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BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS Intro Psychology in Action: Secrets for Surviving College and Improving Your Grades Chapter 1: The Science of Psychology Chapter 2: Biological Perspective Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception Chapter 4: Consciousness: Sleep, Dreams, Hypnosis, and Drugs Chapter 5: Learning Chapter 6: Memory Chapter 7: Cognition: Thinking, Intelligence, and Language 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 FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS Intro Psychology in Action: Secrets for Surviving College and Improving Your Grades Study Methods: Different Strokes for Different Folks Reading Textbooks: Textbooks Are Not Meatloaf How to Take Notes: Printing Out PowerPoint Slides Is Not Taking Notes Studying for Exams: Cramming Is Not an Option Writing Papers: Planning Makes Perfect Chapter 1: The Science of Psychology What is Psychology? Psychology then: The History of Psychology Psychology Now: Modern Perspectives Psychological Professionals and Areas of Specialization Psychology: The Scientific Methodology Ethics of Psychological Research The Criteria for Critical Thinking Chapter 2: 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 Lookink Inside the Living Brain From the Bottom Up: the Structures of the Brain 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 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 Chapter 5: Learning Definition of Learning It Makes Your Mouth Water: Classical Conditioning What’s in It for Me? Operant Conditioning Cognitive Learning Theory Observational Learning Chapter 6: Memory 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 Chapter 7: Cognition: Thinking, Intelligence, and Language How People Think Intelligence Language Applying Psychology to Everyday Life: Mental and Physical Exercise 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 Chapter 9: Motivation and Emotion Approaches To Understanding Motivation What, Hungry Again? Why People Eat Emotion 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 Chapter 11: Stress and Health Stress and Stressors Physiological Factors: Stress and Health Coping With Stress Chapter 12: Social Psychology Social Influence: Conformity, Compliance, Obedience and group behavior Social Cognition: Attitudes, Impression Formation, and Attribution Social Interaction: Prejudice, Love, and Aggression liking and loving: interpersonal attraction Aggression and prosocial behavior 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 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 OK, it’s Everyone Else Who’s Weird 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 Table of Contents
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