| Edition |
Ninth edition. |
| Description |
xl, 580, A-10, B-16, C-5, D-41, E-7, G-13, R-86, NI-14, SI-12 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm |
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| Note |
Timeline on lining papers. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Preface -- Time management: Or, how to be a great student and still have a life ---- CHAPTER 1. Thinking Critically With Psychological Science: --- What Is Psychology? Psychology's roots --- Contemporary Psychology: -- Psychology's biggest question -- Psychology's three main levels of analysis -- Psychology's subfields -- Need For Psychological Science: -- What about intuition and common sense? -- Scientific attitude: curious, skeptical, and humble -- Critical thinking -- How Do Psychologists Ask And Answer Questions?: -- Scientific method -- Description -- Correlation -- Experimentation -- Frequently asked questions about psychology -- Improve your retention-and your grades -- Biology Of Behavior: -- Biology and behavior -- Neural Communication: -- Neurons -- Neural impulse -- How neurons communicate -- How neurotransmitters influence us -- Nervous System: -- Peripheral nervous system -- Central nervous system -- Endocrine system -- Brain: -- Older brain structure -- Close Up: Tools of discovery-having our head examined -- Cerebral cortex -- Our divided brain -- Right-left differences in the intact brain -- Behavior Genetics: Predicting Individual Differences: -- Genes: our code for life -- Twins and adoption studies -- Gene-environment interaction -- Evolutionary Psychology: Understanding Human Nature: -- Natural selection and adaptation -- Evolutionary success helps explain similarities -- Consciousness And The Two-Track Mind: -- Brain And Consciousness: -- Dual processing: the two-track mind -- Selective attention -- Sleep And Dreams: -- Biological rhythms and sleep -- Sleep theories -- Sleep deprivation and sleep disorders -- Dreams -- Hypnosis: -- Frequently asked questions about hypnosis -- Explaining the hypnotized state -- Drugs And Consciousness: -- Tolerance, dependence, and addiction -- Thinking Critically About: Addiction -- Types of psychoactive drugs -- Influences on drug use -- Developing Through The Life Span: -- Developmental psychology's major issues Prenatal Development And The New Born: -- Conception -- Prenatal development -- Competent newborn -- Infancy And Childhood: -- Physical development -- Cognitive development -- Close Up: Autism and mind-blindness -- Social development -- Reflections on nature and nurture -- Adolescence: -- Physical development -- Cognitive development -- Social development -- Thinking Critically About: How much credit or blame do parents deserve? -- Emerging adulthood -- Reflections on continuity and stages -- Adulthood: -- Physical development -- Cognitive development -- Social development -- Reflections on stability land change -- Gender And Sexuality: -- Gender Development: -- Genes: how are we alike? How do we differ? -- Nature of gender: our biology -- Nurture of gender: our culture -- Human Sexuality: -- Physiology of sex -- Psychology of sex -- Close Up: Sexualization of girls -- Sexual orientation: -- Environment and sexual orientation -- Biology and sexual orientation -- Evolutionary Explanation Of Human Sexuality: -- Gender differences in sexuality -- Natural selection and mating preferences -- Critiquing the evolutionary perspective -- Reflections on gender, sexuality, and nature-nurture interaction -- Sensation And Perception: -- Basic Principles Of Sensation And Perception: -- Transduction -- Thresholds -- Thinking Critically About: Can subliminal messages control our behavior? -- Sensory adaptation -- Perceptual set -- Context effects -- Emotion and motivation -- Vision: -- Stimulus input: light energy -- Eye -- Visual information processing -- Color vision -- Visual organization -- Visual interpretation -- Hearing: -- Stimulus input: sound waves -- Ear -- Other Senses: -- Touch -- Pain -- Taste -- Smell-- Body position and movement -- Sensory Interaction: -- Thinking Critically About: ESP- Perception Without Sensations? -- Learning: -- How do we learn? -- Classical Conditioning: -- Pavlov's experiments -- Pavlov's legacy -- Operant Conditioning: -- Skinner's experiments -- Skinner's legacy -- Close Up: Training our partners -- Contrasting classical and operant conditioning -- Biology, Cognition, And Learning: -- Biological constraints on conditioning -- Cognition's influence on conditioning -- Learning By Observation: -- Mirrors and imitation in the brain -- Applications of observational learning -- Thinking Critically About: Does viewing media violence trigger violent behavior? -- Memory: -- Studying Memory: -- Memory models -- Building Memories: Encoding: -- Dual-track memory: effortful versus automatic processing -- Automatic processing and implicit memories -- Effortful processing and explicit memories -- Memory Storage -- Retaining information in the brain -- Synaptic changes -- Retrieval: Getting Information Out: -- Measuring retention -- Retrieval cues -- Forgetting: -- Forgetting and the two-track mind -- Encoding failure -- Storage decay -- Retrieval failure -- Memory Construction Errors: -- Misinformation and imagination effects -- Source amnesia -- Discerning true and false memories -- Children's eyewitness recall -- Repressed or constructed memories of abuse? -- Improving memory. |
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Thinking Language, And Intelligence: -- Thinking: -- Concepts -- Problem solving: strategies and obstacles -- Forming good and bad decisions and judgments -- Thinking Critically About: Fear factor-why we fear the wrong things -- Thinking creatively -- Close Up: Fostering your own creativity -- Do other species share our cognitive skills? -- Language: -- Language structure -- Language development -- Brain and language -- Do other species have language? -- Thinking And Language: -- Language influences thinking -- Thinking in images -- Intelligence: -- What is intelligence? -- Assessing intelligence -- Aging and intelligence -- Close Up: Extremes of intelligence -- Genetic and environmental influences on intelligence -- Group differences in intelligence test scores -- Motivation And Emotion: -- Motivational Concepts: -- Instincts and evolutionary psychology -- Drives and incentives -- Optimum arousal -- Hierarchy of motives -- Hunger: -- Physiology of hunger -- Psychology of hunger -- Obesity and weight control -- Close Up: Waist management -- Need To Belong: -- Benefits of belonging -- Pain of being shut out -- Connecting and social networking -- Close Up: Managing your social networking -- Achievement motivation -- Emotion: Arousal, Behavior, And Cognition: -- Historical emotion theories -- Schachter-Singer Two Factor Theory: Arousal + Label = Emotion -- Zajonc, LeDoux, and Lazarus: does cognition always precede emotion? -- Embodied Emotion: -- Basic emotions -- Emotions and the autonomic nervous system -- Physiology of emotions -- Thinking Critically About: Lie detection -- Expressed And Experienced Emotion: -- Detecting emotion in others -- Gender and emotion -- Culture and emotion -- Effects of facial expressions -- Stress, Health, And Human Flourishing: -- Stress And Health: -- Stress: some basic concepts -- Stress and illness -- Close Up: Tips for handling anger -- Coping With Stress: -- Personal control -- Optimism versus pessimism -- Social support -- Close Up: Pets are friends, too -- Reducing Stress: -- Aerobic exercise -- Relaxation and meditation -- Faith communities and health -- Happiness: -- Positive psychology -- What affects our well-being? -- What predicts our happiness levels? -- Close Up: Want to be happier? -- Personality -- Psychodynamic Theories: -- Freud's psychoanalytic perspective: exploring the unconscious -- Neo-Freudian and psychodynamic theorists -- Assessing unconscious processes -- Evaluating Freud's psychoanalytic perspective and modern views of the unconscious -- Humanistic Theories: -- Abraham Maslow's self-actualizing person -- Carl Rogers' person-centered perspective -- Assessing the self -- Evaluating humanistic theories -- Trait Theories: -- Exploring traits -- Assessing traits -- Thinking Critically About: How to be a successful astrologer or palm reader -- Big five factors -- Evaluating trait theories -- Social-Cognitive Theories: -- Reciprocal influences -- Assessing behavior in situations -- Evaluating social-cognitive theories -- Exploring The Self: -- Benefits of self-esteem -- Self-serving bias -- Culture and the self -- Social Psychology -- Social Thinking: -- Fundamental attribution error -- Attitudes and actions -- Social Influence: -- Cultural influences -- Conformity: complying with social pressures -- Obedience: following orders -- Group behavior -- Social Relations: -- Prejudice -- Close Up: Automatic prejudice -- Aggression -- Attraction -- Close Up: Online matchmaking and speed dating -- Altruism -- Conflict and peacemaking -- Psychological Disorders -- What Is A Psychological Disorder?: -- Understanding psychological disorders -- Thinking Critically About: ADHD-normal high energy or genuine disorder? -- Classifying disorders-and labeling people -- Thinking Critically About: Insanity and responsibility -- Anxiety Disorders: -- Generalized anxiety disorder -- Panic disorder -- Phobias -- Obsessive-compulsive disorder -- Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Understanding anxiety disorders -- Mood Disorders: -- Major depressive disorder -- Bipolar disorder -- Understanding mood disorders -- Close Up: Suicide and self-injury -- Schizophrenia: -- Symptoms of schizophrenia -- Onset and development of schizophrenia -- Understanding schizophrenia -- Other Disorders: -- Dissociative disorders -- Eating disorders -- Personality disorders -- Rates of psychological disorders -- Therapy:-- Treating psychological disorders -- Psychological Therapies: -- Psychoanalysis and psychodynamic therapy -- Humanistic therapies -- Behavior therapies -- Cognitive therapies -- Group and family therapies -- Evaluating Psychotherapies: -- Is psychotherapy effective? -- Which psychotherapies work best? -- Evaluating alternative therapies -- How do psychotherapies help people? -- Culture and values in psychotherapy -- Close Up: Consumer's guide to mental health professionals -- Biomedical Therapies: -- Drug therapies -- Brain stimulation -- Psychosurgery -- Therapeutic lifestyle change -- Preventing Psychological Disorders: -- Resilience -- Creating healthy environments -- Appendix A: Statistical reasoning in everyday life -- Appendix B: Psychology at work -- Appendix C: Subfields of psychology -- Appendix D: Complete chapter reviews -- Appendix E: Answers to experience the testing effect questions -- Glossary -- References -- Name index -- Subject index. |
| Summary |
The new ninth edition merges the rigor of science with a broad human perspective to provide a state-of-the-art introduction to psychology. From vivid presentation and intense attention to detail, to research-based study aids and media learning tools, the inviting, authorial voice of David Myers speaks to the life experiences of all students. |
| Subject |
Psychology.
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Psychology -- Study and teaching.
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Psychology -- Textbooks.
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Psychology. (OCoLC)fst01081447
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Psychology -- Study and teaching. (OCoLC)fst01081530
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| Genre/Form |
Textbooks. (OCoLC)fst01423863
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| Added Author |
DeWall, C. Nathan, 1954- special contributor.
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| Added Title |
Psychology |
| ISBN |
9781464111723 (pbk.) |
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9781464163364 |
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1464163367 |
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1464111723 (pbk.) |
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9781429266796 (hbk.) |
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1429266791 (hbk.) |
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9781464108402 (loose-leaf) |
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1464108404 (loose-leaf) |
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9781464147050 (PI edition) |
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1464147051 (PI edition) |
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