Robert S. Feldman,
University of Massachusetts - Amherst
ISBN: 0073377023 Copyright year: 2010
Table of Contents
Psychology and Your Life
Chapter 1: 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: The Ethics of Research
Chapter 2: 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 3: 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 4: States of Consciousness
Module 12: Sleep and Dreams
Module 13: Hypnosis and Meditation
Module 14: Drug Use: The Highs and Lows of Consciousness
Chapter 6: 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 7: Motivation and Emotion
Module 22: Explaining Motivation
Module 23: Human Needs and Motivation: Eat, Drink, and Be Daring
Module 24: Understanding Emotional Experiences
Chapter 8: Development
Module 25: Nature and Nurture, and Prenatal Development
Module 26: Infancy and Childhood
Module 27: Adolescence: Becoming an Adult
Module 28: Adulthood
Chapter 9: 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 10: Psychological Disorders
Module 33: Normal Versus Abnormal: Making a Distinction
Module 34: The Major Psychological Disorders
Module 35: Psychological Disorders in Perspective
Chapter 11: Treatment of Psychological Disorders
Module 36: Psychotherapy: Psychodynamic, Behavioral, and Cognitive Approaches to Treatment
Module 37: Psychotherapy: Humanistic and Group Approaches to Treatment
Module 38: Biomedical Therapy: Biological Approaches to Treatment
Chapter 12: 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
2010