Introduction to Psychology

by Michelle Pilati

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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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Publisher
Foothill College
Subjects
Social Sciences
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA, 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 This Book
  6. Licensing
  7. 1: The Science of Psychology
  8. 1.1: Psychology as a Science
  9. 1.2: The Evolution of Psychology - History, Approaches, and Questions
  10. 1.3: Psychologists Use the Scientific Method to Guide Their Research
  11. 1.4: Psychologists Use Descriptive, Correlational, and Experimental Research Designs to Understand Behavior
  12. 1.5: You Can Be an Informed Consumer of Psychological Research
  13. 1.6: Psychological Science (Summary)
  14. 1.S: Introducing Psychology (Summary)
  15. 2: Brains, Bodies, and Behavior
  16. 2.1: The Neuron is the Building Block of the Nervous System
  17. 2.2: Our Brains Control Our Thoughts, Feelings, and Behavior
  18. 2.3: Psychologists Study the Brain Using Many Different Methods
  19. 2.4: Putting It All Together- The Nervous System and the Endocrine System
  20. 2.S: Brains, Bodies, and Behavior (Summary)
  21. 3: Learning
  22. 3.1: Learning by Insight and Observation
  23. 3.2: Using the Principles of Learning to Understand Everyday Behavior
  24. 3.3: Learning by Association- Classical Conditioning
  25. 3.4: Changing Behavior Through Reinforcement and Punishment- Operant Conditioning
  26. 3.S: Learning (Summary)
  27. 4: Remembering and Judging
  28. 4.1: Memories as Types and Stages
  29. 4.2: Accuracy and Inaccuracy in Memory and Cognition
  30. 4.3: How We Remember - Cues to Improving Memory
  31. 4.S: Remembering and Judging (Summary)
  32. 5: Growing and Developing
  33. 5.1: Conception and Prenatal Development
  34. 5.2: Infancy and Childhood- Exploring and Learning
  35. 5.3: Adolescence - Developing Independence and Identity
  36. 5.4: Early and Middle Adulthood- Building Effective Lives
  37. 5.5: Late Adulthood- Aging, Retiring, and Bereavement
  38. 5.S: Growing and Developing (Summary)
  39. 6: Sensing and Perceiving
  40. 6.1: We Experience Our World Through Sensation
  41. 6.2: Seeing
  42. 6.3: Hearing
  43. 6.4: Tasting, Smelling, and Touching
  44. 6.5: Accuracy and Inaccuracy in Perception
  45. 6.S: Sensing and Perceiving (Summary)
  46. 7: States of Consciousness
  47. 7.1: Prelude to States of Consciousness
  48. 7.2: What Is Consciousness?
  49. 7.3: Sleep and Why We Sleep
  50. 7.4: Stages of Sleep
  51. 7.5: Sleep Problems and Disorders
  52. 7.6: Substance Use and Abuse
  53. 7.7: Other States of Consciousness
  54. 7.E: States of Consciousness (Exercises)
  55. 8: Intelligence and Language
  56. 8.1: Defining and Measuring Intelligence
  57. 8.2: The Social, Cultural, and Political Aspects of Intelligence
  58. 8.3: Communicating With Others- The Development and Use of Language
  59. 8.S: Intelligence and Language (Summary)
  60. 9: Emotions and Motivations
  61. 9.1: Stress- The Unseen Killer
  62. 9.2: Positive Emotions- The Power of Happiness
  63. 9.3: Two Fundamental Human Motivations- Eating and Mating
  64. 9.4: The Experience of Emotion
  65. 9.S: Emotions and Motivations (Summary)
  66. 10: Personality
  67. 10.1: Personality and Behavior- Approaches and Measurement
  68. 10.2: The Origins of Personality
  69. 10.3: Is Personality More Nature or More Nurture? Behavioral and Molecular Genetics
  70. 10.S: Personality (Summary)
  71. 11: Defining Psychological Disorders
  72. 11.1: Psychological Disorder- What Makes a Behavior “Abnormal”?
  73. 11.2: Anxiety and Dissociative Disorders- Fearing the World Around Us
  74. 11.3: Mood Disorders- Emotions as Illness
  75. 11.4: Schizophrenia- The Edge of Reality and Consciousness
  76. 11.5: Personality Disorders
  77. 11.6: Somatoform, Factitious, and Sexual Disorders
  78. 11.S: Defining Psychological Disorders (Summary)
  79. 12: Treating Psychological Disorders
  80. 12.1: Reducing Disorder by Confronting It- Psychotherapy
  81. 12.2: Reducing Disorder Biologically - Drug and Brain Therapy
  82. 12.3: Evaluating Treatment and Prevention - What Works?
  83. 12.4: Reducing Disorder by Changing the Social Situation
  84. 12.S: Treating Psychological Disorders (Summary)
  85. 13: Psychology in Our Social Lives
  86. 13.1: Social Cognition- Making Sense of Ourselves and Others
  87. 13.2: Interacting With Others- Helping, Hurting, and Conforming
  88. 13.3: Working With Others- The Costs and Benefits of Social Groups
  89. 13.S: Psychology in Our Social Lives (Summary)
  90. Back Matter
  91. Index
  92. Glossary
  93. Detailed Licensing