Select a Chapter 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 Chapter 1: The Science of Psychology Psychology, Psuedoscience, and Popular Opinion Thinking Critically and Creatively About Psychology Psychology's Past: From the Armchair to the Laboratory    -The Birth of Modern Psychology    -Three Early Psychologies Psychology's Present: Behavior, Mind, and Culture    -The Major Psychological Perspectives    -Two Influential Movements in Psychology What Psychologists Do    - Psychological Research    - Psychological Practice    - Psychology in the Community The Mosaic of Psychology Taking Psychology with You:    -What Psychology Can Do for You - and What It Can't Top Chapter 2: How Psychologists Do Research What Makes Psychological Research Scientific? Descriptive Studies: Establishing the Facts    - Case Studies    - Observational Studies    - Tests    - Surveys Correlational Studies: Looking for Relationships Experiments: Hunting for Causes    - Experimental Variables    - Experimental and Control Conditions    - Experimenter Effects    - Advantages and Limitations of Experiments Evaluating the Findings    - Descriptive Statistics: Finding Out What's So    - Inferential Statistics: Asking "So What?"    - Interpreting the Findings Keeping the Enterprise Ethical    - The Ethics of Studying Human Beings    - The Ethics of Studying Animals Taking Psychology With You:    - The Gambler's Fallacy and Other "Intuitive Statistics" Top Chapter 3: Evolution, Genes, and Behavior Unlocking the Secrets of Genes The Genetics of Similarity    - Evolution and Natural Selection    - Innate Human Characteristics Our Human Heritage: Language    - The Nature of Language    - The Innate Capacity for Language    - Learning and Language Our Human Heritage: Courtship and Mating    - Evolution and Sexual Strategies    - Culture and the "Genetic Leash" The Genetics of Difference    - The Meaning of Heritability    - Computing Heritability Our Human Diversity: Body Weight and Shape    - Genes and Weight    - Environmental Influences on Weight    - Biology Meets Culture: The Problem of Eating Disorders Our Human Diversity: Origins of Intelligence    - Genes and Individual Differences    - The Question of Group Differences    - The Environment and Intelligence In Praise of Human Variation Taking Psychology with You:    - How to Lose Weight- and Whether You Should Top Chapter 4: Neurons, Hormones, and The Brain The Nervous System: A Basic Blueprint    - The Central Nervous System    - The Peripheral Nervous System Communication in the Nervous System    - The Structure of the Neuron    - How Neurons Communicate    - Chemical Messengers in the Nervous System Mapping the Brain A Tour Through the Brain    - The Brain Stem    - The Cerebellum    - The Thalamus    - The Hypothalamus and the Pituitary Gland    - The Limbic System    - The Cerebrum The Two Hemispheres of the Brain    - Split Brains: A House Divided    - A Question of Dominance Two Stubborn Issues on Brain Research    - Where Is the Self?    - Are There "His" and "Hers" Brains? Taking Psychology with You:    - Food For Thought: Diet and Neurotransmitters Top Chapter 5: Body Rhythms and Mental States Biological Rhythms: The Tides of Experience    - Circadian Rhythms    - Mood and Long-term Rhythms The Rhythm of Sleep    - Why We Sleep    - The Realms of Sleep Exploring the Dream World    - Dreams as Unconscious Wishes    - Dreams as Reflections of Current Concerns    - Dreams as a By-product of Mental Housekeeping    - Dreams as Interpreted Brain Activity Consciousness-Altering Drugs    - Classifying Drugs    - The Physiology of Drug Effects    - The Psychology of Drug Effects    - The Drug Debate The Riddle of Hypnosis    - The Nature of Hypnosis    - Theories of Hypnosis Taking Psychology with You:    - How to Get a Good Night's Sleep Top Chapter 6: Sensation and Perception Our Sensational Senses    - The Riddle of Separate Sensations    - Measuring the Senses    - Sensory Adaptation    - Sensory Overload Vision    - What We See    - An Eye on the World    - Why the Visual System Is Not a Camera    - How We See Colors    - Constructing the Visual World Hearing    - What We Hear    - An Ear on the World    - Constructing the Auditory World The Other Senses    - Taste: Savory Sensations    - Smell: The Sense of Scents    - Senses of the Skin    - The Mystery of Pain    - The Environment Within Perceptual Powers: Origins and Influences    - Inborn Abilities and Perceptual Lessons    - Psychological and Cultural Influences on Perception Puzzles of Perception    - Subliminal Perception    - Extrasensory Perception: Reality or Illusion? Taking Psychology with You:    - Living with Pain Top Chapter 7: Learning and Conditioning Classical Conditioning    - New Reflexes from Old    - Principles of Classical Conditioning    - What is Actually Learned in Classical Conditioning? Classical Conditioning in Real Life    - Learning to Like    - Learning to Fear    - Accounting for Taste    - Reacting to Medical Treatments Operant Conditioning    - The Birth of Radical Behaviorism    - The Consequences of Behavior    - Principles of Operant Conditioning    - Skinner: The Man and the Myth Operant Conditioning in Real Life    - The Pros and Cons of Punishment    - The Problems with Reward Social-Cognitive Theories    - Learning by Observing    - Behavior and the Mind Taking Psychology with You:    - Shape Up! Top Chapter 8: Behavior in Social and Cultural Context Roles and Rules    - The Obedience Study    - The Prison Study    - The Power of Roles Social Influences on Beliefs    - Conformity    - Groupthink    - The Anonymous Crowd    - Disobedience and Dissent Group Conflict and Prejudice    - Group Identity: Us Versus Them    - Stereotypes    - Prejudice    - Efforts to Reduce Prejudice The Question of Human Nature Taking Psychology with You:    - Travels Across the Cultural Divide Top Chapter 9: Thinking and Intelligence Thought: Using What We Know    - The Elements of Cognition    - How Conscious is Thought? Reasoning Rationally    - Formal Reasoning    - Informal Reasoning    - Reflective Judgement Barriers to Reasoning Rationally    - Exaggerating the Impossible    - Avoiding Loss    - The Confirmation Bias    - Biases Due to Mental Sets    - The Hindsight Bias    - The Need for Cognitive Consistency    - Overcoming Our Cognitive Biases Measuring Intelligence: The Psychometric Approach    - The Invention of IQ Tests    - Can IQ Tests be "Culture Free?"    - Beyond the IQ Test Dissecting Intelligence: The Cognitive Approach    - The Triarchic Theory    - The Theory of Multiple Intelligences    - Thinking Critically About Intelligence(s)    - Motivation and Intellect Animal Minds    - Animal Intelligence    - Animals and Language    - Thinking About the Thinking of Animals Taking Psychology with You:    - Becoming More Creative Top Chapter 10: Memory The Manufacture of Memory    - The Conditions of Confabulation    - The Fading Flashbulb    - The Eyewitness on Trial In Pursuit of Memory    - Measuring Memory    - Models of Memory The Three-Box Model of Memory    - Sensory Memory: Fleeting Impressions    - Short-term Memory: Memory's Scratch Pad    - Long-term Memory: Final Destination How We Remember    - Effective Encoding    - Rehearsal    - Mnemonics The Biology of Memory    - Changes in Neurons and Synapses    - Locating Memories    - Hormones and Memory Why We Forget    - The Decay Theory    - New Memories for Old    - Interference    - Motivated Forgetting    - Cue-dependent Forgetting Autobiographical Memories    - Childhood Amnesia: The Missing Years    - Memory and Narrative: The Stories of Our Lives Memories and Myths Taking Psychology with You:    - How to ...Uh... Remember Top Chapter 11: Emotion Elements of Emotion 1: The Body    - The Face of Emotion    - The Brain and Emotion    - Hormones and Emotion    - Detecting Emotions: Does the Body Lie? Elements of Emotion 2: The Mind    - How Thoughts Create Emotions    - Reason and Emotion: Opposites or Allies? Elements of Emotion 3: The Culture    - Cultural Influences on Emotion    - The Communication of Emotion Putting the Elements Together: Emotion and Gender Taking Psychology with You:    - "Let it Out" or "Bottle it Up?" The Dilemma of Anger Top Chapter 12: Motivation The Social Animal: Motives for Love    - The Need for Attachment    - The Varieties of Love    - Gender, Culture, and Love    - Love Stories and Their Consequences The Erotic Animal: Motives for Sex    - The Biology of Desire    - The Psychology of Desire    - The Culture of Desire    - The Riddle of Sexual Orientation The Competent Animal: Motivations to Work    - The Effects of Motivation on Work    - The Effects of Work on Motivation Motives, Goals, and Well-Being    - The Importance of Goals    - When Motives Conflict Taking Psychology with You:    - Get Motivated! Top Chapter 13: Theories of Personality Measuring Personality    - Testing for Traits    - Identifying Central Traits The Genetic Contribution    - Heredity and Temperament    - Heredity and Traits    - Evaluating Genetic Research The Social-Cognitive Contribution    - Self-efficacy    - Perceptions of Control    - Evaluating Social-Cognitive Approaches The Cultural Contribution    - Culture and Personality    - Evaluating Cultural Influences The Psychodynamic Tradition    - Freud and Psychoanalysis    - Other Psychodynamic Approaches    - Psychodynamic Measures of Personality    - Evaluating Psychodynamic Theories The Humanist Contribution    - The Inner Experience    - Evaluating Humanist Theories The Public and Private Personality Taking Psychology with You:    - Graphology, Horoscopes, and the "Barnum Effect" Top Chapter 14: Development Over the Life Span From Conception to the First Year    - Prenatal Development    - The Infant's World    - How Critical Are the Early Years? Cognitive Development    - Language    - Thinking    - Moral Reasoning Gender Development    - Influences on Gender Development Gender Over the Life Span Parents and Peers    - The Influence of Parents    - How Much Do Parents Matter? Adolescence    - The Physiology of Adolescence    - The Psychology of Adolescence    - Ethnic Identity and Acculturation Adulthood    - Stages and Ages    - The Transitions of Life    - Old Age Are Adults Prisoners of Childhood? Taking Psychology with You:    - Bringing Up Baby Top Chapter 15: Health, Stress, and Coping The Nature of Stress    - The Physiology of Stress    - Common Sources of Stress    - The Stress-Illness Mystery Personality and Health    - Emotions and Illness    - Optimism and Pessimism    - The Sense of Control Coping with Stress    - Cooling Off    - Solving the Problem    - Rethinking the Problem    - Drawing on Social Support    - Healing Through Helping How Much Control Do We Have Over Our Health? Taking Psychology with You:    - Health Habits You Can Live With Top Chapter 16: Psychological Disorders Dilemmas of Diagnosis    - Defining Mental Disorders    - Diagnosis: Art of Science? Anxiety Disorders    - Anxiety States    - Panic Disorder    - Fears and Phobias    - Obsessions and Compulsions Mood Disorders    - Depression and Bipolar Disorder    - Theories of Depression Personality Disorders    - Problem Personalities    - Antisocial Personality Disorder Dissociative Disorder    - Amnesia and Fugue    - Dissociative Identity Disorder ("Multiple Personality") Drug Abuse and Addiction    - Biology and Addiction    - Learning, Culture, and Addiction    - Debating the Causes of Addiction Schizophrenia    - Symptoms of Schizophrenia    - Unraveling the Mysteries of Schizophrenia Mental Disorders and Personal Responsibility Taking Psychology with You:    - When a Friend is Suicidal Top Chapter 17: Approaches to Treatment and Therapy Biological Treatments for Mental Disorders    - The Question of Drugs    - Surgery and Electroshock Kinds of Psychotherapy    - Psychodynamic Perspective    - Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy    - Humanist and Existential Therapy    - Therapy in Social Context    - Psychotherapy in Practice Evaluating Psychotherapy    - The Scientist-practitioner Gap    - Assessing Therapy's Effectiveness    - When Therapy Helps    - When Therapy Harms Alternatives to Psychotherapy    - Community and Rehabilitation Psychology    - The Self-help Movement The Value and Values of Psychotherapy Taking Psychology with You:    - Becoming a Smart Consumer of Therapy Epilogue: Taking Psychology With You Appendix: Statistical Methods Glossary Bibliography Credits Author Index Subject Index Top © 2000 Prentice-Hall, Inc. 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