Annual Editions : Psychology 04/05

by Duffy, Karen G.

• ISBN13: 9780072861495
• ISBN10: 0072861495
• Edition: 34th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-11-17
• Publisher: MCG

Summary

This updated thirty-fourth edition of Annual Editions: Psychology gives you articles from the best of the public press. The articles explore the science of psychology; biological bases of behavior; perceptual processes; learning and remembering; cognitive processes; emotion and motivation; development; personality processes; social processes; psychological disorders; and psychological treatments. This title is supported by Dushkin Online (www.dushkin.com/online/), a student Web site that provides study support tools and links to related Web sites.

Table of Contents

To the Reader	iv
Topic Guide	xii
Selected World Wide Web Sites	xv
UNIT 1 The Science of Psychology
Unit Overview	xviii
Mind Games: Psychological Warfare Between Therapists and Scientists	2	(5)
Carol Tavris
Teaching Skepticism via the CRITIC Acronym and the Skeptical Inquirer	7	(3)
Wayne R. Bartz
Causes and Correlations	10	(4)
Massimo Pigliucci
UNIT 2 Biological Bases of Behavior
Unit Overview	12	(2)
What Makes You Who You Are	14	(6)
Matt Ridley
The Blank Slate	20	(5)
Steven Pinker
Neuroscience: Breaking Down Scientific Barriers to the Study of Brain and Mind	25	(11)
Eric R. Kandel
Larry R. Squire
UNIT 3 Perceptual Processes	36	(181)
Unit Overview	36	(3)
Sight Unseen	39	(4)
Michael Abrams
Different Shades of Perception	43	(2)
Etienne Benson
It's a Noisy, Noisy World Out There!	45	(3)
Richard Carmen
Pain and Its Mysteries	48	(3)
Marni Jackson
Brains in Dreamland	51	(5)
Bruce Bower
UNIT 4 Learning and Remembering
Unit Overview	54	(2)
Implicit Learning	56	(5)
Peter A. Frensch
Dennis Runger
New Evidence for the Benefits of Never Spanking	61	(8)
Murray A. Straus
The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers	69	(4)
Daniel Schacter
Memory's Mind Games	73	(5)
Sharon Begley
UNIT 5 Cognitive Processes
Unit Overview	76	(2)
Mind in a Mirror	78	(2)
Rachel K. Sobel
Intelligent Intelligence Testing	80	(2)
Etienne Benson
The Inner Savant	82	(8)
Douglas S. Fox
UNIT 6 Emotion and Motivation
Unit Overview	88	(2)
Fundamental Feelings	90	(2)
Antonio Damasio
Medical Detection of False Witness	92	(3)
Brandon Spun
Emotions and the Brain: Laughter	95	(5)
Steven Johnson
How to Multitask	100	(4)
Catherine Bush
UNIT 7 Development
Unit Overview	102	(2)
The Biology of Aging	104	(3)
Geoffrey Cowley
Inside the Womb	107	(5)
J. Madeleine Nash
Parenting: The Lost Art	112	(5)
Kay S. Hymowitz
The Future of Adolescence: Lengthening Ladders to Adulthood	117	(4)
Reed Larson
Midlife Changes: Utilizing a Social Work Perspective	121	(10)
Sophia F. Dziegielewski
Start the Conversation, AARP Modern Maturity, September/October 2000	131	(9)
UNIT 8 Personality Processes
Unit Overview	138	(2)
Psychoanalyst: Sigmund Freud	140	(3)
Peter Gay
Psychology Discovers Happiness. I'm OK, You're OK	143	(5)
Gregg Easterbrook
The Verdict on Media Violence: It's Ugly...and Getting Uglier	148	(4)
Daphne Lavers
UNIT 9 Social Processes
Unit Overview	150	(2)
Are You Looking at Me? Eye Gaze and Person Perception	152	(6)
C. Neil Macrae
Got Time for Friends?	158	(3)
Andy Steiner
Rational and Irrational Fears Combine in Terrorism's Wake	161	(2)
Erica Goode
Sex in America	163	(5)
Michael W. Ross
UNIT 10 Psychological Disorders
Unit Overview	166	(2)
Mental Health Gets Noticed	168	(3)
David Satcher
The Lowdown on Depression	171	(5)
Carol Lewis
The Science of Anxiety	176	(7)
Christine Gorman
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Harvard Health Letter, November 2001	183	(2)
The Schizophrenic Mind	185	(9)
Sharon Begley
UNIT 11 Psychological Treatments
Unit Overview	192	(2)
Psychotherapies: Can We Tell the Difference?, The Harvard Mental Health Letter, October 2002	194	(1)
Characteristics of Empirically Supported Treatments	195	(6)
William O'Donohue
Jeffrey A. Buchanan
Jane E. Fisher
Computer- and Internet-Based Psychotherapy Interventions	201	(5)
C. Barr Taylor
Kristine H. Luce
Are We Nuts?	206	(2)
Mary McNamara
Support Groups: Study Casts Some Doubts, Harvard Health Letter, April 2002	208	(2)
National Trends in the Use of Outpatient Psychotherapy	210	(7)
Mark Olfson
Steven C. Marcus
Benjamin Druss
Harold Alan Pincus
Index	217	(3)
Test Your Knowledge Form	220	(1)
Article Rating Form	221