Introduction to Psychology

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Introduction to Psychology utilizes the dual theme of behavior and empiricism to make psychology relevant to introductory students. This book aims to help students organize their thinking about psychology at a conceptual level.

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LibreTexts
Subjects
Social Sciences, Psychology
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0, as LibreTexts states it. Non-commercial use only.
Who can read
Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. About the Author
  6. Licensing
  7. Preface
  8. About this Book
  9. 1: Introducing Psychology
  10. 1.1: Psychology as a Science
  11. 1.2: The Evolution of Psychology- History, Approaches, and Questions
  12. 1.S: Introducing Psychology (Summary)
  13. 2: Psychological Science
  14. 2.1: Psychologists Use the Scientific Method to Guide Their Research
  15. 2.2: Psychologists Use Descriptive, Correlational, and Experimental Research Designs to Understand Behavior
  16. 2.3: You Can Be an Informed Consumer of Psychological Research
  17. 2.S: Psychological Science (Summary)
  18. 3: Brains, Bodies, and Behavior
  19. 3.1: The Neuron is the Building Block of the Nervous System
  20. 3.2: Our Brains Control Our Thoughts, Feelings, and Behavior
  21. 3.3: Psychologists Study the Brain Using Many Different Methods
  22. 3.4: Putting It All Together- The Nervous System and the Endocrine System
  23. 3.S: Brains, Bodies, and Behavior (Summary)
  24. 4: Sensing and Perceiving
  25. 4.1: We Experience Our World Through Sensation
  26. 4.2: Seeing
  27. 4.3: Hearing
  28. 4.4: Tasting, Smelling, and Touching
  29. 4.5: Accuracy and Inaccuracy in Perception
  30. 4.S: Sensing and Perceiving (Summary)
  31. 5: States of Consciousness
  32. 5.1: Sleeping and Dreaming Revitalize Us for Action
  33. 5.2: Altering Consciousness With Psychoactive Drugs
  34. 5.3: Altering Consciousness Without Drugs
  35. 5.4: States of Consciousness (Summary)
  36. 6: Growing and Developing
  37. 6.1: Conception and Prenatal Development
  38. 6.2: Infancy and Childhood- Exploring and Learning
  39. 6.3: Adolescence - Developing Independence and Identity
  40. 6.4: Early and Middle Adulthood- Building Effective Lives
  41. 6.5: Late Adulthood- Aging, Retiring, and Bereavement
  42. 6.S: Growing and Developing (Summary)
  43. 7: Learning
  44. 7.1: Learning by Insight and Observation
  45. 7.2: Using the Principles of Learning to Understand Everyday Behavior
  46. 7.3: Learning by Association- Classical Conditioning
  47. 7.4: Changing Behavior Through Reinforcement and Punishment- Operant Conditioning
  48. 7.S: Learning (Summary)
  49. 8: Remembering and Judging
  50. 8.1: Memories as Types and Stages
  51. 8.2: Accuracy and Inaccuracy in Memory and Cognition
  52. 8.3: How We Remember - Cues to Improving Memory
  53. 8.S: Remembering and Judging (Summary)
  54. 9: Intelligence and Language
  55. 9.1: Defining and Measuring Intelligence
  56. 9.2: The Social, Cultural, and Political Aspects of Intelligence
  57. 9.3: Communicating With Others- The Development and Use of Language
  58. 9.S: Intelligence and Language (Summary)
  59. 10: Emotions and Motivations
  60. 10.1: Stress- The Unseen Killer
  61. 10.2: Positive Emotions - The Power of Happiness
  62. 10.3: Two Fundamental Human Motivations- Eating and Mating
  63. 10.4: The Experience of Emotion
  64. 10.S: Emotions and Motivations (Summary)
  65. 11: Personality
  66. 11.1: Personality and Behavior- Approaches and Measurement
  67. 11.2: The Origins of Personality
  68. 11.3: Is Personality More Nature or More Nurture? Behavioral and Molecular Genetics
  69. 11.S: Personality (Summary)
  70. 12: Defining Psychological Disorders
  71. 12.1: Psychological Disorder- What Makes a Behavior “Abnormal”?
  72. 12.2: Anxiety and Dissociative Disorders- Fearing the World Around Us
  73. 12.3: Mood Disorders- Emotions as Illness
  74. 12.4: Schizophrenia- The Edge of Reality and Consciousness
  75. 12.5: Personality Disorders
  76. 12.6: Somatoform, Factitious, and Sexual Disorders
  77. 12.S: Defining Psychological Disorders (Summary)
  78. 13: Treating Psychological Disorders
  79. 13.1: Reducing Disorder by Confronting It - Psychotherapy
  80. 13.2: Reducing Disorder Biologically- Drug and Brain Therapy
  81. 13.3: Evaluating Treatment and Prevention- What Works?
  82. 13.4: Reducing Disorder by Changing the Social Situation
  83. 13.S: Treating Psychological Disorders (Summary)
  84. 14: Psychology in Our Social Lives
  85. 14.1: Social Cognition- Making Sense of Ourselves and Others
  86. 14.2: Interacting With Others- Helping, Hurting, and Conforming
  87. 14.3: Working With Others- The Costs and Benefits of Social Groups
  88. 14.S: Psychology in Our Social Lives (Summary)