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About the Author
Acknowledgments
Dedication
Preface
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Introducing Psychology
1.1
Psychology as a Science
1.2
The Development of Psychology: History, Approaches, and Questions
2
Brains, Bodies, and Behavior
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2.1
The Neuron Is the Building Block of the Nervous System
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Our Brains Control Our Thoughts, Feelings, and Behavior
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Psychologists Study the Brain Using Many Different Methods
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Putting It All Together: The Nervous System and the Endocrine System
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Sensing and Perceiving
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3.1
We Experience Our World Through Sensation
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3.2
Seeing
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3.3
Hearing
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Tasting, Smelling, and Touching
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3.5
Accuracy and Inaccuracy in Perception
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3.6
Chapter Summary
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States of Consciousness
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4.1
Sleeping and Dreaming Revitalize Us for Action
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4.2
Altering Consciousness With Psychoactive Drugs
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4.3
Altering Consciousness Without Drugs
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4.4
Chapter Summary
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Intelligence and Memory
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5.1
Learning
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5.2
Learning: Operant
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5.3
Learning: Social and Observational
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5.4
Defining and Measuring Intelligence
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5.5
The Social, Cultural, and Political Aspects of Intelligence
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5.6
Memories as Types and Stages
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5.7
Accuracy and Inaccuracy in Memory and Cognition
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Growing and Developing
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6.1
Conception and Prenatal Development
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Infancy and Childhood: Exploring and Learning
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Adolescence: Developing Independence and Identity
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Early and Middle Adulthood: Building Effective Lives
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Late Adulthood: Aging, Retiring, and Bereavement
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6.6
Chapter Summary
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Psychology in Our Social Lives
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7.1
Social Cognition: Making Sense of Ourselves and Others
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7.2
Interacting With Others: Helping, Hurting, and Conforming
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Working With Others: The Costs and Benefits of Social Groups
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Emotions and Motivations
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8.1
The Experience of Emotion
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8.2
Stress: The Unseen Killer
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8.3
Positive Emotions: The Power of Happiness
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8.4
Two Fundamental Human Motivations: Eating and Mating
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Defining Psychological Disorders
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Psychological Disorder: What Makes a Behavior “Abnormal”?
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Anxiety and Dissociative Disorders: Fearing the World Around Us
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Mood Disorders: Emotions as Illness
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Schizophrenia: The Edge of Reality and Consciousness
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9.5
Personality Disorders
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9.6
Somatoform, Factitious, and Sexual Disorders
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Treating Psychological Disorders
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10.1
Reducing Disorder by Confronting It: Psychotherapy
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Reducing Disorder Biologically: Drug and Brain Therapy
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10.3
Reducing Disorder by Changing the Social Situation
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10.4
Evaluating Treatment and Prevention: What Works?
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Chapter Summary
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