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  • Psych 3e
  • Written by author Don H. Hockenbury
  • Published by Worth Publishers, Incorporated, July 2003
  • This introductory textbook covers the basic issues of psychology, including: research methods; psychobiological processes; learning, memory, language, intelligence, motivation, and emotion; the development of the self; social psychology; and, psychologica
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Chapter 1 Introduction and Research

Methods

Prologue: Miracle Magnets?

Introduction: The Origins of Psychology

Contemporary Psychology

Culture and Human Behavior: What Is Cross-Cultural Psychology

The Scientific Method

Critical Thinking: What Is Critical Thinking?

Descriptive Research Methods

Science Versus Pseudoscience: What Is a Pseudoscience?

The Experimental Method

Focus on Neuroscience: Psychological Research Using Brain Imaging

Ethics in Psychological Research

In Focus: Questions About the Use of Animals in Psychological Research

Closing Thoughts

Application: Psychology in the Media: Becoming an

Informed Consumer

Chapter 2 Neuroscience and Behavior

Prologue: Asha’s Story

Introduction: Neuroscience and Behavior

The Neuron: The Basic Unit of Communication

The Nervous System and the Endocrine System: Communication Throughout the Body

A Guided Tour of the Brain

Focus on Neuroscience: Is Runner’s High an

Endorphine Rush?

Science Versus Pseudoscience: Phrenology: The Bumpy Road to Scientific Progress

Focus on Neuroscience: Juggling and Brain Plasticity

In Focus: The Curious Case of Phineas Gage

Specialization in the Cerebral Hemispheres

Critical Thinking: "His" and "Her" Brains Science Versus Pseudoscience: Brain Myths

Closing Thoughts

Application: Pumping Neurons: Maximizing Your Brain’s Potential

Chapter 3 Sensation and Perception

Prologue: Learning to See

Introduction: What Are Sensation and Perception?

Science Versus Pseudoscience: Subliminal

Perception

Vision: From Light to Sight

Focus on Neuroscience: Vision, Experience, and the Brain

Hearing: From Vibration to Sound

The Chemical and Body Senses: Smell, Taste, Touch, and Position

In Focus: Do Pheromones Influence Human Behavior?

Perception

Culture and Human Behavior: Ways of Seeing

Critical Thinking: ESP: Can Perception Occur Without Sensation?

Perceptual Illusions

The Effects of Experience on Perceptual Interpretations

Culture and Human Behavior: Culture and the Müller-Lyer Illusion: The Carpentered-World

Hypothesis

Closing Thoughts

Application: Strategies to Control Pain

Chapter 4 Consciousness and Its Variations

Prologue: Even in Good Men

Introduction: Consciousness: Experiencing the "Private I"

Biological and Environmental "Clocks" That Regulate Consciousness

Sleep

In Focus: What You Really Want to Know About Sleep

Dreams and Mental Activity During Sleep

Focus on Neuroscience: The Dreaming Brain:

Turning REM On and Off

In Focus: What You Really Want to Know About Dreams

Sleep Disorders: Troubled Sleep

Critical Thinking: Could a Person Commit Murder While Asleep?

Hypnosis

Critical Thinking: Is Hypnosis a Special State of Consciousness?

Meditation

Psychoactive Drugs

Focus on Neuroscience: The Addicted Brain:

Diminishing Rewards

Focus on Neuroscience: How Methamphetamines Erode the Brain

Closing Thoughts

Application: "Can’t Sleep? Read THIS!"

Chapter 5 Learning

Prologue: The Killer Attic

Introduction: What Is Learning?

Classical Conditioning: Associating Stimuli

In Focus: Watson, Classical Conditioning, and Advertising

Contemporary Views of Classical Conditioning

In Focus: Evolution, Biological Preparedness and Conditioned Fears: What Gives You the Creeps?

Operant Conditioning: Associating Behaviors and Consequences

In Focus: Changing the Behavior of Others: Alternatives to Punishment

Critical Thinking: Is Human Freedom Just an Illusion?

Focus on Neuroscience: Virtual Operant Conditioning: Remote-Controlled "Ratbots"

Contemporary Views of Operant Conditioning

Observational Learning: Imitating the Actions of Others

Focus on Neuroscience: Mirror Neurons: Imitation in the Brain?

Critical Thinking: Does "Reel" Violence Cause Real Aggressive Behavior?

Closing Thoughts

Application: Using Learning Principles to Improve Self-Control

Chapter 6 Memory

Prologue: The Drowning

Introduction: What Is Memory?

Culture and Human Behavior: Culture’s Effect on Earliest Memories

Retrieval: Getting Information from Long-Term Memory

Forgetting: When Retrieval Fails

In Focus: Déjà Vu: An Illusion of Memory

Imperfect Memories: Errors, Distortions, and False Memories

The Search for the Biological Basis of Memory

Critical Thinking: The Memory Wars: Recovered or False Memories?

Focus on Neuroscience: Assembling Memories: Echoes and Reflections of Perception

In Focus: H.M. and Famous People

Focus on Neuroscience: Mapping Brain Changes in Alzheimer’s Disease

Closing Thoughts

Application: Superpower Memory in Minutes per Day!

Chapter 7 Thinking, Language, and Intelligence

Prologue: The Movie Moment

Introduction: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence

Focus on Neuroscience: Seeing Faces and Places in the Mind’s Eye

Solving Problems and Making Decisions

Critical Thinking: The Persistence of Unwarranted Beliefs

Language and Thought

Culture and Human Behavior: The Effect of Language on Perception

Measuring Intelligence

In Focus: Does a High IQ Score Predict Success in Life?

The Nature of Intelligence

Critical Thinking: Neurodiversity and the Autism

Spectrum Disorders

Culture and Human Behavior: Stereotype Threat:

Performing When There’s a "Threat in the Air"

Closing Thoughts

Application: A Workshop on Creativity

Chapter 8 Motivation and Emotion

Prologue: One Step at a Time

Introduction: Motivation and Emotion

Motivational Concepts and Theories

Biological Motivation: Hunger and Eating

Critical Thinking: Has Evolution Programmed Us to Overeat?

Focus on Neuroscience: Dopamine Receptors and Obesity

Psychological Needs as Motivators

Emotion

In Focus: Detecting Lies

Focus on Neuroscience: Emotions and the Brain

Critical Thinking: Emotion in Nonhuman Animals: Laughing Rats, Silly Elephants, and Smiling Dolphins?

Theories of Emotion: Explaining Emotion

Closing Thoughts

Application: Turning Your Goals into Reality

Chapter 9 Lifespan Development

Prologue: The Cheerleader and the Skydiver

Introduction: Your Life Story

Genetic Contributions to Your Life Story

Prenatal Development

Development During Infancy and Childhood

Culture and Human Behavior: Where Does the Baby Sleep?

Critical Thinking: The Effects of Child Care on Attachment and Development

Adolescence

Focus on Neuroscience: The Adolescent Brain:

A Work in Progress

Culture and Human Behavior: Conflict Between Adolescents and Their Parents

Adult Development

Late Adulthood and Aging

The Final Chapter: Dying and Death

Closing Thoughts

Application: Raising Psychologically Healthy Children

Chapter 10 Gender and Sexuality

Prologue: Soaring with Angels

Introduction: Gender and Sexuality

Gender Stereotypes and Gender Roles

Critical Thinking: Are Women Really More Emotional Than Men?

Gender-Role Development: Blue Bears and Pink Bunnies

In Focus: Beyond Male and Female: Variations in Gender Identity

Human Sexuality

Culture and Human Behavior: Evolution and Mate Preference

Sexual Behavior

Focus on Neuroscience: Romantic Love and the Brain

In Focus: Everything You Wanted to Know About Sexual Fantasies

Sexual Disorders and Problems

Closing Thoughts

Application: Men, Women, and Conflict: Bridging the Gender Gap

Chapter 11 Personality

Prologue: The Secret Twin

Introduction: What Is Personality?

The Psychoanalytic Perspective on Personality

The Humanistic Perspective on Personality

Critical Thinking: Freud Versus Rogers on Human Nature

The Social Cognitive Perspective on Personality

Critical Thinking: Freud Versus Bandura on Human Aggression

The Trait Perspective on Personality

Focus on Neuroscience: Personality Traits and Patterns of Brain Activity

In Focus: Explaining Those Amazing Identical-Twin Similarities

Assessing Personality: Psychological Tests

Science Versus Pseudoscience: Graphology:

The "Write" Way to Assess Personality?

Closing Thoughts

Application: Possible Selves: Imagine the Possibilities

Chapter 12 Social Psychology

Prologue: The "Homeless" Man

Introduction: What Is Social Psychology?

Person Perception: Forming Impressions of Other People

Focus on Neuroscience: Brain Reward When Making Eye Contact with Attractive People

Attribution: Explaining Behavior

Culture and Human Behavior: Explaining Failure and Murder: Culture and Attributional Biases

The Social Psychology of Attitudes

Understanding Prejudice

Conformity: Following the Crowd

Obedience: Just Following Orders

Critical Thinking: Abuse at Abu Ghraib: Why Do Ordinary People Commit Evil Acts?

Helping Behavior: Coming to the Aid of Strangers The Influence of Groups on Individual Behavior Closing Thoughts

Application: The Persuasion Game

Chapter 13 Stress, Health, and Coping

Prologue: Katie’s Story

Introduction: What Is Stress?

Culture and Human Behavior: The Stress of Adapting to a New Culture

Physical Effects of Stress: The Mind-Body Connection

Focus on Neuroscience: The Mysterious Placebo Effect

Individual Factors That Influence the Response to Stress

Critical Thinking: Do Personality Factors Cause Disease?

In Focus: Providing Effective Social Support

Coping: How People Deal with Stress In Focus: Gender Differences in Responding to Stress: "Tend and Befriend" or "Fight-or-Flight?"

Closing Thoughts

Application: Minimizing the Effects of Stress

Chapter 14 Psychological Disorders

Prologue: Behind the Steel Door

Introduction: Understanding Psychological Disorders

Critical Thinking: Are People with a Mental Illness as Violent as the Media Portray Them?

Anxiety Disorders: Intense Apprehension and Worry

Mood Disorders: Emotions Gone Awry

Critical Thinking: Does Smoking Cause Depression and Other Psychological Disorders?

Eating Disorders

Personality Disorders: Maladaptive Traits

The Dissociative Disorders: Fragmentation of the Self

Schizophrenia: A Different Reality

Focus on Neuroscience: The Hallucinating Brain

Culture and Human Behavior: Travel Advisory: The Jerusalem Syndrome

Focus on Neuroscience: Schizophrenia: A Wildfire in the Brain

Closing Thoughts

Application: Understanding and Helping to Prevent Suicide

Chapter 15 Therapies

Prologue: "A Clear Sense of Being Heard…"

Introduction: Psychotherapy and Biomedical Therapy

Psychoanalytic Therapy

Humanistic Therapy

Behavior Therapy

In Focus: Using Virtual Reality to Conquer Phobias

Cognitive Therapies

Group and Family Therapy

In Focus: Self-Help Groups: Helping Yourself by Helping Others

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Psychotherapy

Science Versus Pseudoscience: EMDR: Can You Wave Your Fears Away?

Culture and Human Behavior: Cultural Values and Psychotherapy

Biomedical Therapies

Focus on Neuroscience: Comparing Psychotherapy and Antidepressant Medication

Closing Thoughts

Application: What to Expect in Psychotherapy

Appendixes

Appendix A: Statistics: Understanding Statistics

Prologue: The Tables Are Turned: A Psychologist

Becomes a Research Subject

Descriptive Statistics

Inferential Statistics

Endnote

Appendix B: Industrial/Organizational Psychology

What Is Industrial/Organization Psychology?

Work Settings, Type of Training, and Employment Outlook

Box B.1: Name, Title, Generation

Personnel Psychology

Organizational Behavior

Box B.2: Servant Leadership: When It’s Not All About You

Workplace Trends and Issues


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