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World of Psychology : Evaluating Psychological Information

ISBN: 9780205274673 | 0205274676
Edition: 3rd
Publisher: PRENTICE HALL
Pub. Date: 8/1/1998

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Table of Contents
An Invitation to the Studentxv
To the Instructorxix
Introduction to Psychology
3(34)
Psychology: An Introduction
... MORE4(3)
Psychology: Science or Common Sense?
5(1)
The Goals of Psychology
6(1)
Critical Thinking: Thinking Like a Scientist
6(1)
Descriptive Research Methods
7(3)
Naturalistic Observation: Caught in the Act of Being Themselves
7(1)
The Case Study Method: Studying a Few Individuals in Depth
8(1)
Survey Research: The Art of Sampling and Questioning
8(2)
The Experimental Method: Searching for Causes
10(5)
Independent and Dependent Variables
11(1)
Experimental and Control Groups: The Same Except for the Treatment
12(1)
Generalizing the Experimental Findings: Do the Findings Apply to Other Groups?
13(1)
Potential Problems in Experimental Research
13(1)
Advantages and Limitations of the Experimental Method
14(1)
Other Research Methods
15(4)
The Correlational Method: Discovering Relationships, Not Causes
15(1)
Psychological Tests: Assessing the Individual
16(1)
Meta-Analysis: Combining the Results of Many Studies
17(2)
Participants in Psychological Research
19(3)
Ethics in Research: Protecting the Participants
19(1)
Human Participants in Psychological Research: The Challenge of Diversity
20(1)
Bias in Psychological Research
20(1)
The Use of Animals in Research
21(1)
Exploring Psychology's Roots
22(7)
Wundt and the Founding of Psychology
22(1)
Titchener and Structuralism
23(1)
Functionalism: The First American School of Psychology
23(1)
Gestalt Psychology: The Whole Is More Than the Sum of Its Parts
24(1)
Psychoanalysis: It's What's Down Deep That Counts
25(1)
Humanistic Psychology: Looking at Human Potential
25(1)
Cognitive Psychology: Focusing on Mental Processes
26(1)
Women and Minorities: Pioneers in Psychology
26(3)
Psychology Today
29(3)
Modern Perspectives in Psychology: Current Views on Behavior and Thinking
29(1)
Psychologists at Work
30(2)
Apply It! Study Skills and Critical Thinking
32(1)
Thinking Critically
33(1)
Summary and Review
34(3)
Biology and Behavior
37(36)
The Neurons and the Neurotransmitters
38(7)
The Neurons: The Nervous System's Messenger Cells
38(2)
Neurotransmitters: The Chemical Messengers of the Brain
40(1)
The Effects of Drugs on Neural Transmission
41(1)
The Variety of Neurotransmitters
41(2)
The Rate of Neural Firing and the Speed of the Impulse
43(1)
Glial Cells: The Neurons' Helper Cells
44(1)
The Central Nervous System
45(4)
The Spinal Cord: An Extension of the Brain
45(1)
The Brainstem: The Most Primitive Part of the Brain
46(1)
The Cerebellum: A Must for Graceful Movement
46(1)
The Thalamus: The Brain's Relay Station
46(1)
The Hypothalamus: A Master Regulator
47(1)
The Limbic System: Primitive Emotion and Memory
48(1)
The Cerebral Hemispheres
49(11)
The Lobes of the Brain
50(5)
Specialized Functions of the Left Hemisphere: Language, First and Foremost
55(1)
Specialized Functions of the Right Hemisphere: The Leader in Visual-Spatial Tasks
56(2)
The Split Brain: Separate Halves or Two Separate Brains?
58(2)
Discovering the Brain's Mysteries
60(2)
The EEG and the Microelectrode
60(1)
The CT Scan and Magnetic Resonance Imaging
60(1)
The PET Scan, fMRI, and Other Imaging Techniques
60(2)
Brain Damage: Causes and Consequences
62(2)
Stroke
62(1)
Head Injury
62(1)
Recovering from Brain Damage
63(1)
The Peripheral Nervous System
64(2)
The Endocrine System
66(2)
Apply It! Handedness-Does It Make a Difference?
68(1)
Thinking Critically
69(1)
Summary and Review
69(4)
Sensation and Perception
73(42)
Sensation: The Sensory World
74(3)
The Absolute Threshold: To Sense or Not to Sense
75(1)
The Difference Threshold: Detecting Differences
75(1)
Signal Detection Theory
76(1)
Transduction: Transforming Sensory Stimuli into Neural Impulses
76(1)
Sensory Adaptation
76(1)
Vision
77(8)
Light: What We See
77(1)
The Eye: Window to the Visual Sensory World
78(4)
Color Vision: A Multicolored World
82(3)
Hearing
85(4)
Sound: What We Hear
85(1)
The Ear: More to It Than Meets the Eye
86(1)
Theories of Hearing: How Hearing Works
87(1)
Bone Conduction: Hearing Sound Vibrations through the Bones
88(1)
Hearing Loss: Kinds and Causes
88(1)
Smell and Taste
89(4)
Smell: Sensing Scents
89(2)
Taste: What the Tongue Can Tell
91(2)
The Other Senses
93(4)
The Skin Senses: Information from the Natural Clothing
93(1)
Pain: Physical Hurts
94(1)
The Kinesthetic Sense: Keeping Track of the Body's Parts
95(1)
The Vestibular Sense: Sensing Up and Down and Changes in Speed
96(1)
Perception: Ways of Perceiving
97(10)
The Gestalt Principles of Perceptual Organization
98(1)
Perceptual Constancy
99(2)
Depth Perception: Perceiving What's Up Close and Far Away
101(2)
Perception of Motion
103(1)
Extraordinary Perceptions: Puzzling Perceptions
104(3)
Additional Influences on Perception
107(1)
Bottom-Up and Top-Down Processing
107(1)
The Role of Psychological Factors in Perception
108(1)
Subliminal Persuasion and Extrasensory Perception
108(2)
Subliminal Persuasion: Does It Work?
108(1)
Extrasensory Perception: Does It Exist?
109(1)
Apply It! Noise and Hearing Loss-Bad Vibrations
110(1)
Thinking Critically
111(1)
Summary and Review
112(3)
States of Consciousness
115(36)
What Is Consciousness?
116(1)
Circadian Rhythms: 24-Hour Highs and Lows
117(3)
The Suprachiasmatic Nucleus: The Body's Timekeeper
117(1)
Jet Lag: Where Am I and What Time Is It?
118(1)
Shift Work: Working Day and Night
118(1)
Taking Melatonin as a Sleep Aid
119(1)
Sleep: That Mysterious One-Third of Life
120(8)
NREM and REM Sleep: Watching the Eyes
120(2)
Sleep Cycles: The Nightly Pattern of Sleep
122(1)
Variations in Sleep: How People Differ
122(2)
The Functions of Sleep: The Restorative and Circadian Theories
124(1)
Sleep Deprivation: What Are Its Effects?
124(1)
Dreaming: Mysterious Mental Activity during Sleep
125(3)
Sleep Disorders
128(3)
Parasomnias: Unusual Behaviors during Sleep
129(1)
Major Sleep Disorders
130(1)
Altering Consciousness through Concentration and Suggestion
131(5)
Meditation: Expanded Consciousness or Relaxation?
131(1)
Hypnosis: The Power of Suggestion
132(3)
Culture and Altered States of Consciousness
135(1)
Altered States of Consciousness and Psychoactive Drugs
136(10)
Variables Influencing Individual Responses to Drugs
137(1)
Drug Addiction: Slavery to a Substance
138(1)
Stimulants: Speeding Up the Nervous System
138(3)
Depressants: Slowing Down the Nervous System
141(1)
Hallucinogens: Seeing, Hearing, and Feeling What Is Not There
142(3)
How Drugs Affect the Brain
145(1)
Apply It! Battling Insomnia
146(1)
Thinking Critically
147(1)
Summary and Review
147(4)
Learning
151(38)
Classical Conditioning: The Original View
152(8)
Pavlov and Classical Conditioning
153(1)
The Elements and Processes of Classical Conditioning
154(4)
Pioneers
158(1)
John B. Watson
Watson, Little Albert, and Peter
158(2)
Classical Conditioning: The Contemporary View
160(5)
The Cognitive Perspective: Prediction Is the Critical Element
160(1)
Biological Predispositions: Their Role in Classical Conditioning
161(2)
Classical Conditioning in Everyday Life
163(1)
Factors Influencing Classical Conditioning
164(1)
Operant Conditioning
165(16)
Thorndike and the Law of Effects
165(1)
B. F. Skinner: A Pioneer in Operant Conditioning
166(1)
The Elements and Processes of Operant Conditioning
166(3)
Reinforcement: What's the Payoff?
169(4)
Factors Influencing Operant Conditioning
173(1)
Comparing Classical and Operant Conditioning: What's the Difference?
174(1)
Punishment: That Hurts!
175(3)
Escape and Avoidance Learning
178(1)
Learned Helplessness
178(1)
Applications of Operant Conditioning
179(2)
Cognitive Learning
181(4)
Learning by Insight: Aha! Now I Get It
181(1)
Latent Learning and Cognitive Maps: I Might Use That Later
181(1)
Observational Learning: Watching and Learning
182(3)
Apply It! How to Win the Battle against Procrastination
185(1)
Thinking Critically
186(1)
Summary and Review
186(3)
Memory
189(38)
Remembering
190(8)
The Three Processes in Memory: Encoding, Storage, and Retrieval
190(1)
The Three Memory Systems: The Long and the Short of It
191(6)
The Levels-of-Processing Model: Another View of Memory
197(1)
Measuring Memory
198(4)
Three Methods of Measuring Memory
198(2)
Ebbinghaus and the First Experimental Studies on Learning and Memory
200(2)
Forgetting
202(4)
The Causes of Forgetting
202(3)
Prospective Forgetting: Forgetting to Remember
205(1)
The Nature of Remembering and Forgetting
206(7)
Memory as a Permanent Record: The Video Cassette Recorder Analogy
206(1)
Memory as a Reconstruction: Partly Fact and Partly Fiction
206(2)
Eyewitness Testimony: Is It Accurate?
208(1)
Recovering Repressed Memories: A Controversy
209(2)
Unusual Memory Phenomena
211(1)
Memory and Culture
212(1)
Factors Influencing Retrieval
213(3)
The Serial Position Effect: To Be Remembered, Be First or Last But Not in the Middle
213(1)
Environmental Context and Memory
214(1)
The State-Dependent Memory Effect
215(1)
Stress, Anxiety, Depression, and Memory
215(1)
Biology and Memory
216(2)
Brain Damage: A Clue to Memory Formation
216(1)
Neuronal Changes in Memory: Brain Work
217(1)
Hormones and Memory
218(1)
Improving Memory: Some Helpful Study Habits
218(4)
Organization: Everything in Its Place
219(1)
Overlearning: Reviewing Again, and Again, and Again
219(1)
Spaced Practice versus Massed Practice: A Little at a Time Beats All at Once
220(1)
Recitation versus Rereading: Recitation Wins
220(2)
Apply It! Improving Memory with Mnemonic Devices
222(1)
Thinking Critically
223(1)
Summary and Review
224(3)
Cognition and Language
227(28)
Imagery and Concepts: Tools of Thinking
228(5)
Imagery: Picture This
229(2)
Concepts: A Mental Classification System (Is a Penguin a Bird?)
231(2)
Deductive and Inductive Reasoning: Logical Thinking
233(1)
Decision Making: Making Choices in Life
234(4)
The Additive Strategy
234(1)
Elimination by Aspects
235(1)
Heuristics and Decision Making
235(2)
Framing and Decision Making
237(1)
Problem Solving: Beyond Decision Making
238(5)
Approaches to Problem Solving: Helpful Basic Techniques
238(3)
Impediments to Problem Solving: Mental Stumbling Blocks
241(1)
Artificial Intelligence
242(1)
Language
243(7)
The Structure of Language
244(1)
Animal Language
245(2)
Language and Thinking
247(2)
Bilingualism
249(1)
Apply It! Avoiding Bad Decisions
250(1)
Thinking Critically
251(1)
Summary and Review
252(3)
Intelligence and Creativity
255(30)
The Nature of Intelligence
256(4)
The Search for Factors Underlying Intelligence
256(1)
Intelligence: More Than One Type?
257(3)
Measuring Intelligence
260(6)
Binet and the First Successful Intelligence Test
260(1)
Intelligence Testing in the United States
260(1)
Requirements of Good Tests: Reliability, Validity, and Standardization
261(2)
The Range of Intelligence
263(1)
Intelligence and Neural Processing
264(2)
The IQ Controversy: Brainy Dispute
266(8)
The Uses and Abuses of Intelligence Tests
266(1)
The Nature-Nature Controversy: Battle of the Centuries
267(3)
Intelligence: Is It Fixed or Changeable?
270(2)
Expectations, Effort, and Academic Achievement: A Cross-Cultural Comparison
272(2)
Emotional Intelligence
274(3)
Personal Components of Emotional Intelligence
274(1)
Interpersonal Components of Emotional Intelligence
275(2)
Creativity: Unique and Useful Productions
277(4)
The Creative Process
277(1)
The Nature of Creative Thinking
277(1)
Measuring Creativity: Are There Reliable Measures?
278(1)
Characteristics of Creative People
279(1)
Savant Syndrome: A Special Form of Creativity
279(2)
Apply It! Stimulating Creativity
281(1)
Thinking Critically
282(1)
Summary and Review
282(3)
Child Development
285(38)
Developmental Psychology: Basic Issues and Methodology
286(1)
Controversial Issues in Developmental Psychology
286(1)
Approaches to Studying Developmental Change
287(1)
Heredity and Prenatal Development
287(5)
The Mechanism of Heredity: Genes and Chromosomes
287(2)
The Stages of Prenatal Development: Unfolding According to Plan
289(1)
Negative Influences on Prenatal Development: Sabotaging Nature's Plan
290(2)
Physical Development and Learning in Infancy
292(4)
The Neonate: Seven Pounds of Beauty?
292(1)
Perceptual Development in Infancy
293(1)
Learning in Infancy
294(1)
Motor Development in Infancy
295(1)
Emotional Development in Infancy
296(5)
Temperament: How and When Does It Develop?
296(1)
Attachment
297(4)
The Father-Child Relationship
301(1)
Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development
301(6)
The Cognitive Stages of Development: Climbing the Steps to Cognitive Maturity
302(2)
Pioneers
304(1)
Jean Piaget
An Evaluation of Piaget's Contribution
305(2)
Vygotsky's Sociocultural View of Cognitive Development
307(1)
Cognitive Development: The Information-Processing Approach
308(2)
Attention
308(1)
Memory
308(1)
Metacognition
309(1)
Language Development
310(3)
The Stages of Language Development: The Orderly Progression of Language
310(1)
Theories of Language Development: How Is Language Acquired?
311(2)
Socialization of the Child
313(5)
Erikson's Theory of Psychosocial Development
314(1)
The Parents' Role in the Socialization Process
315(1)
Peer Relationships
316(1)
Television as a Socializing Agent: Does It Help or Hinder?
317(1)
Apply It! What Kind of Care Is Best for Your Child?
318(2)
Thinking Critically
320(1)
Summary and Review
320(3)
Adolescence and Adulthood
323(34)
Adolescence: Physical and Cognitive Development
324(4)
Physical Development during Adolescence: Growing, Growing, Grown
325(1)
Cognitive Development in Adolescence: Piaget's Formal Operations Stage
326(2)
Adolescence: Moral and Social Development
328(6)
Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development
328(3)
Parental Relationships: Their Quality and Influence
331(1)
The Peer Group
332(1)
Sexuality and Adolescence
332(1)
Teenage Pregnancy: Too Much Too Soon
332(1)
Part-Time Jobs for Adolescents: A Positive or a Negative?
333(1)
Erikson's Psychosocial Theory: Adolescence through Adulthood
334(4)
Identity versus Role Confusion: Erikson's Stage for Adolescence
334(1)
Intimacy versus Isolation: Erikson's Stage for Early Adulthood
335(1)
Pioneers
336(1)
Erik Homburger Erikson
Generativity versus Stagnation: Erikson's Stage for Middle Adulthood
336(1)
Ego Integrity versus Despair: Erikson's Final Stage
337(1)
Erikson's Theory: Does Research Support It?
337(1)
Other Theories of Adulthood
338(2)
Levinson's Seasons of Life
338(1)
Reinke and Others: The Life Course in Women
339(1)
Life Stages: Fact or Fiction?
339(1)
Early and Middle Adulthood
340(5)
Physical Changes in Adulthood
340(1)
Intellectual Capacity during Early and Middle Adulthood
341(1)
Lifestyle Patterns in Adulthood
341(3)
Personality and Social Development in Middle Age
344(1)
Later Adulthood
345(8)
Physical Changes in Later Adulthood
345(2)
Cognitive Development in Later Adulthood
347(2)
Social Development and Adjustment in Later Adulthood
349(1)
Cultural Differences in Care for the Elderly
350(1)
Death and Dying
351(2)
Apply It! Building a Good Relationship
353(1)
Thinking Critically
354(1)
Summary and Review
354(3)
Motivation and Emotion
357(38)
Introduction to Motivation
358(1)
Theories of Motivation
359(6)
Instinct Theories of Motivation
359(1)
Drive-Reduction Theory: Striving to Keep a Balanced Internal State
360(1)
Arousal Theory: Striving for an Optimal Level of Arousal
361(2)
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: Putting Human Needs in Order
363(1)
Motivation Research Today
364(1)
The Primary Drives: Hunger and Thirst
365(8)
Thirst: There Are Two Kinds
365(1)
The Biological Basis of Hunger: Internal Hunger Cues
365(1)
Other Factors Influencing Hunger: External Eating Cues
366(1)
Understanding Body Weight: Why Does It Vary So Widely?
367(2)
Dieting: A National Obsession
369(2)
Eating Disorders: The Tyranny of the Scale
371(2)
Social Motives
373(4)
The Need for Achievement: The Drive to Excel
373(2)
Fear of Success
375(1)
Work Motivation
375(2)
The What and Why of Emotions
377(4)
Motivation and Emotion: What Is the Connection?
377(1)
The Components of Emotions: The Physical, the Cognitive, and the Behavioral
377(1)
Theories of Emotion: Which Comes First, the Thought or the Feeling?
377(2)
The Polygraph: Lie Detector or Emotion Detector?
379(2)
The Expression of Emotion
381(5)
The Range of Emotion: How Wide Is It?
381(1)
The Development of Facial Expressions in Infants: Smiles and Frowns Come Naturally
382(1)
Facial Expressions for the Basic Emotions: A Universal Language
383(1)
Cultural Rules for Displaying Emotion
383(1)
Emotion as a Form of Communication
384(2)
Experiencing Emotion
386(4)
The Facial-Feedback Hypothesis: Does the Face Cause the Feeling?
386(1)
Emotion and Rational Thinking
387(1)
Gender Differences in Experiencing Emotion
388(1)
Love: The Strongest Emotional Bond
388(2)
Apply It! The Quest for Happiness
390(1)
Thinking Critically
391(1)
Summary and Review
392(3)
Human Sexuality and Gender
395(34)
What Makes a Male, a Male, or a Female, a Female?
396(1)
The Sex Chromosomes: X's and Y's
396(1)
The Sex Hormones: Contributing to Maleness and Femaleness
397(1)
Gender-Role Development
397(4)
Biological Influences on Gender Typing
397(1)
Environmental Influences on Gender Typing
398(1)
Psychological Theories of Gender-Role Development
399(2)
Gender Differences: Fact or Myth?
401(6)
Gender Differences in Cognitive Abilities
401(2)
Gender Differences in Social Behavior and Personality
403(2)
Adjustment and Gender Typing: Feminine, Masculine, or Androgynous?
405(1)
Gender Stereotyping: Who Wins? Who Loses?
405(2)
Sexual Attitudes and Behavior
407(6)
The Kinsey Surveys: The First In-Depth Look at Sexual Behavior
407(1)
Sexual Attitudes and Behavior Today: The New Sexual Revolution
407(2)
Sexual Desire and Arousal: Driving the Sex Drive
409(3)
Child Sexual Abuse
412(1)
Sexual Orientation
413(4)
Determinants of Sexual Orientation: Physiological or Psychological?
413(2)
The Developmental Experiences of Gay Men and Lesbians
415(1)
Social Attitudes toward Gays and Lesbians: From Celebration to Condemnation
416(1)
Sexual Dysfunctions
417(2)
Sexual Desire Disorders: From Disinterest to Aversion
417(1)
Sexual Arousal Disorders
417(1)
Orgasmic Disorders
418(1)
Sexual Pain Disorders
418(1)
Sexually Transmitted Diseases: The Price of Casual Sex
419(5)
The Bacterial Infections: The Curable STDs
419(1)
The Viral Infections: The Incurable STDs
420(2)
Protection against Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Minimizing Risk
422(2)
Apply It! Protecting Yourself from Rape
424(1)
Thinking Critically
425(1)
Summary and Review
425(4)
Personality Theory and Assessment
429(2)
Sigmund Freud and Psychoanalysis
431(8)
The Conscious, the Preconscious, and the Unconscious: Levels of Awareness
431(1)
The Id, the Ego, and the Superego: Warring Components of the Personality
431(1)
Pioneers
432(1)
Sigmund Freud
Defense Mechanisms: Protecting the Ego
433(3)
The Psychosexual Stages of Development: Centered on the Erogenous Zones
436(1)
Freud's Explanation of Personality
437(1)
Evaluating Freud's Contribution
437(2)
The Neo-Freudians
439(4)
Carl Gustav Jung: Delving into the Collective Unconscious
439(2)
Alfred Adler: Overcoming Inferiority
441(1)
Karen Horney: Championing Feminine Psychology
441(2)
Trait Theories
443(4)
Gordon Allport: Personality Traits in the Brain
443(1)
Raymond Cattell's 16 Personality Factors
444(1)
Hans Eysenck: Stressing Two Factors
444(1)
The Five-Factor Theory of Personality: The Big Five
445(1)
Evaluating the Trait Perspective
446(1)
Learning Theories and Personality
447(2)
The Behaviorist View of B. F. Skinner
447(1)
The Social-Cognitive Theorists: Expanding the Behaviorist View
447(2)
Humanistic Personality Theories
449(2)
Abraham Maslow: The Self-Actualizing Person
450(1)
Carl Rogers: The Fully Functioning Person
450(1)
Evaluating the Humanistic Perspective
451(1)
Personality: Is It in the Genes?
451(4)
The Twin Study Method: Studying Identical and Fraternal Twins
451(2)
The Shared and Nonshared Environment
453(1)
The Adoption Method
453(1)
Personality and Culture
454(1)
Personality Assessment
455(8)
Observation, Interviews, and Rating Scales
456(1)
Personality Inventories: Taking Stock
456(3)
Projective Tests: Projections from the Unconscious
459(2)
Personality Theories: A Final Comment
461(2)
Apply It! Learning to Be Optimistic
463(1)
Thinking Critically
464(1)
Summary and Review
464
Health and Stress
47(454)
Two Approaches to Health and Illness
468(1)
Theories of Stress
469(4)
Selye and the General Adaptation Syndrome
469(2)
Lazarus's Cognitive Theory of Stress
471(2)
Sources of Stress: The common and the Extreme
473(5)
Everyday Sources of Stress
473(1)
Stress in the Workplace
474(3)
Catastrophic Events and Chronic Intense Stress
477(1)
Coping with Stress
478(2)
Problem-Focused and Emotion-Focused Coping
478(1)
Religion and Coping with Negative Life Events
479(18)
Proactive Coping: Dealing with Stress in Advance
497(3)
Evaluating Life Stress: Major Life Changes, Hassles, and Uplifts
480(3)
Holmes and Rahe's Social Readjustment Rating Scale: Adding Up the Stress Score
480(2)
The Hassles of Life: Little Things Stress a Lot
482(1)
Health and Disease
483(9)
Responding to Illness
483(1)
Coronary Heart Disease: The Leading Cause of Death
484(2)
Cancer: A Dreaded Disease
486(1)
Health in the United States
487(1)
The Immune System: An Army of Cells to Fight Off Disease
488(2)
Personal Factors Reducing the Impact of Stress and Illness
490(2)
Lifestyle and Health
492(5)
Smoking: Hazardous to Your Health
492(2)
Alcohol: A Problem for Millions
494(1)
Exercise: Keeping Fit Is Healthy
495(2)
Apply It! Managing Stress
497(1)
Thinking Critically
498(1)
Summary and Review
498(3)
Psychological Disorders
501(36)
What Is Abnormal?
502(5)
Perspectives on the Causes and Treatment of Psychological Disorders
503(1)
Defining and Classifying Psychological Disorders
504(3)
Schizophrenia
507(5)
The Symptoms of Schizophrenia: Many and Varied
508(2)
Types of Schizophrenia
510(1)
The Causes of Schizophrenia
510(2)
Mood Disorders
512(7)
Depressive Disorders and Bipolar Disorder: Emotional Highs and Lows
512(2)
Causes of Major Depressive Disorder and Bipolar Disorder
514(3)
Suicide and Gender, Race, and Age
517(2)
Anxiety Disorders: When Anxiety Is Extreme
519(6)
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
520(1)
Panic Disorder
520(1)
Phobias: Persistent, Irrational Fears
521(2)
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
523(2)
Somatoform and Dissociative Disorders
525(3)
Somatoform Disorders: Physical Symptoms with Psychological Causes
525(1)
Dissociative Disorders: Mental Escapes
526(2)
Other Psychological Disorders
528(4)
Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders
528(1)
Personality Disorders: Troublesome Behavior Patterns
529(3)
Apply It! Depression-Bad Thoughts, Bad Feelings
532(1)
Thinking Critically
533(1)
Summary and Review
534(3)
Therapies
537(32)
Insight Therapies
538(7)
Psychodynamic Therapies: Freud Revisited
539(1)
Humanistic Therapies
540(2)
Therapies Emphasizing Interaction with Others
542(3)
Behavior Therapies: Unlearning the Old, Learning the New
545(5)
Behavior Modification Techniques Based on Operant Conditioning
545(1)
Therapies Based on Classical Conditioning
546(3)
Therapies Based on Observational Learning Theory: Just Watch This!
549(1)
Cognitive Therapies: It's the Thought That Counts
550(4)
Rational-Emotive Therapy: Challenging False Beliefs
551(1)
Cognitive Therapy: Overcoming ``the Power of Negative Thinking''
552(2)
The Biological Therapies
554(5)
Drug Therapy: Pills for Psychological Ills
554(3)
Electroconvulsive Therapy: The Controversy Continues
557(1)
Psychosurgery: Cutting to Cure
558(1)
Therapies and Therapists: Many Choices
559(6)
Evaluating the Therapies: Do They Work?
559(1)
Mental Health Professionals: How Do They Differ?
560(2)
Selectng a Therapy: Finding One That Fits
562(1)
Therapy and Race, Ethnicity, and Gender
562(3)
Apply It! Finding a Therapist
565(1)
Thinking Critically
566(1)
Summary and Review
566(3)
Social Psychology
569(38)
Introduction to Social Psychology
570(1)
Social Perception
571(2)
Impression Formation: Sizing Up the Other Person
571(1)
Attrbution: Explaining Behavior
572(1)
Attraction
573(5)
Factors Influencing Attraction: Magnets That Draw People Together
573(3)
Romantic Attraction
576(1)
Mate Selection: The Mating Game
576(2)
Conformity, Obedience, and Compliance
578(4)
Conformity: Going Along with the Group
578(1)
Obedience: Following Orders
579(2)
Compliance: Giving In to Requests
581(1)
Group Influence
582(4)
The Effects of the Group on Individual Performance
582(2)
The Effects of the Group on Decision Making
584(1)
Social Roles
585(1)
Attitudes and Attitude Change
586(4)
Attitudes: Cognitive, Emotional, and Behavioral Patterns
586(2)
Persuasion: Trying to Change Attitudes
588(2)
Prejudice and Discrimination
590(6)
The Roots of Prejudice and Discrimination
590(2)
Discrimination in the Workplace
592(1)
Combating Prejudice and Discrimination
593(1)
Prejudice: Is It Increasing or Decreasing?
594(2)
Prosocial Behavior: Behavior That Benefits Others
596(2)
The Bystander Effect: The More Bystanders, the Less Likely They Are to Help
596(1)
People Who Help in Emergencies
597(1)
Aggression: Intentionally Harming Others
598(5)
Biological Factors in Aggression: Genes, Hormones, and Brain Damage
599(1)
Aggression in Response to Frustration: Sometimes, but Not Always
599(1)
Aggression in Response to Aversive Events: Pain, Heat, Noise, and Crowding
600(1)
The Social Learning Theory of Aggression: Learning to Be Aggressive
601(2)
Apply It! Nonverbal Behavior-The Silent Language
603(1)
Thinking Critically
604(1)
Summary and Review
605(2)
Appendix: Statistical Methods607(10)
References617(58)
Glossary675(22)
Name Index697(12)
Subject Index709(16)
Credits725

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