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Chapter 1 - The Science Of PsychologyChapter 1.3 - What Were The Basic Ideas And Who Were The Important People Behind The Early Approaches Known As Gestalt, Psychoanalysis, And Behaviorism?Chapter 1.5 - How Does A Psychologist Differ From A Psychiatrist, And What Are The Other Types Of Professionals Who Work In The Various Areas Of Psychology?Chapter 1.8 - How Are Case Studies And Surveys Used To Describe Behavior, And What Are Some Drawbacks To Each Of These Methods?Chapter 1.12 - What Are Some Basic Elements Of A Real-world Experiment?Chapter 1.13 - What Are Some Ethical Concerns That Can Occur When Conducting Research With People And Animals?Chapter 1.14 - What Are The Basic Principles Of Critical Thinking, And How Can Critical Thinking Be Useful In Everyday Life?Chapter 2 - The Biological PerspectiveChapter 2.2 - How Do Neurons Use Neurotransmitters To Communicate With Each Other And With The Body?Chapter 2.3 - How Do The Brain And Spinal Cord Interact, What Are Some Misconceptions About The Brain, And What Is Neuroplasticity?
Chapter 2.5 - How Do The Hormones Released By Glands Interact With The Nervous System And Affect Behavior?Chapter 2.8 - What Are The Structures Of The Brain That Control Emotion, Learning, Memory, And Motivation?Chapter 2.10 - What Parts Of The Cortex Are Responsible For Higher Forms Of Thought, Such As Language?Chapter 2.11 - How Does The Left Side Of The Brain Differ From The Right Side?Chapter 2.12 - What Are Some Potential Causes Of Attention-deficit/hyperactivity Disorder?Chapter 3 - Sensation And PerceptionChapter 3.1 - How Does Sensation Travel Through The Central Nervous System, And Why Are Some Sensations Ignored?Chapter 3.3 - How Do The Eyes See, And How Do The Eyes See Different Colors?Chapter 3.5 - Why Are Some People Unable To Hear, And How Can Their Hearing Be Improved?Chapter 3.7 - What Allows People To Experience The Sense Of Touch, Pain, Motion, And Balance?Chapter 3.11 - What Are Visual Illusions And How Can They And Other Factors Influence And Alter Perception?Chapter 4 - ConsciousnessChapter 4.2 - Why Do People Need To Sleep, And How Does Sleep Work?Chapter 4.4 - How Do Sleep Disorders Interfere With Normal Sleep?Chapter 4.5 - Why Do People Dream, And What Do They Dream About?Chapter 4.6 - How Does Hypnosis Affect Consciousness?Chapter 4.9 - What Are Some Of The Effects And Dangers Of Using Hallucinogens, Including Marijuana?Chapter 4.10 - How Can The Workings Of Our Consciousness Explain “supernatural” Visitations?Chapter 5 - LearningChapter 5.2 - How Was Classical Conditioning First Studied, And What Are The Important Elements And Characteristics Of Classical Conditioning?Chapter 5.3 - What Is A Conditioned Emotional Response, And How Do Cognitive Psychologists Explain Classical Conditioning?Chapter 5.5 - What Are The Important Concepts In Operant Conditioning?Chapter 5.8 - What Are Some Of The Problems With Using Punishment?Chapter 5.9 - How Do Operant Stimuli Control Behavior, And What Are Some Other Concepts That Can Enhance Or Limit Operant Conditioning?Chapter 5.10 - What Is Behavior Modification, And How Can Behavioral Techniques Be Used To Modify Involuntary Biological Responses?Chapter 5.12 - What Is Observational Learning, And What Are The Four Elements Of Modeling?Chapter 5.13 - What Is A Real-world Example Of The Use Of Conditioning?Chapter 6 - MemoryChapter 6.1 - What Are The Three Processes Of Memory And The Different Models Of How Memory Works?Chapter 6.5 - What Are The Various Types Of Long-term Memory, And How Is Information Stored In Long-term Memory Organized?Chapter 6.7 - How Do The Retrieval Processes Of Recall And Recognition Differ, And How Reliable Are Our Memories Of Events?Chapter 6.9 - What Is False-memory Syndrome?Chapter 6.12 - How Does Amnesia Occur?Chapter 6.13 - How Do Sleep, Exercise, And Diet Affect Memory?Chapter 7 - Cognition: Thinking, Intelligence, And LanguageChapter 7.2 - What Are The Methods People Use To Solve Problems And Make Decisions?Chapter 7.3 - Why Does Problem Solving Sometimes Fail, And What Is Meant By Creative Thinking?Chapter 7.5 - How Is Intelligence Measured, How Are Intelligence Tests Constructed, And What Role Do These Tests Play In Neuropsychology?Chapter 7.7 - What Defines Giftedness, And How Are Giftedness And Emotional Intelligence Related To Success In Life?Chapter 7.8 - What Is The Influence Of Heredity And Environment On The Development Of Intelligence?Chapter 7.10 - Does Language Influence The Way People Think, And Are Animals Capable Of Learning Language?Chapter 7.11 - What Are Some Ways To Improve Thinking?Chapter 8 - Development Across The Life SpanChapter 8.3 - How Do Chromosomes, Genes, And Dna Determine A Person’s Characteristics Or Disorders?Chapter 8.4 - What Happens During Conception And Prenatal Development And What Are Some Prenatal Hazards?Chapter 8.5 - What Kind Of Physical Changes Take Place In Infancy And Childhood?Chapter 8.6 - What Are Two Ways Of Looking At Cognitive Development, How Does Language Develop, And What Is Autism Spectrum Disorder?Chapter 8.7 - How Do Infants And Children Develop Personalities And Form Relationships With Others, And What Are Erikson’s Stages Of Psychosocial Development For Children?Chapter 8.8 - What Are The Physical, Cognitive, And Personality Changes That Occur In Adolescence, Including Concepts Of Morality And Erikson’s Search For Identity?Chapter 8.9 - What Are The Physical, Cognitive, And Personality Changes That Occur During Adulthood And Aging, Including Erikson’s Last Three Psychosocial Stages, And Patterns Of Parenting?Chapter 8.10 - How Do Psychologists Explain Why Aging Occurs, And What Are The Stages Of Death And Dying?Chapter 8.11 - What Are Some Cross-cultural Differences In Views Of Death And Dying?Chapter 9 - Motivation And EmotionChapter 9.2 - What Are The Characteristics Of The Three Types Of Needs?Chapter 9.4 - How Do Maslow’s Hierarchy Of Needs And Selfdetermination Theories Explain Motivation?Chapter 9.6 - What Are Some Biological, Social, And Cultural Factors That Contribute To Obesity?Chapter 9.9 - What Are The Key Elements In Cognitive Arousal Theory, The Facial Feedback Hypothesis, And The Cognitive-mediational Theory Of Emotion?Chapter 10 - Sexuality And GenderChapter 10.2 - What Is Gender, And How Can Biology And Learning Influence Gender-role Development?Chapter 10.4 - How Do Men And Women Differ In Thinking, Social Behavior, And Personality?Chapter 10.5 - What Happens In The Bodies Of Women And Men During Sexual Intercourse?Chapter 10.7 - How Do Different Sexual Orientations Develop?Chapter 10.9 - What Are Sexually Transmitted Infections, And What Can Be Done To Prevent The Spread Of These Disorders?Chapter 11 - Stress And HealthChapter 11.2 - What Kinds Of External Events Can Cause Stress?Chapter 11.3 - What Are Some Psychological Factors In Stress?Chapter 11.4 - How Does Stress Affect The Physical Functioning Of The Body And Its Immune System?Chapter 11.5 - How Do Cognitive Factors And Personality Differences Affect The Experience Of Stress?Chapter 11.6 - What Social Factors Influence Stress Reactions?Chapter 11.8 - How Is Coping With Stress Affected By Culture And Religion?Chapter 11.9 - What Are Some Ways To Become A More Optimistic Thinker?Chapter 12 - Social PsychologyChapter 12.3 - What Factors Make Obedience More Likely?Chapter 12.5 - How Do People React When Attitudes And Behavior Are Not The Same?Chapter 12.7 - How Do People Try To Explain The Actions Of Others?Chapter 12.9 - Why Are People Prejudiced, And How Can Prejudice Be Stopped?Chapter 12.10 - What Factors Govern Attraction And Love, And What Are Some Different Kinds Of Love?Chapter 12.12 - What Is Altruism, And How Is Deciding To Help Someone Related To The Presence Of Others?Chapter 12.13 - What Is Social Neuroscience?Chapter 13 - Theories Of PersonalityChapter 13.3 - How Did The Neo-freudians Modify Freud’s Theory, And How Does Modern Psychodynamic Theory Differ From That Of Freud’s?Chapter 13.5 - How Do Humanists Such As Carl Rogers Explain Personality?Chapter 13.6 - How Does The Trait Perspective Conceptualize Personality?Chapter 13.7 - What Part Do Biology, Heredity, And Culture Play In Personality?Chapter 13.8 - What Are The Advantages And Disadvantages Of Various Measures Of Personality?Chapter 13.9 - What Are Some Biological Bases Of The Big Five Theory Of Personality?Chapter 14 - Psychological DisordersChapter 14.3 - What Are The Different Types Of Psychological Disorders, And How Common Are They?Chapter 14.5 - What Are Different Disorders Of Mood And Their Causes?Chapter 14.7 - How Do The Various Dissociative Disorders Differ, And How Do They Develop?Chapter 14.9 - How Do Various Personality Disorders Differ, And What Is Thought To Be The Cause Of Personality Disorders?Chapter 14.10 - What Are Some Ways To Overcome Test Anxiety?Chapter 15 - Psychological TherapiesChapter 15.3 - What Are The Basic Elements Of The Humanistic Therapies Known As Person-centered Therapy And Gestalt Therapy?Chapter 15.6 - What Are The Various Types Of Group Therapies And The Advantages And Disadvantages Of Group Therapy?Chapter 15.7 - How Effective Is Psychotherapy, And What Factors Influence Its Effectiveness?Chapter 15.9 - How Are Electroconvulsive Therapy And Psychosurgery Used To Treat Psychological Disorders Today?Chapter 15.10 - How Might Computers Be Used In Psychotherapy?Chapter A - Statistics In PsychologyChapter B - Applied Psychology And Psychology CareersChapter B.7 - What Are Industrial/organizational Psychology And Human Factors Psychology?Chapter B.8 - What Are Some Techniques Used In Sports Psychology?Chapter PIA - Psychology In ActionChapter PIA.4 - ConsciousnessChapter PIA.6 - MemoryChapter PIA.7 - Cognition: Thinking, Intelligence, And Language
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