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
Need For Psychological Science:
What about intuition and common sense?
Scientific attitude: curious, skeptical, and humble
How Do Psychologists Ask And Answer Questions?:
Frequently asked questions about psychology
Improve your retention-and your grades
How neurotransmitters influence us
Peripheral nervous system
Close Up: Tools of discovery-having our head examined
Right-left differences in the intact brain
Behavior Genetics: Predicting Individual Differences:
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:
Dual processing: the two-track mind
Biological rhythms and sleep
Sleep deprivation and sleep disorders
Frequently asked questions about hypnosis
Explaining the hypnotized state
Tolerance, dependence, and addiction
Thinking Critically About: Addiction
Types of psychoactive drugs
Developing Through The Life Span:
Developmental psychology's major issues Prenatal Development And The New Born:
Close Up: Autism and mind-blindness
Reflections on nature and nurture
Thinking Critically About: How much credit or blame do parents deserve?
Reflections on continuity and stages
Reflections on stability land change
Genes: how are we alike? How do we differ?
Nature of gender: our biology
Nurture of gender: our culture
Close Up: Sexualization of girls
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:
Thinking Critically About: Can subliminal messages control our behavior?
Stimulus input: light energy
Visual information processing
Stimulus input: sound waves
Body position and movement
Thinking Critically About: ESP- Perception Without Sensations?
Close Up: Training our partners
Contrasting classical and operant conditioning
Biology, Cognition, And Learning:
Biological constraints on conditioning
Cognition's influence on conditioning
Mirrors and imitation in the brain
Applications of observational learning
Thinking Critically About: Does viewing media violence trigger violent behavior?
Building Memories: Encoding:
Dual-track memory: effortful versus automatic processing
Automatic processing and implicit memories
Effortful processing and explicit memories
Retaining information in the brain
Retrieval: Getting Information Out:
Forgetting and the two-track mind
Memory Construction Errors:
Misinformation and imagination effects
Discerning true and false memories
Children's eyewitness recall
Repressed or constructed memories of abuse?
Thinking Language, And Intelligence:
Problem solving: strategies and obstacles
Forming good and bad decisions and judgments
Thinking Critically About: Fear factor-why we fear the wrong things
Close Up: Fostering your own creativity
Do other species share our cognitive skills?
Do other species have language?
Language influences thinking
Close Up: Extremes of intelligence
Genetic and environmental influences on intelligence
Group differences in intelligence test scores
Instincts and evolutionary psychology
Obesity and weight control
Close Up: Waist management
Connecting and social networking
Close Up: Managing your social networking
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?
Emotions and the autonomic nervous system
Thinking Critically About: Lie detection
Expressed And Experienced Emotion:
Detecting emotion in others
Effects of facial expressions
Stress, Health, And Human Flourishing:
Stress: some basic concepts
Close Up: Tips for handling anger
Optimism versus pessimism
Close Up: Pets are friends, too
Relaxation and meditation
Faith communities and health
What affects our well-being?
What predicts our happiness levels?
Close Up: Want to be happier?
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
Abraham Maslow's self-actualizing person
Carl Rogers' person-centered perspective
Evaluating humanistic theories
Thinking Critically About: How to be a successful astrologer or palm reader
Evaluating trait theories
Social-Cognitive Theories:
Assessing behavior in situations
Evaluating social-cognitive theories
Fundamental attribution error
Conformity: complying with social pressures
Obedience: following orders
Close Up: Automatic prejudice
Close Up: Online matchmaking and speed dating
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
Generalized anxiety disorder
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Understanding anxiety disorders
Major depressive disorder
Understanding mood disorders
Close Up: Suicide and self-injury
Symptoms of schizophrenia
Onset and development of schizophrenia
Understanding schizophrenia
Rates of psychological disorders
Treating psychological disorders
Psychoanalysis and psychodynamic therapy
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
Therapeutic lifestyle change
Preventing Psychological Disorders:
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
