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Table of Contents

    • About the Author
    • Acknowledgments
    • Preface
    • 1Introducing Psychology
      • 1.1Psychology as a Science
      • 1.2The Evolution of Psychology: History, Approaches, and Questions
      • 1.3Chapter Summary
    • 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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      • 7.5Chapter Summary

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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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