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David G. Myers is John Dirk Werkman Professor of Psychology at Hope College, Michigan, USA, where he has taught dozens of Introductory Psychology courses. He has contributed articles to a number of scientific periodicals, including Science, American Scientist, Psychological Science and the American Psychologist, as well as digests of psychological science in magazines for the general public.

Preface INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY AND SCIENCE OF PSYCHOLOGY 1. The Story of Psychology 2. Thinking Critically With Psychological Science 3. Research Strategies: How Psychologists Ask and Answer Questions THE BIOLOGY OF MIND 4. Neural and Hormonal Systems 5. Tools of Discovery and Older Brain Structures 6. The Cerebral Cortex and Our Divided Brain CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE TWO-TRACK MIND 7. The Brain and Consciousness 8. Sleep and Dreams 9. Hypnosis 10. Drugs and Consciousness NATURE, NURTURE, AND HUMAN DIVERSITY 11. Behavior Genetics and Evolutionary Psychology 12. Culture, Gender, and Other Environmental Influences DEVELOPING THROUGH THE LIFE SPAN 13. Developmental Issues, Prenatal Development, and the Newborn 14. Infancy and Childhood 15. Adolescence 16. Adulthood SENSATION AND PERCEPTION 17. Basic Principles of Sensation and Perception 18. Vision and Perceptual Organization and Interpretation 19. The Nonvisual Senses LEARNING 20. Basic Learning Concepts and Classical Conditioning 21. Operant Conditioning 22. Biology, Cognition, and Learning MEMORY 23. Basic Memory Concepts and Encoding 24. Storage 25. Retrieval 26. Forgetting, Memory Construction, and Improving Memory THINKING, LANGUAGE, AND INTELLIGENCE 27. Thinking 28. Language and Thought 29. Introduction to Intelligence 30. Assessing Intelligence 31. Genetic and Environmental Influences on Intelligence MOTIVATION AND WORK 32. Basic Motivation Concepts and Hunger 33. Sexual Motivation and the Need to Belong 34. Motivation at Work EMOTIONS, STRESS, AND HEALTH 35. Introduction to Emotion 36. Expressed Emotion 37. Experienced Emotion 38. Stress and Health 39. Promoting Health PERSONALITY 40. The Psychodynamic Perspective 41. The Humanistic Perspective 42. Contemporary Research on Personality SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 43. Social Thinking 44. Social Influence 45. Antisocial Relations 46. Prosocial Relations PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS 47. Introduction to Psychological Disorders 48. Anxiety Disorders 49. Dissociative, Personality, Somatoform, and Eating Disorders 50. Mood Disorders 51. Schizophrenia THERAPY 52. The Psychological Therapies 53. Evaluating Psychotherapies 54. The Biomedical Therapies Appendix A: Subfields of Psychology by Jennifer Zwolinski, University of San Diego Appendix B: Complete Module Reviews