Introduction to Psychological Science

Table of Contents

Preface

1: Introducing Psychological Science
Module 1.1 The Science of Psychology
Module 1.2 How Psychology Became a Science
Module 1.3 Putting Psychology to Work: Careers in Psychology and Related Fields

2: Reading and Evaluating Scientific Research
Module 2.1 Principles of Scientific Research
Module 2.2 Scientific Research Designs
Module 2.3 Ethics in Psychological Research
Module 2.4 A Statistical Primer

3: Biological Psychology
Module 3.1 Genetic and Evolutionary Perspectives on Behaviour
Module 3.2 How the Nervous System Works
Module 3.3 Structure and Organization of the Nervous System
Module 3.4 Windows to the Brain: Measuring and Observing Brain Activity

4: Sensation and Perception
Module 4.1 Sensation and Perception at a Glance
Module 4.2 The Visual System
Module 4.3 The Auditory System
Module 4.4 Touch and the Chemical Senses

5: Consciousness
Module 5.1 Biological Rhythms of Consciousness
Module 5.2 Altered States of Consciousness
Module 5.3 Drugs and Conscious Experience

6: Learning
Module 6.1 Classical Conditioning: Learning by Association
Module 6.2 Operant Conditioning: Learning Through Consequences
Module 6.3 Cognitive and Observational Learning

7: Memory
Module 7.1 Memory Systems
Module 7.2 Encoding and Retrieving Memories
Module 7.3 Constructing and Reconstructing Memories

8: Thought and Language
Module 8.1 The Organization of Knowledge
Module 8.2 Problem Solving, Judgment, and Decision Making
Module 8.3 Language and Communication

9: Intelligence Testing
Module 9.1 Measuring Intelligence
Module 9.2 Understanding Intelligence
Module 9.3 Biological, Environmental, and Behavioural Influences on Intelligence

10: Life Span Development
Module 10.1 Physical Development from Conception through Infancy
Module 10.2 Infancy and Childhood
Module 10.3 Adolescence
Module 10.4 Adulthood and Aging

11: Motivation and Emotion
Module 11.1 Hunger and Eating
Module 11.2 Sex and Love
Module 11.3 Social and Achievement Motivation
Module 11.4 Emotion

12: Personality
Module 12.1 Contemporary Approaches to Personality
Module 12.2 Cultural and Biological Approaches to Personality
Module 12.3 Psychodynamic and Humanistic Approaches to Personality

13: Social Psychology
Module 13.1 The Power of the Situation: Social Influences on Behavior
Module 13.2 Social Cognition
Module 13.3 Attitudes, Behaviour, and effective communication

14: Health, Stress, and Coping
Module 14.1 Behaviour and Health
Module 14.2 Stress and Illness
Module 14.3 Coping and Well-Being

15: Psychological Disorders
Module 15.1 Defining and Classifying Psychological Disorders
Module 15.2 Personality and Dissociative Disorders
Module 15.3 Anxiety and Mood Disorders
Module 15.4 Schizophrenia

16: Therapies
Module 16.1 Treating Psychological Disorders
Module 16.2 Psychological Therapies
Module 16.3 Biomedical Therapies

Answer Key
Glossary
References
Credits
Name Index
Subject Index