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Approach and Pedagogy
Charles Stangor
Acknowledgments
Dedication
1. Introducing Psychology
1.1 Psychology as a Science
1.2 The Evolution of Psychology: History, Approaches, and Questions
1.3 Chapter Summary
2. Introduction to Major Perspectives
Jennifer Walinga
2.1 Biological Psychology
2.2 Psychodynamic Psychology
2.3 Behaviourist Psychology
2.4 Humanist, Cognitive, and Evolutionary Psychology
2.5 Chapter Summary
3. Psychological Science
3.3 You Can Be an Informed Consumer of Psychological Research
3.1 Psychologists Use the Scientific Method to Guide Their Research
3.2 Psychologists Use Descriptive, Correlational, and Experimental Research Designs to Understand Behaviour
3.4 Chapter Summary
4. Brains, Bodies, and Behaviour
4.1 The Neuron Is the Building Block of the Nervous System
4.2 Our Brains Control Our Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviour
4.3 Psychologists Study the Brain Using Many Different Methods
4.4 Putting It All Together: The Nervous System and the Endocrine System
4.5 Chapter Summary
5. Sensing and Perceiving
5.1 We Experience Our World through Sensation
5.2 Seeing
5.3 Hearing
5.4 Tasting, Smelling, and Touching
5.5 Accuracy and Inaccuracy in Perception
5.6 Chapter Summary
6. States of Consciousness
6.1 Sleeping and Dreaming Revitalize Us for Action
6.2 Altering Consciousness with Psychoactive Drugs
6.3 Altering Consciousness without Drugs
6.4 Chapter Summary
7.6 Chapter Summary
7.5 Late Adulthood: Aging, Retiring, and Bereavement
7.4 Early and Middle Adulthood: Building Effective Lives
7.3 Adolescence: Developing Independence and Identity
7.2 Infancy and Childhood: Exploring and Learning
7. Growing and Developing
7.1 Conception and Prenatal Development
8.4 Using the Principles of Learning to Understand Everyday Behaviour
8.3 Learning by Insight and Observation
8.2 Changing Behaviour through Reinforcement and Punishment: Operant Conditioning
8.1 Learning by Association: Classical Conditioning
8. Learning
8.5 Chapter Summary
9. Remembering and Judging
9.1 Memories as Types and Stages
9.2 How We Remember: Cues to Improving Memory
9.3 Accuracy and Inaccuracy in Memory and Cognition
9.4 Chapter Summary
10.1 Defining and Measuring Intelligence
10. Intelligence and Language
10.2 The Social, Cultural, and Political Aspects of Intelligence
10.3 Communicating with Others: The Development and Use of Language
10.4 Chapter Summary
11. Emotions and Motivations
11.1 The Experience of Emotion
11.2 Stress: The Unseen Killer
11.3 Positive Emotions: The Power of Happiness
11.4 Two Fundamental Human Motivations: Eating and Mating
11.5 Chapter Summary
12.4 Chapter Summary
12.3 Is Personality More Nature or More Nurture? Behavioural and Molecular Genetics
12.2 The Origins of Personality
12.1 Personality and Behaviour: Approaches and Measurement
12. Personality
13.3 Mood Disorders: Emotions as Illness
13.2 Anxiety and Dissociative Disorders: Fearing the World Around Us
13.1 Psychological Disorder: What Makes a Behaviour Abnormal?
13. Defining Psychological Disorders
13.4 Schizophrenia: The Edge of Reality and Consciousness
13.5 Personality Disorders
13.6 Somatoform, Factitious, and Sexual Disorders
13.7 Chapter Summary
14.1 Reducing Disorder by Confronting It: Psychotherapy
14.2 Reducing Disorder Biologically: Drug and Brain Therapy
14.3 Reducing Disorder by Changing the Social Situation
14. Treating Psychological Disorders
14.5 Chapter Summary
14.4 Evaluating Treatment and Prevention: What Works?
15. Psychology in Our Social Lives
15.1 Social Cognition: Making Sense of Ourselves and Others
15.2 Interacting With Others: Helping, Hurting, and Conforming
15.3 Working With Others: The Costs and Benefits of Social Groups
15.4 Chapter Summary
16. Health, Stress, and Coping
16.1 Health and Stress
16.2 Stress and Coping
16.3 Stress, Health, and Coping in the Workplace
16.4 Chapter Summary
About the Authors
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