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Psychology and scientific thinking: A framework for everyday life -- What is psychology? Science versus intuition -- Psychological pseudoscience: Imposters of science -- The hot hand: Reality or illusion? -- Scientific thinking: Distinguishing fact from fiction -- Health benefits of fruits and vegetables -- Psychology's past and present: What a long, strange trip it's been -- Research methods: Safeguards against error -- The beauty and necessity of good research design -- The scientific method: Toolbox of skills -- Laboratory research doesn't apply to the real world, right? -- Ethical issues in research design -- Statistics: The language of psychological research -- Evaluating psychological research -- Hair-loss remedies -- Biological psychology: Bridging the levels of analysis -- Nerve cells: Communication portals -- The brain-behaviour network -- The endocrine system -- Mapping the mind: The brain in action -- Are there left-brained versus right-brained persons? -- Diagnosing your brain orientation -- Nature and nurture: Did your genes - Or your environment - Make you do it? -- Sensation and perception: How we sense and conceptualize the world -- Two sides of the coin: Sensation and perception -- Subliminal persuasion CDs -- Seeing: The visual system -- Hearing: The auditory system -- Smell and taste: The sensual senses -- Our body senses: Touch, body position, and balance -- Psychic healing of chronic pain -- Consciousness: Expanding the boundaries of psychological inquiry -- The biology of sleep -- Dreams -- Dream interpretations -- Other alterations of consciousness and unusual experience -- Age regression and past lives -- Learning: How nurture changes us -- Classical conditioning -- Are we what we eat? -- Operant conditioning -- Cognitive models of learning -- Biological influences on learning -- Learning fads: Do they work? -- Sleep-assisted learning -- Memory: Constructing and reconstructing our pasts -- How memory operates: The memory assembly line -- The three processes of memory -- Smart pills -- Memory boosters -- The biology of memory -- The development of memory: Acquiring a personal history -- False memories: When good memory goes bad -- Language, thinking, and reasoning: Getting inside our talking heads -- How does language work? -- Do twins have their own language? -- Do we think in words? The relation between language and thought -- Reading: Recognizing the written word -- Speed-reading courses -- Thinking and reasoning -- Intelligence and IQ testing: Controversy and consensus -- What is intelligence? Definitional confusion -- Intelligence testing: The good, the bad, and the ugly -- Do standardized tests predict grades? -- Genetic and environmental influences on IQ -- IQ boosters -- Group differences in IQ: The science and the politics -- The rest of the story: Other dimensions of intellect -- Human development: How and why we change -- Special considerations in human development -- The developing body: Physical and motor development -- Ant-aging treatments -- The developing mind: Cognitive development -- The Mozart effect, baby Einstein, and creating "superbabies" -- The developing personality: Social and moral development -- Emotion and motivation: What moves us -- Theories of emotion: What causes our feelings? -- Nonverbal expression of emotion: The eyes, bodies, and cultures have it -- Is "truth serum" really a truth serum? -- Happiness and self-esteem: Science confronts popular psychology -- Motivation: Our wants and needs -- Diets and weight-loss plans -- Attraction, love, and hate: The greatest mysteries of them all -- Stress, coping, and health: The mind-body interconnection -- What is stress? -- How we adapt to stress: Change and challenge -- Are almost all people traumatized by highly aversive events? -- The brain-body reaction to stress -- Coping with stress -- Stress reduction and relaxation techniques -- Promoting good health - and less stress! -- Social psychology: How others affect us -- What is social psychology? -- Social influence: Conformity and obedience -- Helping and harming others: Prosocial behaviour and aggression -- Is brainstorming in groups a good way to generate ideas? -- Attitudes and persuasion: Changing minds -- Work-from-home jobs -- Prejudice and discrimination -- Personality: Who we are -- Personality: What is it and how can we study it? -- Psychoanalytic theory: The controversial legacy of Sigmund Freud and his followers -- Behavioural and social learning theories of personality -- Humanistic models of personality: The third force -- Trait models of personality: Consistencies in our behaviour -- Personality assessment: Measuring and mismeasuring the psyche -- How accurate is criminal profiling? -- Online personality tests -- Psychological disorders: When adaptation breaks down -- Conception of mental illness: Yesterday and today -- Online tests for mental disorders -- The insanity defence: Free will versus determination -- Anxiety disorders: The many faces of worry and fear -- Mood disorders and suicide -- Personality and dissociative disorders: The disrupted and divided self -- The enigma of schizophrenia -- Childhood disorders: Recent controversies -- Psychological and biological treatments: Helping people change -- Psychotherapy: Clients and practitioners -- Insight therapies: Acquiring understanding -- Behavioural approaches: Changing maladaptive actions -- Is psychotherapy effective? -- Psychotherapies -- Are self-help books always helpful? -- Biomedical treatments: Medications, electrical stimulation, and surgery -- Glossary -- Answer key for your complete review system -- Answer key for evaluating claims features -- References -- Name index -- Subject index. |
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