Psychology in Everyday Life 5th Edition by David G Myers, C Nathan DeWall ISBN 9781319332389 1319332382

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ISBN 10: 1319332382
ISBN 13: 9781319332389
Author: David G Myers, C Nathan DeWall

Best-selling authors David Myers’ and Nathan DeWall’s briefest introduction to psychology speaks to all students regardless of their background or level of preparedness, with no assumptions made in the vocabulary, examples, or presentation. Students of all kinds are comfortable with the inclusive tone and the manageable, pedagogically-effective chapters. Instructors appreciate the authors’ encouraging students throughout to THINK critically, CONSIDER diverse perspectives, and IMPROVE their everyday life.

Psychology in Everyday Life is a complete and affordable resource for students at all levels. Dave Myers and Nathan DeWall work on the text and corresponding LaunchPad content so there is a tight connection between all aspects of the course. This edition is heavily updated to reflect the latest in psychological science and to further emphasize the value of thinking critically, considering diverse perspectives, and improving our everyday life. The following elements support this new theme in the fifth edition:

THINK CRITICALLY:

• New “Psychological Science in a Post-Truth World” section in Chapter 1, with its new companion animated tutorial in LaunchPad.
• “Thinking Critically About” infographics, with new companion activities in LaunchPad.

CONSIDER DIVERSE PERSPECTIVES:

• New coverage on topics related to diversity and inclusion, especially the significantly revised Chapter 4, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality.
• New historical timeline in Appendix F, with an emphasis on diverse voices.
• New classroom activities on topics related to diversity now included in the Instructor’s Resources.

IMPROVE YOUR EVERYDAY LIFE

• New Student Preface, “How to Apply Psychology to Live Your Best Life,” focused on student success.
• New “Improve Your Everyday Life” feature throughout each chapter helps students apply psychology’s principles to their own lives.
• Assess Your Strengths activities in LaunchPad help make psychology’s concepts meaningful, memorable, and useful for students

Psychology in Everyday Life 5th Edition Table of contents:

Chapter 1 Psychology’s Roots, Critical Thinking, and Self-Improvement Tools

Psychology Is a Science

Critical Thinking and the Scientific Attitude

Thinking Critically About: The Scientific Attitude

Psychological Science’s Birth and Development

Today’s Psychology

The Need for Psychological Science

The Limits of Common Sense

Psychological Science in a Post-Truth World

How Do Psychologists Ask and Answer Questions?

The Scientific Method

Description

Correlation

Thinking Critically About: Correlation and Causation

Experimentation

Choosing a Research Design

Predicting Everyday Behavior

Psychology’s Research Ethics

Studying and Protecting Animals

Studying and Protecting humans

Values in Psychology

Use Psychology to Improve Your Life and Become a Better Student

Chapter 1 Review

Learning Objectives

Terms and Concepts to Remember

Chapter Test

Chapter 2 The Biology of Behavior and Consciousness

The Power of Plasticity

Neural Communication

A Neuron’s Structure

How Neurons Communicate

How Neurotransmitters Influence Us

The Nervous System

The Peripheral Nervous System

The Central Nervous System

The Endocrine System

The Brain

Tools of Discovery – Having Our Head Examined

Older Brain Structures

The Limbic System

The Cerebral Cortex

Thinking Critically About: Using Only 10 Percent of Our Brain

Responses to Damage

The Divided Brain

Brain States and Consciousness

Selective Attention

Sleep and Dreams

Chapter 2 Review

Learning Objectives

Terms and Concepts to Remember

Chapter Test

Chapter 3 Developing Through the Life Span

Developmental Psychology’s Major Issues

Nature and Nurture

Continuity and Stages

Stability and Change

Prenatal Development and the Newborn

Conception

Prenatal Development

The Competent Newborn

Twin and Adoption Studies

Infancy and Childhood

Physical Development

Cognitive Development

Social Development

Thinking Critically About: Parenting Styles—Too Hard, Too Soft, Too Uncaring, and Just Right?

Adolescence

Physical Development

Cognitive Development

Social Development

Emerging Adulthood

Adulthood

Physical Development

Cognitive Development

Social Development

Chapter 3 Review

Learning Objectives

Terms and Concepts to Remember

Chapter Test

Chapter 4 Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Gender Development

How are Males and Females Alike? How Do They Differ?

Thinking Critically About: Gender Bias in the Workplace

The Nature of Gender

The Nurture of Gender

Thinking Critically About: Sexual Aggression

Human Sexuality

The Physiology of Sex

The Psychology of Sex

Sexual Orientation

Cultural Attitudes and Prevalence

Why Do We Differ?

An Evolutionary Explanation of Human Sexuality

Male-Female Differences in Sexuality

Natural Selection and Mating Preferences

Critiquing the Evolutionary Perspective

Sex and Human Relationships

Reflections on the Nature and Nurture of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Chapter 4 Review

Learning Objectives

Terms and Concepts to Remember

Chapter Test

Chapter 5 Sensation and Perception

Basic Concepts of Sensation and Perception

From Outer Energy to Inner Brain Activity

Thresholds

Thinking Critically About: Subliminal Sensation and Subliminal Persuasion

Sensory Adaptation

Perceptual Set

Context, 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 Other Senses

Hearing

Touch

Taste

Smell

Body Position and Movement

Sensory Interaction

ESP – Perception Without Sensation?

Chapter 5 Review

Learning Objectives

Terms and Concepts to Remember

Chapter Test

Chapter 6 Learning

How Do We Learn?

Classical Conditioning

Pavlov’s Experiments

Pavlov’s Legacy

Operant Conditioning

Skinner’s Experiments

Skinner’s Legacy

Contrasting Classical and Operant Conditioning

Biology, Cognition, and Learning

Biological Limits on Conditioning

Cognitive Influences on Conditioning

Learning by Observation

Mirrors and Imitation in the Brain

Observational Learning in Everyday Life

Thinking Critically About: The Effects of Viewing Media Violence

Chapter 6 Review

Learning Objectives

Terms and Concepts to Remember

Chapter Test

Chapter 7 Memory

Studying Memory

An Information-Processing Model

Building Memories: Encoding

Our Two-Track Memory System

Automatic Processing and Implicit Memories

Effortful Processing and Explicit Memories

Memory Storage

Retaining Information in the Brain

Synaptic Changes

Retrieval: Getting Information Out

Measuring Retention

Retrieval Cues

Forgetting

Forgetting and the Two-Track Mind

Encoding Failure

Storage Decay

Retrieval Failure

Memory Construction Errors

Misinformation and Imagination Effects

Source Amnesia

Recognizing False Memories

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

Children’s Eyewitness Recall

Improving Memory

Chapter 7 Review

Learning Objectives

Terms and Concepts to Remember

Chapter Test

Chapter 8 Thinking, Language, and Intelligence

Thinking

Concepts

Solving Problems

Making Good (and Bad) Decisions and Judgments

Thinking Critically About: The Fear Factor

Thinking Creatively

Do Other Species Share Our Cognitive Skills?

Language

Language Acquisition and Development

The Brain and Language

Thinking Without Language

Do Other Species Have Language?

Intelligence

What Is Intelligence?

Assessing Intelligence

The Nature and Nurture of Intelligence

Intelligence Across the Life Span

Group Differences in Intelligence Test Scores

Chapter 8 Review

Learning Objectives

Terms and Concepts to Remember

Chapter Test

Chapter 9 Motivation and Emotion

Motivational Concepts

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 Need to Belong

The Benefits of Belonging

The Pain of Being Shut Out

Connecting and Social Networking

Achievement Motivation

Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation

How Can We Motivate Personal Success?

Emotion: Arousal, Behavior, and Cognition

James-Lange Theory: Arousal Comes Before Emotion

Cannon-Bard Theory: Arousal and Emotion Happen at the Same Time

Schachter-Singer Two-Factor Theory: Arousal + Label = Emotion

Zajonc, LeDoux, and Lazarus: Emotion and the Two-Track Brain

Embodied Emotion

The Basic Emotions

Emotions and the Autonomic Nervous System

The Physiology of Emotions

Thinking Critically About: Lie Detection

Expressed and Experienced Emotion

Detecting Emotion in Others

Culture and Emotion

The Effects of Facial Expressions

Chapter 9 Review

Learning Objectives

Terms and Concepts to Remember

Chapter Test

Chapter 10 Stress, Health, and Human Flourishing

Stress: Some Basic Concepts

Stressors – Things That Push Our Buttons

Stress Reactions – From Alarm to Exhaustion

Stress Effects and Health

Stress and Cancer

Stress and Heart Disease

Thinking Critically About: Stress and Health

Coping With Stress

Personal Control, Health, and Well-Being

Is the Glass Half Full or Half Empty?

Social Support

Finding Meaning

Managing Stress Effects

Aerobic Exercise

Relaxation and Meditation

Faith Communities and Health

Happiness

The Short Life of Emotional Ups and Downs

Can Money Buy Happiness?

Predictors of Happiness

Chapter 10 Review

Learning Objectives

Terms and Concepts to Remember

Chapter Test

Chapter 11 Social Psychology

What Is Social Psychology’s Focus?

Social Thinking

The Fundamental Attribution Error

Attitudes and Actions

Persuasion

Thinking Critically About: How to Be Persuasive

Social Influence

Conformity and Obedience

Group Influence

Thinking Critically About: The Internet as Social Amplifier

Social Relations

Prejudice

Aggression

Attraction

Altruism

From Conflict to Peace

Chapter 11 Review

Learning Objectives

Terms and Concepts to Remember

Chapter Test

Chapter 12 Personality

What Is Personality?

Psychodynamic Theories

Freud’s Psychoanalytic Perspective: Exploring the Unconscious

The Neo-Freudian and Later Psychodynamic Theorists

Assessing Unconscious Processes

Evaluating Freud’s Psychoanalytic Perspective and Modern Views of the Unconscious

Humanistic Theories

Abraham Maslow’s Self-Actualizing Person

Carl Rogers’ Person-Centered Perspective

Assessing the Self

Evaluating Humanistic Theories

Trait Theories

Exploring Traits

Thinking Critically About: The Stigma of Introversion

Assessing Traits

The Big Five Factors

Evaluating Trait Theories

Social-Cognitive Theories

Reciprocal Influences

Assessing Behavior in Situations

Evaluating Social-Cognitive Theories

Exploring the Self

The Benefits of Self-Esteem

Self-Serving Bias

Culture and the Self

Chapter 12 Review

Learning Objectives

Terms and Concepts to Remember

Chapter Test

Chapter 13 Psychological Disorders

What Is a Psychological Disorder?

Defining Psychological Disorders

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

Understanding Psychological Disorders

Classifying Disorders–and Labeling People

Anxiety Disorders, OCD, and PTSD

Anxiety Disorders

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Understanding Anxiety Disorders, OCD, and PTSD

Substance Use Disorders

Tolerance and Addiction

Thinking Critically About: Tolerance and Addiction

Types of Psychoactive Drugs

Understanding Substance Use Disorders

Major Depressive Disorder and Bipolar Disorder

Major Depressive Disorder

Bipolar Disorder

Understanding Major Depressive Disorder and Bipolar Disorder

Schizophrenia

Symptoms of Schizophrenia

Onset and Development of Schizophrenia

Understanding Schizophrenia

Other Disorders

Eating Disorders

Dissociative Disorders

Personality Disorders

Risk of Harm to Self and Others

Understanding Suicide

Nonsuicidal Self-Injury

Does Disorder Equal Danger?

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