Annual editions : psychology / Editor, Karen G. Duffy

Contributor(s): Series: Contemporary Learning seriesPublication details: USA : McGraw-Hill Contemporary Learning Series c2007Edition: 37th editionDescription: xvi, 207 P. : ill, 28 cmISBN:
  • 02723794
  • 9780073516295
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 22 150 ANN
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Content
Unit 1 The science of psychology
Overview
1. Why study psychology
2.Does psychology make a significant difference in our lives
3. The 10 commandments of helping students distinguish science from pseudoscience in psychology
Causes and correlations

Unit 2 Biological bases of behavior
5. The amassing brain: Is neuroscience the key to what makes us human
6. Genetic influence of human psychological traits
7. The structure of the human brain

Unit 3 Perceptual processes
8. Sensational tune-ups,
9. Eye wise: seeing into the future
10. A matter of taste
11. Extreme states,

Unit 4 Learning and remembering
12. Teaching for understanding
13. Memory flexibility
14. Theory of multiple intelligences: Is it scientific theory

Unit 5 Cognitive processes
15. Shouldn't there be a word
16. What was i thinking
17. Mysteries of mind

Unit 6 Emotional motivation
18. Unconscious emotion
19 Felling smart: the science of emotional intelligence
20. The value of positive emotion
21. Ambition: why some people are most likely to succeed
22. Obesity an epidemic of the twenty first century: an updates for psychiatrists

Unit 7 Development
23. Why Newborns cause acrimony and alimony
24. The methueslah report
25. A peaceful adolescence
26 Ageless aging: the next era of retirement
27 The borders of healing

Unit 8 Personality processes
28. Freud in our midst
29. Exploding the self esteem myth
30. The testing of America

Unit 9 Social processes
31.
To Err is human
32. Deception detection
33. Mirror, mirror: seeing yourself as others see you
34. Young and restless

Unit Psychological disorders
35. The age of depression
36. Soldier support

Unit 11 Psychological treatments
37. The quandary over mental illness
38. The discover interview: Noble laureate Eric Kandel
39.
Offering hope to the emotionally depressed
40. Computer and internet-based psychotherapy intervention

Includes Index: 201 - 207

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