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| Brief Table of Contents | |
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| What Is Psychology? | |
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| How Psychologists Do Research | |
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| Genes, Evolution, and Environment | |
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| The Brain and Nervous System | |
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| Body Rhythms and Mental States | |
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| Sensation and Perception | |
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| Learning and Conditioning | |
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| Behavior in Social and Cultural Context | |
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| Thinking and Intelligence | |
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| Memory | |
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| Emotion, Stress, and Health | |
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| Motivation | |
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| Development Over the Life Span | |
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| Theories of Personality | |
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| Psychological Disorders | |
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| Approaches to Treatment and Therapy | |
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| Full Table of Contents | |
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| What Is Psychology? | |
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| Psychology, Pseudoscience, and Popular Opinion | |
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| Thinking Critically and Creatively about Psychology | |
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| Psychology's Past: From the Armchair to the Laboratory | |
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| Psychology's Present: The Four Perspectives of Psychological Science | |
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| What Psychologists Do | |
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| How Psychologists Do Research | |
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| What Makes Psychological Research Scientific? | |
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| Descriptive Studies: Establishing the Facts | |
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| Correlational Studies: Looking for Relationships | |
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| Experiments: Hunting for Causes 49 | |
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| Evaluating the Findings | |
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| Keeping the Enterprise Ethical | |
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| Genes, Evolution, and Environment | |
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| Unlocking the Secrets of Genes | |
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| The Genetics of Similarity | |
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| Our Human Heritage: Courtship and Mating | |
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| The Genetics of Difference | |
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| Our Human Diversity: The Case of Intelligence | |
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| The Brain and Nervous System | |
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| The Nervous System: A Basic Blueprint | |
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| Communication in the Nervous System | |
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| Mapping the Brain | |
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| A Tour through the Brain | |
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| The Two Hemispheres of the Brain | |
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| The Flexible Brain | |
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| Body Rhythms and Mental States | |
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| Biological Rhythms: The Tides of Experience | |
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| The Rhythms of Sleep | |
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| Exploring the Dream World | |
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| The Riddle of Hypnosis | |
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| Consciousness-Altering Drugs | |
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| Sensation and Perception | |
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| Our Sensational Senses | |
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| Vision | |
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| Hearing | |
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| Other Senses | |
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| Perceptual Powers: Origins and Influences | |
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| Learning and Conditioning | |
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| Classical Conditioning | |
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| Classical Conditioning in Real Life | |
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| Operant Conditioning | |
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| Principles of Operant Conditioning | |
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| Operant Conditioning in Real Life | |
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| Learning and the Mind | |
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| Behavior in Social and Cultural Context | |
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| Roles and Rules | |
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| Social Influences on Beliefs and Behavior | |
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| Individuals in Groups | |
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| Us versus Them: Group Identity | |
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| Group Conflict and Prejudice | |
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| The Question of Human Nature | |
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| Thinking and Intelligence | |
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| Thought: Using What We Know | |
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| Reasoning Rationally | |
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| Barriers to Reasoning Rationally | |
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| Measuring Intelligence: The Psychometric Approach | |
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| Dissecting Intelligence: The Cognitive Approach | |
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| Animal Minds | |
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| Memory | |
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| Reconstructing the Past | |
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| Memory and the Power of Suggestion | |
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| In Pursuit of Memory | |
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| The Three-Box Model of Memory | |
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| The Biology of Memory | |
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| How We Remember | |
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| Why We Forget 3 | |
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| Autobiographical Memories | |
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| Emotion, Stress, and Health | |
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| The Nature of Emotion | |
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| Emotion and Culture | |
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| The Nature of Stress | |
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| Stress and Emotion | |
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| Coping with Stress | |
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| Motivation | |
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| The Hungry Animal: Motives to Eat | |
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| The Social Animal: Motives to Love | |
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| The Erotic Animal: Motives for Sex | |
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| The Competent Animal: Motives to Achieve | |
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| Development Over the Life Span | |
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| From Conception through the First Year | |
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| Cognitive Development | |
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| Moral Development | |
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| Gender Development | |
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| Adolescence | |
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| Adulthood | |
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| The Wellsprings of Resilience | |
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| Theories of Personality | |
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| Psychodynamic Theories of Personality | |
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| The Modern Study of Personality | |
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| Genetic Influences on Personality | |
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| Environmental Influences on Personality | |
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| Cultural Influences on Personality | |
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| The Inner Experience | |
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| Psychological Disorders | |
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| Diagnosing Mental Disorders | |
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| Anxiety Disorders | |
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| Mood Disorders | |
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| Personality Disorders | |
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| Drug Abuse and Addiction | |
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| Dissociative Identity Disorder | |
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| Schizophrenia | |
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| Approaches to Treatment and Therapy | |
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| Biological Treatments for Mental Disorders | |
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| Major Schools of Psychotherapy | |
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| Evaluating Psychotherapy | |
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| The Value and Values of Psychotherapy | |