PSYCHOLOGY in Everyday Life

PSYCHOLOGY in Everyday Life

Preface

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Chapter 1: Psychology's Roots, Big Ideas, and Critical Thinking Tools

Chapter 1 Introduction

1.1 Psychology's Roots

1.2 Four Big Ideas in Psychology

1.3 Why Do Psychology?

1.4 How Do Psychologists Ask and Answer Questions?

1.5 Psychology's Research Ethics

1.6 Use Psychology to Become a Stronger Person and a Better Student

Chapter 1 Review

Chapter 1 Terms and Concepts to Remember

Chapter 1 Chapter Test

Chapter 1 In Your Everyday Life

Chapter 2: The Biology of Mind and Consciousness

Chapter 2 Introduction

2.1 The Brain: A Work in Progress

2.2 Neural Communication

2.3 The Nervous System

2.4 The Endocrine System

2.5 The Brain

2.6 Brain States and Consciousness

Chapter 2 Review

Chapter 2 Terms and Concepts to Remember

Chapter 2 Chapter Test

Chapter 2 In Your Everyday Life

Chapter 3: Developing Through the Life Span

Chapter 3 Introduction

3.1 Developmental Psychology's Major Issues

3.2 Prenatal Development and the Newborn

3.3 Infancy and Childhood

3.4 Adolescence

3.5 Adulthood

Chapter 3 Review

Chapter 3 Terms and Concepts to Remember

Chapter 3 Chapter Test

Chapter 3 In Your Everyday Life

Chapter 4: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Chapter 4 Introduction

4.1 Gender Development

4.2 Human Sexuality

4.3 Sexual Orientation

4.4 An Evolutionary Explanation of Human Sexuality

4.5 Social Influences on Human Sexuality

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

Chapter 4 Review

Chapter 4 Terms and Concepts to Remember

Chapter 4 Chapter Test

Chapter 4 In Your Everyday Life

Chapter 5: Sensation and Perception

Chapter 5 Introduction

5.1 Basic Concepts of Sensation and Perception

5.2 Vision: Sensory and Perceptual Processing

5.3 The Nonvisual Senses

5.4 Sensory Interaction

5.5 ESP—Perception Without Sensation?

Chapter 5 Review

Chapter 5 Terms and Concepts to Remember

Chapter 5 Chapter Test

Chapter 5 In Your Everyday Life

Chapter 6: Learning

Chapter 6 Introduction

6.1 How Do We Learn?

6.2 Classical Conditioning

6.3 Operant Conditioning

6.4 Biology, Cognition, and Learning

6.5 Learning by Observation

Chapter 6 Review

Chapter 6 Terms and Concepts to Remember

Chapter 6 Chapter Test

Chapter 6 In Your Everyday Life

Chapter 7: Memory

Chapter 7 Introduction

7.1 Studying Memory

7.2 Building Memories: Encoding

7.3 Memory Storage

7.4 Retrieval: Getting Information Out

7.5 Forgetting

7.6 Memory Construction Errors

7.7 Improving Memory

Chapter 7 Review

Chapter 7 Terms and Concepts to Remember

Chapter 7 Chapter Test

Chapter 7 In Your Everyday Life

Chapter 8: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence

Chapter 8 Introduction

8.1 Thinking

8.2 Language

8.3 Intelligence

Chapter 8 Review

Chapter 8 Terms and Concepts to Remember

Chapter 8 Chapter Test

Chapter 8 In Your Everyday Life

Chapter 9: Motivation and Emotion

Chapter 9 Introduction

9.1 Motivational Concepts

9.2 Hunger

9.3 The Need to Belong

9.4 Emotion: Arousal, Behavior, and Cognition

9.5 Embodied Emotion

9.6 Expressed and Experienced Emotion

Chapter 9 Review

Chapter 9 Terms and Concepts to Remember

Chapter 9 Chapter Test

Chapter 9 In Your Everyday Life

Chapter 10: Stress, Health, and Human Flourishing

Chapter 10 Introduction

10.1 Stress: Some Basic Concepts

10.2 Stress Effects and Health

10.3 Coping With Stress

10.4 Managing Stress Effects

10.5 Happiness

Chapter 10 Review

Chapter 10 Terms and Concepts to Remember

Chapter 10 Chapter Test

Chapter 10 In Your Everyday Life

Chapter 11: Social Psychology

Chapter 11 Introduction

11.1 What Is Social Psychology's Focus?

11.2 Social Thinking

11.3 Social Influence

11.4 Social Relations

Chapter 11 Review

Chapter 11 Terms and Concepts to Remember

Chapter 11 Chapter Test

Chapter 11 In Your Everyday Life

Chapter 12: Personality

Chapter 12 Introduction

12.1 What Is Personality?

12.2 Psychodynamic Theories

12.3 Humanistic Theories

12.4 Trait Theories

12.5 Social-Cognitive Theories

12.6 Exploring the Self

Chapter 12 Review

Chapter 12 Terms and Concepts to Remember

Chapter 12 Chapter Test

Chapter 12 In Your Everyday Life

Chapter 13: Psychological Disorders

Chapter 13 Introduction

13.1 What Is a Psychological Disorder?

13.2 Anxiety Disorders, OCD, and PTSD

13.3 Substance Use Disorders and Addictive Behaviors

13.4 Major Depressive Disorder and Bipolar Disorder

13.5 Schizophrenia

13.6 Other Disorders

13.7 Does “Disorder” Equal “Danger”?

Chapter 13 Review

Chapter 13 Terms and Concepts to Remember

Chapter 13 Chapter Test

Chapter 13 In Your Everyday Life

Chapter 14: Therapy

Chapter 14 Introduction

14.1 Treating Psychological Disorders

14.2 The Psychological Therapies

14.3 Evaluating Psychotherapies

14.4 The Biomedical Therapies

14.5 Preventing Psychological Disorders and Building Resilience

Chapter 14 Review

Chapter 14 Terms and Concepts to Remember

Chapter 14 Chapter Test

Chapter 14 In Your Everyday Life

Appendix A: Statistical Reasoning in Everyday Life

Appendix A Introduction

A.1 Describing Data

A.2 Significant Differences

Appendix A Review

Appendix A Terms and Concepts to Remember

Appendix A Test

Appendix B: Psychology at Work

Appendix B Introduction

B.1 Work and Life Satisfaction

B.2 Industrial-Organizational Psychology

B.3 Motivating Achievement

B.4 Leadership

Appendix B Review

Appendix B Terms and Concepts to Remember

Appendix B Test

Appendix C: Subfields of Psychology

Subfields of Psychology

Appendix D: Complete Chapter Reviews

Appendix D Introduction

Chapter 1: Psychology's Roots, Big Ideas, and Critical Thinking Tools

Chapter 2: The Biology of Mind and Consciousness

Chapter 3: Developing Through the Life Span

Chapter 4: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Chapter 5: Sensation and Perception

Chapter 6: Learning

Chapter 7: Memory

Chapter 8: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence

Chapter 9: Motivation and Emotion

Chapter 10: Stress, Health, and Human Flourishing

Chapter 11: Social Psychology

Chapter 12: Personality

Chapter 13: Psychological Disorders

Chapter 14: Therapy

Appendix A: Statistical Reasoning in Everyday Life

Appendix B: Psychology at Work

Glossary

Glossary

Glosario

Glosario

References

References

PSYCHOLOGY in Everyday Life

PSYCHOLOGY in Everyday Life

Preface

Time Management