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ISBN 10: 1464170320 

ISBN 13: 9781464170324

Author: David G. Myers, C. Nathan Dewall

Psychology 11th Table of contents:

Chapter 01 : Thinking Critically With Psychological Science

The Need for Psychological Science

Did We Know It All Along? Hindsight Bias

Overconfidence

Perceiving Order in Random Events

The Scientific Attitude: Curious, Skeptical, and Humble

Critical Thinking

Research Strategies: How Psychologists Ask and Answer Questions

The Scientific Method

Description

Correlation

Experimentation

Psychology’s Research Ethics

Statistical Reasoning in Everyday Life

Describing Data

Significant Differences

Test Your-Self: Thinking Critically With Psychological Science

Chapter 02 : The Biology of Mind

Neural and Hormonal Systems

Biology, Behavior, and Mind

Neural Communication

The Nervous System

The Endocrine System

Tools of Discovery and Older Brain Structures

The Tools of Discovery: Having Our Head Examined

Older Brain Structures

The Cerebral Cortex and Our Divided Brain

The Cerebral Cortex

Our Divided Brain

Thinking Critically About: Handedness

Test Your-Self: The Biology of Mind

Chapter 03 : Consciousness and the Two-Track Mind

Brain States and Consciousness

Defining Consciousness

The Biology of Consciousness

Selective Attention

Sleep and Dreams

Biological Rhythms and Sleep

Why Do We Sleep?

Sleep Deprivation and Sleep Disorders

Dreams

Drugs and Consciousness

Tolerance and Addiction

Thinking Critically About: Addiction

Types of Psychoactive Drugs

Influences on Drug Use

Test Your-Self: Consciousness and the Two-Track Mind

Chapter 04 : 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

Thinking Critically About: Prenatal Testing to Predict Future Traits

Evolutionary Psychology: Understanding Human Nature

Natural Selection and Adaptation

Evolutionary Success Helps Explain Similarities

An Evolutionary Explanation of Human Sexuality

Culture, Gender, and Other Environmental Influences

How Does Experience Influence Development?

Cultural Influences

Gender Development

Reflections on Nature, Nurture, and Their Interaction

Test Your-Self: Nature, Nurture, and Human Diversity

Chapter 05 : Developing Through the Life Span

Developmental Issues, Prenatal Development, and the Newborn

Developmental Psychology’s Major Issues

Prenatal Development and the Newborn

Infancy and Childhood

Physical Development

Cognitive Development

Social Development

Adolescence

Physical Development

Cognitive Development

Social Development

Emerging Adulthood

Adulthood

Physical Development

Cognitive Development

Social Development

Test Your-Self: Developing Through the Life Span

Chapter 06 : Sensation and Perception

Basic Concepts of Sensation and Perception

Transduction

Thresholds

Thinking Critically About: Subliminal Persuasion

Sensory Adaptation

Perceptual Set

Context Effects

Motivation and Emotion

Vision: Sensory and Perceptual Processing

Light Energy and Eye Structures

Information Processing in the Eye and Brain

Perceptual Organization

Perceptual Interpretation

The Nonvisual Senses

Hearing

The Other Senses

Thinking Critically About: Hypnosis and Pain Relief

Sensory Interaction

Thinking Critically About: ESP—Perception Without Sensation?

Test Your-Self: Sensation and Perception

Chapter 07 : Learning

Basic Learning Concepts and Classical Conditioning

How Do We Learn?

Classical Conditioning

Operant Conditioning

Skinner’s Experiments

Skinner’s Legacy

Contrasting Classical and Operant Conditioning

Biology, Cognition, and Learning

Biological Constraints on Conditioning

Cognition’s Influence on Conditioning

Learning by Observation

Thinking Critically About: Does Viewing Media Violence Trigger Violent Behavior?

Test Your-Self: Learning

Chapter 08 : Memory

Studying and Encoding Memories

Studying Memory

Encoding Memories

Storing and Retrieving Memories

Memory Storage

Memory Retrieval

Forgetting, Memory Construction, and Improving Memory

Forgetting

Memory Construction Errors

Thinking Critically About: Repressed or Constructed Memories of Abuse?

Improving Memory

Test Your-Self: Memory

Chapter 09 : Thinking and Language

Thinking

Concepts

Problem Solving: Strategies and Obstacles

Forming Good and Bad Decisions and Judgments

Thinking Critically About: The Fear Factor—Why We Fear the Wrong Things

Thinking Creatively

Do Other Species Share Our Cognitive Skills?

Language and Thought

Language Structure

Language Development

The Brain and Language

Do Other Species Have Language?

Thinking and Language

Test Your-Self: Thinking and Language

Chapter 10 : Intelligence

What Is Intelligence?

Spearman’s General Intelligence Factor and Thurstone’s Response

Theories of Multiple Intelligences

Emotional Intelligence

Assessing Intelligence

Early and Modern Tests of Mental Abilities

Principles of Test Construction

The Dynamics of Intelligence

Stability or Change?

Extremes of Intelligence

Genetic and Environmental Influences on Intelligence

Twin and Adoption Studies

Environmental Influences

Group Differences in Intelligence Test Scores

The Question of Bias

Test Your-Self: Intelligence

Chapter 11 : What Drives Us: Hunger, Sex, Friendship, and Achievement

Basic Motivational Concepts

Instincts and Evolutionary Psychology

Drives and Incentives

Optimum Arousal

A Hierarchy of Motives

Hunger

The Physiology of Hunger

The Psychology of Hunger

Obesity and Weight Control

Sexual Motivation

The Physiology of Sex

The Psychology of Sex

Sexual Orientation

Sex and Human Values

Affiliation and Achievement

The Need to Belong

Achievement Motivation

Test Your-Self: What Drives Us: Hunger, Sex, Friendship, and Achievement

Chapter 12 : Emotions, Stress, and Health

Introduction to Emotion

Emotion: Arousal, Behavior, and Cognition

Embodied Emotion

Thinking Critically About: Lie Detection

Expressing Emotion

Detecting Emotion in Others

Gender, Emotion, and Nonverbal Behavior

Culture and Emotional Expression

The Effects of Facial Expressions

Experiencing Emotion

Anger

Happiness

Stress and Illness

Stress: Some Basic Concepts

Stress and Vulnerability to Disease

Health and Coping

Coping With Stress

Reducing Stress

Test Your-Self: Emotions, Stress, and Health

Chapter 13 : Social Psychology

Social Thinking

The Fundamental Attribution Error

Attitudes and Actions

Social Influence

Conformity: Complying With Social Pressures

Obedience: Following Orders

Group Behavior

Antisocial Relations

Prejudice

Aggression

Prosocial Relations

Attraction

Altruism

Peacemaking

Test Your-Self: Social Psychology

Chapter 14 : Personality

Introduction to Personality and Psychodynamic Theories

What Is Personality?

Psychodynamic Theories

Humanistic Theories and Trait Theories

Humanistic Theories

Trait Theories

Thinking Critically About: The Stigma of Introversion

Social-Cognitive Theories and the Self

Social-Cognitive Theories

Exploring the Self

Test Your-Self: Personality

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?

Thinking Critically About: Are People With Psychological Disorders Dangerous?

Rates of Psychological Disorders

Anxiety Disorders, OCD, and PTSD

Anxiety Disorders

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Understanding Anxiety Disorders, OCD, and PTSD

Depressive Disorders and Bipolar Disorder

Major Depressive Disorder

Bipolar Disorder

Understanding Depressive Disorders and Bipolar Disorder

Schizophrenia

Symptoms of Schizophrenia

Onset and Development of Schizophrenia

Understanding Schizophrenia

Dissociative, Personality, and Eating Disorders

Dissociative Disorders

Personality Disorders

Eating Disorders

Test Your-Self: Psychological 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

Evaluating Psychotherapies

Is Psychotherapy Effective?

Which Psychotherapies Work Best?

Evaluating Alternative Therapies

How Do Psychotherapies Help People?

Culture and Values in Psychotherapy

Biomedical Therapies and Preventing Psychological Disorders

Drug Therapies

Brain Stimulation

Psychosurgery

Therapeutic Lifestyle Change

Preventing Psychological Disorders and Building Resilience

Test Your-Self: Therapy

Endnotes

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