Psych 5, Introductory Psychology, 5th Edition

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• Toc: Cover......Page 1 Brief Contents......Page 6 Contents......Page 7 Chapter 1: What Is Psychology?......Page 11 Psychology As A Science......Page 13 Historical Foundations Of Psychology......Page 16 Contemporary Perspectives In Psychology......Page 20 How Psychologists Study Behavior And Mental Processes......Page 24 Methods Of Research......Page 27 Ethics In Psychological Research......Page 32 Critical Thinking......Page 33 Chapter 2: Biology And Psychology......Page 39 The Nervous System: On Being Wired......Page 41 The Divisions Of The Nervous System......Page 47 The Brain: Wider Than The Sky......Page 50 A Voyage Through The Brain......Page 52 The Cerebral Cortex......Page 55 The Endocrine System......Page 58 Evolution And Heredity......Page 61 Chapter 3: Sensation And Perception......Page 71 Sensation And Perception......Page 72 Vision......Page 76 Visual Perception......Page 82 Hearing......Page 89 The Other Senses......Page 93 ESP: Is There Perception Without Sensation?......Page 96 Chapter 4: Consciousness......Page 101 What Is Consciousness?......Page 102 Sleep And Dreams......Page 105 Altering Consciousness: Hypnosis, Meditation, And Biofeedback......Page 111 Altering Consciousness Through Drugs......Page 115 Depressants......Page 117 Stimulants......Page 119 Hallucinogenics......Page 123 Chapter 5: Learning......Page 129 Learning, Experience, And Change......Page 130 Classical Conditioning: Learning What Is Linked To What......Page 131 Applications Of Classical Conditioning......Page 135 Operant Conditioning: Learning What Does What To What......Page 138 Applications Of Operant Conditioning......Page 145 Cognitive Factors In Learning......Page 147 Chapter 6: Memory: Remembrance Of Things Past—and Future......Page 155 Kinds Of Memory......Page 156 Processes Of Memory......Page 159 Sensory Memory......Page 162 Short-Term Memory......Page 163 Long-Term Memory......Page 166 Forgetting......Page 170 The Biology Of Memory......Page 176 Chapter 7: Thinking, Language, And Intelligence......Page 183 Thinking......Page 184 Language......Page 190 Language Development: The Two-Year Explosion......Page 194 Theories Of Intelligence......Page 198 The Measurement Of Intelligence......Page 202 Nature And Nurture In Intelligence......Page 207 Chapter 8: Motivation And Emotion......Page 213 The Psychology Of Motivation......Page 214 Theories Of Motivation......Page 215 Hunger......Page 218 Sexual Motivation And Sexual Orientation......Page 223 Achievement Motivation......Page 228 Emotion......Page 229 Theories Of Emotion......Page 233 Chapter 9: The Voyage Through The Life Span......Page 241 Prenatal Development......Page 242 Childhood: Physical Development......Page 244 Childhood: Cognitive Development......Page 246 Childhood: Social And Emotional Development......Page 253 Adolescence......Page 256 Emerging Adulthood......Page 260 Adulthood......Page 261 Chapter 10: Personality: Theory And Measurement......Page 269 The Psychodynamic Perspecti