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Essentials of Psychology

by: Baron, Robert A.

Essentials of Psychology

by: Baron, Robert A.

ISBN 13:
9780205333028
ISBN 10:
0205333028
Edition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 01/01/2002
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon

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Summary

The paperback essentials of Baron's classic text emphasizes the importance and value of the field of psychology to students, showing students how the field can be exported into many areas of their lives. The brief edition of this highly praised introductory psychology text continues to present the breadth and scope of psychology in a way that encourages reader involvement and interest. Robert Baron is a prize-winning textbook author, teacher, and researcher whose reader-friendly writing style draws students into psychology in a way that no other introductory psychology textbook does.

1. Psychology: A Science...and a Perspective.
Modern Psychology: What It Is and How it Originated.
Psychology: Its Grand Issues and Key Perspectives.
Psychology 2000: Trends for the New Millennium.
Psychology and the Scientific Method.
Research Methods in Psychology: How Psychologists Answer Questions about Behavior.
Using This Book: A Review of Its Special Features.

2. Biological Bases of Behavior Neurons: Building Blocks of the Nervous System.
The Nervous System: Its Basic Structure and Functions.
The Brain: Where Consciousness... Is.
The Brain and Human Behavior: Where Biology and Consciousness Meet.
Heredity and Behavior: Genetics and Evolutionary Psychology.

3. Sensation and Perception: Making Contact with the World Around Us.
Sensation: The Raw Materials of Understanding.
Vision.
Hearing.
Touch and Other Skin Senses.
Smell and Taste: The Chemical Senses.
Kinesthesia and Vestibular Sense.
Perception: Putting It All Together.
The Plasticity of Perception: To What Extent Is It Innate or Learned?
Extrasensory Perception: Perception without Sensation?

4. States of Consciousness.
Biological Rhythms: Tides of Life—and Conscious Experience.
Waking States of Consciousness.
Sleep: The Pause That Refreshes?
Hypnosis: Altered State of Consciousness...or Social Role Playing?
Consciousness-Altering Drugs: What They Are and What They Do.

5. Learning: How We're Changed by Experience.
Classical Conditioning: Learning That Some Stimuli Signal Others.
Operant Conditioning: Learning Based on Consequences.
Observational Learning: Learning from the Behavior and Outcomes of Others.

6. Memory: Of Things Remembered ... and Forgotten.
Human Memory: Two Influential Views.
Kinds of Information Stored in Memory.
Forgetting: Some Contrasting Views.
Memory in Everyday Life.
Memory and the Brain: Evidence From Memory Impairments and Other Sources.

7. Cognition and Intelligence.
Thinking: Forming Concepts and Reasoning to Conclusions.
Making Decisions: Choosing among Alternatives.
Problem Solving: Finding Paths to Desired Goals.
Creativity: Generating the Extraordinary.
Language: The Communication of Information.
Intelligence: Contrasting Views of Its Nature.
Measuring Intelligence.
Human Intelligence: The Role of Heredity and the Role of Environment.
Group Differences in Intelligence Test Scores: Why They Occur.
Emotional Intelligence: The Feeling Side of Intelligence.

8. Human Development.
Physical Growth and Development.
Perceptual Development.
Cognitive Development: Changes in Our Ability to Understand the World Around Us.
Moral Development: Reasoning about “Right” and “Wrong.”
Social and Emotional Development: Forming Relationships with Others.
From Gender Identity to Sex Category Constancy: How Children Come to Understand That They Are Female or Male.
Adolescence: Between Child and Adult.
Development During Our Adult Years.
Aging, Death, and Bereavement.

9. Motivation and Emotion.
Motivation: The Activation and Persistence of Behavior.
Emotions: Their Nature, Expression, and Impact.

10. Personality: Uniqueness and Consistency in the Behavior of Individuals.
Personality: Is it Real?
The Psychoanalytic Approach: Messages from the Unconscious.
Humanistic Theories: Emphasis on Growth.
Trait Theories: Seeking the Key Dimensions of Personality.
Learning Approaches to Personality.
Measuring Personality.
Modern Research on Personality: Applications to Personal Health and Behavior in Work Settings.

11. Health, Stress, and Coping.
Health Psychology: An Overview.
Stress: Its Causes, Effects, and Control.
Understanding and Communicating Our Health Needs.
Behavioral and Psychological Correlates of Illness: The Effects of Actions and Thoughts on Health.
Promoting Wellness: Developing a Healthier Lifestyle.

12. Mental Disorders: Their Nature and Causes.
Models of Abnormality: Changing Conceptions of Mental Disorders.
Assessment and Diagnosis: The DSM-IV and Other Tools.
Disorders of Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence.
Mood Disorders: The Downs and Ups of Life.
Anxiety Disorders: When Dread Debilitates.
Dissociative and Somatoform Disorders: Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders.
Personality Disorders: Traits That Harm.
Schizophrenia: Out of Touch with Reality.
Substance-Related Disorders.

13. Therapies: Techniques for Alleviating Mental Disorders.
Psychotherapies: Psychological Approaches to Mental Disorders.
Alternatives to Individual Psychotherapy: Group Therapy, Marital Therapy, Family Therapy, and Psychosocial Rehabilitation.
Biological Therapies.
Psychotherapy: Is it Effective?
The Prevention of Mental Disorders: Community Psychology and its Legacy.
Legal and Ethical Issues Relating to Mental Disorders.

14. Social Thought and Social Behavior.
Social Thought: Thinking about Other People.
Social Behavior: Interacting with Others.

Appendix: Statistics.

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