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Table of Contents

    • About the Author
    • Acknowledgments
    • Dedication
    • Preface
    • 1Introducing Psychology
      • 1.1Psychology as a Science
      • 1.2The Development of Psychology: History, Approaches, and Questions
    • 2Brains, Bodies, and Behavior

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      • 2.1The Neuron Is the Building Block of the Nervous System

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      • 2.2Our Brains Control Our Thoughts, Feelings, and Behavior

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      • 2.3Psychologists Study the Brain Using Many Different Methods

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      • 2.4Putting It All Together: The Nervous System and the Endocrine System

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    • 3Sensing and Perceiving

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      • 3.1We Experience Our World Through Sensation

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      • 3.2Seeing

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      • 3.3Hearing

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      • 3.4Tasting, Smelling, and Touching

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      • 3.5Accuracy and Inaccuracy in Perception

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      • 3.6Chapter Summary

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    • 4States of Consciousness

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      • 4.1Sleeping and Dreaming Revitalize Us for Action

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      • 4.2Altering Consciousness With Psychoactive Drugs

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      • 4.3Altering Consciousness Without Drugs

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      • 4.4Chapter Summary

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    • 5Intelligence and Memory

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      • 5.1Learning

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      • 5.2Learning: Operant

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      • 5.3Learning: Social and Observational

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      • 5.4Defining and Measuring Intelligence

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      • 5.5The Social, Cultural, and Political Aspects of Intelligence

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      • 5.6Memories as Types and Stages

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      • 5.7Accuracy and Inaccuracy in Memory and Cognition

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    • 6Growing and Developing

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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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    • 7Psychology in Our Social Lives

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      • 7.1Social Cognition: Making Sense of Ourselves and Others

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      • 7.2Interacting With Others: Helping, Hurting, and Conforming

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      • 7.3Working With Others: The Costs and Benefits of Social Groups

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      • 7.4Chapter Summary

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    • 8Emotions and Motivations

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      • 8.1The Experience of Emotion

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      • 8.2Stress: The Unseen Killer

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      • 8.3Positive Emotions: The Power of Happiness

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      • 8.4Two Fundamental Human Motivations: Eating and Mating

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      • 8.5Chapter Summary

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    • 9Defining Psychological Disorders

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      • 9.1Psychological Disorder: What Makes a Behavior “Abnormal”?

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      • 9.2Anxiety and Dissociative Disorders: Fearing the World Around Us

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      • 9.3Mood Disorders: Emotions as Illness

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      • 9.4Schizophrenia: The Edge of Reality and Consciousness

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      • 9.5Personality Disorders

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      • 9.6Somatoform, Factitious, and Sexual Disorders

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      • 9.7Chapter Summary

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    • 10Treating Psychological Disorders

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      • 10.1Reducing Disorder by Confronting It: Psychotherapy

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      • 10.2Reducing Disorder Biologically: Drug and Brain Therapy

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      • 10.3Reducing Disorder by Changing the Social Situation

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      • 10.4Evaluating Treatment and Prevention: What Works?

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      • 10.5Chapter Summary

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