Exploring Psychology in Modules with Updates on DSM-5

by Myers, David G.

• ISBN13: 9781464163425
• ISBN10: 1464163421
• Edition: 9th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2014-02-05
• Publisher: Worth Publishers

Summary

This modules-based version of Myers’ Exploring Psychology breaks down the book’s 15 chapters into 43 short modules. Myers was inspired to create this text by the memory research in “chunking” (showing that shorter reading assignments are more effectively absorbed than longer ones), as well as by numerous students and instructors who expressed a strong preference for textbooks with more, shorter chapters. Each self-standing module can be read in a single sitting, and instructors can assign any combination of modules, in any order they want.

DSM 5 Updates
Available for Fall 2014 classes, this update version features new content from David Myers in response to the release of the DSM-5. This new content is integrated into the text without changing pagination or the structure of the chapters. A special DSM 5 Supplement by the David Myers is available for Fall 2013 and Spring and Summer 2014 courses.

View the Page-Referenced Guide to the DSM-5 updates for Exploring Psychology in Modules.

Author Biography

David Myers received his psychology Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. He has spent his career at Hope College, Michigan, where he has taught dozens of introductory psychology sections. Hope College students have invited him to be their commencement speaker and voted him "outstanding professor."

His research and writings have been recognized by the Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize, by a 2010 Honored Scientist award from the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences, by a 2010 Award for Service on Behalf of Personality and Social Psychology, by a 2013 Presidential Citation from APA Division 2, and by three dozen honorary doctorates.

With support from National Science Foundation grants, Myers' scientific articles have appeared in three dozen scientific periodicals, including Science, American Scientist, Psychological Science, and the American Psychologist. In addition to his scholarly writing and his textbooks for introductory and social psychology, he also digests psychological science for the general public. His writings have appeared in four dozen magazines, from Today's Education to Scientific American. He also has authored five general audience books, including The Pursuit of Happiness and Intuition: Its Powers and Perils.

David Myers has chaired his city's Human Relations Commission, helped found a thriving assistance center for families in poverty, and spoken to hundreds of college and community groups. Drawing on his experience, he also has written articles and a book (A Quiet World) about hearing loss, and he is advocating a transformation in American assistive listening technology (see www.hearingloop.org). For his leadership, he received an American Academy of Audiology Presidential Award in 2011, and the Hearing Loss Association of America Walter T. Ridder Award in 2012.

He bikes to work year-round and plays daily pick-up basketball. David and Carol Myers have raised two sons and a daughter, and have one granddaughter to whom he dedicates the Third Edition of Psychology in Everyday Life.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY AND SCIENCE OF PSYCHOLOGY
Module 1 The History and Scope of Psychology
Module 2 Research Strategies: How Psychologists Ask and Answer Questions

BIOLOGY OF BEHAVIOR
Module 3 Neural and Hormonal Systems
Module 4 The Brain
Module 5 Genetics, Evolutionary Psychology, and Behavior

CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE TWO-TRACK MIND
Module 6 Dual Processing, Sleep, and Dreams
Module 7 Hypnosis
Module 8 Drugs

DEVELOPING THROUGH THE LIFE SPAN
Module 9 Developmental Issues, Prenatal Development, and the Newborn
Module 10 Infancy and Childhood
Module 11 Adolescence
Module 12 Adulthood

GENDER AND SEXUALITY
Module 13 Gender Development
Module 14 Human Sexuality

SENSATION AND PERCEPTION
Module 15 Basic Concepts of Sensation and Perception
Module 16 Vision and Perceptual Organization and Interpretation
Module 17 The Nonvisual Senses

LEARNING
Module 18 Basic Learning Concepts and Classical Conditioning
Module 19 Operant Conditioning
Module 20 Biology, Cognition, and Learning

MEMORY
Module 21 Studying and Building Memories
Module 22 Storage and Retrieval
Module 23 Forgetting, Memory Construction, and Memory Improvement

THINKING, LANGUAGE, AND INTELLIGENCE
Module 24 Thinking
Module 25 Language and Thought
Module 26 Intelligence and Its Assessment
Module 27 Genetic and Environmental Influences on Intelligence

MOTIVATION AND EMOTION
Module 28 Basic Motivational Concepts, the Need to Belong, and Achievement Motivation
Module 29 Hunger
Module 30 Theories and Physiology of Emotion
Module 31 Expressing and Experiencing Emotion

STRESS, HEALTH, AND HUMAN FLOURISHING
Module 32 Stress and Illness
Module 33 Health and Happiness

PERSONALITY
Module 34 Classic Perspectives on Personality
Module 35 Contemporary Perspectives on Personality

SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Module 36 Social Thinking and Social Influence
Module 37 Antisocial Relations
Module 38 Prosocial Relations

PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS
Module 39 Basic Concepts of Psychological Disorders, and Mood Disorders
Module 40 Schizophrenia
Module 41 Other Disorders

THERAPY
Module 42 The Psychological Therapies
Module 43 The Biomedical Therapies

Appendix A Statistical Reasoning in Everyday Life
Appendix B Psychology at Work
Appendix C Subfields of Psychology
Appendix D Complete Module Reviews
Appendix E Answers for Experience the Testing Effect Questions