Fundamentals of Psychology in Context
ISBN: 9780205507573 | 0205507573
Edition: 3rdFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Pub. Date: 1/1/2007
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This innovative, 13-chapter text examines psychological issues from the levels of the brain, person, and social world to help students actively apply psychology to their lives. Through their own research, clinical work, and experiences as teachers, Stephen Kosslyn and Robin Rosenberg have found that exploring psychology from multiple perspectives further enhances learning. Examining psychological concepts from the levels of the brain (biological factors), the person (beliefs, desires, and feelings), and the world (social, cultural, and environm... MORE
| Psychology | |
| Yesterday and Today The Science of Psychology | |
| Getting to Know You Psychology Then and Now The Research Process | |
| How We Find Things Out | |
| The Biology of Mind and Behavior | |
| The Brain in Action Brain Circuits | |
| Making Connections The Nervous System | |
| An Orchestra With Many Members Probing the Brain Genes, Brain, and Environment | |
| ... MORE | |
| Sensation and Perception | |
| How the World Enters the Mind Vision Hearing Sensing and Perceiving in Other Ways | |
| Learning | |
| How Experience Changes Us Classical Conditioning Operant Conditioning Cognitive and Social Learning | |
| Memory | |
| Living With Yesterday Storing Information | |
| Time and Space Are of the Essence Encoding and Retrieving Information From Memory When Memory Goes Wrong - And What to Do About It | |
| Language, Thinking, and Intelligence | |
| What Humans Do Best Language | |
| More Than Meets the Ear Thinking | |
| Understanding the World and Guiding Behavior Intelligence | |
| Is There More Than One Way To Be Smart? What Makes Us Smart: Nature and Nurture | |
| Emotion and Motivation | |
| Feeling and Striving Emotion | |
| I Feel, Therefore I Am Motivation and Reward | |
| Feeling Good Hunger and Sex | |
| Two Important Motivations | |
| Personality | |
| Vive la Difference! What is Personality? | |
| The Brain | |
| The Personality Organ The Person | |
| Beliefs and Behaviors The World | |
| Social Influences on Personality | |
| Psychology Over the Life Span | |
| Growing Up, Growing Older, Growing Wiser In the Beginning | |
| From Conception to Birth Infancy and Childhood | |
| Taking Off Adolescence | |
| Between Two Worlds Adulthood and Aging | |
| The Continuously Changing Self | |
| Stress, Health, and Coping | |
| Dealing With Life What is Stress? | |
| Stress, Disease, and Health Strategies for Coping | |
| Psychological Disorders | |
| More Than Everyday Problems | |
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