Understanding Psychology - Brossura

Feldman, Robert S

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ISBN 10: 0071266496 ISBN 13: 9780071266499

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2008

Riassunto

Students First. 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, Understanding Psychology, Eighth Edition, draws students into the field and stimulate 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.

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Contenuti

Chapter 1 Introduction to Psychology

Module 1: Psychologists at Work

Module 2: A Science Evolves: The Past, the Present, and the Future

Module 3: Psychology’s Key Issues and Controversies

Chapter 2 Psychological Research

Module 4: The Scientific Method

Module 5: Conducting Psychological Research

Module 6: Critical Research Issues

Mastering the Experimental Method: The Difference between Dependent and Independent Variables

Chapter 3 Neuroscience and Behavior

Module 7: Neurons: The Basic Elements of Behavior

Module 8: The Nervous System and the Endocrine System: Communicating Within the Body

Module 9: The Brain

Mastering the Action Potential

Chapter 4 Sensation and Perception

Module 10: Sensing the World Around Us

Module 11: Vision: Shedding Light on the Eye

Module 12: Hearing and the Other Senses

Module 13: Perceptual Organization: Constructing Our View of the World

Mastering the Difference between Sensation and Perception

Chapter 5 States of Consciousness

Module 14: Sleep and Dreams

Module 15: Hypnosis and Meditation

Module 16: Drug Use: The Highs and Lows of Consciousness

Chapter 6 Learning

Module 17: Classical Conditioning

Module 18: Operant Conditioning

Module 19: Cognitive Approaches to Learning

Mastering the Distinction between Reinforcement and Punishment

Chapter 7 Memory

Module 20: The Foundations of Memory

Module 21: Recalling Long-Term Memories

Module 22: Forgetting: When Memory Fails

Chapter 8 Cognition and Language

Module 23: Thinking and Reasoning

Module 24: Problem Solving

Module 25: Language

Chapter 9 Intelligence

Module 26: What is Intelligence?

Module 27: Variations in Intellectual Ability

Module 28: Group Differences in Intelligence: Genetic and Environmental Determinants

Chapter 10 Motivation and Emotion

Module 29: Explaining Motivation

Module 30: Human Needs and Motivation: Eat, Drink, and Be Daring

Module 31: Understanding Emotional Experiences

Module 32: Nonverbal Behavior and the Expression of Emotions

Chapter 11 Sexuality and Gender

Module 33: Gender and Sex

Module 34: Understanding Human Sexual Response: The Facts of Life

Module 35: The Diversity of Sexual Behavior

Module 36: Sexual Difficulties: When Sex Goes Wrong

Chapter 12 Development

Module 37: Nature and Nurture: The Enduring Developmental Issue

Module 38: Prenatal Development: Conception to Birth

Module 39: Infancy and Childhood

Module 40: Adolescence: Becoming an Adult

Module 41: Adulthood

Chapter 13 Personality

Module 42: Psychodynamic Approaches to Personality

Module 43: Trait, Learning, Biological, Evolutionary, and Humanistic Approaches to Personality

Module 44: Assessing Personality: Determining What Makes Us Distinctive

Chapter 14 Health Psychology: Stress, Coping, and Well-Being

Module 45: Stress and Coping

Module 46: Psychological Aspects of Illness and Well-Being

Module 47: Promoting Health and Wellness

Chapter 15 Psychological Disorders

Module 48: Normal Versus Abnormal: Making the Distinction

Module 49: The Major Psychological Disorders

Module 50: Psychological Disorders in Perspective

Chapter 16 Treatment of Psychological Disorders

Module 51: Psychotherapy: Psychodynamic, Behavioral, and Cognitive Approaches to Treatment

Module 52: Psychotherapy: Humanistic, Interpersonal, and Group Approaches to Treatment

Module 53: Biomedical Therapy: Biological Approaches to Treatment

Chapter 17 Social Psychology

Module 54: Attitudes and Social Cognition

Module 55: Social Influence

Module 56: Prejudice and Discrimination

Module 57: Positive and Negative Social Behavior

Mastering Attitude Change

Appendix: Going by the Numbers: Statistics in Psychology

Module 58: Descriptive Statistics

Module 59: Measures of Variability

Module 60: Using Statistics to Answer Questions: Inferential Statistics and Correlation

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0071266496
• ISBN 13: 9780071266499
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile