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Students First. Essentials of Understanding Psychology is written around the philosophy that an effective textbook must be oriented to students-informing them, engaging them, exciting them about the field, and expanding their intellectual capabilities-because when students understand psychology, they learn psychology. No matter what brings students into the introductory course and regardless of their initial motivation, Essentials of Understanding Psychology, Seventh Edition, draws students into the field and stimulates their thinking. This revision integrates a variety of elements that foster...
Students First. Essentials of Understanding Psychology is written around the philosophy that an effective textbook must be oriented to students-informing them, engaging them, exciting them about the field, and expanding their intellectual capabilities-because when students understand psychology, they learn psychology. No matter what brings students into the introductory course and regardless of their initial motivation, Essentials of Understanding Psychology, Seventh Edition, draws students into the field and stimulates their thinking. This revision integrates a variety of elements that foster students’ understanding of psychology and its impact on their everyday lives. It also provides instructors with a fully integrated supplements package to objectively gauge their students’ mastery of psychology’s key principles and concepts and to create dynamic lectures.
Table of contents:
Preface
1: Introduction to Psychology
Module 1: Psychologists at Work
Module 2: A Science that Evolves: The Past, the Present, and the Future
Module 3: Research in Psychology
Module 4: Research Challenges: Exploring the Process
Mastering the Experimental Method: The Difference between Dependent and Independent Variables
2: Neuroscience and Behavior
Module 5: Neurons: The Basic Elements of Behavior
Module 6: The Nervous System and the Endocrine System: Communicating Within the Body
Module 7: The Brain
Mastering the Action Potential
3: Sensation and Perception
Module 8: Sensing the World Around Us
Module 9: Vision: Shedding Light on the Eye
Module 10: Hearing and Other Senses
Module 11: Perceptual Organization: Constructing our View of the World
Mastering the Difference between Sensation and Perception
4: States of Consciousness
Module 12: Sleep and Dreams
Module 13: Hypnosis and Meditation
Module 14: Drug Use: The Highs and Lows of Consciousness
5: Learning
Module 15: Classical Conditioning
Module 16: Operant Conditioning
Module 17: Cognitive-Social Approaches to Learning
Mastering the Distinction between Reinforcement and Punishment
6: Memory
Module 18: The Foundations of Memory
Module 19: Recalling Long-Term Memories
Module 20: Forgetting: When Memory Fails
7: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence
Module 21: Thinking
Module 22: Language
Module 23: Intelligence
8: Motivation and Emotion
Module 24: Explaining Motivation
Module 25: Human Needs and Motivation: Eat, Drink, and Be Daring
Module 26: Understanding Emotional Experiences
9: Development
Module 27: Nature, Nurture, and Prenatal Development
Module 28: Infancy and Childhood
Module 29: Adolescence: Becoming an Adult
Module 30: Adulthood
10: Personality
Module 31: Psychodynamic Approaches to Personality
Module 32: Trait, Learning, Biological, Evolutionary, and Humanistic Approaches to Personality
Module 33: Assessing Personality: Determining What Makes Us Distinctive
11: Health Psychology: Stress, Coping, and Well-Being
Module 34: Stress and Coping
Module 35: Psychological Aspects of Illness and Well-Being
Module 36: Promoting Health and Wellness
12: Psychological Disorders
Module 37: Normal versus Abnormal: Making the Distinction
Module 38: The Major Psychological Disorders
Module 39: Psychological Disorders in Perspective
13: Treatment of Psychological Disorders
Module 40: Psychotherapy: Psychodynamic, Behavioral, and Cognitive Approaches to Treatment
Module 41: Psychotherapy: Humanistic, Interpersonal, and Group Approaches to Treatment
Module 42: Biomedical Therapy: Biological Approaches to Treatment
14: Social Psychology
Module 43: Attitudes and Social Cognition
Module 44: Social Influence
Module 45: Prejudice and Discrimination
Module 46: Positive and Negative Social Behavior
Mastering Attitude Change
Glossary
References
Credits
Name Index
Subject Index
Table of contents:
Preface
1: Introduction to Psychology
Module 1: Psychologists at Work
Module 2: A Science that Evolves: The Past, the Present, and the Future
Module 3: Research in Psychology
Module 4: Research Challenges: Exploring the Process
Mastering the Experimental Method: The Difference between Dependent and Independent Variables
2: Neuroscience and Behavior
Module 5: Neurons: The Basic Elements of Behavior
Module 6: The Nervous System and the Endocrine System: Communicating Within the Body
Module 7: The Brain
Mastering the Action Potential
3: Sensation and Perception
Module 8: Sensing the World Around Us
Module 9: Vision: Shedding Light on the Eye
Module 10: Hearing and Other Senses
Module 11: Perceptual Organization: Constructing our View of the World
Mastering the Difference between Sensation and Perception
4: States of Consciousness
Module 12: Sleep and Dreams
Module 13: Hypnosis and Meditation
Module 14: Drug Use: The Highs and Lows of Consciousness
5: Learning
Module 15: Classical Conditioning
Module 16: Operant Conditioning
Module 17: Cognitive-Social Approaches to Learning
Mastering the Distinction between Reinforcement and Punishment
6: Memory
Module 18: The Foundations of Memory
Module 19: Recalling Long-Term Memories
Module 20: Forgetting: When Memory Fails
7: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence
Module 21: Thinking
Module 22: Language
Module 23: Intelligence
8: Motivation and Emotion
Module 24: Explaining Motivation
Module 25: Human Needs and Motivation: Eat, Drink, and Be Daring
Module 26: Understanding Emotional Experiences
9: Development
Module 27: Nature, Nurture, and Prenatal Development
Module 28: Infancy and Childhood
Module 29: Adolescence: Becoming an Adult
Module 30: Adulthood
10: Personality
Module 31: Psychodynamic Approaches to Personality
Module 32: Trait, Learning, Biological, Evolutionary, and Humanistic Approaches to Personality
Module 33: Assessing Personality: Determining What Makes Us Distinctive
11: Health Psychology: Stress, Coping, and Well-Being
Module 34: Stress and Coping
Module 35: Psychological Aspects of Illness and Well-Being
Module 36: Promoting Health and Wellness
12: Psychological Disorders
Module 37: Normal versus Abnormal: Making the Distinction
Module 38: The Major Psychological Disorders
Module 39: Psychological Disorders in Perspective
13: Treatment of Psychological Disorders
Module 40: Psychotherapy: Psychodynamic, Behavioral, and Cognitive Approaches to Treatment
Module 41: Psychotherapy: Humanistic, Interpersonal, and Group Approaches to Treatment
Module 42: Biomedical Therapy: Biological Approaches to Treatment
14: Social Psychology
Module 43: Attitudes and Social Cognition
Module 44: Social Influence
Module 45: Prejudice and Discrimination
Module 46: Positive and Negative Social Behavior
Mastering Attitude Change
Glossary
References
Credits
Name Index
Subject Index