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9780205986378

Psychology with DSM-5 Update plus NEW MyPsychLab with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package

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  • Copyright: 2013-12-09
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Table of Contents

BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Intro Psychology in Action: Secrets for Surviving College and Improving Your Grades

Chapter 1:     The Science of Psychology

Chapter 2:     Biological Perspective

Chapter 3:     Sensation and Perception

Chapter 4:     Consciousness: Sleep, Dreams, Hypnosis, and Drugs

Chapter 5:     Learning

Chapter 6:     Memory

Chapter 7:     Cognition: Thinking, Intelligence, and Language

Chapter 8:     Development Across the Life Span

Chapter 9:     Motivation and Emotion

Chapter 10:   Sexuality and Gender

Chapter 11:   Stress and Health

Chapter 12:   Social Psychology

Chapter 13:   Theories of Personality

Chapter 14:   Psychological Disorders

Chapter 15:   Psychological Therapies


FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS

Intro Psychology in Action: Secrets for Surviving College and Improving Your Grades

Study Methods: Different Strokes for Different Folks

Reading Textbooks: Textbooks Are Not Meatloaf

How to Take Notes: Printing Out PowerPoint Slides Is Not Taking Notes

Studying for Exams: Cramming Is Not an Option

Writing Papers: Planning Makes Perfect

 

Chapter 1:     The Science of Psychology

What is Psychology?

Psychology then: The History of Psychology

Psychology Now: Modern Perspectives

Psychological Professionals and Areas of Specialization

Psychology: The Scientific Methodology

Ethics of Psychological Research

The Criteria for Critical Thinking

 

Chapter 2:     Biological Perspective

An Overview of the Nervous System

Neurons and Nerves: Building the Network

The Central Nervous System-The “Central Processing Unit”

The Peripheral Nervous System-Nerves on the Edge

Distant Connections: The Endocrine Glands

Lookink Inside the Living Brain

From the Bottom Up: the Structures of the Brain

 

Chapter 3:     Sensation and Perception

The ABCs of Sensation

the Science of Seeing

The Hearing Sense: Can You Hear Me Now?

Chemical Senses: It Tastes Good and Smells even Better

Somesthetic Senses: What the Body Knows

The ABCs of Perception

 

Chapter 4:     Consciousness: Sleep, Dreams, Hypnosis, and Drugs

What is Consciousness?

Altered States: Sleep

Dreams

Altered States: The Effects of Hypnosis

Altered States: The Influence of Psychoactive Drugs

 

Chapter 5:     Learning

Definition of Learning

It Makes Your Mouth Water: Classical Conditioning

What’s in It for Me? Operant Conditioning

Cognitive Learning Theory

Observational Learning

 

Chapter 6:     Memory

Three Processes of Memory

Models of Memory

The Information-Processing Model: Three Memory Systems

Getting It Out: Retrieval of Long-Term Memories

The Reconstructive Nature of Long-Term Memory Retrieval: How Reliable Are Memories?

What Were We Talking About? Forgetting

Neuroscience of Memory

 

Chapter 7:     Cognition: Thinking, Intelligence, and Language

How People Think

Intelligence

Language

Applying Psychology to Everyday Life: Mental and Physical Exercise Combine for Better Cognitive Health

 

Chapter 8:     Development Across the Life Span

Issues in Studying Human Development

The Basic Building Blocks of Development

Prenatal Development

Infancy and Childhood Development

Adolescence

Adulthood

 

Chapter 9:     Motivation and Emotion

Approaches To Understanding Motivation

What, Hungry Again? Why People Eat

Emotion

 

Chapter 10:   Sexuality and Gender

The Physical Side of Human Sexuality

The Psychological Side of Human Sexuality: Gender

Human Sexual Behavior

Sexual Dysfunctions and Problems

Sexually Transmitted Infections

 

Chapter 11:   Stress and Health

Stress and Stressors

Physiological Factors: Stress and Health

Coping With Stress

 

Chapter 12:   Social Psychology

Social Influence: Conformity, Compliance, Obedience and group behavior

Social Cognition: Attitudes, Impression Formation, and Attribution

Social Interaction: Prejudice, Love, and Aggression

liking and loving: interpersonal attraction

Aggression and prosocial behavior

 

Chapter 13:   Theories of Personality

Theories of Personality

The Man and the Couch: Sigmund Freud and the Psychodynamic Perspective

The Behaviorist and Social Cognitive View of Personality

The Third Force: Humanism and Personality

Trait Theories: Who are You?

The Biology of Personality: Behavioral Genetics

Assessment of Personality

 

Chapter 14:   Psychological Disorders

What is Abnormality?

Models of Abnormality

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR)

Anxiety Disorders: What, Me Worry?

Mood Disorders: The Effect of Affect

Eating Disorders

Dissociative Disorders: Altered Identities

Schizophrenia: Altered Reality

Personality Disorders: I’m OK, it’s Everyone Else Who’s Weird

 

Chapter 15:   Psychological Therapies

Two Kinds of Therapy

The Early Days: Ice-Water Baths and Electric Shocks

Psychotherapy Begins

Humanistic Therapy: To Err is Human

Behavior Therapies: Learning One’s Way to Better Behavior

Cognitive Therapies: Thinking is Believing

Group Therapies: Not JUST for the Shy

Does Psychotherapy Really Work?

Biomedical Therapies

 

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