Current Directions in Introductory Psychology

by Association for Psychological Science (APS); Kassin, Saul; Briggs, Kathleen H.; Tavris, Carol

• ISBN13: 9780205579570
• ISBN10: 0205579574
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-01
• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon

Summary

This new and exciting reader includes over 20 articles that have been carefully selected for the undergraduate audience, and taken from the very accessibleCurrent Directions in Psychological Sciencejournal. These timely, cutting-edge articles allow instructors to bring their students real-world perspectivefrom a reliable sourceabout todayrs"s most current and pressing issues in introductory psychology.

Table of Contents

Scientific Thinking

What have psychologists (and others) discovered about the process of scientific discovery?

Research in the Psychological Laboratory: Truth or Triviality?

Covert communication in laboratories, classrooms and the truly real world

Metacognitive development

Why people fail to recognize their own incompetence

Is laughter the best medicine? Humor, laughter and physical health

Illusory causation in the courtroom

Nature/Nurture

Behavior genetics: What's New? What's next?

Brain Plasticity and Behavior

Operant reward learning in Aplysia

The role of prenatal maternal stress in child development

Mutually responsive orientation between mothers and their young children: A context for the early development of conscience

Gender and group processes: A developmental perspective

Exploration of environmental and genetic risk factors for Alzheimer's disease: The value of cross-cultural studies

Consciousness

Inattentional Blindness: Looking without seeing

Implicit Learning

Automatic Brains-Interpretive Minds

Illusions of control: How we overestimate our personal influence

Memories from the cradle

Mere Exposure: A gateway to the subliminal

Individual Differences

Moving Personality Beyond the person-situation debate: The challenge and the opportunity of within-person variability

Integrating brain science research with intelligence research

Intelligence predicts health and longevity, but why?

Universals and cultural differences in recognizing emotions

Human Sexuality: How do Men and Women differ?

Emotion in schizophrenia: Old Mystery, New Understanding

Applications

If the television program bleeds, Memory for the advertisement recedes

Crafting normative messages to protect the environment

Spanking children: Evidence and Issues

Why don't moral people act morally? Motivational considerations

What we know now about Bias and intergroup conflict, the problem of the century

Do negative cognitive styles confer vulnerability to depression?

Why Young Men Drive Dangerously: Implications for Injury Prevention

Are pets a healthy pleasure? The influence of pets on blood pressure

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