Psych⁶ : introductory psychology

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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