Fundamentals of Psychology in Context

by Kosslyn, Stephen M.; Rosenberg, Robin S.

• ISBN13: 9780205507573
• ISBN10: 0205507573
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-01
• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon

Summary

This innovative, 13-chapter text examines psychological issues from the levels of the brain, person, and social world to help students actively apply psychology to their lives. Through their own research, clinical work, and experiences as teachers, Stephen Kosslyn and Robin Rosenberg have found that exploring psychology from multiple perspectives further enhances learning.

Examining psychological concepts from the levels of the brain (biological factors), the person (beliefs, desires, and feelings), and the world (social, cultural, and environmental factors) and their interactions helps students organize and integrate topics within and across chapters and actively apply psychology to their lives.

This briefer version of the authors comprehensive Psychology in Context, 3e combines the introductory chapter with research methods, consciousness with stress/health coverage, and cognition with intelligence for three fewer chapters than the comprehensive Kosslyn/Rosenberg text. It also features end-of-chapter practice tests to aid students in mastering concepts.

Table of Contents

Psychology

Yesterday and Today The Science of Psychology

Getting to Know You Psychology Then and Now The Research Process

How We Find Things Out

The Biology of Mind and Behavior

The Brain in Action Brain Circuits

Making Connections The Nervous System

An Orchestra With Many Members Probing the Brain Genes, Brain, and Environment

The Brain in the World

Sensation and Perception

How the World Enters the Mind Vision Hearing Sensing and Perceiving in Other Ways

Learning

How Experience Changes Us Classical Conditioning Operant Conditioning Cognitive and Social Learning

Memory

Living With Yesterday Storing Information

Time and Space Are of the Essence Encoding and Retrieving Information From Memory When Memory Goes Wrong - And What to Do About It

Language, Thinking, and Intelligence

What Humans Do Best Language

More Than Meets the Ear Thinking

Understanding the World and Guiding Behavior Intelligence

Is There More Than One Way To Be Smart? What Makes Us Smart: Nature and Nurture

Emotion and Motivation

Feeling and Striving Emotion

I Feel, Therefore I Am Motivation and Reward

Feeling Good Hunger and Sex

Two Important Motivations

Personality

Vive la Difference! What is Personality?

The Brain

The Personality Organ The Person

Beliefs and Behaviors The World

Social Influences on Personality

Psychology Over the Life Span

Growing Up, Growing Older, Growing Wiser In the Beginning

From Conception to Birth Infancy and Childhood

Taking Off Adolescence

Between Two Worlds Adulthood and Aging

The Continuously Changing Self

Stress, Health, and Coping

Dealing With Life What is Stress?

Stress, Disease, and Health Strategies for Coping

Psychological Disorders

More Than Everyday Problems

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