Annual editions
Subtitle: psychology 11/12
By: editor, William Buskist
Edition: 42nd ed.
Publisher: McGraw Hill
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9780078050817
Subjects: Psychology
Other titles: Psychology 11/12; Psychology 2011/2012
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Unit 1. The science of psychology. The future of psychology: connecting mind to brain / Lisa Feldman; title: The 10 commandments of helping students distinguish science from pseudoscience in psychology / Scott O. Lillenfeld; title: Science vs. ideology / Rebecca A. Clay; title: Psychology's voice is heard / Rebecca A. Clay. Unit 2. Biological bases of psychology. The left brain knows what the right hand is doing / Michael Price; title: The brain's (dark energy) / Marcus E. Raichie; title: Phantom pain and the brain / Sadie F. Dingfelder; title: The home team advantage ... and other sex hormone secrets / Sherry Baker. Unit 3. Perceptual processes. Uncanny sight in the blind / Beatrice de Gelder; title: The color of sin: white and black are perceptual symbols of moral purity and pollution / Gary D. Sherman and Gerald L. Clore; title: What dreams are made of / Marianne Szegedy-Maszak; title: About face / Eric Jaffe. Unit 4. Learning. Finding little Albert: a journey to John B. Watson's infant laboratory / Hall P. Beck, Sharman Levinson, and Gary Irons; title: Move over, mice / Sadie F. Dingfelder; title: The perils and promises of praise / Carol S. Dweck. Unit 5. Cognitive processes. The many lives of superstition / Eric Wargo; title: The magical mystery four: how is working memory capacity limited, and why? / Nelson Cowan; title: Talk to the hand: new insights into the evolution of language and gesture / Eric Wargo; title: Dangerous distraction / Amy Novotney. Unit 6. Emotion and Motivation. Women at the top: powerful leaders define success as work + family in a culture of gender / Fanny M. Cheung and Diane F. Halpern; title: Resisting temptation / Eric Wargo; title: Eating into the nation's obesity epidemic / Ann Conkle; title: A nurturing relationship: mothers as eating role models for their daughters / Kindy R. Peaslee; title: Why so mad?: why everyone is so angry and why we must calm down / Andrew Santella. Unit 7. Development. A learning machine: plasticity and change throughout life / Leah Nelson; title: The joke's in you / Michael Price; title: A question of resilience / Emily Bazelon; title: Social consequences of the internet for adolescents: a decade of research / Patti M. Valkenburg and Jochen Peter; title: Making relationships work: a conversation with psychologist, John M. Gottman; title: Blessaed are those who mourn ... and those who comfort them / Dolores Puterbaugh. Unit 8. Personality processes. Can personality be changed?: the role of beliefs in personality and change / Carol S. Dweck; title: Frisky, but more risky / Christopher Munsey; title: Second nature / Kathleen McGowan. Unit 9. Social processes. Replicating Milgram / Jerry Burger; title: The psychology and power of false confessions / Ian Herbert; title: We're wired to connect / Mark Matousek. Unit 10. Psychological disorders. A new approach to attention deficit disorder / Thomas E. Brown; title: The kids aren't all right / Christopher Munsey; title: Guns and suicide in the United States / Matthew Miller and David Hemenway; title: Stigma: alive and well / Sadie F. Dingfelder. Unit 11. Psychological treatments. 'A struggle for hope' / Laurie Meyers; title: PTSD treatments grow in evidence, effectiveness / Tori DeAngelis; title: When do meds make the difference? / Tori DeAngelis; title: Enhancing worker well-being / J. Chamberlain.