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In this Section: 1. Brief Table of Contents 2. Full Table of Contents 1. Brief Table of Contents: Chapter 1: The Science of Psychology Chapter 2: The Biological Perspective Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception Chapter 4: Consciousness: Sleep, Dreams, Hypnosis, and Drugs Chapter 5: Learning Chapter 6: Memories Chapter 7: Cognition Chapter 8: Development Across the Life Span Chapter 9: Motivation and Emotion Chapter 10: Sexuality and Gender Chapter 11: Stress and Health Chapter 12: Social Psychology Chapter 13: Theories of Personality Chapter 14: Psychological Disorders Chapter 15: Psychological Therapies 2. Full Table of Contents Chapter 1: The Science of Psychology What Is Psychology? Psychology Then: The History of Psychology Psychology Now: Modern Perspectives 1 Psychological Professionals and Areas of Specialization Psychology: The Scientific Methodology Ethics of Psychological Research Applying Psychology to Everyday Life: Thinking Critically About Critical Thinking Chapter 2: The Biological Perspective An Overview of the Nervous System Neurons and Nerves: Building the Network The Central Nervous System: The "Central Processing Unit" The Peripheral Nervous System: Nerves on the Edge Distant Connections: The Endocrine Glands Looking Inside the Living Brain From the Bottom Up: The Structures of the Brain Applying Psychology to Everyday Life: Paying Attention to the Causes of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception The ABCs of Sensation The Science of Seeing The Hearing Sense: Can You Hear Me Now? Chemical Senses: It Tastes Good and Smells Even Better Somesthetic Senses: What the Body Knows The ABCs of Perception Applying Psychology to Everyday Life: Beyond "Smoke and Mirrors"-The Psychological Science and Neuroscience of Magic Chapter 4: Consciousness: Sleep, Dreams, Hypnosis, and Drugs What Is Consciousness? Altered States: Sleep Dreams Altered States: The Effects of Hypnosis Altered States: The Influence of Psychoactive Drugs Applying Psychology to Everyday Life: Thinking Critically About Ghosts, Aliens, and Other Things That Go Bump in the Night Chapter 5: Learning Definition of Learning What's in It for Me? Operant Conditioning Cognitive Learning Theory Observational Learning Applying Psychology to Everyday Life: Can You Really Toilet Train Your Cat? Chapter 6: Memories Three Processes of Memory Models of Memory The Information-Processing Model: Three Memory Systems Getting It Out: Retrieval of Long-Term Memories The Reconstructive Nature of Long-Term Memory Retrieval: How Reliable Are Memories? What Were We Talking About? Forgetting Neuroscience of Memory Applying Psychology to Everyday Life: Alzheimer's Disease Chapter 7: Cognition How People Think Intelligence Language Applying Psychology to Everyday Life: Mental and Physical Exercises Combine for Better Cognitive Health Chapter 8: Development Across the Life Span Issues in Studying Human Development The Basic Building Blocks of Development Prenatal Development Infancy and Childhood Development Adolescence Adulthood Applying Psychology to Everyday Life: Cross-Cultural Views on Death Chapter 9: Motivation and Emotion Approaches to Understanding Motivation What, Hungry Again? Why People Eat Emotion Applying Psychology to Everyday Life: When Motivation Is Not Enough Chapter 10: Sexuality and Gender The Physical Side of Human Sexuality The Psychological Side of Human Sexuality: Gender Human Sexual Behavior Sexual Dysfunctions and Problems Sexually Transmitted Infections Applying Psychology to Everyday Life: The AIDS Epidemic in Russia Chapter 11: Stress and Health Stress and Stressors Physiological Factors: Stress and Health Coping With Stress Applying Psychology to Everyday Life: Exercising for Mental Health Chapter 12: Social Psychology Social Influence: Conformity, Compliance, Obedience, and Group Behavior Social Cognition: Attitudes, Impression Formation, and Attribution Social Interaction: Prejudice and Aggression Liking and Loving: Interpersonal Attraction Aggression and Prosocial Behavior Applying Psychology to Everyday Life: Anatomy of a Cult Chapter 13: Theories of Personality Theories of Personality The Man and the Couch: Sigmund Freud and the Psychodynamic Perspective The Behaviorist and Social Cognitive View of Personality The Third Force: Humanism and Personality Trait Theories: Who Are You? The Biology of Personality: Behavioral Genetics Assessment of Personality Applying Psychology to Everyday Life: The Biological Basis of the Big Five Chapter 14: Psychological Disorders What Is Abnormality? Models of Abnormality Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR) Anxiety Disorders: What, Me Worry? Mood Disorders: The Effect of Affect Eating Disorders Dissociative Disorders: Altered Identities Schizophrenia: Altered Reality Personality Disorders: I'm Okay, It's Everyone Else Who's Weird Applying Psychology to Everyday Life: Taking the Worry Out of Exams Chapter 15: Psychological Therapies Two Kinds of Therapy The Early Days: Ice-Water Baths and Electric Shocks Psychotherapy Begins Humanistic Therapy: To Err Is Human Behavior Therapies: Learning One's Way to Better Behavior Cognitive Therapies: Thinking Is Believing Group Therapies: Not Just for the Shy Does Psychotherapy Really Work? Biomedical Therapies Applying Psychology to Everyday Life: Virtual Realities. |