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| Psychology: A Science...and a Perspective | |
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| Modern Psychology: What It Is and How It Originated | |
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| Psychology: Its Grand Issues and Key Perspectives | |
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| Psychology 2000: Trends for the New Millennium | |
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| Psychology and the Scientific Method | |
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| Research Methods in Psychology: How Psychologists Answer Questions about Behavior | |
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| Using This Book: An Overview of Its Special Features | |
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| Biological Bases of Behavior | |
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| Neurons: Building Blocks of the Nervous System | |
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| The Nervous System: Its Basic Structure and Functions | |
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| The Brain: Where Consciousness...Is | |
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| The Brain and Human Behavior: Where Biology and Consciousness Meet | |
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| Heredity and Behavior: Genetics and Evolutionary Psychology | |
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| Sensation and Perception: Making Contact with the World Around Us | |
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| Sensation: The Raw Materials of Understanding | |
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| Vision | |
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| Hearing | |
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| Touch and Other Skin Senses | |
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| Smell and Taste: The Chemical Senses | |
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| Kinesthesis and Vestibular Sense | |
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| Perception: Putting It All Together | |
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| The Plasticity of Perception: To What Extent Is It Innate or Learned? | |
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| Extrasensory Perception: Perception Without Sensation? | |
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| States of Consciousness | |
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| Biological Rhythms: Tides of Life — And Conscious Experience | |
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| Waking States of Consciousness | |
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| Sleep: The Pause That Refreshes? | |
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| Hypnosis: Altered State of Consciousness...or Social Role-Playing? | |
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| Consciousness-Altering Drugs: What They Are and What They Do | |
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| Learning: How We''re Changed by Experience | |
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| Classical Conditioning: Learning That Some Stimuli Signal Others | |
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| Operant Conditioning: Learning Based on Consequences | |
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| Observational Learning: Learning from the Behavior and Outcomes of Others | |
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| Memory: Of Things Remembered and Forgotten | |
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| Human Memory: Two Influential Views | |
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| Kinds of Information Stored in Memory | |
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| Forgetting: Some Contrasting Views | |
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| Memory Distortion and Memory Construction | |
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| Memory in Everyday Life | |
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| Memory and the Brain: Evidence from Memory Impairments and Other Sources | |
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| Cognition: Thinking, Deciding, and Communicating | |
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| Thinking: Forming Concepts and Reasoning to Conclusions | |
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| Making Decisions: Choosing Among Alternatives | |
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| Problem Solving: Finding Paths to Desired Goals | |
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| Language: The Communication of Information | |
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| Human Development I: The Childhood Years | |
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| Physical Growth and Development | |
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| Perceptual Development | |
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| Cognitive Development: Changes in Our Ability to Understand the World Around Us | |
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| Moral Development: Reasoning About "Right" and "Wrong." | |
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| Social and Emotional Development: Forming Relationships with Others | |
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| From Gender Identity to Sex Category Constancy: How Children Come to Understand That They Are Female or Male | |
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| Human Development II: Adolescence, Adulthood, and Aging | |
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| Adolescence: Between Child and Adult | |
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| Development During Our Adult Years | |
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| Aging, Death, and Bereavement | |
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| Motivation and Emotion | |
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| Motivation: The Activation and Persistence of Behavior | |
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| Emotions: Their Nature, Expression, and Impact | |
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| Intelligence: Cognitive, Practical, and Emotional | |
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| Intelligence: Contrasting Views of Its Nature | |
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| Measuring Intelligence | |
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| Human Intelligence: The Role of Heredity and the Role of Environment | |
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| Group Differences in Intelligence Test Scores: Why They Occur | |
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| Emotional Intelligence: The Feeling Side of Intelligence | |
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| Creativity: Generating the Extraordinary | |
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| Personality: Uniqueness and Consistency in the Behavior of Individuals | |
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| Personality: Is It Real? The Psychoanalytic Approach: Messages from the Unconscious | |
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| Humanistic Theories: Emphasis on Growth | |
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| Trait Theories: Seeking the Key Dimensions of Personality | |
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| Learning Approaches to Personality | |
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| Measuring Personality | |
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| Modern Research on Personality: Applications to Personal Health and Behavior in Work Settings | |
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| Health, Stress, and Coping | |
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| Health Psychology: An Overview | |
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| Stress: Its Causes, Effects, and Control | |
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| Understanding and Communicating Our Health Needs | |
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| Behavioral and Psychological Correlates of Illness: The Effects of Thoughts and Actions on Health | |
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| Promoting Wellness: Developing a Healthier Lifestyle | |
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| Mental Disorders: Their Nature and Causes | |
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| Models of Abnormality: Changing Conceptions of Mental Disorders | |
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| Assessment and Diagnosis: The DSM-IV and Other Tools | |
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| Disorders of Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence | |
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| Mood Disorders: The Downs and Ups of Life | |
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| Anxiety Disorders: When Dread Debilitates | |
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| Dissociative and Somatoform Disorders | |
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| Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders | |
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| Personality Disorders: Traits That Harm | |
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| Schizophrenia: Losing Touch with Reality | |
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| Substance-Related Disorders | |
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| Therapies: Techniques for Alleviating Mental Disorders | |
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| Psychotherapies: Psychological Approaches to Mental Disorders | |
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| Alternatives to Individual Psychotherapy: Group Therapy, Marital Therapy, Family Therapy, and Psychosocial Rehabilitation | |
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| Biological Therapies | |
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| Psychotherapy: Is It Effective? The Prevention of Mental Disorders: Community Psychology and Its Legacy | |
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| Legal and Ethical Issues Relating to Mental Disorders | |
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| Social Thought and Social Behavior | |
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| Social Thought: Thinking About Other People | |
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| Social Behavior: Interacting with Others | |
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| Appendix: Statistics: Uses and Potential Abuses | |
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| Glossary | |
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| References | |
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| Name Index | |
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| Subject Index | |