Chapter 1: The Science of Psychology
Chapter 2: Studying Behaviour Scientifically
Chapter 3: Genes, Environment and Behaviour
Chapter 4: The Brain and Behaviour
Chapter 5: Sensation and Perception
Chapter 6: States of Consciousness
Chapter 7: Learning: The Role of Experience
Chapter 8: Memory
Chapter 9: Language and Thinking
Chapter 10: Intelligence
Chapter 11: Motivation and Emotion
Chapter 12: Development over the Life-Span
Chapter 13: Personality
Chapter 14: Health and Well-Being
Chapter 15: Psychological Disorders
Chapter 16: Treatment of Psychological Disorders
Chapter 17: Social Thinking and Behaviour
Chapter 18: Indigenous and Cross-Cultural Psychology
Michael W. Passer, Ph.D., coordinates the introductory psychology
program at the University of Washington, which enrolls about 2,500
students per year, and also is the faculty coordinator of training
for new teaching assistants (TAs). He received his bachelor’s
degree from the University of Rochester and his PhD in Psychology
from the University of California, Los Angeles, with a
specialization in social psychology. Dr. Passer has been a faculty
member at the University of Washington since 1977. A former
Danforth Foundation Fellow and University of Washington
Distinguished Teaching Award finalist, Dr. Passer has had a
career-long love of teaching. Each academic year he teaches
introductory psychology twice and a required pre-major course in
research methods. Dr. Passer developed and teaches a graduate
course on the Teaching of Psychology, which prepares students for
careers in the college classroom, and also has taught courses in
social psychology and attribution theory. He has published more
than 20 scientific articles and chapters, primarily in the areas of
attribution, stress, and anxiety, and has taught the introductory
psychology course for 20 years.
Ronald E. Smith, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology and Director of
Clinical Psychology Training at the University of Washington, where
he also has served as Area Head of the Social Psychology and
Personality area. He received his bachelor’s degree from Marquette
University and his PhD from Southern Illinois University, where he
had dual specializations in clinical and physiological psychology.
His major research interests are in anxiety, stress and coping, and
in performance enhancement research and intervention. Dr. Smith is
a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. He received a
Distinguished Alumnus Award from the UCLA Neuropsychiatric
Institute for his contributions to the field of mental health. He
has published more than 160 scientific articles and book chapters
in his areas of interest and has authored or co-authored 23 books
on introductory psychology, human performance enhancement, and
personality, including Introduction to Personality: Toward an
Integration, with Walter Mischel and Yuichi Shoda (Wiley, 2004). An
award-winning teacher, he has more than 15 years of experience in
teaching the introductory psychology course.
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