All chapters begin with a Chapter Outline and conclude with “A Deeper Level: Recap and Thought Questions.”

Using Psychology to Learn Psychology.
Organization, Organization, Organization.Connections across Topics.Learning without Straining.Showing and Telling.In Sum ….

1. Psychology: Yesterday and Today.
Psychological Science: Getting to Know You.Psychology Then and Now.The Science of Psychology: Designed to Be Valid.Ethics: Doing It Right.

2. The Brain: The Psychological Organ.
Brain Circuits: Making Connections.Structure and Function: An Orchestra with Many Members.Probing the Brain.Genes, Brain, and Environment: The Brain in the World.

3. Sensation and Perception: How the World Enters the Mind.
Sensing and Selecting: Opening Up to the World.Vision.Hearing.Sensing in Other Ways.

4. Consciousness.
To Sleep, Perchance to Dream.Hypnosis.Meditation.Drugs and Alcohol.

5. Learning.
Classical Conditioning.Operant Conditioning.Cognitive and Social Learning.

6. Memory: Living with Yesterday.
Memory: A Many-Splendored Thing.Encoding and Retrieving Information from Memory.Fact, Fiction, and Forgetting: When Memory Goes Wrong.Improving Memory: Tricks and Tools.

7. Language and Thinking.
Language: More Than Meets the Ear.Means of Thought: Words, Images, and Concepts.Problem Solving.Logic, Reasoning, and Decision Making.

8. Types of Intelligence: What Does It Mean to Be Smart?
Is There More Than One Way to Be Smart?What Makes Us Smart: Nature and Nurture.Rare Intelligence.Creative Forces.

9. Emotion and Motivation: Feeling and Striving.
Emotion: I Feel, Therefore I Am.Motivation and Reward: Feeling Good.Hunger and Eating: Not Just about Fueling the Body.Sex: Not Just about Having Babies.

10. Personality: Vive La Difference!
What Is Personality?The Brain: The Personality Organ.The Person: Beliefs and Behaviors.The World: Social Influences on Personality.

11. Psychology over the Lifespan: 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.

12. Stress, Health, and Coping.
What Is Stress?Stress, Disease, and Health.Strategies for Coping.

13. Psychological Disorders.
Identifying Disorders: What's Abnormal?Anxiety and Mood Disorders.Schizophrenia.Other Axis I Disorders: Dissociative and Eating Disorders.Personality Disorders.A Cautionary Note about Diagnosis.

14. Treatment.
Insight-Oriented Therapies.Cognitive-Behavior Therapy.Other Forms of Therapy.Which Therapy Works Best?

15. Social Psychology: Meeting of the Minds.
Social Cognition: Thinking about People.Social Behavior: Interacting with People.A Final Word: Ethics and Social Psychology.

Appendix A: Statistics.

Appendix B: How to Read, Critically Evaluate, and Write Research Papers.

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