Loose Leaf for Psychology And Your Life with P.O.W.E.R Learning

by Feldman, Robert S.

• ISBN13: 9781260397512
• ISBN10: 1260397513
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781260397598
• Additional ISBN(s): 9781259610394, 9781259864254, 9781265576776
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Loose-leaf
• Copyright: 2019-01-11
• Publisher: McGraw Hill
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Table of Contents

Preface xxv 

To the Student xli 

Chapter One: Introduction to Psychology 

Module 1 Psychologists at Work 

Module 2 A Science Evolves: The Past, the Present, and the Future 

Module 3 Research in Psychology 

Module 4 Critical Research Issues 

Chapter Two: Neuroscience and Behavior 

Module 5 Neurons: The Basic Elements of Behavior 

Module 6 The Nervous System and the Endocrine System: Communicating within the Body 

Module 7 The Brain 

Chapter Three: Sensation and Perception 

Module 8 Sensing the World Around Us 

Module 9 Vision: Shedding Light on the Eye 

Module 10 Hearing and the Other Senses 

Module 11 Perceptual Organization: Constructing Our View of the World 

Chapter Four: States of Consciousness 

Module 12 Sleep and Dreams 

Module 13 Hypnosis and Meditation 

Module 14 Drug Use: The Highs and Lows of Consciousness 

Chapter Five: Learning 

Module 15 Classical Conditioning 

Module 16 Operant Conditioning

Module 17 Cognitive Approaches to Learning 

Chapter Six: Thinking: Memory, Cognition, and Language 

Module 18 The Foundations of Memory

Module 19 Recall and Forgetting 

Module 20 Thinking, Reasoning, and Problem Solving 

Module 21 Language 

Chapter Seven: Motivation and Emotion 

Module 22 Explaining Motivation 

Module 23 Human Needs and Motivation: Eat, Drink, and Be Daring 

Module 24 Understanding Emotional Experiences 

Chapter Eight: Development 

Module 25 Nature, Nurture, and Prenatal Development 

Module 26 Infancy and Childhood

Module 27 Adolescence: Becoming an Adult 

Module 28 Adulthood 

Chapter Nine: Personality and Individual Differences 

Module 29 Psychodynamic Approaches to Personality 

Module 30 Trait, Learning, Biological and Evolutionary, and Humanistic Approaches to Personality 

Module 31 Assessing Personality: Determining What Makes Us Distinctive 

Module 32 Intelligence 

Chapter Ten: Psychological Disorders 

Module 33 Normal versus Abnormal: Making the Distinction 

Module 34 The Major Psychological Disorders 

Module 35 Psychological Disorders in Perspective 

Chapter Eleven: Treatment of Psychological Disorders 

Module 36 Psychotherapy: Psychodynamic, Behavioral, and Cognitive Approaches to Treatment 

Module 37 Psychotherapy: Humanistic, Interpersonal, and Group Approaches to Treatment 

Module 38 Biomedical Therapy: Biological Approaches to Treatment

Chapter Twelve: Social Psychology 

Module 39 Attitudes and Social Cognition 

Module 40 Social Influence and Groups 

Module 41 Prejudice and Discrimination  

Module 42 Positive and Negative Social Behavior 

Module 43 Stress and Coping 

Glossary G-1 

References R-1 

Name Index NI-1 

Subject Index SI-1