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Table of Contents

    • About the Authors
    • Acknowledgments
    • Preface
    • 1Welcome to Psychology
      • 1.1What Psychologists Do
      • 1.2Psychology as a Science
      • 1.3Themes
      • 1.4Psychology’s History: Yesterday and Today 
      • 1.5Chapter Summary
    • 2Research Methods: The Science of Psychology

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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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      • 2.3Critical Thinking about Psychological Research in the News

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      • 2.4Chapter Summary

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    • 3Biological Psychology: The Brain at Work

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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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    • 4Sensation and Perception: Experiencing the World Around Us

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      • 4.1We Experience Our World Through Sensation

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      • 4.2Vision

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      • 4.3Hearing

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      • 4.4Taste, Smell, Touch, Proprioception, and Balance

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      • 4.5Accuracy and Inaccuracy in Perception

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      • 4.6Chapter Summary

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    • 5Consciousness: Sleep, Drugs, and Other Mental States

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      • 5.1Sleeping and Dreaming Revitalize Us for Action

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      • 5.2Altered Consciousness: Psychoactive Drugs

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      • 5.3Altered Consciousness: Hypnosis, Meditation, and Flow

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      • 5.4Chapter Summary

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    • 6Development: Changes Across Our Lifetime

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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 and Retiring

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      • 6.6Chapter Summary

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    • 7Learning: Changing Our Behavior

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      • 7.1Classical Conditioning: Learning by Associating Stimuli

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      • 7.2Operant Conditioning: Learning by Associating a Behavior with Consequences

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      • 7.3Using the Principles of Learning to Understand Everyday Behavior

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      • 7.4Learning by Insight and Observation

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      • 7.5Chapter Summary

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    • 8Memory and Cognition: Remembering and Thinking

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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: Processing Information and Communication

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      • 9.1Defining and Measuring Cognitive Intelligence

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      • 9.2Theories of Specific Intelligences

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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: What Drives Us

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      • 10.1The Experience of Emotion

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      • 10.2Stress and Coping

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      • 10.3The Power of Happiness

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      • 10.4Motivation: Eating, Sexual Behavior, and Achievement

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      • 10.5Chapter Summary

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    • 11Social Psychology: Interacting with Those Around Us

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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: Development and Measurement

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      • 12.1Personality and Behavior: Approaches and Measurement

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      • 12.2Genetics of Personality

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      • 12.3History: Personality Theory’s Early Years

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      • 12.4Chapter Summary

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    • 13Psychological Disorders: Defining Mental Illness

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      • 13.1Mental Illness: What Makes a Behavior “Abnormal”?

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      • 13.2Anxiety and Trauma-Related Disorders

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      • 13.3Mood Disorders

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      • 13.4Schizophrenia

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      • 13.5Personality Disorders

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      • 13.6Chapter Summary

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    • 14Therapy: Coping with Life’s Changes

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      • 14.1Psychotherapy

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      • 14.2Biomedical Therapies

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      • 14.3Environmentally Based Treatment

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      • 14.4Evaluating Treatment and Prevention: What Works?

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      • 14.5Chapter Summary

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    • AThe Evolution of Psychology: History, Approaches, and Questions

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      • A.1History

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