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List of contents
Chapter 1: Thinking Critically With Psychological Science
- The History and Scope of Psychology
- Research Strategies: How Psychologists Ask and Answer Questions
Chapter 2: The Biology of Mind
- Neural and Hormonal Systems
- Tools of Discovery: Having Our Head Examined
- Brain Regions and Structures
- Damage Response and Brain Hemispheres
- Genetics, Evolutionary Psychology, and Behavior
Chapter 3: Consciousness and the Two-Track Mind
- Consciousness: Some Basic Concepts
- Sleep and Dreams
- Drugs and Their Effects
Chapter 4: Developing Through the Life Span
- Developmental Issues, Prenatal Development, and the Newborn
- Infancy and Childhood
- Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood
- Adulthood
Chapter 5: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
- Gender Development
- Human Sexuality
Chapter 6: Sensation and Perception
- Basic Concepts of Sensation and Perception
- Vision: Sensory and Perceptual Processing
- Hearing, Skin, Chemical, and Body Senses
Chapter 7: Learning
- Basic Learning Concepts and Classical Conditioning
- Operant Conditioning
- Biology, Cognition, and Learning
Chapter 8: Memory
- Studying and Encoding Memories
- Storing and Retrieving Memories
- Forgetting, Memory Construction, and Improving Memory
Chapter 9: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence
- Thinking
- Language and Thought
- Intelligence Assessment and Dynamics
- Genetic and Environmental Influences on Intelligence
Chapter 10: Motivation and Emotion
- Basic Motivational Concepts, Affiliation, and Achievement
- Hunger
- Theories and Physiology of Emotion
- Expressing and Experiencing Emotion
Chapter 11: Stress, Health, and Human Flourishing
- Stress and Illness
- Health and Happiness
Chapter 12: Social Psychology
- Social Thinking and Social Influence
- Antisocial Relations
- Prosocial Relations
Chapter 13: Personality
- Classic Perspectives on Personality
- Contemporary Perspectives on Personality
Chapter 14: Psychological Disorders
- Basic Concepts of Psychological Disorders
- Anxiety Disorders, Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders, and Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders
- Depressive Disorders and Bipolar Disorders
- Schizophrenia
- Dissociative, Personality, and Eating Disorders
- Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Chapter 15: Therapy
- Introduction to Therapy and the Psychological Therapies
- Evaluating Psychotherapies
- The Biomedical Therapies and Preventing Psychological Disorders
Appendix A: Statistical Reasoning in Everyday Life
Appendix B: Psychology at Work
Appendix C: The Story of Psychology: A Timeline
Appendix D: Career Fields in Psychology, by Jennifer Zwolinski
Appendix E: Complete Reviews
Appendix F: Answers to the Retrieve It and Experience the Testing Effect Questions
