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Introduction and Research | |
Methods | |
Prologue: Miracle Magnets? | |
Introduction: The Origins of Psychology Contemporary | |
Psychology Culture and Human Behavior | |
What Is Cross-Cultural Psychology | |
The Scientific Method Critical Thinking | |
What Is Critical Thinking? | |
Descriptive Research Methods Science Versus Pseudoscience | |
What Is a Pseudoscience? | |
The Experimental Method Focus on Neuroscience | |
Psychological Research Using Brain | |
Imaging Ethics in Psychological Research | |
In Focus | |
Questions About the Use of Animals in Psychological Research | |
Closing Thoughts Application | |
Psychology in the Media | |
Becoming an Informed Consumer | |
Neuroscience and Behavior | |
Prologue | |
Asha’s Story | |
Introduction | |
Neuroscience and Behavior | |
The Neuron | |
The Basic Unit of Communication | |
The Nervous System and the Endocrine | |
System | |
Communication Throughout the Body | |
A Guided Tour of the Brain Focus on Neuroscience | |
Is Runner’s High an Endorphine Rush? | |
Science Versus Pseudoscience | |
Phrenology | |
The Bumpy Road to Scientific Progress Focus on Neuroscience | |
Juggling and Brain Plasticity | |
In Focus | |
The Curious Case of Phineas | |
Gage Specialization in the Cerebral Hemispheres Critical Thinking | |
"His" and "Her" Brains Science Versus Pseudoscience | |
Brain Myths Closing Thoughts Application | |
Pumping Neurons | |
Maximizing Your Brain’s Potential | |
Sensation and PerceptionPrologue | |
Learning to See Introduction | |
What Are Sensation and Perception? | |
Science Versus Pseudoscience | |
Subliminal Perception Vision | |
From Light to Sight Focus on Neuroscience | |
Vision, Experience, and the Brain Hearing | |
From Vibration to Sound The Chemical and Body Senses | |
Smell, Taste, Touch, and Position | |
In Focus | |
Do Pheromones Influence Human Behavior? | |
Perception Culture and Human Behavior | |
Ways of Seeing Critical Thinking | |
ESP | |
Can Perception Occur Without Sensation? | |
Perceptual Illusions | |
The Effects of Experience on Perceptual Interpretations Culture and Human Behavior | |
Culture and the Müller-Lyer Illusion | |
The Carpentered-World | |
Hypothesis Closing Thoughts Application | |
Strategies to Control Pain | |
Consciousness and Its Variations | |
Prologue | |
Even in Good Men Introduction | |
Consciousness | |
Experiencing the "Private I" | |
Biological and Environmental "Clocks" That Regulate Consciousness Sleep In Focus | |
What You Really Want to Know About Sleep Dreams and Mental Activity During Sleep Focus on Neuroscience | |
The Dreaming Brain | |
Turning REM On and Off In Focus | |
What You Really Want to Know About Dreams Sleep Disorders | |
Troubled Sleep Critical Thinking | |
Could a Person Commit Murder While Asleep? | |
Hypnosis Critical Thinking | |
Is Hypnosis a Special State of Consciousness? | |
Meditation Psychoactive Drugs Focus on Neuroscience | |
The Addicted Brain | |
Diminishing Rewards Focus on Neuroscience | |
How Methamphetamines Erode the Brain Closing Thoughts Application | |
"Can’t Sleep? Read THIS!" | |
LearningPrologue | |
The Killer Attic Introduction | |
What Is Learning? | |
Classical Conditioning | |
Associating Stimuli In Focus | |
Watson, Classical Conditioning, and Advertising Contemporary Views of Classical Conditioning In Focus | |
Evolution, Biological Preparedness and Conditioned Fears | |
What Gives You the Creeps? | |
Operant Conditioning | |
Associating Behaviors and Consequences In Focus | |
Changing the Behavior of Others | |
Alternatives to Punishment Critical Thinking | |
Is Human Freedom Just an Illusion? | |
Focus on Neuroscience | |
Virtual Operant Conditioning | |
Remote-Controlled "Ratbots" | |
Contemporary Views of Operant Conditioning Observational Learning | |
Imitating the Actions of Others Focus on Neuroscience | |
Mirror Neurons | |
Imitation in the Brain? | |
Critical Thinking | |
Does "Reel" Violence Cause Real Aggressive Behavior? | |
Closing Thoughts Application | |
Using Learning Principles to Improve Self-Control | |
Memory | |
Prologue | |
The Drowning Introduction | |
What Is Memory? | |
Culture and Human Behavior | |
Culture | |
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