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This version of the main text breaks the chapters down into shorter modules for more accessibility. The condensed text not only allows students to better grasp and explore psychological concepts, but also makes for more flexibility in teaching, as cross-references to other chapters have been replaced with brief explanations.
List of contents
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Preface - INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY AND SCIENCE OF PSYCHOLOGY - The Story of Psychology - Thinking Critically with Psychological Science - Research Strategies: How Psychologists Ask and Answer Questions - THE BIOLOGY OF MIND - Neural and Hormonal Systems - Tools of Discovery and Older Brain Structures - The Cerebral Cortex and Our Divided Brain - CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE TWO-TRACK MIND - The Brain and Consciousness - Sleep and Dreams - Hypnosis - Drugs and Consciousness - NATURE, NURTURE, AND HUMAN DIVERSITY - Behavior Genetics and Evolutionary Psychology - Environmental Influences of Behavior - DEVELOPING THROUGH THE LIFE SPAN - Prenatal Development and the Newborn - Infancy and Childhood - Adolescence - Adulthood, and Reflections on Developmental Issues - SENSATION AND PERCEPTION - Introduction to Sensation and Perception - Vision - Hearing - Other Senses - Perceptual Organization - Perceptual Interpretation - LEARNING - Classical Conditioning - Operant Conditioning - Learning by Observation - MEMORY - Introduction to Memory - Encoding: Getting Information In - Storage: Retaining Information - Retrieval: Getting Information Out - Forgetting, Memory Construction, and Improving Memory - THINKING, LANGUAGE, AND INTELLIGENCE - Thinking - Language and Thought - Introduction to Intelligence - Gentetic and Environmental Influences on Intelligence - MOTIVATION AND WORK - Introduction to Motivation - Hunger - Sexual Motivation and the Need to Belong - Motivation at Work - EMOTION, STRESS, AND HEALTH - Introduction to Emotion - Expressed Emotion - Experienced Emotion - Stress and Health - Promoting Health - PERSONALITY - The Psychoanalytic Perspective - The Humanistic Perspective - Contemporary Research on Personality - PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS - Introduction to Psychological Disorders - Anxiety Disorders - Dissociative, Personality, and Somatoform Disorders - Mood Disorders - Schizophrenia - THERAPY - The Psychological Therapies - Evaluating Psychotherapies - The Biomedical Therapies - SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY - Social Thinking - Social Influence - Antisocial Relations - Prosocial Relations - APPENDIX A: Careers in Psychology - APPENDIX B: Answers to 'Test Yourself' Questions
About the author
DAVID G. MYERS John Dirk Werkman Professor of Psychology at Hope College, Michigan, USA, where he teaches Introductory Psychology. He has written scientific articles for scientific periodicals, including Science , American Scientist , Psychological Science and the American Psychologist , as well as digests of psychological science in magazines for the general public.
