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ISBN 10: 131905062X
ISBN 13: 9781319050627
Author: C Nathan Dewall, David G Myers

Psychology 12th Edition Table of contents:

Chapter 1 – Thinking Critically With Psychological Science

• The Need for Psychological Science

• The Scientific Method

• Thinking Critically About: Correlation and Causation

• Psychology’s Research Ethics

• Statistical Reasoning in Everyday Life

• Describing Data

• Significant Differences

Chapter 2 – The Biology of Mind

• Biology, Behavior, and Mind

• The Power of Plasticity

• Neural Communication

• The Nervous System

• The Endocrine System

• The Tools of Discovery: Having Our Head Examined

• Older Brain Structures

• The Limbic System

• The Cerebral Cortex

• Structure of the Cortex

• Functions of the Cortex

• Thinking Critically About: Using More Than 10 Percent of Our Brain

• Responses to Damage

• The Divided Brain

Chapter 3 – Consciousness and the Two-Track Mind

• Defining Consciousness

• Studying Consciousness

• Selective Attention

• Dual Processing: The Two-Track Mind

• Sleep and Dreams

• Biological Rhythms and Sleep

• Why Do We Sleep?

• Sleep Deprivation and Sleep Disorders

• Dreams

• Tolerance and Addiction in Substance Use Disorders

• Types of Psychoactive Drugs

• Influences on Drug Use

Chapter 4 – Nature, Nurture, and Human Diversity

• Behavior Genetics: Predicting Individual Differences

• Genes: Our Codes for Life

• Twin and Adoption Studies

• Temperament and Heredity

• Heritability

• Gene–Environment Interaction

• Evolutionary Psychology: Understanding Human Nature

• Natural Selection and Adaptation

• Evolutionary Success Helps Explain Similarities

• An Evolutionary Explanation of Human Sexuality

• How Does Experience Influence Development?

• Cultural Influences

• Gender Development

• Thinking Critically About: Gender Bias in the Workplace

• Reflections on Nature, Nurture, and Their Interaction

Chapter 5 – Developing Through the Life Span

• Developmental Psychology’s Major Issues

• Prenatal Development and the Newborn

• Physical Development

• Cognitive Development

• Social Development

• Thinking Critically About: Parenting Styles

• Adolescence

  • Physical Development

  • Cognitive Development

  • Social Development

• Emerging Adulthood

  • Physical Development

  • Cognitive Development

  • Social Development

Chapter 6 – Sensation and Perception

• Processing Sensation and Perception

• Transduction

• Thresholds

• Thinking Critically About: Subliminal Sensation and Subliminal Persuasion

• Sensory Adaptation

• Perceptual Set

• Context, Motivation, and Emotion

• Light Energy and Eye Structures

• Information Processing in the Eye and Brain

• Perceptual Organization

• Perceptual Interpretation

• Hearing

• The Other Senses

• Sensory Interaction

• ESP—Perception Without Sensation?

Chapter 7 – Learning

• How Do We Learn?

• Classical Conditioning

• Skinner’s Experiments

• Skinner’s Legacy

• Contrasting Classical and Operant Conditioning

• Biological Constraints on Conditioning

• Cognition’s Influence on Conditioning

• Learning by Observation

• Thinking Critically About: The Effects of Viewing Media Violence

Chapter 8 – Memory

• Studying Memory

• Encoding Memories

• Memory Storage

• Memory Retrieval

• Forgetting

• Memory Construction Errors

• Thinking Critically About: Can Memories of Childhood Sexual Abuse Be Repressed and Then Recovered?

• Improving Memory

Chapter 9 – Thinking and Language

• Concepts

• Problem Solving: Strategies and Obstacles

• Forming Good (and Bad) Decisions and Judgments

• Thinking Critically About: The Fear Factor

• Thinking Creatively

• Do Other Species Share Our Cognitive Skills?

• Language and Thought

• Language Structure

• Language Acquisition and Development

• The Brain and Language

• Do Other Species Have Language?

• Thinking and Language

Chapter 10 – Intelligence

• What Is Intelligence?

• Is Intelligence One General Ability?

• Theories of Multiple Intelligences

• Emotional Intelligence

• Assessing Intelligence

• Early and Modern Tests of Mental Abilities

• Principles of Test Construction

• Thinking Critically About: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Studies

• Extremes of Intelligence

• Twin and Adoption Studies

• Environmental Influences

• Group Differences in Intelligence Test Scores

Chapter 11 – What Drives Us: Hunger, Sex, Belonging, and Achievement

• Basic Motivational Concepts

• Instincts and Evolutionary Theory

• Drives and Incentives

• Arousal Theory

• A Hierarchy of Needs

• Hunger

  • The Physiology of Hunger

  • The Psychology of Hunger

• Thinking Critically About: The Challenges of Obesity and Weight Control

• The Physiology of Sex

• The Psychology of Sex

• Sexual Orientation

• Sex and Human Relationships

• The Need to Belong

• Achievement Motivation

Chapter 12 – Emotions, Stress, and Health

• Emotion: Arousal, Behavior, and Cognition

• Embodied Emotion

• Thinking Critically About: Lie Detection

• Detecting Emotion in Others

• Gender, Emotion, and Nonverbal Behavior

• Culture and Emotional Expression

• The Effects of Facial Expressions

• Experiencing Emotion

• Anger

• Happiness

• Stress: Some Basic Concepts

• Stress and Vulnerability to Disease

• Thinking Critically About: Stress and Health

• Coping With Stress

• Reducing Stress

Chapter 13 – Social Psychology

• Social Thinking

• The Fundamental Attribution Error

• Attitudes and Actions

• Conformity: Complying With Social Pressures

• Obedience: Following Orders

• Lessons From the Conformity and Obedience Studies

• Group Behavior

• Thinking Critically About: The Internet as Social Amplifier

• Prejudice

• Aggression

• Attraction

• Altruism

• Conflict and Peacemaking

Chapter 14 – Personality

• What Is Personality?

• Psychodynamic Theories

• Humanistic Theories

• Trait Theories

• Thinking Critically About: The Stigma of Introversion

• Social-Cognitive Theories

• Exploring the Self

Chapter 15 – Psychological Disorders

• Introduction to Psychological Disorders

• Defining Psychological Disorders

• Understanding Psychological Disorders

• Classifying Disorders—and Labeling People

• Thinking Critically About: ADHD—Normal High Energy or Disordered Behavior?

• Does Disorder Equal Danger?

• Rates of Psychological Disorders

• Anxiety Disorders

• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

• Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

• Understanding Anxiety Disorders, OCD, and PTSD

• Depressive Disorders, Bipolar Disorder, Suicide, and Self-Injury

  • Major Depressive Disorder

  • Bipolar Disorder

  • Understanding Depressive Disorders and Bipolar Disorder

  • Suicide and Self-Injury

• Schizophrenia

  • Symptoms

  • Onset and Development

  • Understanding Schizophrenia

• Dissociative Disorders

• Personality Disorders

• Eating Disorders

Chapter 16 – Therapy

• Introduction to Therapy and the Psychological Therapies

• Treating Psychological Disorders

• Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic Therapies

• Humanistic Therapies

• Behavior Therapies

• Cognitive Therapies

• Group and Family Therapies

• Is Psychotherapy Effective?

• Which Psychotherapies Work Best?

• Evaluating Alternative Therapies

• How Do Psychotherapies Help People?

• Culture and Values in Psychotherapy

• Finding a Mental Health Professional

• The Biomedical Therapies and Preventing Psychological Disorders

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