IN THIS SECTION:

1.) BRIEF

2.) COMPREHENSIVE

 

BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Chapter 1: Mind, Behavior, and Psychological Science

Chapter 2: Biopsychology, Neuroscience, and Human Nature 

Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception

Chapter 4: Learning and Human Nature

Chapter 5: Memory

Chapter 6: Thinking and Human Intelligence

Chapter 7: Development over the Lifespan

Chapter 8: States of Consciousness

Chapter 9: Motivation and Emotion

Chapter 10: Personality: Theories of the Whole Person

Chapter 11: Social Psychology 

Chapter 12: Psychological Disorders

Chapter 13: Therapies for Psychological Disorders

Chapter 14: Stress, Health, and Well-Being 

 

COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS: 

 

Chapter 1: Mind, Behavior, and Psychological Science  

1.1 What Is Psychology – And What Is It Not?  

   Psychology: It’s More than You Think 

   Psychology Is Not Psychiatry 

   Thinking Critically about Psychology and Pseudopsychology 

   Psychology Matters: Using Psychology to Learn Psychology

1.3 What Are Psychology’s Six Main Perspectives? 

   Separation of Mind and Body and the Modern Biological Perspective  

   The Founding of Scientific Psychology and the Modern Cognitive Perspective  

   The Behavioral Perspective: Focusing on Observable Behavior  

   The Whole-Person Perspectives: Psychodynamic, Humanistic, Trait and Temperament

   The Developmental Perspective: Changes Arising from Nature and Nurture 

   The Sociocultural Perspective: The Individual in Context 

   The Changing Face of Psychology 

   PSYCHOLOGY MATTERS: Psychology as a Major

1.2 How Do Psychologists Develop New Knowledge?  

   Four Steps in the Scientific Method

   Five Types of Psychological Research 

   Controlling Biases in Psychological Research  

   Ethical Issues in Psychological Research  

   PSYCHOLOGY MATTERS: The Perils of Pseudopsychology

Critical Thinking Applied: Facilitated Communication 

Chapter Summary 

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Chapter 2: Biopsychology, Neuroscience, and Human Nature 

2.1 How Are Genes and Behavior Linked? 

   Evolution and Natural Selection 

   Genetics and Inheritance 

   PSYCHOLOGY MATTERS: Choosing Your Children’s Genes

2.2 How Does the Body Communicate Internally?  

   The Neuron: Building Block of the Nervous System 

   The Nervous System 

   The Endocrine System 

   PSYCHOLOGY MATTERS: How Psychoactive Drugs Affect the Nervous System 

2.3 How Does the Brain Produce Behavior and Mental Processes?  

   Windows on the Brain 

   Three Layers of the Brain

   Lobes of the Cerebral Cortex  

   Cerebral Dominance 

   PSYCHOLOGY MATTERS: Using Psychology to Learn Psychology

Critical Thinking Applied: Left Brain vs. Right Brain 

Chapter Summary

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Chapter 4:  Learning and Human Nurture  

4.1 What Sort of Learning Does Classical Conditioning Explai