Psychology: Themes and Variations, 11th Edition

here Cover Dedication About the Author To the Instructor Acknowledgments Chapter Consultants Reviewers Brief Contents Contents To the Student Chapter 1: The Evolution of Psychology 1.1: Psychology’s Early History 1.2: Psychology’s Modern History 1.3: Psychology Today: Vigorous and Diversified 1.4: Seven Unifying Themes 1.5: Personal Application 1.6: Critical Thinking Application Concept Chart Chapter 2: The Research Enterprise in Psychology 2.1: Looking for Laws: The Scientific Approach to Behavior 2.2: Looking for Causes: Experimental Research 2.3: Looking for Links: Descriptive/ Correlational Research 2.4: Looking for Flaws: Evaluating Research 2.5: Looking at Ethics: Do the Ends 2.6: Justify the Means? 2.7: Reflecting on the Chapter’s Themes 2.8: Personal Application 2.9: Critical Thinking Application Concept Chart Chapter 3: The Biological Bases of Behavior 3.1: Communication in the Nervous System 3.2: Organization of the Nervous System 3.3: The Brain and Behavior 3.4: Right Brain/Left Brain: Cerebral Specialization 3.5: The Endocrine System: Another Way to Communicate 3.6: Heredity and Behavior: Is It All in the Genes? 3.7: The Evolutionary Bases of Behavior 3.8: Reflecting on the Chapter’s Themes 3.9: Personal Application 3.10: Critical Thinking Application Concept Chart Chapter 4: Sensation and Perception 4.1: The Visual System: Essentials of Sight 4.2: The Visual System: Perceptual Processes 4.3: The Auditory System: Hearing 4.4: The Other Senses: Taste, Smell, and Touch 4.5: Reflecting on the Chapter’s Themes 4.6: Personal Application 4.7: Critical Thinking Application Concept Chart Chapter 5: Variations in Consciousness 5.1: On the Nature of Consciousness 5.2: Biological Rhythms and Sleep 5.3: The Sleep and Waking Cycle 5.4: The World of Dreams 5.5: Hypnosis: Altered Consciousness or Role Playing? 5.6: Meditation: Pursuing Higher Consciousness 5.7: Altering Consciousness with Drugs 5.8: Reflecting on the Chapter’s Themes 5.9: Personal Application 5.10: Critical Thinking Application Concept Chart Chapter 6: Learning 6.1: Classical Conditioning 6.2: Operant Conditioning 6.3: Changing Directions in the Study of Conditioning 6.4: Observational Learning 6.5: Reflecting on the Chapter’s Themes 6.6: Personal Application 6.7: Critical Thinking Application Concept Chart Chapter 7: Human Memory 7.1: Encoding: Getting Information into Memory 7.2: Storage: Maintaining Information in Memory 7.3: Retrieval: Getting Information out of Memory 7.4: Forgetting: When Memory Lapses 7.5: In Search of the Memory Trace: The Physiology of Memory 7.6: Different Types of Memory Systems 7.7: Reflecting on the Chapter’s Themes 7.8: Personal Application 7.9: Critical Thinking Application Concept Chart Chapter 8: Cognition and Intelligence 8.1: Language: Turning Thoughts into Words 8.2: Problem Solving: In Search of Solutions 8.3: Decision Making: Choices and Chances 8.4: Measuring Intelligence 8.5: Heredity and Environment as Determinants of Intelligence 8.6: New Directions in the Study of Intelligence 8.7: Reflecting on the Chapter’s Themes 8.8: Personal Application 8.9: Critical Thinking Application Chapter 9: Motivation and Emotion 9.1: Motivational Theories 9.2: The Motivation of Hunger and Eating 9.3: Sexual Motivation and Behavior 9.4: The Achievement Motive 9.5: Elements of Emotional Experience 9.6: Theories of Emotion 9.7: Reflecting on the Chapter’s Themes 9.8: Personal Application 9.9: Critical Thinking Application Concept Chart Chapter 10: Human Development across the Life Span 10.1: Progress Before Birth: Prenatal Development 10.2: Motor, Social, and Language Development in Childhood 10.3: Personality, Cognitive, and Moral Development in Childhood 10.4: The Transition of Adolescence 10.5: The Expanse of Adulthood 10.6: Personal Application 10.7: Reflecting on the Chapter’s Themes 10.8: Critical Thinking Application Concept Chart Chapter 11: Personality 11.1: The Nature of Personality 11.2: Psychodynamic Perspectives 11.3: Behavioral Perspectives 11.4: Humanistic Perspectives 11.5: Biological Perspectives 11.6: Contemporary Empirical Approaches to Personality 11.7: Culture and Personality 11.8: Reflecting on the Chapter’s Themes 11.9: Personal Application 11.10: Critical Thinking Application Concept Chart Chapter 12: Social Behavior 12.1: Person Perception: Forming Impressions of Others 12.2: Attribution Processes: Explaining Behavior 12.3: Interpersonal Attraction: Liking and Loving 12.4: Attitudes: Making Social Judgments 12.5: Conformity and Obedience: Yielding to Others 12.6: Behavior in Groups: Joining with Others 12.7: Reflecting on the Chapter’s Themes 12.8: Personal Application 12.9: Critical Thinking Application Concept Chart Chapter 13: Stress, Coping, and Health 13.1: The Nature of Stress 13.2: Responding to Stress 13.3: Stress and Physical Health 13.4: Health-Impairing Behavior 13.5: Reactions to Illness 13.6: Reflecting on the Chapter’s Themes 13.7: Personal Application 13.8: Critical Thinking Application Concept Chart Chapter 14: Psychological Disorders 14.1: General Concepts 14.2: Anxiety Disorders, OCD, and PTSD 14.3: Dissociative Disorders 14.4: Depressive and Bipolar Disorders 14.5: Schizophrenic Disorders 14.6: Autism Spectrum Disorders 14.7: Personality Disorders 14.8: Eating Disorders 14.9: New Directions in the Study of Psychological Disorders 14.10: Reflecting on the Chapter’s Themes 14.11: Personal Application 14.12: Critical Thinking Application Chapter 15: Treatment of Psychological Disorders 15.1: Elements of the Treatment Process 15.2: Insight Therapies 15.3: Behavior Therapies 15.4: Biomedical Therapies 15.5: Current Trends in Treatment 15.6: Institutional Treatment in Transition 15.7: Reflecting on the Chapter’s Themes 15.8: Personal Application 15.9: Critical Thinking Application Concept Chart Appendix A: Practice Tests, Answers to the Concept Checks, and Answers to Indentifying Independent and Dependent Variables Appendix B: Statistical Methods Glossary References Name Index Subject Index Integrated Coverage Index