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xxix, 653 pages, 92 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm |
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Contents note continued: Classification of Disorders -- Causation of Disorders -- Culture & Community Can People in Different Parts of the World Have Different Mental Disorders? -- Dangers of Labeling -- Anxiety Disorders: When Fears Take Over -- Generalized Anxiety Disorder -- Phobic Disorders -- Panic Disorder -- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder -- Mood Disorders: At the Mercy of Emotions -- Depressive Disorders -- The Real World Suicide Risk and Prevention -- Bipolar Disorder -- Dissociative Disorders: Going to Pieces -- Dissociative Identity Disorder -- Dissociative Amnesia and Dissociative Fugue -- Schizophrenia: Losing the Grasp on Reality -- Symptoms and Types of Schizophrenia -- Hot Science Autism and Childhood Disorders -- Biological Factors -- Psychological Factors -- Personality Disorders: Going to Extremes -- Types of Personality Disorders -- Antisocial Personality Disorder -- Hot Science Positive Psychology -- |
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Contents note continued: Culture & Community Is It Possible That Humans Have an Innate Ability to Understand Geometry? -- Operant Conditioning: Reinforcements from the Environment -- The Development of Operant Conditioning: The Law of Effect -- B. E Skinner: The Role of Reinforcement and Punishment -- The Basic Principles of Operant Conditioning -- A Deeper Understanding of Operant Conditioning -- Hot Science Control of Learning: From the Laboratory to the Classroom -- Observational Learning: Look at Me -- Observational Learning in LIumans -- Hot Science Even More Reasons to Sleep -- Observational Learning in Animals -- Neural Elements of Observational Learning -- Implicit Learning: Under the Wires -- Habituation: A Simple Case of Implicit Learning -- Cognitive Approaches to Implicit Learning -- Implicit and Explicit Learning Use Distinct Neural Pathways -- Where Do You Stand? Learning for Rewards or for Its Own Sake? -- ch. 8 Emotion and Motivation -- |
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Contents note continued: Culture & Community Is Language a Factor in Memory Retrieval? A Study from Cornell University Indicates That It Is -- Consequences of Retrieval -- Separating the Components of Retrieval -- Multiple Forms of Memory: How the Past Returns -- Explicit and Implicit Memory -- Semantic and Episodic Memory -- Memory Failures: The Seven Sins of Memory -- Transience -- Absentmindedness -- Blocking -- Memory Misattribution -- The Real World Deadly Misattributions -- Suggestibility -- Bias -- Persistence -- Are the Seven Sins Vices or Virtues? -- Where Do You Stand? The Mystery of Childhood Amnesia -- ch. 7 Learning -- Classical Conditioning: One Thing Leads to Another -- The Development of Classical Conditioning: Pavlov's Experiments -- The Basic Principles of Classical Conditioning -- The Heal World Understanding Drug Overdoses -- Conditioned Emotional Responses: The Case of Little Albert -- A Deeper Understanding of Classical Conditioning -- |
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Contents note continued: Drugs And Consciousness: Artificial Inspiration -- Drug Use and Abuse -- Types of Psychoactive Drugs -- The Real World Drugs and the Regulation of Consciousness -- Hypnosis: Open to Suggestion -- Induction and Susceptibility -- Hypnotic Effects -- Meditation and Religious Experiences: Higher Consciouness -- Meditation -- Ecstatic Religious Experiences -- Where Do You Stand? Between NORWIL and MADD: What Is Acceptable Drug Use? -- ch. 6 Memory -- Encoding: Transforming Perceptions into Memories -- Elaborative Encoding -- Visual Imagery Encoding -- Organizational Encoding -- Encoding of Survival-Related Information -- Storage: Maintaining Memories over Time -- Sensory Storage -- Short-Term Storage and Working Memory -- Long-Term Storage -- Hot Science Sleep on It -- Memories, Neurons, and Synapses -- Retrieval: Bringing Memories to Mind -- Retrieval Cues: Reinstating the Past -- |
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Contents note continued: Emotional Experience: The Feeling Machine -- What Is Emotion? -- The Emotional Body -- The Emotional Brain -- Hot Science Fear Goggles -- The Regulation of Emotion -- Emotional Communication: Msgs w/o Wrds -- Communicative Expression -- Deceptive Expression -- Culture & Community Is It What You Say or How You Say It? -- Motivation: Getting Moved -- The Function of Emotion -- The Conceptualization of Motivation -- Basic Motivations -- The Real World Jeet Jet? -- Kinds of Motivation -- Where Do You Stand? Here Comes the Bribe -- ch. 9 Language and Thought -- Language and Communication: From Rules to Meaning -- The Complex Structure of Human Language -- Language Development -- Theories of Language Development -- Language Development and the Brain -- Can Other Species Learn Human Language? -- The Real World Does Bilingualism Interfere with Cognitive Development? -- Language and Thought: How Are They Related? -- Concepts and Categories: How We Think -- |
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Contents note continued: Environmental Influences on Intelligence -- Hot Science The Breast and the Brightest -- Genes and Environments -- Hot Science Big Brother Is Watching You -- Are Some Groups More Intelligent Than Others? -- Group Differences in Scores -- Group Differences in Intelligence -- Improving Intelligence -- Where Do You Stand? Making Kids Smart or Making Smart Kids? -- ch. 11 Development -- Prenatality: A Womb with a View -- Prenatal Development 425 Prenatal Environment -- Infancy and Childhood: Becoming a Person -- Perceptual and Motor Development -- Cognitive Development -- Social Development -- Hot Science Walk This Way -- The Real World When Mom's Away -- Moral Development -- Adolescence: Minding the Gap -- The Protraction of Adolescence -- Sexuality -- Parents and Peers -- Adulthood: Going Happily Downhill -- Changing Abilities -- Changing Goals -- Changing Roles -- Where Do You Stand? A License to Rear -- ch. 12 Personality -- |
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Contents note continued: Hot Science How To Get Your Name In This Chapter -- Technology and the Development of Cognitive Psychology -- The Brain Meets the Mind: The Rise of Cognitive Neuroscience -- The Adaptive Mind: The Emergence of Evolutionary Psychology -- Beyond the Individual: Social and Cultural Perspectives -- The Development of Social Psychology -- The Emergence of Cultural Psychology -- The Profession of Psychology: Past and Present -- Psychologists Band Together: The American Psychological Association -- The Real World Joining the Club -- What Psychologists Do: Research Careers -- Where Do You Stand? The Perils of Procrastination -- ch. 2 Methods in Psychology -- Empiricism: How to Know Stuff -- The Scientific Method -- The Art of Looking -- Observation: Discovering What People Do -- Measurement -- Culture & Community Best Place to Fall on Your Face -- Descriptions -- Explanation: Discovering Why People Do What They Do -- Correlation -- Causation -- |
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Contents note continued: Personal Goals and Expectancies -- The Self: Personality in the Mirror -- Self-Concept -- Self-Esteem -- Where Dd You Stand? Personality Testing for Fun and Profit -- ch. 13 Social Psychology -- Social Behavior: Interacting with People -- Survival: The Struggle for Resources -- Hot Science The Eyes Have It -- Reproduction: The Quest for Immortality -- The Real World Making the Move -- Social Influence: Controlling People -- The Hedonic Motive: Pleasure Is Better than Pain -- Culture & Community Free Parking -- The Approval Motive: Acceptance Is Better than Rejection -- The Accuracy Motive: Right Is Better than Wrong -- Social Cognition: Understanding People -- Stereotyping: Drawing Inferences from Categories -- Hot Science The Color of Expectations -- Attribution: Drawing Inferences from Actions -- Where Do You Stand? The Model Employee -- ch. 14 Psychological Disorders -- Identifying Psychological Disorders: What Is Abnormal? -- |
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Contents note continued: Personality and Health -- Health-Promoting Behaviors and Self-Regulation -- Where Do You Stand? Should Smoking Appear on the Silver Screen? |
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Contents note continued: Personality: What It Is and How It Is Measured -- Describing and Explaining Personality -- Measuring Personality -- The Trait Approach: Identifying Patterns of Behavior -- Traits as Behavioral Dispositions and Motives -- The Search for Core Traits -- Traits as Biological Building Blocks -- Hot Science Personality on the Surface -- The Real World Do Different Genders Lead to Different Personalities? -- The Psychodynamic Approach: Forces that Lie beneath Awareness -- The Structure of the Mind: Id, Ego, and Superego -- Dealing with Inner Conflict -- Psychosexual Stages and the Development of Personality -- The Humanistic-Existential Approach: Personality as Choice -- Human Needs and Self-Actualization -- Personality as Existence -- The Social Cognitive Approach: Personalities in Situations -- Consistency of Personality across Situations -- Culture & Community Does Your Personality Change According to Which Language You're Speaking? -- Personal Constructs -- |
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Contents note continued: Psychological Theories of Concepts and Categories -- Concepts, Categories, and the Brain -- Decision Making: Rational and Otherwise -- The Rational Ideal -- The Irrational Reality -- Why Do We Make Decision-Making Errors? -- Decision Making and the Brain -- Problem Solving: Working St Out -- Means-Ends Analysis -- Analogical Problem Solving -- Creativity and Insight -- Hot Science Sudden Insight and the Brain -- Transforming Information: How We Reach Conclusions -- Practical, Theoretical, and Syllogistic Reasoning -- Reasoning and the Brain -- Where Do You Stand? Choosing a Mate -- ch. 10 Intelligence -- How Can intelligence Be Measured? -- The Intelligence Quotient -- The Logic of Intelligence Testing -- The Consequences of Intelligence -- Is Intelligence One Ability or Many? -- The Real World Look Smart -- A Hierarchy of Abilities -- The Middle-Level Abilities -- Where Does Intelligence Come From? -- Genetic Influences on Intelligence -- |
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Contents note continued: The Forebrain -- Brain Plasticity -- The Real World Brain Plasticity and Sensations in Phantom Limbs -- The Development and Evolution of Nervous Systems -- Prenatal Development of the Central Nervous System -- Evolutionary Development of the Central Nervous System -- Genes and the Environment -- Investigating the Brain -- Learning about Brain Organization by Studying the Damaged Brain -- Listening to the Brain: Single Neurons and the EEG -- Brain Imaging: From Visualizing Structure to Watching the Brain in Action -- Hot Science Establishing Causality in the Brain -- Where Do Vou Stand? Brain Death -- ch. 4 Sensation and Perception -- Our Senses Encode the Information Our Brains perceive -- Psychophysics -- Measuring Thresholds -- Signal Detection -- The Real World Multitasking -- Sensory Adaptation -- Vision I How the Eyes and the Brain Convert Lightwaves to Neural Signals -- Sensing Light -- Perceiving Color -- The Visual Brain -- |
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Contents note continued: The Real World Oddsly Enough -- Drawing Conclusions -- Hot Science Do Violent Movies Make Peaceful Streets? -- The Ethics of Science: First, Do No Harm -- Respecting People -- Respecting Animals -- Respecting Truth -- Where Do You Stand? The Morality of Immoral Experiments -- ch. 3 Neuroscience and Behavior -- Neurons: The Origin of Behavior -- Discovery of How Neurons Function -- Components of the Neuron -- Major Types of Neurons -- Hot Science Mirror, Mirror, in My Brain -- Neurons Specialized by Location -- The Electrochemical Actions of Neurons: Information Processing -- Electric Signaling: Conducting Information within a Neuron -- Chemical Signaling: Transmission between Neurons -- Types and Functions of Neurotransmitters -- How Drugs Mimic Neurotransmitters -- The Organization of the Nervous System -- Divisions of the Nervous System -- Components of the Central Nervous System -- Structure of the Brain -- The Hindbrain -- The Midbrain -- |
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Contents note continued: Treatment Effectiveness: For Better or for Worse -- Treatment Illusions -- Treatment Studies -- Which Treatments Work? -- Where Do You Stand? Is Online Psychotherapy a Good Idea? -- ch. 16 Stress and Health -- Sources of Stress: What Gets to You -- Stressful Events -- Chronic Stressors -- Culture & Community Can Being the Target of Discrimination Cause Stress and Illness? -- Perceived Control over Stressful Events -- Stress Reactions: All Shook Up -- Physical Reactions -- The Real World Why Sickness Feels Bad: Psychological Effects of Immune Response -- Psychological Reactions -- Stress Management: Dealing with It -- Mind Management -- Body ManageTnent -- Situation Management -- The Psychology of Miness: When It's in Your Head -- Recognizing Illness and Seeking Treatment -- Hot Science This Is Your Brain on Placebos -- Somatoform Disorders -- On Being a Patient -- Patient-Practitioner Interaction -- The Psychology of Health: Feeling Good -- |
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Contents note continued: Vision II Recognizing What We perceive -- Attention: The "Glue" That Binds Individual Features into a Whole -- Recognizing Objects by Sight -- Perceiving Depth and Size -- Perceiving Motion and Change -- Audition: more than meets the ear -- Sensing Sound -- The Human Ear -- Perceiving Pitch -- The Real World cochlear implants -- Localizing Sound Sources -- The Body Senses: more than skin deep -- Touch -- Pain -- Body Position, Movement, and Balance -- The Chemical Senses: Adding Flavor -- Smell -- Hot Science Expensive Taste -- Taste -- Where Do You stand? perception and persuasion -- ch. 5 Consciousness -- Conscious and Unconscious: the mind's eye, open and Closed -- The Mysteries of Consciousness -- The Nature of Consciousness -- Hot Science The Mind Wanders -- The Unconscious Mind -- Sleep and Dreaming: good Night, Mind -- Sleep -- Dreams -- Culture & Community What do dreams mean to us around the world? -- |
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Contents note continued: Where Do You Stand? Genetic Tests for Risk of Psychological Disorders -- ch. 15 Treatment of Psychological Disorders -- Treatment: Getting Help to Those Who Need It -- Why People Cannot or Will Not Seek Treatment -- The Real World Types of Psychotherapists -- Approaches to Treatment -- Culture & Community Is Psychotherapy the Same around the World? -- Psychological Therapies: Healing the Mind through Interaction -- Psychodynamic Therapy -- Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies -- Humanistic and Existential Therapies -- Groups in Therapy -- Medical and Biological Treatments: Healing the Mind through the Brain -- Antipsychotic Medications -- The Real World Tales from the Madhouse -- Antianxiety Medications -- Antidepressants and Mood Stabilizers -- Herbal and Natural Products -- Hot Science Happy Pills? Antidepressants for Ordinary Sadness -- Combining Medication and Psychotherapy -- Biological Treatments beyond Medication -- |
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Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Psychology: The Evolution of a Science -- Psychology's Roots: The Path to a Science of the Mind -- Psychology's Ancestors: The Great Philosophers -- From the Brain to the Mind: The French Connection -- Structuralism: Applying the Methods from Physiology to Psychology -- Titchener Brings Structuralism to the United States -- James and the Functional Approach -- The Real World Improving Study Skills -- The Development of Clinical Psychology -- The Path to Freud and Psychoanalytic Theory -- Influence of Psychoanalysis and the Humanistic Response -- The Search for Objective Measurement: Behaviorism Takes Center Stage -- Watson and the Emergence of Behaviorism -- B. F. Skinner and the Development of Behaviorism -- Return of the Mind: Psychology Expands -- The Emergence of Cognitive Psychology -- Culture & Community Why Is It That Most of Us, but Not All of Us, See the Top Line in Figure 1.3 as Longer than the Bottom Line? -- |
| Summary |
Psychology |
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The science makes it the book for you. An introduction to psychology doesn't have to be science-challenged to be student-friendly. After all, what more powerful tool is there for captivating students than the real science behind what we know? Dan Schacter, Dan Gilbert and Dan Wegner's skillful presentation centers on a smart selection of pioneering and cutting-edge experiments and examples. They effectively convey the remarkable achievements of psychology (with the right amount of critical judgment) to introduce the field's fundamental ideas to students. The writing makes it the book for your students. But it is not just the science that sets Psychology apart-its the way Schacter, Gilbert, and Wegner write about it. Each is a world-renowned researcher and accomplished classroom teacher. Each has written popular books that get to the heart of what fascinates people about psychology. Read any chapter of Psychology-any page-and you'll see why. Bracing, easy to read, rich with captivating examples that make the ideas clear, concrete and relevant, Psychology communicates in a way that elevates and inspires students. It is anything but just another textbook |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Psychology -- Textbooks.
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Psychology.
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| Genre/Form |
Textbooks.
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| Author |
Gilbert, Daniel Todd.
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Wegner, Daniel M., 1948-
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| LC no. |
2010940234 |
| ISBN |
1429237198 |
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9781429237192 |
