Discovering psychology / Don H. Hockenbury, Sandra E. Hockenbury.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1.Introduction and Research methods
Introduction: The Origin of Psychology
Contemporary Psychology
The Scientific Method
Descriptive Methods
The Experimental Method
Ethics in Psychological Research
Application: Evaluating Mass media Reports about Psychology


Chapter 2. The Biological Foundations of Behavior
Prologue: Asha's Story
Introduction: The Scope of Biological Psychology
The Neuron: The Basic Unit of Communication
The nervous system and the Endocrine system: Communication Throughout the Body
Studying the Brain etc

Chapter 3. sensation and Perception
Introduction ; What are sensation and Perception?
Vision from light to sight
Hearing: From Vibration to Sound
The Chemical and the Body Senses: smell, Taste, Touch and Position
Perception
Etc.

Chapter 4. Consciousness and its Variations
Introduction: consciousness: Experiencing the "Private I"
Biological and Environmental "Clocks" that Regulate consciousness
Sleep
Dreams and Mental Activity etc
Etc.

Chapter 5 Learning
Introduction: What is learning
Classical conditioning: associating stimuli
Contemporary views of classical conditioning
Operant conditioning: associating behaviors
Contemporary views of operant conditioning
Etc.

Chapter 6 Memory
Introduction: What memory
The stage model of memory
Retrieval: getting information from long-term memory
Reconstructing memories: sources of potential errors
Forgetting: you forgot the plane tickets
The search for the biological basis of memory
Etc.

Chapter 7 Thinking, Language, and Intelligence
Introduction: thinking, language, and intelligence
Solving problems and making decisions
Language and thought
Measuring intelligence
The nature of intelligence
Etc.

Chapter 8 Motivation and emotion
Introduction: motivation and emotion
The motivation to eat
Sexual motivation and behavior
Arousal motives: curiosity and sensation seeking
Competence and achievement motivation
Etc.

Chapter 9 Lifespan development
Introduction: your life story
Genetic contributions to your life story
Prenatal development
Developing during infancy and childhood
Adolescence
Adult development
Etc.

Chapter 10 Personality
Introduction: What is personality
The psychoanalytic perspective on personality
The humanistic perspective on personality
The social cognitive perspective on personality
The trait perspective on personality
Etc.

Chapter 11 Social psychology
Introduction:what is social psychology
Person perception: forming impressions of other people
Attribution: explaining behavior
The social psychology of attitudes
Understanding prejudice
Etc.

Chapter 12 Stress, Health, and coping
Introduction: What is stress
Physical effects of stress: the mind-body connection
Individual factors that influence the response to stress
Coping: how people deal with stress
Application: providing effective social support

Chapter 13 Psychological disorders
Introduction: Understanding psychological disorders
Anxiety disorders: Intense apprehension and worry
Mood disorders: emotions gone awry
Personality disorders: Maladaptive traits
The dissociative orders: fragmentation of the self
Etc.

Chapter 15 Therapies
Introduction: Psychotherapy and biomedical therapy
Psychoanalytic therapy
Humanistic therapy
Behavior therapy
Cognitive therapy
Etc.

Includes Indexes(Various paging)