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About the Author
Acknowledgments
Dedication
Preface
1. 1.1 Psychology as a Science
2. 1.2 The Evolution of Psychology: History, Approaches, and Questions
3. 1.3 Chapter Summary
4. 2.1 Psychologists Use the Scientific Method to Guide Their Research
5. 2.2 Psychologists Use Descriptive, Correlational, and Experimental Research Designs to Understand Behavior
6. 2.3 You Can Be an Informed Consumer of Psychological Research
7. 2.4 Chapter Summary
8. 3.5 Chapter Summary
9. 3.4 Putting It All Together: The Nervous System and the Endocrine System
10. 3.3 Psychologists Study the Brain Using Many Different Methods
11. 3.2 Our Brains Control Our Thoughts, Feelings, and Behavior
12. 3.1 The Neuron Is the Building Block of the Nervous System
13. 4.3 Hearing
14. 4.6 Chapter Summary
15. 4.5 Accuracy and Inaccuracy in Perception
16. 4.4 Tasting, Smelling, and Touching
17. 4.2 Seeing
18. 4.1 We Experience Our World Through Sensation
19. 5.3 Altering Consciousness Without Drugs
20. 5.1 Sleeping and Dreaming Revitalize Us for Action
21. 5.4 Chapter Summary
22. 5.2 Altering Consciousness With Psychoactive Drugs
23. 6.6 Chapter Summary
24. 6.1 Conception and Prenatal Development
25. 6.2 Infancy and Childhood: Exploring and Learning
26. 6.3 Adolescence: Developing Independence and Identity
27. 6.5 Late Adulthood: Aging, Retiring, and Bereavement
28. 6.4 Early and Middle Adulthood: Building Effective Lives
29. 7.5 Chapter Summary
30. 7.4 Using the Principles of Learning to Understand Everyday Behavior
31. 7.3 Learning by Insight and Observation
32. 7.2 Changing Behavior Through Reinforcement and Punishment: Operant Conditioning
33. 7.1 Learning by Association: Classical Conditioning
34. 8.4 Chapter Summary
35. 8.3 Accuracy and Inaccuracy in Memory and Cognition
36. 8.1 Memories as Types and Stages
37. 8.2 How We Remember: Cues to Improving Memory
38. 9.1 Defining and Measuring Intelligence
39. 9.2 The Social, Cultural, and Political Aspects of Intelligence
40. 9.3 Communicating With Others: The Development and Use of Language
41. 9.4 Chapter Summary
42. 10.1 The Experience of Emotion
43. 10.5 Chapter Summary
44. 10.4 Two Fundamental Human Motivations: Eating and Mating
45. 10.3 Positive Emotions: The Power of Happiness
46. 10.2 Stress: The Unseen Killer
47. 11.4 Chapter Summary
48. 11.3 Is Personality More Nature or More Nurture? Behavioral and Molecular Genetics
49. 11.2 The Origins of Personality
50. 11.1 Personality and Behavior: Approaches and Measurement
51. 12.1 Psychological Disorder: What Makes a Behavior “Abnormal”?
52. 12.2 Anxiety and Dissociative Disorders: Fearing the World Around Us
53. 12.3 Mood Disorders: Emotions as Illness
54. 12.4 Schizophrenia: The Edge of Reality and Consciousness
55. 12.5 Personality Disorders
56. 12.6 Somatoform, Factitious, and Sexual Disorders
57. 12.7 Chapter Summary
58. 13.1 Reducing Disorder by Confronting It: Psychotherapy
59. 13.2 Reducing Disorder Biologically: Drug and Brain Therapy
60. 13.3 Reducing Disorder by Changing the Social Situation
61. 13.4 Evaluating Treatment and Prevention: What Works?
62. 13.5 Chapter Summary
63. 14.3 Working With Others: The Costs and Benefits of Social Groups
64. 14.1 Social Cognition: Making Sense of Ourselves and Others
65. 14.4 Chapter Summary
66. 14.2 Interacting With Others: Helping, Hurting, and Conforming
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