Psych⁶ : introductory psychology

✍ Scribed by Spencer A. Rathus

• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 450
• Edition: 6
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Brief Contents
Contents
Chapter 1: What Is Psychology?
1-1 Psychology as a Science
1-2 Historical Foundations of Psychology
1-3 Contemporary Perspectives in Psychology
1-4 How Psychologists Study Behavior and Mental Processes
1-5 Methods of Research
1-6 Ethics in Psychological Research
1-7 Critical Thinking
Chapter 2: Biology and Psychology
2-1 The Nervous System: On Being Wired
2-2 The Divisions of the Nervous System
2-3 The Brain: Wider than the Sky
2-4 A Voyage through the Brain
2-5 The Cerebral Cortex
2-6 The Endocrine System
2-7 Evolution and Heredity
Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception
3-1 Sensation and Perception
3-2 Vision
3-3 Visual Perception
3-4 Hearing
3-5 The Other Senses
3-6 ESP: Is there Perception without Sensation?
Chapter 4: Consciousness
4-1 What Is Consciousness?
4-2 Sleep and Dreams
4-3 Altering Consciousness: Hypnosis, Meditation, and Biofeedback
4-4 Altering Consciousness through Drugs
4-5 Depressants
4-6 Stimulants
4-7 Hallucinogenics
Chapter 5: Learning
5-1 Learning, Experience, and Change
5-2 Classical Conditioning: Learning What is Linked to What
5-3 Applications of Classical Conditioning
5-4 Operant Conditioning: Learning What does What to What
5-5 Applications of Operant Conditioning
5-6 Cognitive Factors in Learning
Chapter 6: Memory: Remembrance of Things Past—and Future
6-1 Kinds of Memory
6-2 Processes of Memory
6-3 Sensory Memory
6-4 Short-Term Memory
6-5 Long-Term Memory
6-6 Forgetting
6-7 The Biology of Memory
Chapter 7: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence
7-1 Thinking
7-2 Language
7-3 Language Development: The Two-Year Explosion
7-4 Theories of Intelligence
7-5 The Measurement of Intelligence
7-6 Nature and Nurture in Intelligence
Chapter 8: Motivation and Emotion
8-1 The Psychology of Motivation
8-2 Theories of Motivation
8-3 Hunger
8-4 Sexual Motivation and Sexual Orientation
8-5 Achievement Motivation
8-6 Emotion
8-7 Theories of Emotion
Chapter 9: The Voyage through the Life Span
9-1 Prenatal Development
9-2 Childhood: Physical Development
9-3 Childhood: Cognitive Development
9-4 Childhood: Social and Emotional Development
9-5 Adolescence
9-6 Emerging Adulthood
9-7 Adulthood
Chapter 10: Personality: Theory and Measurement
10-1 The Psychodynamic Perspective
10-2 The Trait Perspective
10-3 Learning-Theory Perspectives
10-4 The Humanistic–Existential Perspective
10-5 The Sociocultural Perspective
10-6 Measurement of Personality
Chapter 11: Stress, Health, and Coping
11-1 Stress: What it is, Where it Comes From
11-2 Psychological Moderators of Stress
11-3 Stress and the Body
11-4 Psychology and Chronic Health Problems
Chapter 12: Psychological Disorders
12-1 What Are Psychological Disorders?
12-2 Anxiety Disorders
12-3 Obsessive–Compulsive and Related Disorders
12-4 Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders
12-5 Dissociative Disorders
12-6 Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders
12-7 Mood Disorders
12-8 Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders
12-9 Personality Disorders
Chapter 13: Methods of Therapy
13-1 What Is Psychotherapy?
13-2 Psychodynamic Therapies
13-3 Humanistic Therapies
13-4 Behavior Therapy
13-5 Cognitive Therapies
13-6 Group Therapies
13-7 Does Psychotherapy Work?
13-8 Biological Therapies
Chapter 14: Social Psychology
14-1 Attitudes
14-2 Prejudice and Discrimination
14-3 Attraction and Love
14-4 Social Perception
14-5 Social Influence
14-6 Aggression
14-7 Group Behavior
Appendix: Statistics
Answers to Chapter Review Questions
References
Index