BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS
Intro Psychology in Action: Secrets for Surviving College and Improving Your Grades
Chapter 1: The Science of Psychology
Chapter 2: Biological Perspective
Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception
Chapter 4: Consciousness: Sleep, Dreams, Hypnosis, and Drugs
Chapter 5: Learning
Chapter 6: Memory
Chapter 7: Cognition: Thinking, Intelligence, and Language
Chapter 8: Development Across the Life Span
Chapter 9: Motivation and Emotion
Chapter 10: Sexuality and Gender
Chapter 11: Stress and Health
Chapter 12: Social Psychology
Chapter 13: Theories of Personality
Chapter 14: Psychological Disorders
Chapter 15: Psychological Therapies
FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS
Intro Psychology in Action: Secrets for Surviving College and Improving Your Grades
Study Methods: Different Strokes for Different Folks
Reading Textbooks: Textbooks Are Not Meatloaf
How to Take Notes: Printing Out PowerPoint Slides Is Not Taking Notes
Studying for Exams: Cramming Is Not an Option
Writing Papers: Planning Makes Perfect
Chapter 1: The Science of Psychology
What is Psychology?
Psychology then: The History of Psychology
Psychology Now: Modern Perspectives
Psychological Professionals and Areas of Specialization
Psychology: The Scientific Methodology
Ethics of Psychological Research
The Criteria for Critical Thinking
Chapter 2: Biological Perspective
An Overview of the Nervous System
Neurons and Nerves: Building the Network
The Central Nervous System-The Central Processing Unit
The Peripheral Nervous System-Nerves on the Edge
Distant Connections: The Endocrine Glands
Lookink Inside the Living Brain
From the Bottom Up: the Structures of the Brain
Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception
The ABCs of Sensation
the Science of Seeing
The Hearing Sense: Can You Hear Me Now?
Chemical Senses: It Tastes Good and Smells even Better
Somesthetic Senses: What the Body Knows
The ABCs of Perception
Chapter 4: Consciousness: Sleep, Dreams, Hypnosis, and Drugs
What is Consciousness?
Altered States: Sleep
Dreams
Altered States: The Effects of Hypnosis
Altered States: The Influence of Psychoactive Drugs
Chapter 5: Learning
Definition of Learning
It Makes Your Mouth Water: Classical Conditioning
What's in It for Me? Operant Conditioning
Cognitive Learning Theory
Observational Learning
Chapter 6: Memory
Three Processes of Memory
Models of Memory
The Information-Processing Model: Three Memory Systems
Getting It Out: Retrieval of Long-Term Memories
The Reconstructive Nature of Long-Term Memory Retrieval: How Reliable Are Memories?
What Were We Talking About? Forgetting
Neuroscience of Memory
Chapter 7: Cognition: Thinking, Intelligence, and Language
How People Think
Intelligence
Language
Applying Psychology to Everyday Life: Mental and Physical Exercise Combine for Better Cognitive Health
Chapter 8: Development Across the Life Span
Issues in Studying Human Development
The Basic Building Blocks of Development
Prenatal Development
Infancy and Childhood Development
Adolescence
Adulthood
Chapter 9: Motivation and Emotion
Approaches To Understanding Motivation
What, Hungry Again? Why People Eat
Emotion
Chapter 10: Sexuality and Gender
The Physical Side of Human Sexuality
The Psychological Side of Human Sexuality: Gender
Human Sexual Behavior
Sexual Dysfunctions and Problems
Sexually Transmitted Infections
Chapter 11: Stress and Health
Stress and Stressors
Physiological Factors: Stress and Health
Coping With Stress
Chapter 12: Social Psychology
Social Influence: Conformity, Compliance, Obedience and group behavior
Social Cognition: Attitudes, Impression Formation, and Attribution
Social Interaction: Prejudice, Love, and Aggression
liking and loving: interpersonal attraction
Aggression and prosocial behavior
Chapter 13: Theories of Personality
Theories of Personality
The Man and the Couch: Sigmund Freud and the Psychodynamic Perspective
The Behaviorist and Social Cognitive View of Personality
The Third Force: Humanism and Personality
Trait Theories: Who are You?
The Biology of Personality: Behavioral Genetics
Assessment of Personality
Chapter 14: Psychological Disorders
What is Abnormality?
Models of Abnormality
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR)
Anxiety Disorders: What, Me Worry?
Mood Disorders: The Effect of Affect
Eating Disorders
Dissociative Disorders: Altered Identities
Schizophrenia: Altered Reality
Personality Disorders: I'm OK, it's Everyone Else Who's Weird
Chapter 15: Psychological Therapies
Two Kinds of Therapy
The Early Days: Ice-Water Baths and Electric Shocks
Psychotherapy Begins
Humanistic Therapy: To Err is Human
Behavior Therapies: Learning One's Way to Better Behavior
Cognitive Therapies: Thinking is Believing
Group Therapies: Not JUST for the Shy
Does Psychotherapy Really Work?
Biomedical Therapies
