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Psychology, 7th Edition
Table of Contents
Note: Each chapter concludes with Linkages and a Summary.
1. Introducing Psychology
The World of Psychology: An Overview
Unity and Diversity in Psychology
2. Research in Psychology
Thinking Critically About Psychology (or Anything Else)
Research Methods in Psychology
Linkages: Psychological Research Methods and Behavioral Genetics
Statistical Analysis of Research Results
Ethical Guidelines for Psychologists
3. Biological Aspects of Psychology
The Nervous System
The Peripheral Nervous System: Keeping in Touch with the World
The Central Nervous System: Making Sense of the World
Focus on Research Methods: Manipulating Genes in Animal Models of Human Disease
Linkages: Human Development and the Changing Brain
The Chemistry of Psychology
Thinking Critically: Are There Drugs That Can Make You Smarter?
The Endocrine System: Coordinating the Internal World
The Immune System: Defending the Body
4. Sensation
Sensory Systems
The Problem of Coding
Linkages: Sensation and Biological Aspects of Psychology
Hearing
Vision
The Chemical Senses: Smell and Taste
Somatic Senses and the Vestibular System
Thinking Critically: Does Acupuncture Relieve Pain?
Focus on Research Methods: The Case of the Mysterious Spells
5. Perception
The Perception Paradox
Three Approaches to Perception
Psychophysics
Thinking Critically: Can Subliminal Stimuli Influence Your Behavior?
Organizing the Perceptual World
Recognizing the Perceptual World
Linkages: Perception and Human Development
Attention
Focus on Research Methods: An Experiment in "Mind Reading"
Applications of Research on Perception
6. Learning
Learning About Stimuli
Classical Conditioning: Learning Signals and Associations
Instrumental and Operant Conditioning: Learning the Consequences of Behavior
Cognitive Processes in Learning
Focus on Research Methods: A Two-Factor Experiment on Human Helplessness
Thinking Critically: Does Watching Violence on Television Make People More Violent?
Linkages: Neural Networks and Learning
Using Research on Learning to Help People Learn
7. Memory
The Nature of Memory
Focus on Research Methods: Measuring Explicit Versus Implicit Memory
Storing New Memories
Retrieving Memories
Linkages: Memory, Perception, and Eyewitness Testimony
Forgetting
Thinking Critically: Can Traumatic Memories Be Repressed, Then Recovered?
Biological Bases of Memory
Applications of Memory Research
8. Cognition and Language
Basic Functions of Thought
Mental Representations: The Ingredients of Thought
Thinking Strategies
Problem Solving
Focus on Research Methods: Locating Analogical Thinking
Decision Making
Linkages: Group Processes in Problem Solving and Decision Making
Language
Thinking Critically: Can Nonhumans Use Language?
9. Consciousness
Analyzing Consciousness
Focus on Research Methods: Subliminal Messages in Rock Music
Sleeping and Dreaming
Hypnosis
Linkages: Meditation, Health, and Stress
Psychoactive Drugs
Thinking Critically: Is Marijuana Dangerous?
10. Cognitive Abilities
Testing for Intelligence
Measuring the Quality of Tests
Evaluating Intelligence Tests
Linkages: Emotionality and the Measurement of Cognitive Abilities
Thinking Critically: Are Intelligence Tests Unfairly Biased Against Certain Groups?
Understanding Intelligence
Focus on Research Methods: Tracking Cognitive Abilities over the Life Span
Diversity in Cognitive Abilities
11. Motivation and Emotion
Concepts and Theories of Motivation
Hunger and Eating
Sexual Behavior
Focus on Research Methods: A Survey of Human Sexual Behavior
Thinking Critically: Does Biology Determine Sexual Orientation?
Achievement Motivation
Relations and Conflicts Among Motives
Linkages: Conflicting Motives and Stress
The Nature of Emotion
Theories of Emotion
Communicating Emotion
12. Human Development
Exploring Human Development
Beginnings
Infancy and Childhood: Cognitive Development
Focus on Research Methods: Experiments on Developing Minds
Linkages: Development and Memory
Infancy and Childhood: Social and Emotional Development
Thinking Critically: Does Day Care Harm the Emotional Development of Infants?
Adolescence
Adulthood
13. Health, Stress, and Coping
Health Psychology
Stress and Stressors
Stress Responses
Linkages: Stress and Psychological Disorders
Stress Mediators: Interactions Between People and Stressors
Focus on Research Methods: Personality and Health
The Physiology and Psychology of Health and Illness
Thinking Critically: Does Hostility Increase the Risk of Heart Disease?
Promoting Healthy Behavior
14. Personality
The Psychodynamic Approach
The Trait Approach
Thinking Critically: Are Personality Traits Inherited?
The Social-Cognitive Approach
The Humanistic Approach
Linkages: Personality, Culture, and Human Development
Focus on Research Methods: Longitudinal Studies of Temperament and Personality
Assessing Personality
15. Psychological Disorders
Defining Psychological Disorders
Explaining Psychological Disorders
Classifying Psychological Disorders
Thinking Critically: Is Psychological Diagnosis Biased?
Anxiety Disorders
Linkages: Anxiety Disorders and Learning
Somatoform Disorders
Dissociative Disorders
Mood Disorders
Schizophrenia
Personality Disorders
Focus on Research Methods: Exploring Links Between Childhood Abuse and Antisocial Personality Disorder
A Sampling of Other Psychological Disorders
Mental Illness and the Law
16. Treatment of Psychological Disorders
Basic Features of Treatment
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Humanistic Psychotherapy
Behavior Therapy
Group, Family, and Couples Therapy
Evaluating Psychotherapy
Thinking Critically: Are All Forms of Therapy Equally Effective?
Focus on Research Methods: Which Therapies Work Best for Which Problems?
Biological Treatments
Linkages: Biological Aspects of Psychology and the Treatment of Psychological Disorders
Community Psychology: From Treatment to Prevention
17. Social Cognition
Social Influences on the Self
Focus on Research Methods: Self-Esteem and the Ultimate Terror
Social Perception
Attitudes
Linkages: Biological and Social Psychology
Prejudice and Stereotypes
Thinking Critically: Is Ethnic Prejudice Too Ingrained Ever to Be Eliminated?
Interpersonal Attraction
18. Social Influence
Social Influence
Linkages: Motivation and the Presence of Others
Conformity and Compliance
Obedience
Aggression
Thinking Critically: Does Pornography Cause Aggression?
Altruism and Helping Behavior
Focus on Research Methods: Does Family Matter?
Cooperation, Competition, and Conflict
Group Processes
Appendices
Behavioral Genetics
Statistics in Psychological Research
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