All chapters begin with a Chapter Outline and conclude with Consolidate! chapter summaries.
1. Psychology: Yesterday and Today. The Science of Psychology: Getting to Know You.
Psychology Then and Now: The Evolution of a Science.
The Psychological Way: What Today's Psychologists Do.
Ethics: Doing It Right.
2. The Research Process: How We Find Things Out. The Scientific Method: Designed to Be Valid.
The Psychologist's Toolbox: Techniques of Scientific Research.
Statistics: Measuring Reality.
How to Think About Research Studies.
3. The Biology of Mind and Behavior. Brain Circuits: Making Connections.
The Nervous System: An Orchestra with Many Members.
Probing the Brain.
Genes, Brain, and Environment: The Brain in the World.
4. Sensation and Perception: How the World Enters the Mind. Vision.
Hearing.
Perceiving in Other Ways.
5. Consciousness. To Sleep, Perchance to Dream.
Hypnosis and Meditation.
Drugs and Alcohol.
6. Learning. Classical Conditioning.
Operant Conditioning.
Cognitive and Social Learning.
7. Memory: Living with Yesterday. Storing Information: Time and Space Are of the Essence.
Encoding and Retrieving Information from Memory.
Fact, Fiction, and Forgetting: When Memory Goes Wrong.
Improving Memory: Tricks and Tools.
8. Language and Thinking. Language: More Than Meets the Ear.
Means of Thought: Words, Images, Concepts.
Problem Solving.
Logic, Reasoning, and Decision Making.
9. Types of Intelligence: What Does It Mean to Be Smart? Is There More Than One Way to be Smart?
What Makes Us Smart: Nature and Nurture.
Diversity in Intelligence.
10. Emotion and Motivations: Feeling and Striving. Emotion: I Feel, Therefore I Am.
Motivation and Reward: Feeling Good.
Hunger and Eating: Not Just About Fueling the Body.
Sex: Not Just About Having Babies.
11. Personality: Vive la Difference! What Is Personality?
The Brain: The Personality Organ.
The Person: Beliefs and Behaviors.
The World: Social Influences on Personality.
12. Psychology over the Life Span: Growing Up, Growing Older, Growing Wiser. In the Beginning: From Conception to Birth.
Infancy and Childhood: Taking Off.
Adolescence: Between Two Worlds.
Adulthood and Aging: The Continuously Changing Self.
13. Stress, Health, and Coping. What Is Stress?
Stress, Disease, and Health.
Strategies for Coping.
14. Psychological Disorders. Identifying Psychological Disorders: What's Abnormal?
Mood Disorders.
Anxiety Disorders.
Schizophrenia.
Other Axis I Disorders: Dissociative and Eating Disorders.
Personality Disorders.
A Cautionary Note About Diagnosis.
15. Treatment. Cognitive and Behavior Therapy.
Insight-Oriented Therapies.
Biomedical Therapies.
Other Forms of Treatment.
Which Therapy Works Best?
16. Social Psychology: Meeting of the Minds. Social Cognition: Thinking About People.
Social Behavior: Interacting with People.
A Final Word: Ethics and Social Psychology.
