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Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Introduction
Charles Stangor and Jennifer Walinga
1.1 Psychology as a Science
1.2 The Evolution of Psychology: History, Approaches, and Questions
Chapter 1 Summary, Key Terms, and Self-Test
Charles Stangor; Jennifer Walinga; and Jorden A. Cummings
Chapter 2 Introduction
Jennifer Walinga
2.1 Biological Psychology
2.2 Psychodynamic Psychology
2.3 Behaviourist Psychology
2.4 Humanist, Cognitive, and Evolutionary Psychology
Chapter 2 Summary, Key Terms, and Self-Test
Jennifer Walinga and Lee Sanders
Chapter 3 Introduction
Charles Stangor; Jennifer Walinga; Jorden A. Cummings; and Lee Sanders
3.1 Psychologists Use the Scientific Method to Guide Their Research
3.2 Moral Foundations of Ethical Research
Paul C. Price, Rajiv S. Jhangiani, I-Chant A. Chiang, Dana C. Leighton, and Carrie Cuttler
3.3 From Moral Principles to Ethics Codes
3.4 Putting Ethics Into Practice
3.5 Psychologists Use Descriptive, Correlational, and Experimental Research Designs to Understand Behaviour
3.6 You Can Be an Informed Consumer of Psychological Research
3.7 The Replication Crisis in Psychology
Edward Diener and Robert Biswas-Diener
Chapter 3 Summary, Key Terms, and Self-Test
Chapter 4 Introduction
Lee Sanders
4.1 The Nature-Nurture Question
Eric Turkheimer
4.2 Evolutionary Theories in Psychology
David M. Buss
4.3 Epigenetics in Psychology
Ian Weaver
4.4 Is Personality More Nature or More Nurture? Behavioural and Molecular Genetics
Chapter 4 Summary, Key Terms, and Self-Test
Chapter 5 Introduction
5.1 The Neuron Is the Building Block of the Nervous System
5.2 Our Brains Control Our Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviour
5.3 Putting It All Together: The Nervous System and the Endocrine System
5.4 Psychologists Study the Brain Using Many Different Methods
Chapter 5 Summary, Key Terms, and Self-Test
Charles Stangor; Jennifer Walinga; and Lee Sanders
Chapter 6 Introduction
6.1 We Experience Our World through Sensation
6.2 Seeing
6.3 Hearing
6.4 Tasting, Smelling, and Touching
6.5 Accuracy and Inaccuracy in Perception
Chapter 6 Summary, Key Terms, and Self-Test
Chapter 7 Introduction
7.1 States of Consciousness
Robert Biswas-Diener and Jake Teeny
7.2 Attention
Frances Friedrich
7.3 Sleeping and Dreaming Revitalize Us for Action
7.4 Altering Consciousness with Psychoactive Drugs
7.5 Altering Consciousness without Drugs
7.6 The Unconscious
Ap Dijksterhuis
Chapter 7 Summary, Key Terms, and Self-Test
Chapter 8 Introduction
8.1 Memories as Types and Stages
8.2 How We Remember: Cues to Improving Memory
8.3 Accuracy and Inaccuracy in Memory and Cognition
8.4 Eyewitness Testimony and Memory Biases
Cara Laney and Elizabeth F. Loftus
Chapter 8 Summary, Key Terms, Self-Test
Chapter 9 Introduction
9.1 Defining and Measuring Intelligence
9.2 The Social, Cultural, and Political Aspects of Intelligence
9.3 Communicating with Others: The Development and Use of Language
Chapter 9 Summary, Key Terms, and Self-Test
Chapter 10 Introduction
10.1 Learning by Association: Classical Conditioning
10.2 Changing Behaviour through Reinforcement and Punishment: Operant Conditioning
10.3 Learning by Insight and Observation
10.4 Using the Principles of Learning to Understand Everyday Behaviour
Chapter 10 Summary, Key Terms, and Self-Test
Chapter 11 Introduction
11.1 The Experience of Emotion
11.2 Functions of Emotions
Hyisung Hwang and David Matsumoto
11.3 Positive Emotions: The Power of Happiness
11.4 Drive States
Sudeep Bhatia and George Loewenstein
11.5 Motives and Goals
Ayelet Fishbach and Maferima Touré-Tillery
Chapter 11 Summary, Key Terms, and Self-Test
Chapter 12 Introduction
Jennifer Walinga and Jorden A. Cummings
12.1 Stress: The Unseen Killer
12.2 Health and Stress
12.3 Stress and Coping
12.4 The Healthy Life
Emily Hooker and Sarah Pressman
12.5 Positive Psychology
Robert A. Emmons
Chapter 12 Summary, Key Terms, and Self-Test
Chapter 13 Introduction
Jorden A. Cummings
13.1 An Introduction to the Science of Social Psychology
Robert Biswas-Diener
13.2 Social Cognition and Attitudes
Yanine D. Hess and Cynthia L. Pickett
13.3 Conformity and Obedience
Jerry M. Burger
13.4 Prejudice, Discrimination, and Stereotyping
Susan T. Fiske
13.5 Helping and Prosocial Behavior
Dennis L. Poepsel and David A. Schroeder
Chapter 13 Summary, Key Terms, and Self-Test
Chapter 14 Introduction
14.1 Conception and Prenatal Development
14.2 Infancy and Childhood: Exploring and Learning
14.3 Adolescence: Developing Independence and Identity
14.4 Early and Middle Adulthood: Building Effective Lives
14.5 Late Adulthood: Aging, Retiring, and Bereavement
14.6 Gender
Christia Spears Brown and Jennifer A. Jewell
Chapter 14 Summary, Key Terms, and Self-Test
Chapter 15 Introduction
15.1 Culture
Robert Biswas-Diener; Neil Thin; and Lee Sanders
15.2 Culture and Emotion
Jeanne Tsai
Chapter 15 Summary, Key Terms, and Self-Test
Chapter 16 Introduction
16.1 Personality Traits
Edward Diener; Richard E. Lucas; and Jorden A. Cummings
16.2 Personality Assessment
David Watson
Chapter 16 Summary, Key Terms, and Self-Test
Chapter 17 Introduction
17.1 Psychological Disorder: What Makes a Behaviour Abnormal?
17.2 Anxiety and Dissociative Disorders: Fearing the World Around Us
17.3 Mood Disorders: Emotions as Illness
17.4 Schizophrenia: The Edge of Reality and Consciousness
17.5 Personality Disorders
Chapter 17 Summary, Key Terms, and Self-Test
Chapter 18 Introduction
18.1 Reducing Disorder by Confronting It: Psychotherapy
18.2 Reducing Disorder Biologically: Drug and Brain Therapy
18.3 Reducing Disorder by Changing the Social Situation
18.4 Evaluating Treatment and Prevention: What Works?
Chapter 18 Summary, Key Terms, and Self-Test
Glossary
Jorden A. Cummings and Lee Sanders
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