Psychology Contemporary Perspectives 1st Edition by Paul Okami ISBN 019087497X 9780190874971

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ISBN 10: 019087497X

ISBN 13: 9780190874971

Author:  Paul Okami 

Psychology: Contemporary Perspectives 1st Edition: Research-based but highly accessible, this fresh, contemporary, and engaging volume helps students appreciate the science of psychology and understand how its principles apply to their own lives.

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CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES, NOT JUST CONTEMPORARY REFERENCES
Giving careful consideration to the field’s historical foundations, Psychology: Contemporary Perspectives provides a unique balance of traditional and contemporary perspectives. This approach invites students to develop a modern appraisal of psychology.

THE MOST CURRENT RESEARCH
The book covers the latest in evolutionary psychology and behavior genetics, ecological and evolutionary theories of learning, cross-cultural work in cognition, the latest neuroscience data (and its critiques), and endophenotype research in the genetic causes of schizophrenia.

CLEAR AND COMPELLING WRITING
Exceptionally well written, Psychology: Contemporary Perspectives uses stories to help students connect with the principles of psychology.

RICH PEDAGOGY
All running features are integrated into the main body of the text, helping to maintain the flow of the narrative–and the attention of students!

* “Freeze Frame” snapshots underscoring the theme of each chapter tell the compelling stories of real-life individuals.

* “Living Psychology” applies psychology to students’ everyday lives, helping them understand the benefits of what they are studying.

* “Critical Thinking about Psychology” sections give students the tools they need in order to effectively and objectively interpret research.

* “At the Forefront” highlights new and influential research in the field.

CAREFULLY CRAFTED STUDY TOOLS
Placing an emphasis on “review, retrieve, and learn,” Psychology: Contemporary Perspectives takes a “back-to-basics” approach to study tools.

* “In Summary” sections provide clear, concise chapter descriptions, offering students powerful tools for review.

* “Retrieve!” questions encourage students to test their knowledge of what they have just read. Each question includes the page numbers on which the relevant material was first presented, aiding in additional review and reinforcing learning.

AN EXCELLENT VALUE
Oxford University Press USA, a department of the University of Oxford, is a not-for-profit publisher devoted to furthering the university’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education. Since accessible materials clearly support this mission, OUP USA uses a combination of not-for-profit status and financial discipline to offer course materials that generally cost students significantly less than those offered by commercial publishers.

SUPERIOR SUPPLEMENTS
We are proud to offer instructors and students a comprehensive set of ancillary resources.

* Instructor’s Ancillary Resource Center: Available online exclusively to adopters, this valuable resource features detailed chapter outlines, lecture suggestions and activities, discussion questions, video resources, and Web resources, along with a computerized test bank containing 1,400+ test questions.

* Videos: Organized by chapter, these short contemporary video clips from YouTube are available for use as lecture starters and assignable class activities.

* PowerPoint-Based Slides: Each chapter’s slide deck includes a succinct chapter outline and incorporates relevant chapter graphics.

* Course Cartridges: Available for a variety of learning management systems.

* Instructor’s Companion Website: The instructor’s portion of the companion website–available to adopters–includes all the teaching tools described above, which are available for immediate download (www.oup.com/us/okami).

* Online Homework: Oxford’s Learning Management System delivers quality content and tools to track student progress in an intuitive, nationally hosted learning environment. Assessments are designed to accompany Psychology: Contemporary Perspectives and auto-graded so that instructors may check students’ understanding without hours of grading. A color-coded gradebook shows instructors at a glance where their students are succeeding and where they need improvement; this allows instructors to adapt their lectures as needed at a moment’s notice. For students, this means quality content and instant feedback. Oxford’s Learning Management System features a streamlined interface that connects instructors and students with the functions that they perform most often, simplifying the learning experience in order to save instructors time and put students’ progress first. (ISBN: 978-0-19-934982-1)

* Free Online Student Study Guide: Offering a variety of learning and review tools, this free online resource includes comprehensive yet concise chapter outlines, visual concept maps, and approximately twenty-five multiple-choice
questions per chapter.

 

Psychology: Contemporary Perspectives 1st Edition Table of contents:

CHAPTER 1: Psychology as Science

• What Is Psychology?
• Is Psychological Science Really Scientific?
• How Do Psychologists Conduct Research?
• Why Are Statistics Important in Psychology?
• Why Are Ethics Important in Psychology?

CHAPTER 2: The Brain, the Body, and Behavior

• Where Is the Mind?
• How Is the Nervous System Built?
• How Is the Nervous System Organized?
• How Is the Brain Organized?
• What Is the Endocrine System?
• What Is Neuroscience?

CHAPTER 3: The Nature and Nurture of Behavior

• What Are Genes?
• How Do Genes and Environments Influence Behavior?
• Why Are Psychologists Interested in Evolution?
• What Is the Sociocultural Perspective?

CHAPTER 4: Human Lifespan Development

• Why Study Development?
• How Does the Unborn Embryo Become a Newborn Infant?
• How Does the Infant Become a Child?
• How Does the Child Become Adolescent?
• How Does the Adolescent Become Adult?
• How Does the Adult Age?

CHAPTER 5: Perception and the Senses

• How Do Sensing and Perceiving Differ?
• How Does the Eye Work?
• How Does the Ear Work?
• How Do the Nose and Tongue Receive Chemical Signals?
• How Do the Skin and Body Feel?
• How Do We Perceive Visual Images?
• How Do Evolution, Culture, and Experience Affect Perception?

CHAPTER 6: Varieties of Consciousness

• What Is Consciousness? No One Knows
• How—and Why—Do We Sleep?
• What Are Dreams?
• What Are Sleep Disorders?
• Is Hypnosis an Altered State of Consciousness?
• What Is the Nature of Meditation?
• How Do Psychoactive Drugs Affect Consciousness?

CHAPTER 7: Learning

• What Is Learning?
• What Is Classical Conditioning?
• What Are the Limits of Classical Conditioning?
• What Is Operant Conditioning?
• What Are the Limits of Operant Conditioning?
• What Is Observational Learning?

CHAPTER 8: Memory

• What Are Memories?
• What Is “Remembering”?
• How Do We Forget Things That Happened (and Remember Things That Never Happened)?

CHAPTER 9: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence

• How Does the Mind Work?
• How Do We Use Thinking to Solve Problems?
• How Do Biases Affect Decision Making?
• Language: What Is It, and How Do We Learn It?
• Do Nonhuman Animals Have Language?
• What Is Intelligence?
• Where Does Intelligence Come From?

CHAPTER 10: Motivation

• What Are Motivations?
• How Is Work a Window onto Motivation?
• Why Do We Eat?
• The Social Motivations: Why Do We Turn Toward One Another?
• Aggression: Why Do We Turn Against One Another?
• Competence: Why Do People Seek to Do Well?

CHAPTER 11: Emotion and Health

• What Is Emotion?
• Are Some Emotions “Basic”?
• How Do Psychologists Explain Emotion?
• How Do People Deal with Anger?
• Who Is Happy (and Why)?
• What Is Stress?
• Does Stress Cause Illness?
• Coping: How Can Stress Be Managed?

CHAPTER 12: Personality

• What Is Personality?
• What Are the “Grand Theories” of Personality?
• How Do Traits and Situations Affect Personality?
• How Do Genes, Environments, and Culture Influence Personality?
• How Is Personality Measured?
• Does Personality Change over Time?

CHAPTER 13: Psychological Disorders

• What Is a Psychological Disorder?
• What Are Anxiety Disorders?
• What Are Depressive and Bipolar Disorders?
• Are Depression and Anxiety Overdiagnosed?
• What Is Schizophrenia?
• What Are Personality Disorders?

CHAPTER 14: Treatment

• What Is Psychotherapy?
• How Do Styles of Psychotherapy Differ?
• What Are Group, Couple, and Family Therapies?
• Does Psychotherapy Work?
• What Is Pharmacotherapy?
• Does Pharmacotherapy Work?
• What Other Biological Treatments Are Available?

CHAPTER 15: Social Psychology

• What Is Psychological Self-Defense?
• How Do We Present Ourselves to Others?
• How Do We Explain Our Own and Others’ Behavior?
• Who Attracts Whom?
• How Do Other People Affect Our Opinions and Behavior?
• How Does Intergroup Conflict Lead to Aggression?

CHAPTER 16: Sex, Gender, and Sexual Behavior (Bonus Chapter)

• Are “Sex” and “Gender” Different?
• How Do the Sexes Differ?
• Sexual Behavior: What Is “Having Sex,” and Why Do People Have It?
• How Does Sexuality Develop?
• What Is Sexual Orientation?
• How Closely Are Sex and Love Linked?

 

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