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| Brief TOC | |
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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: Source of Mind and Self | |
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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 Lifespan | |
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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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| Appendix: Statistical Methods | |
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| DETAILED TOC | |
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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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| The Birth of Modern Psychology | |
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| Three Early Psychologies | |
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| Psychology's Present: Behavior, Body, Mind, and Culture | |
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| The Major Psychological Perspectives | |
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| Other Influential Movements in Psychology | |
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| What Psychologists Do | |
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| Psychological Research | |
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| Psychological Practice | |
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| Psychology in the Community | |
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| BIOLOGY, CULTURE AND PSYCHOLOGY: Beyond the Borders | |
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| TAKING PSYCHOLOGY WITH YOU: What Psychology Can Do for You - and What it Can't | |
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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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| Case Studies | |
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| Observational Studies | |
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| Tests | |
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| Surveys | |
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| Correlational Studies: Looking for Relationships | |
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| Measuring Correlations | |
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| Cautions About Correlations | |
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| Experiments: Hunting for Causes | |
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| Experimental Variables | |
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| Experimental and Control Conditions | |
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| Experimenter Effects | |
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| CULTURE AND RESEARCH: Special Challenges | |
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| Evaluating the Findings | |
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| Descriptive Statistics: Finding Out What's So | |
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| Inferential Statistics: Asking "So What?" | |
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| Interpreting the Findings | |
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| Keeping the Enterprise Ethical | |
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| The Ethics of Studying Human Beings | |
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| The Ethics of Studying Animals | |
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| TAKING PSYCHOLOGY WITH YOU: Lying with Statistics | |
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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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| Evolution and Natural Selection | |
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| Innate Human Characteristics | |
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| Our Human Heritage: Language | |
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| The Nature of Language | |
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| The Innate Capacity for Language | |
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| Learning and Language | |
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| Our Human Heritage: Courtship and Mating | |
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| Evolution and Sexual Strategies | |
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| Culture and the "Genetic Leash" | |
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| The Genetics of Difference | |
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| The Meaning of Heritability | |
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| Computing Heritability | |
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| Our Human Diversity: the Case of Intelligence | |
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| Genes and Individual Differences | |
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| BIOLOGY AND INTELLECT: Genes and Brainy Brains | |
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| The Question of Group Differences | |
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| The Environment and Intelligence | |
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| Beyond Nature versus Nurture | |
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| TAKING PSYCHOLOGY WITH YOU: Should You Have Genetic Testing? | |
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| The Brain: Source of Mind and Self | |
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| The Nervous System: A Basic Blueprint | |
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| The Central Nervous System | |
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| The Peripheral Nervous System | |
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| Communication in the Nervous System | |
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| The Structure of the Neuron | |
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| Neurons in the News | |
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| How Neurons Communicate | |
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| The Plastic Brain | |
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| Chemical Messengers 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 Brain Stem | |
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| The Cerebellum | |
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| The Thalamus | |
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| The Hypothalamus and the Pituitary Gland | |
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| The Amygdala | |
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| The Hippocampus | |
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| The Cerebrum | |
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| CULTURE AND THE CORTEX: Can Culture Shape the Brain? | |
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| The Two Hemispheres of the Brain | |
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| Split Brains: A House Divided | |
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| The Two Hemispheres: Allies or Opposites? | |
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| Two Stubborn Issues in Brain Research | |
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| Where Is the Self? | |
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| Are There "His" and "Hers" Brains? | |
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| TAKING PSYCHOLOGY WITH YOU: Cosmetic Neurology: Tinkering with the Brain | |
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| Body Rhythms and Mental States | |
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| Biological Rhythms: the Tides of Experience | |
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| Circadian Rhythms | |
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| Moods and Long-Term Rhythms | |
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| CULTURE AND BIOLOGICAL RHYTHMS: The Case of "PMS" | |
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| The Rhythms of Sleep | |
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| The Realms of Sleep | |
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| Why We Sleep | |
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| Exploring the Dream World | |
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| Dreams as Unconscious Wishes | |
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| Dreams as Efforts to Deal with Problems | |
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| Dreams as Thinking | |
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| Dreams as Interpreted Brain Activity | |
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| Evaluating Dream Theories | |
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| The Riddle of Hypnosis | |
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| The Nature of Hypnosis | |
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| Theories of Hypnosis | |
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| BIOLOGY AND HYPNOSIS: Now You See It | |
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| Consciousness-Altering Drugs | |
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| Classifying Drugs | |
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| The Physiology of Drug Effects | |
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| The Psychology of Drug Effects | |
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| TAKING PSYCHOLOGY WITH YOU: The Drug Debate | |
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| Sensation and Perception | |
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| Our Sensational Senses | |
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| The Riddle of Seperate Sensations | |
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| Measuring the Senses | |
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| Sensory Adaptation | |
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| Sensing Without Perceiving | |
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| Vision | |
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| What We See | |
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| An Eye on the World | |
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| Why the Visual System Is Not a Camera | |
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| How We See Colors | |
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| Constructing the Visual World | |
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| Hearing | |
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| What We Hear | |
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| An Ear on the World | |
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| Constructing the Auditory World | |
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| Other Senses | |
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| Taste: Savory Sensations | |
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| Smell: the Sense of Scents | |
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| Senses of the Skin | |
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| The Mystery of Pain | |
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| BIOLOGY AND EXPECTATIONS OF PAIN: Positive Thinking and the Power of the Placebo | |
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| The Environment Within | |
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| Perceptual Powers: Origins and Influences | |
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| Inborn Abilities | |
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| Critical Periods | |
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| Psychological and Cultural Influences | |
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| CULTURE AND PERCEPTION: Of Carpenters and Context | |
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| Perception without Awareness | |
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| TAKING PSYCHOLOGY WITH YOU: Extrasensory Perception: Reality or Illusion? | |
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| Learning and Conditioning | |
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| Classical Conditioning | |
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| New Reflexes from Old | |
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| Principles of Classical Conditioning | |
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| What Is Actually Learned in Classical Conditioning? | |
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| Classical Conditioning in Real Life | |
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| Learning to Like | |
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| Learning to Fear | |
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| Accounting for Taste | |
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| Reacting to Medical Treatments | |
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| BIOLOGY AND CLASSICAL CONDITIONING: Pavlov and Peanut Butter | |
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| Operant Conditioning | |
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| The Birth of Radical Behaviorism | |
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| The Consequences of Behavior | |
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| Principles of Operant Conditioning | |
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| Skinner: the Man and the Myth | |
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| Operant Conditioning in Real Life | |
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| The Pros and Cons of Punishment | |
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| The Problems with Reward | |
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| Learning and the Mind | |
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| Latent Learning | |
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| Social-Cognitive Learning Theories | |
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| TAKING PSYCHOLOGY WITH YOU: Does Media Violence Make You Violent? | |
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| Behavior in Social and Cultural Context | |
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| Roles and Rules | |
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| The Obedience Study | |
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| The Prison Study | |
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| Why People Obey | |
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| Social Influences on Beliefs and Behavior | |
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| Attributions | |
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| Attitudes | |
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| BIOLOGY AND BELIEFS: Do Genes Influence Attitudes? | |
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| Persuasion or "Brainwashing"?: the Case of Suicide Bombers | |
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| Individuals in Groups | |
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| Conformity | |
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| Groupthink | |
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| The Wisdom and Madness of Crowds | |
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| Altruism and Dissent | |
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| Us Versus Them: Group Identity | |
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| Ethnic Identity | |
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| Ethnocentrism | |
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| Stereotypes | |
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| Group Conflict and Prejudice | |
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| The Origins of Prejudice | |
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| Defining and Measuring Prejudice | |
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| Reducing Conflict and Prejudice | |
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| The Question of Human Nature | |
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| TAKING PSYCHOLOGY WITH YOU: Dealing with Cultural Differences | |
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| Thinking and Intelligence | |
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| Thought: Using What We Know | |
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| The Elements of Cognition | |
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| How Conscious is Thought? | |
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| Reasoning Rationally | |
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| Formal Reasoning: Algorithms and Logic | |
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| Informal Reasoning: Heuristics and Dialectical Thinking | |
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| Reflective Judgment | |
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| Barriers to Reasoning Rationally | |
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| Exagerrating the Improbable (and Minimizing the Probable) | |
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| Avoiding Loss | |
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| The Fairness Bias | |
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| BIOLOGY AND ECONOMIC CHOICE: Rejecting Unfair Offers | |
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| The Hindsight Bias | |
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| The Confirmation Bias | |
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| Mental Sets | |
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| The Need for Cognitive Consistency | |
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| Overcoming Our Cognitive Biases | |
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| Measuring Intelligence: the Psychomatic Approach | |
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| The Invention of IQ Tests | |
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| CULTURE AND INTELLIGENCE TESTING: Can IQ Tests Be Culturally Fair? | |
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| Dissecting Intelligence: the Cognitive Approach | |
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| The Triarchic Theory | |
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| Domains of Intelligence | |
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| Thinking Critically About Intelligence(s) | |
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| Motivation, Hard Work, and Intellectual Success | |
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| Animal Minds | |
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| Animal Intelligence | |
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| Animals and Language | |
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| Thinking About the Thinking of Animals | |
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| TAKING PSYCHOLOGY WITH YOU: Becoming More Creative | |
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| Memory | |
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| Reconstructing the Past | |
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| The Manufacture of Memory | |
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| The Conditions of Confabulation | |
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| Memory and the Power of Suggestion | |
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| The Eyewitness on Trial | |
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| Children's Testimony | |
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| In Pursuit of Memory | |
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| Measuring Memory | |
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| Models of Memory | |
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| The Three-Box Model of Memory | |
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| The Sensory Register: Fleeting Impressions | |
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| Short-Term Memory: Memory's Scratch Pad | |
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| Long-Term Memory: Final Destination | |
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| The Biology of Memory | |
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| Changes in Neurons and Synapses | |
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| Locating Memories | |
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| Hormones, Emotion, and Memory | |
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| How We Remember | |
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| Effective Encoding | |
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| Rehearsal | |
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| Read, Recite, Review | |
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| Retrieval Practice | |
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| Mnemonics | |
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| Why We Forget | |
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| Decay | |
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| Replacement | |
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| Interference | |
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| Cue-Dependent Forgetting | |
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| The Repression Controversy | |
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| Autobiographical Memories | |
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| Childhood Amnesia: the Missing Years | |
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| Memory and Narrative: the Stories of Our Lives | |
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| TAKING PSYCHOLOGY WITH YOU: Memory and Myth | |
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| Emotion, Stress, and Health | |
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| The Nature of Emotion | |
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| Emotion and the Body | |
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| BIOLOGY AND DECEPTION: Can Lies Be Detected in the Brain and Body? | |
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| Emotion and the Mind | |
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| Emotion and Culture | |
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| How Culture Shapes Emotions | |
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| Communicating Emotions | |
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| Gender and Emotion | |
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| The Nature of Stress | |
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| Stress and the Body | |
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| Stress and the Mind | |
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| CULTURE AND CONTROL: What Can We Change, and What Must We Accept? | |
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| Stress and Emotion | |
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| Hostility and Depression: Do They Hurt? | |
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| Positive Emotions: Do They Help? | |
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| Emotional Inhibition and Expression | |
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| Coping with Stress | |
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| Solving the Problem | |
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| Rethinking the Problem | |
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| Drawing on Social Support | |
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| TAKING PSYCHOLOGY WITH YOU: How Much Control Do We Have Over Our Emotions and Our Health? | |
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| Motivation | |
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| The Hungry Animal: Motives to Eat | |
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| The Biology of Weight | |
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| Environmental Influences on Weight | |
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| CULTURE AND THE IDEAL BODY: Norms, Gender, and Weight | |
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| The Body as Battleground: Eating Disorders | |
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| The Social Animal: Motives to Love | |
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| The Biology of Love | |
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| The Psychology of Love | |
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| Gender, Culture, and Love | |
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| The Erotic Animal: Motives for Sex | |
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| The Biology of Desire | |
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| The Psychology of Desire | |
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| The Culture of Desire | |
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| Gender. Culture, and Sex | |
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| BIOLOGY AND SEXUAL ORIENTATION: Elusive Causes, Recent Clues | |
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| The Competent Animal: Motives to Achieve | |
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| The Effects of Motivation on Work | |
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| The Effects of Work on Motivation | |
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| Motives, Values, and the Pursuit of Happiness | |
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| TAKING PSYCHOLOGY WITH YOU: How to Attain Your Goals | |
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| Development Over the Life Span | |
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| From Conception through the First Year | |
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| Prenatal Development | |
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| The Infant's World | |
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| Attachment | |
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| Cognitive Development | |
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| Language | |
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| Moral Development | |
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| Gender Development | |
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| Gender Identity | |
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| Influences on Gender Development | |
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| Adolescence | |
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| The Physiology of Adolescence | |
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| BIOLOGY AND THE TEEN BRAIN: Less Guilty by Reason of Adolescence? | |
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| The Psychology of Adolescence | |
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| Adulthood | |
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| Stages and Ages | |
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| The Transitions of Life | |
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| Old Age | |
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| The Wellsprings of Resilience | |
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| TAKING PSYCHOLOGY WITH YOU: Bringing Up Baby | |
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| Theories of Personality | |
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| Psychodynamic Theories of Personality | |
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| Freud and Psychoanalysis | |
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| Other Psychodynamic Approaches | |
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| Evaluating Psychodynamic Theories | |
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| The Modern Study of Personality | |
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| Popular Personality Tests | |
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| Core Personality Tests | |
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| Genetic Influences on Personality | |
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| BIOLOGY AND ANIMAL TRAITS: Do Puppies Have Personalities? | |
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| Heredity and Temperament | |
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| Heredity and Traits | |
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| Evaluating Genetic Theories | |
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| Environmental Influences on Personality | |
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| Situations and Social Learning | |
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| Parental Influences-and Its Limits | |
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| The Power of Peers | |
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| Cultural Influences on Personality | |
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| Culture, Values, and Traits | |
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| CULTURE AND VIOLENCE: The Cultivation of Male Aggression | |
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| Evaluating Cultural Approaches | |
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| The Inner Experience | |
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| Humanist Approaches | |
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| Narrative Approaches | |
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| Evaluating Humanist and Narrative Approaches | |
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| TAKING PSYCHOLOGY WITH YOU: How to Avoid the "Barnum Effect" | |
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| Psychological Disorders | |
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| Diagnosing Mental Disorders | |
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| Dilemmas of Diagnosis | |
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| CULTURE AND MENTAL ILLNESS: Are Mental Problems the Same Everywhere? | |
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| Dilemmas of Measurement | |
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| Anxiety Disorders | |
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| Anxiety and Panic | |
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| Fears and Phobias | |
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| Obsessions and Compulsions | |
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| Mood Disorders | |
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| Depression | |
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| Bipolar Disorder | |
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| Origins of Depression | |
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| Antisocial Personality Disorder | |
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| Drug Abuse and Addiction | |
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| Biology and Addiction | |
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| Learning, Culture, and Addiction | |
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| Debating the Causes of Addiction | |
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| Dissociative Identity Disorder | |
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| Schizophrenia | |
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| Symptoms of Schizophrenia | |
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| Origins of Schizophrenia | |
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| TAKING PSYCHOLOGY WITH YOU: Mental Disorder and Personal Responsibility | |
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| Approaches to Treatment and Therapy | |
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| Biological Treatments for Mental Disorders | |
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| The Question of Drugs | |
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| Direct Brain Intervention | |
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| Major Schools of Psychotherapy | |
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| Psychodynamic Therapy | |
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| Behavior and Cognitive Therapy | |
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| Humanist and Cognitive Therapy | |
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| Family and Couples Therapy | |
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| Evaluating Psychotherapy | |
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| CULTURE AND PSYCHOTHERAPY: Does a Therapist-Client "Match" Matter? | |
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| The Scientist-Practitioner Gap | |
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| When Therapy Helps | |
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| BIOLOGY AND PSYCHOTHERAPY: How Treating the Mind Changes the Brain | |
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| When Therapy Harms | |
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| The Value and Values of Psychotherapy | |
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| TAKING PSYCHOLOGY WITH YOU: Becoming a Smart Consumer of Psychological Treatments | |