Introduction to Psychology | Charles Stangor

- 1Introducing Psychology
- 2Psychological Science
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  - 2.1Psychologists Use the Scientific Method to Guide Their Research
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  - 2.2Psychologists Use Descriptive, Correlational, and Experimental Research Designs to Understand Behavior
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  - 2.3You Can Be an Informed Consumer of Psychological Research
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  - 2.4Chapter Summary
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- 3Brains, Bodies, and Behavior
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  - 3.1The Neuron Is the Building Block of the Nervous System
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  - 3.2Our Brains Control Our Thoughts, Feelings, and Behavior
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  - 3.3Psychologists Study the Brain Using Many Different Methods
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  - 3.4Putting It All Together: The Nervous System and the Endocrine System
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  - 3.5Chapter Summary
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- 4Sensing and Perceiving
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  - 4.1We Experience Our World Through Sensation
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  - 4.2Seeing
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  - 4.3Hearing
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  - 4.4Tasting, Smelling, and Touching
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  - 4.5Accuracy and Inaccuracy in Perception
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  - 4.6Chapter Summary
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- 5Consciousness, Body Rhythms, and Mental States
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  - 5.1Sleeping and Dreaming Revitalize Us for Action
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  - 5.2Altering Consciousness With Psychoactive Drugs
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  - 5.3Altering Consciousness Without Drugs
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  - 5.4Chapter Summary
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- 6Growing and Developing Across the Lifespan
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  - 6.1Conception and Prenatal Development
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  - 6.2Infancy and Childhood: Exploring and Learning
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  - 6.3Adolescence: Developing Independence and Identity
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  - 6.4Early and Middle Adulthood: Building Effective Lives
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  - 6.5Late Adulthood: Aging, Retiring, and Bereavement
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  - 6.6Chapter Summary
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- 7Learning
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  - 7.1Learning by Association: Classical Conditioning
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  - 7.2Changing Behavior Through Reinforcement and Punishment: Operant Conditioning
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  - 7.3Learning by Insight and Observation
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  - 7.4Using the Principles of Learning to Understand Everyday Behavior
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- 8Remembering and Judging
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  - 8.1Memories as Types and Stages
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  - 8.2How We Remember: Cues to Improving Memory
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  - 8.3Accuracy and Inaccuracy in Memory and Cognition
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  - 8.4Chapter Summary
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- 9Intelligence and Language
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  - 9.1Defining and Measuring Intelligence
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  - 9.2The Social, Cultural, and Political Aspects of Intelligence
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  - 9.3Communicating With Others: The Development and Use of Language
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  - 9.4Chapter Summary
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- 10Emotions and Motivation: Happiness, Stress, Health, Eating, and Sex
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  - 10.1The Experience of Emotion
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  - 10.2Stress: The Unseen Killer
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  - 10.3Positive Emotions: The Power of Happiness
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  - 10.4Two Fundamental Human Motivations: Eating and Mating
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  - 10.5Chapter Summary
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- 11Psychology in Our Social Lives
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  - 11.1Social Cognition: Making Sense of Ourselves and Others
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  - 11.2Interacting with Others: Helping, Hurting, and Conforming
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  - 11.3Working With Others: The Costs and Benefits of Social Groups
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  - 11.4Chapter Summary
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- 12Personality
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  - 12.1Personality and Behavior: Approaches and Measurement
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  - 12.2The Origins of Personality
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  - 12.3Is Personality More Nature or More Nurture? Behavioral and Molecular Genetics
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  - 12.4Chapter Summary
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- 13Defining Psychological Disorders
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  - 13.1Psychological Disorder: What Makes a Behavior “Abnormal”?
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  - 13.2Anxiety and Dissociative Disorders: Fearing the World Around Us
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  - 13.3Depressive Disorders: Emotions as Illness
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  - 13.4Schizophrenia: The Edge of Reality and Consciousness
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  - 13.5Personality Disorders
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  - 13.6Physical, Sexual, Eating, and Sleeping Disorders
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  - 13.7Chapter Summary
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- 14Treating Psychological Disorders
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  - 14.1Reducing Disorder by Confronting It: Psychotherapy
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  - 14.2Reducing Disorder Biologically: Drug and Brain Therapy
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  - 14.3Reducing Disorder by Changing the Social Situation
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  - 14.4Evaluating Treatment and Prevention: What Works?
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  - 14.5Chapter Summary
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- 15Answers to Quiz Questions
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  - 15.1Chapter 1
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  - 15.2Chapter 2
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  - 15.3Chapter 3
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  - 15.4Chapter 4
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  - 15.5Chapter 5
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  - 15.6Chapter 6
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  - 15.7Chapter 7
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  - 15.8Chapter 8
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  - 15.9Chapter 9
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  - 15.10Chapter 10
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  - 15.11Chapter 11
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  - 15.12Chapter 12
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  - 15.13Chapter 13
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  - 15.14Chapter 14
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