Exploring psychology
By: David G. Myers
Edition: 7th ed.
Publisher: Worth Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 571
ISBN-13: 9780716771401; 9780716771418
Subjects: 0 Gesamtdarstellung; Psychologie; Psychology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: 1. Thinking critically with psychological science; title: Contemporary psychology; title: Intuition and common sense; title: Scientific attitude; title: Critical thinking; title: 2. Neuroscience and behavior; title: Neural communication; title: Neurons; title: Neurotransmitters; title: The peripheral nervous system; title: The central nervous system; title: The endocrine system; title: The brain; title: The cerebral cortex; title: Hemispheric differences; title: 3. Nature, nurture, and human diversity; title: Behavior genetics; title: Genes; title: Twin and adoption studies; title: Temperament and heredity; title: Nature and nurture; title: Gene-environment interaction; title: Evolutionary psychology : understanding human nature; title: Natural selection; title: Evolutionary explanation of human sexuality; title: Parents and peers; title: Peer influence; title: Cultural influences; title: Variation across cultures; title: Variation over time; title: Culture and the self; title: culture and child-rearing; title: Reflections on nature and nurture; title: 4. Developing through the life span; title: Prenatal development and the newborn; title: The competent newborn; title: Infancy and childhood; title: Autism and "mind-blindness"; title: Adolescence; title: Adulthood; title: Continuity and stages; title: Stability and change; title: 5. Sensation and perception; title: Sensory adaptation; title: Vision; title: Light energy; title: the eye; title: Visual information processing; title: Color vision; title: Hearing; title: Touch; title: Pain; title: Taste; title: Smell; title: Body position and movement; title: Form perception; title: Depth perception; title: Perceptual constancy; title: Sensory deprivation and restored vision; title: Perceptual adaptation; title: Extrasensory perception; title: 6. States of consciousness; title: Waking consciousness; title: Selective attention; title: Sleep and dreams; title: Biological rhythms and sleep; title: Sleep disorders; title: Hypnosis; title: The hypnotized state; title: Drugs and consciousness; title: Dependence and addiction; title: Psychoactive drugs; title: 7. Learning; title: Classical conditioning; title: Pavlov's experiments; title: Operant conditioning; title: Skinner's experiments; title: Training our mates; title: Learning by observation; title: Bandura's experiments; title: 8. Memory; title: Studying memory : information-processing models; title: Encoding : getting information in; title: Storage : retaining information; title: Sensory memory; title: Working/short-term memory; title: Long-term memory; title: Storing memories in the brain; title: Retrieval cues; title: Forgetting; title: Encoding failure; title: Storage decay; title: Retrieval failure; title: Retrieving passwords; title: Memory construction; title: Misinformation and imagination effects; title: Source amnesia; title: Children's eyewitness recall; title: Repressed or constructed memories of abuse?; title: Improving memory.; title: 9. Thinking, language, and intelligence; title: Concepts; title: Solving problems; title: Making decision and forming judgments; title: The fear factor : do we fear the right things?; title: Language development; title: Thinking and language; title: Animal thinking and language; title: Theories of intelligence; title: Assessing intelligence; title: Extremes of intelligence; title: Genetic and environmental influences on intelligence; title: Group differences in intelligence test scores; title: 10. Motivation; title: Motivational concepts; title: Instincts and evolutionary psychology; title: Drives and incentives; title: Optimum arousal; title: Physiology of hunger; title: Psychology of hunger; title: Eating disorders; title: Obesity and weight control; title: Physiology of sex; title: Psychology of sex; title: Adolescent sexuality; title: Sexual orientation; title: Sex and human values; title: The need to belong; title: Achievement motivation; title: 11. Emotions, stress, and health; title: Embodied emotion; title: Emotions and the autonomic nervous system; title: Lie detection; title: cognition and emotion; title: Expressed emotion; title: Gender, emotion, and nonverbal behavior; title: Culture and emotional expression; title: Effects of facial expressions; title: Experienced emotion; title: Anger; title: Happiness; title: Stress and stressors; title: Stress and the heart; title: Stress and susceptibility to disease; title: Coping with stress; title: Complementary and alternative medicine; title: 12. Personality; title: Psychoanalytic perspective; title: Exploring the unconscious; title: Neo-Freudian and psychodynamic theorists; title: The humanistic perspective; title: Abraham Maslow's self-actualizing person; title: Carl Rogers' person-centered perspective; title: Assessing the self; title: The trait perspective; title: How to be a "successful" astrologer or palm reader; title: The social-cognitive perspective; title: Reciprocal influences; title: Personal control; title: Exploring the self; title: Benefits of self-esteem; title: Culture and self-esteem; title: Self-serving bias; title: 13. Psychological disorders; title: ADHD : normal high energy or genuine disorder?; title: Classifying psychological disorders; title: The "un-DSM" : a diagnostic manual of human strengths; title: Insanity and responsibility; title: Anxiety disorders; title: Panic disorder; title: Phobias; title: Obsessive-compulsive disorder; title: Post-traumatic stress disorder; title: Dissociative and personality disorders; title: Mood disorders; title: Major depressive disorder; title: Bipolar disorder; title: Suicide; title: Schizophrenia; title: Rates of psychological disorders; title: 14. Therapy; title: Psychoanalysis; title: Humanistic therapies; title: Behavior therapies; title: Cognitive therapies; title: Group and family therapies; title: Alternative therapies; title: Culture and values in psychotherapy; title: Consumer's guide to psychotherapists; title: - The biomedical therapies; title: Drug therapies; title: Brain stimulation; title: Psychosurgery; title: Preventing psychological disorders; title: 15. Social psychology; title: Social thinking; title: Abu Ghraib Prison " "atrocity-producing situation"; title: Social influence; title: Conformity and obedience; title: Group influence; title: Social relations; title: Prejudice; title: Automatic prejudice; title: Aggression; title: Do video games teach, or release, violence?; title: Parallels between smoking effects and media violence effects; title: Attraction; title: Altruism; title: Conflict and peacemaking; title: Appendix A. Statistical reasoning in everyday life; title: Appendix B. Psychology at work; title: Personnel psychology; title: Organizational psychology; title: Satisfaction and engagement; title: Managing well; title: Appendix C. Careers in psychology; title: Preparing for a career in psychology; title: Subfields of psychology; title: Appendix D. Answers to Test Yourself questions; title: Glossary.