positive psychology
What affects our well-being?
What predicts our happiness levels?
Close Up: Want to be happier?
Personality
Psychodynamic Theories:
Freud's psychoanalytic perspective: exploring the unconscious
Neo-Freudian and psychodynamic theorists
Assessing unconscious processes
Evaluating Freud's psychoanalytic perspective and modern views of the unconscious
Humanistic Theories:
Abraham Maslow's self-actualizing person
Carl Rogers' person-centered perspective
Assessing the self
Evaluating humanistic theories
Trait Theories:
Exploring traits
Assessing traits
Thinking Critically About: How to be a successful astrologer or palm reader
Big five factors
Evaluating trait theories
Social-Cognitive Theories:
Reciprocal influences
Assessing behavior in situations
Evaluating social-cognitive theories
Exploring The Self:
Benefits of self-esteem
Self-serving bias
Culture and the self
Social Psychology
Social Thinking:
Fundamental attribution error
Attitudes and actions
Social Influence:
Cultural influences
Conformity: complying with social pressures
Obedience: following orders
Group behavior
Social Relations:
Prejudice
Close Up: Automatic prejudice
Aggression
Attraction
Close Up: Online matchmaking and speed dating
Altruism
Conflict and peacemaking
Psychological Disorders
What Is A Psychological Disorder?:
Understanding psychological disorders
Thinking Critically About: ADHD-normal high energy or genuine disorder?
Classifying disorders-and labeling people
Thinking Critically About: Insanity and responsibility
Anxiety Disorders:
Generalized anxiety disorder
Panic disorder
Phobias
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Understanding anxiety disorders
Mood Disorders:
Major depressive disorder
Bipolar disorder
Understanding mood disorders
Close Up: Suicide and self-injury
Schizophrenia:
Symptoms of schizophrenia
Onset and development of schizophrenia
Understanding schizophrenia
Other Disorders:
Dissociative disorders
Eating disorders
Personality disorders
Rates of psychological disorders
Therapy:
Treating psychological disorders
Psychological Therapies:
Psychoanalysis and psychodynamic therapy
Humanistic therapies
Behavior therapies
Cognitive therapies
Group and family therapies
Evaluating Psychotherapies:
Is psychotherapy effective?
Which psychotherapies work best?
Evaluating alternative therapies
How do psychotherapies help people?
Culture and values in psychotherapy
Close Up: Consumer's guide to mental health professionals
Biomedical Therapies:
Drug therapies
Brain stimulation
Psychosurgery
Therapeutic lifestyle change
Preventing Psychological Disorders:
Resilience
Creating healthy environments
Appendix A: Statistical reasoning in everyday life
Appendix B: Psychology at work
Appendix C: Subfields of psychology
Appendix D: Complete chapter reviews
Appendix E: Answers to experience the testing effect questions
Glossary
References
Name index
Subject index.
From the Book - 5th ed.
Preface
Thinking critically with psychological science
Neuroscience and behavior
The nature and nurture of behavior
The developing person
Sensation and perception
States of consciousness
Learning
Memory
Thinking, language, and intelligence
Motivation
Emotions, stress, and health
Personality
Psychological disorders
Therapy
Social psychology.
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DeWall, C. Nathan,1954- special contributor
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9781464163364
9780716755494
9780716756262
9780716756842
9781464111723
9780716755494
9780716756262
9780716756842
9781464111723
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