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9780077422066

Connect Psychology 1 Semester Access Card for Psychology: Perspectives & Connections

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  • Edition: 2nd
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  • Copyright: 2011-08-09
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Summary

In psychology, not everything is black and white. Psychology: Perspectives & Connections 2e dares students to challenge their own assumptions, explore research and to not believe everything they think. The over-riding goal of Psychology: Perspectives & Connections 2e is to align what excites us as researchers and perpetual students of psychology with today’s introductory psychology student. Feist and Rosenberg's aim is to help students understand that psychology, and much of the world around them, is more fascinating—and likely more intricate and interdependent-- than they think. It’s not just black and white. And, with Connect Psychology and its adaptive learning system, students can better understand what they know and master what they don't know. Connect with science. Connect with students. Connect with Feist and Rosenberg's Psychology 2e.

Table of Contents

Psychology: Making Connections

Preface

Foreword by Paul Ekman

1 Introduction to Psychology

What Is Psychology?

Psychology Defined
Why Should You Study Psychology?
Psychology in the Real World: Intro to Psychology in My Everyday Life

Subdisciplines of Psychology

The Origins of Psychology

A Brief History of the Practice of Clinical Psychology
A Brief History of Scientific Psychology

Ways of Thinking About Mind, Body, and Experience

The Nature-Nurture Debate
Mind-Body Dualism
The Evolution of Human Behavior

Connections in Psychology

Bringing it All Together: Making Connections in Psychology: Studying Electronic
Social Interactions

Chapter Review


2 Conducting Research in Psychology

The Nature of Science

Common Sense and Logic
The Limits of Observation
What Is Science?
The Scientific Method
Research Process: The Scientific Method
What Science Is Not: Pseudoscience

Research Methods in Psychology

Principles of Research Design
Descriptive Studies
Correlational Studies
Experimental Studies
Connecting Psychologists with their Discoveries:

Robert Rosenthal and Experimenter Bias

Meta-analysis

Commonly Used Measures of Psychological Research

Self-Report Measures
Behavioral Measures
Physiological Measures
Multiple Measurement
Making Sense of Data with Statistics

Descriptive Statistics

Inferential Statistics

Psychology in the Real World: Beware of Statistics in Advertising

Research Ethics

Ethical Research with Humans
Ethical Research with Animals
Bringing it All Together: Making Connections in Psychological Research

Chapter Review


3 the Biology of Behavior

Genes and Behavior

The Complex Connection between Genes and Behavior
Polygenic Influence on Behavior
Genes and the Environment
Epigenetics: How the Environment Changes Gene Expression

The Nervous System

Organization of the Nervous System
The Cells of the Nervous System: Glial Cells and Neurons
Common Neurotransmitters
Summary of the Steps in Neural Transmission

The Brain

Evolution of the Human Brain
Overview of Brain Regions
Psychology in the Real World: Brain-Computer and Brain-Marchine Interfaces
Brain Plasticity and Neurogenesis
connecting Psychologists to Their Discoveries: Neurogenesis in the Adult Brain

Measuring the Brain

Electroencephalography
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Functional MRI (fMRI)
Positron Emission Tomography (PET)

The Endocrine System

Bringing it All Together:Making Connections in the Biology of Behavior What Esref Armagan’sStory Reveals About the Brain

Chapter Review


4 Sensing and Perceiving our world

The Long Strange Trip from Sensation to Perception

Basic Sensory Processes
Principles of Perception

Vision

Sensing Visual Stimuli
Connecting Psychologists to Their Discoveries: Discovery of the "Halle Berry" Neuron
Perceiving Visual Stimuli

Hearing

The Physics of Sound and the Psychology of Hearing
The Ear
Hearing in the Brain
Psychology in the Real World: Hearing Loss in the Age of the iPod

The Bodily Senses

Touch
Pain

The Chemical Senses: Smell and Taste

Smell (Olfaction)
Taste

Synesthesia

Bringing it All Together: Making Connections in Sensation and Perception Differences Across Cultures
Research Process: How Culture Affects Perceptionof Foreground–Background

Chapter Review


5 Human Development

The Developing Fetus

Stages of Prenatal Development
Brain and Sensory Development Before Birth
Environmental Infl uences on Fetal Development

The Developing Infant and Child

Physical Development in Infancy and Childhood
Personality Development in Infancy
Psychology in the Real World: Musical Training Changes the Brain
Early Cognitive Development
Development of Moral Reasoning
Early Socioemotional Development

The Developing Adolescent

Physical Development in Adolescence
Cognitive and Brain Development
Social Development in Adolescence

The Developing Adult

Early Adulthood
Middle Adulthood
Death and Dying
Bringing it All Together: Making Connections in Development

Chapter Review


6 Consciousness

What Is Consciousness?

Two Dimensions of Consciousness:Wakefulness and Awareness

Minimal Consciousness
Moderate Consciousness
Full Consciousness

Attention: Focusing Consciousness

Selective Attention
Psychology in the Real World:Hazards of Cell Phone Use or Texting While Driving
Sustained Attention

Multi-tasking: The Implications of Shifting Attention

Meditation and Conscious Experience
Meditation Training and the Brain
Research Process: How Concentration Meditation Affects Attention

Sleeping and Dreaming

Sleeping

Connecting Psychologists to Their Discoveries: The Discovery of REM Sleep

Dreaming

Hypnosis

Altering Consciousness with Drugs

Depressants
Stimulants
Hallucinogens
Bringing It All Together: Making Connections in Consciousness Brain injury Revisited

Chapter Review


7 Memory

Three Types of Memory

Research Process: To Come
Sensory Memory
Short-Term or Working Memory
Long-Term Memory

The Biological Basis of Memory

The Sensory Cortexes
Pathways of Short-Term Memory in the Hippocampusand Prefrontal Cortex
Long-Term Memory Storage in the Cortex
Emotion, Memory, and the Brain
Connecting Psychologists to Their Discoveries Kande's Discoveries of Memory and the Brain

Psychology in the Real World: Memory in a Pill

Forgetting and Memory Loss

Memory Loss Caused by Brain Injury and Disease
Bringing it All Together: Making Connections in Memory How to Study

Chapter Review


8 Learning

Basic Processes of Learning

Habituation and the Orienting Response
Association

Conditioning Models of Learning

Classical Conditioning
Operant Conditioning
Psychology in the Real World: Treating Autism with AppliedBehavior Analysis
Challenges to Conditioning Models of Learning
Breaking New Ground Conditioned Taste Aversion

Social Learning Theory

The Interaction of Nature and Nurture in Learning

Imprinting
Imitation, Mirror Neurons, and Learning
Research Process: The Discovery of Mirror Neurons
Synaptic Change During Learning
Experience, Enrichment, and Brain Growth
Making Connections in Learning Why Do People Smoke?

Chapter Review


9 Language and Thought

Language

The Nature of Language
The Evolution of Language in Humans
Language Development in Individuals
Theories of Language Acquisition
Can Other Species Learn Human Language?
Language, Culture, and Thought
Research Process: Language and Color Discrimination

Thinking, Reasoning, and Decision Making

How Do We Represent Thoughts in Our Minds?
How Do We Reason About Evidence?
Critical Thinking
Psychology in the Real World: Applying Critical ThinkingBeyond the Classroom
How Do We Make Judgments and Decisions?
Connecting Psychologists to Their Discoveries: Nonrational Decision Making
Bringing it All Together: Making Connections in Language and Thought Learning a SecondLanguage

Chapter Review


10 Intelligence, Problem Solving,and Creativity

Intelligence

Defining Intelligence
Theories of Intelligence
Measures of Intelligence
Psychology in the Real World: Bringing Multiple Intelligences to School
Breaking New Ground Changing Intelligence Tests
Extremes of Intelligence
The Nature and Nurture of Human Intelligence
Group Differences in Intelligence Scores
Non-Western Views of Intelligence

Problem Solving

Types of Problems
Solution Strategies
Research Process: Group Versus Individual Solutions to the Jar Problem
Obstacles to Solutions

Creativity

What Is Creativity?
Stages of Creative Problem Solving
Genius, Intelligence, and Creativity
Creativity and the Brain
Cognitive Processes in Creative Thinking
The Creative Personality
Making Connections in Intelligence, Problem Solving,and Creativity Whiz Kids in Science

Chapter Review


11 Motivation and Emotion

Motivation

Models of Motivation
Hunger: Survival of the Individual

Psychology in the Real World: Why Dieting Does Not Work

Sex: Survival of the Species
Research Process: Gender and Casual Sex
The Needs to Belong and to Excel
Motivation in the Workplace

Emotion

Defining Emotion
Emotion as a Process
Emotion and the Brain
How Culture Impacts Emotion Expression
Gender and Emotion
Emotional intelligence

Bringing It All Together: Making Connections in Motivation and Emotion Living a Satisfied Life

Chapter Review


12 Stress and Health

What Is Stress?

Stress As Stimulus or Response
The Physiology of Stress

Coping

Coping Strategies
The Positive Psychology of Coping
Psychology in the Real World: Effects of Chronic Stress on Aging

How Stress and Coping Affect Health

Psychological Process and the Immune Systemconnecting Psychologists to Their Discoveries: Linking the Nervous System and the Immune System
The Birth of Psychoimmunology
Psychological Risk Factors for Heart Disease
research on Health-Relevant Behavior
Research Process: Effects of Exercise on the Brain
Making Connections in Stress and Health The Health Psychologyof HIV and AIDS

Chapter Review


13 Personality: the uniquenessof the individual

Defining Personality

The Nature and Nurture of Personality

The Evolution of Personality Traits
Genetics and Personality
Temperament and the Fetal Environment
Personality and Culture: Universality and Differences

How Do Theorists Explain Personality?

Psychoanalytic Theories
Humanistic-Positive Psychological Theories
Social-Cognitive Learning Theories
Trait Theories
Biological Theories
Breaking New Ground Animal Personality

How Is Personality Measured?

Behavioral Observation
Interviewing
Projective Tests
Questionnaires
Psychology in the Real World: Screening and Selecting Police Officers
Making Connections in Personality Does Personality ChangeOver Time?
Research Process: Personality Change After Alzheimer’s Disease

Chapter Review


14 Social Behavior

Group Living and Social Influence

Conformity
Minority Social Influence
Obedience

Social Perception

Attribution
Detecting Deception
Schemas
Stereotypes
Exclusion and Inclusion
Prejudice and Discrimination
Breaking New Ground The Study of Implicit Bias

Attitudes and Behavior

The Nature and Nurture of Attitudes
Attitude Change

Social Relations

The Nature and Nurture of Aggression
Prosocial Behavior
Psychology in the Real World: Violent Media, Violent World
Research Process: Empathy and Pain
Liking, Attraction, and Love
Making Connections in Social Behavior Analysis of theJonestown Cult

Chapter Review


15 Psychological Disorders

Defining Psychological Disorders

Anxiety Disorders

Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Panic Disorder with or Without Agoraphobia
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Social Phobia (Social Anxiety Disorder)
Specific Phobias
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Psychology in the Real World: Can Internet Use Become an Addiction?
Nature and Nurture Explanations of Anxiety Disorders

Mood Disorders

Depression and Its Causes

Research Process: Gene-Environment Interaction in the Development of Depression

Bipolar Disorder and Its Causes

Schizophrenia

Major Symptoms of Schizophrenia
Subtypes of Schizophrenia
Nature and Nurture Explanations of Schizophrenia

Connecting Psychologists with Their Discoveries: The discovery of Dopamine

Dissociative Disorders

Dissociative Identity Disorder
Causes of Dissociative Disorders

Somatoform Disorders

Somatization Disorder
Hypochondriasis

Personality Disorders

Odd-Eccentric Personality Disorders
Dramatic-Emotional Personality Disorders
Anxious–Fearful Personality Disorders
Nature and Nurture Explanations of Personality Disorders

Childhood Disorders

Subtypes of Childhood Disorders
Causes of Childhood Disorders
Bringing it All Together: Making Connections in Psychological Disorders Creativity andMental Health

Chapter Review


16 Treatment of Psychological disorders

Biological Treatments

Drug Therapies
Psychosurgery
Electric and Magnetic Therapies
Breaking New Ground Deep Brain Stimulation for the Treatmentof Severe Depression

Psychological Treatments for Psychological Disorders

Psychodynamic Therapy
Humanistic Therapy
Behavioral Treatments
Cognitive and Cognitive-Behavioral Treatments
Group Therapies
Psychology in the Real World: Preventing Depression

Combined Approaches

Drugs and Psychotherapy
Integrative Therapies
Mindfulness Training and Psychotherapy

Effectiveness of Treatments

Effectiveness of Biological Treatments
Effectiveness of Psychological Treatments
Research Process: Comparing Cognitive Therapy and Drug Therapyin Treatment of Depression
Effectiveness of Integrative Approaches
Making Connections in the Treatment of PsychologicalDisorders Approaches to the Treatment of Anxiety Disorders

Chapter Review

Glossary

References

Credits

Name Index

Subject Index

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