Toc: Cover......Page 1 Title Page......Page 7 Copyright......Page 8 Dedication......Page 9 About the Authors......Page 10 Contents......Page 14 Preface......Page 20 Time Management Or, How to Be a Great Student and Still Have a Life......Page 52 The Story of Psychology......Page 62 Psychological Science Is Born......Page 63 Psychological Science Develops......Page 65 Contemporary Psychology......Page 67 Thinking Critically With Psychological Science......Page 80 Did We Know It All Along? Hindsight Bias......Page 81 Overconfidence......Page 82 Perceiving Order in Random Events......Page 83 The Scientific Attitude: Curious, Skeptical, and Humble......Page 84 Critical Thinking......Page 85 The Scientific Method......Page 87 Description......Page 88 Correlation......Page 92 Experimentation......Page 96 Psychology’s Research Ethics......Page 100 Module 4: Statistical Reasoning inEveryday Life......Page 103 Describing Data......Page 104 Significant Differences......Page 107 The Biology of Mind......Page 112 Biology, Behavior, and Mind......Page 113 Neural Communication......Page 114 The Nervous System......Page 121 The Endocrine System......Page 124 The Tools of Discovery: Having Our Head Examined......Page 127 Older Brain Structures......Page 130 The Cerebral Cortex......Page 135 Our Divided Brain......Page 143 THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT: Handedness......Page 147 Consciousness and the Two-Track Mind......Page 152 Defining Consciousness......Page 153 The Biology of Consciousness......Page 154 Selective Attention......Page 156 Biological Rhythms and Sleep......Page 161 Why Do We Sleep?......Page 166 Sleep Deprivation and Sleep Disorders......Page 168 Dreams......Page 173 Tolerance and Addiction......Page 178 THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT: Addiction......Page 179 Types of Psychoactive Drugs......Page 180 Influences on Drug Use......Page 187 Nature, Nurture, and Human Diversity......Page 194 Genes: Our Codes for Life......Page 195 Twin and Adoption Studies......Page 196 Heritability......Page 201 Gene–Environment Interaction......Page 203 THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT: Prenatal Testing to Predict Future Traits......Page 204