Psychology: Themes and Variations

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Dedication
About the Author
To the Instructor
Acknowledgments
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Contents
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Chapter 1: The Evolution of Psychology
	1.1: Psychology’s Early History
	1.2: Psychology’s Modern History
	1.3: Psychology Today: Vigorous and Diversified
	1.4: Seven Unifying Themes
	1.5: Personal Application
	1.6: Critical Thinking Application
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Chapter 2: The Research Enterprise in Psychology
	2.1: Looking for Laws: The Scientific Approach to Behavior
	2.2: Looking for Causes: Experimental Research
	2.3: Looking for Links: Descriptive/ Correlational Research
	2.4: Looking for Flaws: Evaluating Research
	2.5: Looking at Ethics: Do the Ends
	2.6: Justify the Means?
	2.7: Reflecting on the Chapter’s Themes
	2.8: Personal Application
	2.9: Critical Thinking Application
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Chapter 3: The Biological Bases of Behavior
	3.1: Communication in the Nervous System
	3.2: Organization of the Nervous System
	3.3: The Brain and Behavior
	3.4: Right Brain/Left Brain: Cerebral Specialization
	3.5: The Endocrine System: Another Way to Communicate
	3.6: Heredity and Behavior: Is It All in the Genes?
	3.7: The Evolutionary Bases of Behavior
	3.8: Reflecting on the Chapter’s Themes
	3.9: Personal Application
	3.10: Critical Thinking Application
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Chapter 4: Sensation and Perception
	4.1: The Visual System: Essentials of Sight
	4.2: The Visual System: Perceptual Processes
	4.3: The Auditory System: Hearing
	4.4: The Other Senses: Taste, Smell, and Touch
	4.5: Reflecting on the Chapter’s Themes
	4.6: Personal Application
	4.7: Critical Thinking Application
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Chapter 5: Variations in Consciousness
	5.1: On the Nature of Consciousness
	5.2: Biological Rhythms and Sleep
	5.3: The Sleep and Waking Cycle
	5.4: The World of Dreams
	5.5: Hypnosis: Altered Consciousness or Role Playing?
	5.6: Meditation: Pursuing Higher Consciousness
	5.7: Altering Consciousness with Drugs
	5.8: Reflecting on the Chapter’s Themes
	5.9: Personal Application
	5.10: Critical Thinking Application
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Chapter 6: Learning
	6.1: Classical Conditioning
	6.2: Operant Conditioning
	6.3: Changing Directions in the Study of Conditioning
	6.4: Observational Learning
	6.5: Reflecting on the Chapter’s Themes
	6.6: Personal Application
	6.7: Critical Thinking Application
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Chapter 7: Human Memory
	7.1: Encoding: Getting Information into Memory
	7.2: Storage: Maintaining Information in Memory
	7.3: Retrieval: Getting Information out of Memory
	7.4: Forgetting: When Memory Lapses
	7.5: In Search of the Memory Trace: The Physiology of Memory
	7.6: Different Types of Memory Systems
	7.7: Reflecting on the Chapter’s Themes
	7.8: Personal Application
	7.9: Critical Thinking Application
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Chapter 8: Cognition and Intelligence
	8.1: Language: Turning Thoughts into Words
	8.2: Problem Solving: In Search of Solutions
	8.3: Decision Making: Choices and Chances
	8.4: Measuring Intelligence
	8.5: Heredity and Environment as Determinants of Intelligence
	8.6: New Directions in the Study of Intelligence
	8.7: Reflecting on the Chapter’s Themes
	8.8: Personal Application
	8.9: Critical Thinking Application
Chapter 9: Motivation and Emotion
	9.1: Motivational Theories
	9.2: The Motivation of Hunger and Eating
	9.3: Sexual Motivation and Behavior
	9.4: The Achievement Motive
	9.5: Elements of Emotional Experience
	9.6: Theories of Emotion
	9.7: Reflecting on the Chapter’s Themes
	9.8: Personal Application
	9.9: Critical Thinking Application
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Chapter 10: Human Development across the Life Span
	10.1: Progress Before Birth: Prenatal Development
	10.2: Motor, Social, and Language Development in Childhood
	10.3: Personality, Cognitive, and Moral Development in Childhood
	10.4: The Transition of Adolescence
	10.5: The Expanse of Adulthood
	10.6: Personal Application
	10.7: Reflecting on the Chapter’s Themes
	10.8: Critical Thinking Application
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Chapter 11: Personality
	11.1: The Nature of Personality
	11.2: Psychodynamic Perspectives
	11.3: Behavioral Perspectives
	11.4: Humanistic Perspectives
	11.5: Biological Perspectives
	11.6: Contemporary Empirical Approaches to Personality
	11.7: Culture and Personality
	11.8: Reflecting on the Chapter’s Themes
	11.9: Personal Application
	11.10: Critical Thinking Application
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Chapter 12: Social Behavior
	12.1: Person Perception: Forming Impressions  of Others
	12.2: Attribution Processes: Explaining Behavior
	12.3: Interpersonal Attraction: Liking and Loving
	12.4: Attitudes: Making Social Judgments
	12.5: Conformity and Obedience: Yielding to Others
	12.6: Behavior in Groups: Joining with Others
	12.7: Reflecting on the Chapter’s Themes
	12.8: Personal Application
	12.9: Critical Thinking Application
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Chapter 13: Stress, Coping, and Health
	13.1: The Nature of Stress
	13.2: Responding to Stress
	13.3: Stress and Physical Health
	13.4: Health-Impairing Behavior
	13.5: Reactions to Illness
	13.6: Reflecting on the Chapter’s Themes
	13.7: Personal Application
	13.8: Critical Thinking Application
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Chapter 14: Psychological Disorders
	14.1: General Concepts
	14.2: Anxiety Disorders, OCD, and PTSD
	14.3: Dissociative Disorders
	14.4: Depressive and Bipolar Disorders
	14.5: Schizophrenic Disorders
	14.6: Autism Spectrum Disorders
	14.7: Personality Disorders
	14.8: Eating Disorders
	14.9: New Directions in the Study of Psychological Disorders
	14.10: Reflecting on the Chapter’s Themes
	14.11: Personal Application
	14.12: Critical Thinking Application
Chapter 15: Treatment of Psychological Disorders
	15.1: Elements of the Treatment Process
	15.2: Insight Therapies
	15.3: Behavior Therapies
	15.4: Biomedical Therapies
	15.5: Current Trends in Treatment
	15.6: Institutional Treatment in Transition
	15.7: Reflecting on the Chapter’s Themes
	15.8: Personal Application
	15.9: Critical Thinking Application
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Appendix A: Practice Tests, Answers to the Concept Checks, and Answers to Indentifying Independent and Dependent Variables
Appendix B: Statistical Methods
Glossary
References
Name Index
Subject Index
Integrated Coverage Index