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Chapter 1 — What Is Psychology?
Psychology, Pseudoscience, and Popular Opinion
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The Appeal of Pseudoscience
Thinking Critically and Creatively about Psychology
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Analyzing Arguments
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Thinking Critically About Mystical Messages
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Stories versus Statistics
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pg.14 Critical Thinking: I Know It's a Good Thing, But What Is It?
Chapter 2—How Psychologists Do Research
Descriptive Studies: Establishing the Facts
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pg.42 2.1 The Experimental Method
Correlational Studies: Looking for Relations
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pg.49 2.2 Correlational Studies
Experiments: Hunting for Causes
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pg.49 2.3 Observational: Lab vs. Naturalistic
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pg.50 Nicotine Impairs Driving Ability
Evaluating the Findings
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2.4 Descriptive vs. Inferencial
Chapter 3—Genes, Evolution, and Environment
Unlocking the Secrets of Genes
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Pg.72 3.1 Genes, Chromosomes, and DNA
The Genetics of Similarity
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Pg.73 3.2 Evolution and Natural Selection
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pg.76 Associative Play
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pg.76 Cooperative Play
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pg.76 Onlooker Play
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pg.76 Parallel Play
Chapter 4 -- The Brain: Source of Mind and Self
The Nervous System: A Basic Blueprint
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pg.107 CNS & PNS
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Communication in the Nervous System
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pg.111 The Structure of a Neuron
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A Tour through the Brain
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How Critical Are the First Years of Life?
Neurotransmitter Crossing a Synapse
Action at the Synapse
4.1 Neurons and Neural Impulses
4.2 Nervous System Chemicals and Their Effects
The Human Brain
The Limbic System
4.3 Major Brain Structures and Functions
Lobes of the Cerebral Cortex
The Two Hemispheres of the Brain
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pg.129 4.4 Hemispheric Specialization
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pg.130 Visual Pathways
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pg.132 Experiment: Hemispheric Specialization
Two Stubborn Issues in Brain Research
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pg.137 Sex Differences in the Brain
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pg.139 Biological Politics and the Study of Gender
Chapter 5—Body Rhythms and Mental States
The Rhythms of Sleep
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pg.152 5.1 Stages of Sleep
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pg.152 Are We Chronically Sleep-Deprived?
Exploring the Dream World
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pg.160 5.3 Investigating Dreams
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pg.161 5.4 The Meaning of Dreams
Consciousness-Altering Drugs
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pg.163 5.2 Psychoactive Drugs and Their Effects
Chapter 6—Sensation and Perception
Our Sensational Senses
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pg.185 Experiment: Just Noticeable Difference/Weber’s Law
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pg.188 Experiment: Selective Attention
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pg.188 Experiment: Divided Attention
Vision
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pg.190 The Retinal Image
pg.191 6.1 Structures of the Human Eye
pg.195 6.2 Gestalt Principles
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pg.196 Investigating Depth Perception
pg.196 6.3 Depth and Dimension
pg.200 6.4 Perceptual Illusions
Hearing
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pg.203 An Ear on the World
pg.204 6.5 Structures of the Human Ear
Other Senses
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pg.206 Taste
pg.208 Investigating Olfaction: The Nose Knows
Perceptual Powers: Origins and Influences
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pg.214 Experiment: Ambiguous Figures
Chapter 7—Learning and Conditioning
Classical Conditioning
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pg.226 7.1 Classical Conditioning Process
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pg.228 Experiment: Shaping
Operant Conditioning
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pg.246 7.2 Operant Conditioning Process
Learning and the Mind
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pg.253 Experiment: Latent Learning
Chapter 8—Behaviour in Social and Cultural Context
Social Influences on Beliefs
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pg.272 8.1 Attributions
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pg.275 Experiment: Mere Exposure
Individuals in Groups
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pg.280 8.2 Conformity
pg.283 Predicting Our Own Social Behaviour
Us versus Them: Group Identity and Conflict
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pg.286 Are We Sugarcoating Culture? Thinking Critically About the
Study of Diversity
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pg.288 Investigating Social Judgments
Group Conflict and Prejudice
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pg.289 8.3 Prejudice
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Chapter 9—Thinking and Intelligence
Thought: Using What We Know
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pg.307 Experiment: Mental Rotation
Barriers to Reasoning Rationally
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pg.320 Understanding Mental Models
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pg.322 9.1 Barriers to Rational Thinking
Measuring Intelligence: The Psychometric Approach
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Dissecting Intelligence: The Cognitive Approach
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pg.331 The Growing Popularity of "Emotional Intelligence"
Chapter 10—Memory
Memory and the Power of Suggestion
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pg.352 Student Activity: Test Your Memory
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pg.352 Creating False Memories
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pg.355 The Day-care Sex-Abuse Scandals
In Pursuit of Memory
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pg.356 10.1 Measuring Memory
pg.357 10.2 Information-Processing Model of Memory
The Three-Box Model of Memory
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pg.360 Experiment: Digit Span
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pg.363 Experiment: Serial Position Effects
How We Remember
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pg.371 Experiment: Depth of Processing
pg.371 10.3 Mnemonics
Why We Forget
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pg.372 10.4 Theories of Forgetting
pg.376 Recovered Memory Experiences
Chapter 11—Emotion
Elements of Emotion 2: The Mind
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pg.389 11.1 Facial Expressions of Emotion
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pg.391 Experiment: Transfer of Emotions
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pg.392 Is Embarrassment a Distinct Emotion?
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pg.395 Emotion, Memory, and the Brain
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Chapter 12—Motivation
The Hungry Animal: Motives to Eat
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pg.424 Bulimia: The Case of Ann
The Social Animal: Motives to Love
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Chapter 13—Theories of Personality
Genetic Influences on Personality
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pg.464 Nature vs. Nurture: Genes Win Again!
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pg.464 13.1 Heritability and Personality
Psychodynamic Influences on Personality
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pg.476 The Structure of Personality
Chapter 14—Development over the Lifespan
From Conception through the First Year
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Cognitive Development
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pg.503 Self Awareness at 12 months
Babies, Phonetics, and Mastering Language
pg.503 Self Awareness at 15 months
pg.504 Habituation/Dishabituation
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pg.504 Object Permanence
pg.505 14.1 Conservation
pg.505 Preoperational Thinking
pg.505 Conservation of Number
pg.505 Practical Application of Conservation
pg.505 Concrete Operational
pg.506 Preoperational
pg.506 Concrete Operational
pg.506 Scaffolding
pg.506 Scaffolding
Prenatal Development
Physical and Perceptual Abilities
Babinski Reflex
Grasping Reflex
Moro Reflex
Suckling Reflex
Synaptic Development
Separation Anxiety
Stranger Anxiety
Social Referencing: Cautious
Social Referencing: Positive
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Preschool
Concrete Operational
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Formal Operational
Gender Development
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Opposite Sexes?
Gender Typing: Grade School
Gender Typing: Preschool
Challenging the Nuture Assumption
The Paradox of Gender
Adolescence
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Physical Growth
Adolescent Violence
Imaginary Audience
Invincibility Fable
Chapter 15—Health, Stress, and Coping
The Physiology of Stress
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15.1 Stress and Selye’s Syndrome
15.2 The Brain and the Body Under Stress
The Psychology of Stress
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Experiment: Stress and Health
Coping with Stress
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Thinking Critically about Alternative Medicine
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Chapter 16—Psychological Disorders
Defining and Diagnosing Disorder
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Patients as Educators Video
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Anxiety Disorders
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Mood Disorders
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Experiment: Psychological Disorders
Gender Identity Disorder
Domestic Abuse
The Politics of Diagnosis
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Panic Disorder
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
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Bipolar Disorder
Manic Depressive Illness and Creativity
Depression
Recognizing Mood Disorders
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Personality Disorders
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Antisocial Personality Disorder
Dissociative Identity Disorder
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Emotional Epidemics
Schizophrenia
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Schizophrenia
Chapter 17—Approaches to Treatment and Therapy
Biological Treatments for Mental Disorders
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pg.614 Drugs used in the treatment of Psychological Disorders
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pg.615 Can you be cured by a placebo?
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pg.616 Medicating the Mind
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pg.617 The Limits of Medication
Kinds of Psychotherapy
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pg.619 Goals and Methods of Therapy
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pg.628 Thinking Critically about Psychotherapy
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