Psychology An Introduction

Name: Psychology An Introduction
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ISBN: 9780137354658

ISBN-10: 0137354657

ISBN-13: 9780137354658

Edition: 8th

Authors: Charles G. Morris

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This best-selling, reader-friendly introduction to psychology as a science provides engaging coverage of traditional topics -- giving readers a firm grasp of the scope, vocabulary, and concepts of psychology. It treats psychology as a diverse discipline -- the way psychologists perceive it -- combining a concern for research, theory, gender, and cross-cultural issues with examples that are both familiar and applicable to readers. Provides full coverage of the core topics in psychology: biological basis of behavior; sensation and perception; consciousness; learning; memory; cognition and language; intelligence and mental abilities; life span development; motivation and emotion; personality;…

Book details

List price: $60.00
Edition: 8th
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 768
Size: 9.06" wide x 11.42" long
Weight: 4.136
Language: English



The Science of Psychology


What is Psychology?


The Growth of Psychology


Human Diversity


Research Methods in Psychology


Careers in Psychology


The Biological Basis of Behavior


Neurons: The Messengers


The Peripheral Nervous System


Sensation and Perception


The Nature of Sensation


Vision


Hearing


The Other Senses


Perception


States of Consciousness


Conscious Experiences


Sleep


Dreams


Drug-altered Consciousness


Meditation and Hypnosis


Learning


Classical Conditioning


Operant Conditioning


Comparing Classical and Operant Conditioning


Cognitive Learning


Memory


The Sensory Registers


Short-Term Memory


Long-Term Memory


The Biology of Memory


Forgetting


Special Topics in Memory


Cognition and Language


The Building Blocks of Thought


Problem Solving


Decision Making


Language, Thought, and Culture


Nonhuman Thought and Language


Intelligence and Mental Abilities


Theories of Intelligence


Intelligence Tests


What Makes a Good Test? What Determines Intelligence


Mental Abilities and Human Diversity


Extremes of Intelligence


Creativity


Motivation and Emotion


Perceptions of Motivation


Hunger and Thirst


Sex


Other Motives


Emotions


Communication of Emotion


Gender, Culture, and Emotion


Life Span Development


Methods in Developmental Psychology


Prenatal Development


The Newborn Baby


Infancy and Childhood


Adolescence


Adulthood


Late Adulthood


Personality


Psychodynamic Theories


Humanistic Personality Theories


Trait Theories


Cognitive-Social Learning Theories


Personality Assessment


Stress and Health Psychology


Source of Stress


Coping with Stress


Stress and Health


Extreme Stress


The Well-Adjusted Person


Psychological Disorders


Perspectives on Psychological Disorders


Mood Disorders


Anxiety Disorders


Psychosomatic and Somatoform Disorders


Dissociative Disorders


Sexual Disorders


Personality Disorders


Schizophrenic Disorders


Childhood Disorders


Gender and Cultural Differences in Psychological Disorders


Therapies


Insight Therapies


Behavior Therapies


Cognitive Therapies


Group Therapies


Effectiveness of Psychotherapy


Biological Treatments


Institutionalization and Its Alternatives


Gender and Cultural Differences in Treatments


Social Psychology


Social Cognition


Attitudes


Social Influence


Social Action


Measurement and Statistical Methods


Industrial/Organizational Psychology


Glossary


Index