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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Myers, David G.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Worth Publishers, [2005]
Edition:6th ed.
Subjects:
Psychology > Textbooks.
Psychology.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • 1. Thinking critically with psychological science
  • What is psychology?
  • Why do psychology?
  • How do psychologists ask and answer questions?
  • Frequently asked questions about psychology
  • Tips for studying psychology
  • 2. Neuroscience and behavior
  • Neural communication
  • The nervous system
  • The brain
  • Brain reorganization
  • The endocrine system
  • 3. The nature and nurture of behavior
  • Genes : our biological blueprint
  • Evolutionary psychology : maximizing fitness
  • Behavior genetics : predicting individual differences
  • Environmental influence
  • The nature and nurture of gender
  • Postscript : reflections on nature and nurture
  • 4. The developing person
  • Prenatal development and the newborn
  • Infancy and childhood
  • Adolescence
  • Adulthood
  • Reflections on two major developmental issues
  • 5. Sensation and perception
  • Sensing the world : some basic principles
  • Vision
  • The other senses
  • Perceptual organization
  • Perceptual interpretation
  • 6. States of consciousness
  • Waking consciousness
  • Sleep and dreams
  • Hypnosis
  • Drugs and consciousness
  • 7. Learning
  • Classical conditioning
  • Operant conditioning
  • Learning by observation
  • 8. Memory
  • The phenomenon of memory
  • Encoding : getting information in
  • Storage : retaining information
  • Retrieval : getting information out
  • Forgetting
  • Memory construction
  • Improving memory
  • 9. Thinking, language, and intelligence
  • Thinking
  • Language
  • Intelligence
  • 10. Motivation
  • Motivational concepts
  • Hunger
  • Sexual motivation
  • The need to belong
  • Achievement motivation
  • 11. Emotions, stress, and health
  • Theories of emotion
  • Embodied emotion
  • Expressed emotion
  • Experienced emotion
  • Stress and health
  • Promoting health
  • 12. Personality
  • Historic perspectives on personality
  • Contemporary research on personality
  • 13. Psychological disorders
  • Perspectives on psychological disorders
  • Anxiety disorders
  • Dissociative and personality disorders
  • Mood disorders
  • Schizophrenia
  • Rates of psychological disorders
  • 14. Therapy
  • The psychological therapies
  • Group and family therapies
  • Evaluating psychotherapies
  • The biomedical therapies
  • Preventing psychological disorders
  • 15. Social psychology
  • Social thinking
  • Social influence
  • Social relations
  • Appendix A. Statistical reasoning in everyday life
  • Describing data
  • Making inferences
  • Appendix B. Psychology at work
  • Personnel psychology
  • Organizational psychology
  • Human factors psychology
  • Appendix C. Answers to rehearse it and critical thinker's review questions
  • Glossary.