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Contributor(s): Publication details: Whitefield street, Mcgraw-Hill/Duhkin, 2003.Edition: 33rd editionDescription: xviii; 221 P. : ill. ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 0072548290
  • 9780072548297
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 22 150 PSY
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Table of content

UNIT 1 THE SCIENCE OF PSYCHOLOGY
1. A dance to the music of the century: changing fashions in 20th century psychiatry
2. Good and evil and psychological science
3. Exploring a controversy

UNIT 2 BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR
4. The triangle skeins of nature and nurture in human evolution
5. Altered states of consciousness
6. Brain-based learning

UNIT 3 PERCEPTUAL PROCESSES
7. The senses
8. Sight Unseen
9. Its a noisy world out there
10. An ear for color: exploring the curious world of synesthesia, where sense merge in mysterious ways
11 Phantom sensations: Understanding the pain felt by an amputee
12. Pain and its mysteries
13. Brains in dreamland

UNIT 4 LERNING AND REMEMBERING
14. Memory and learning
15. Understanding out differences
16. New evidence for the benefits of never spanking
17. The seven sins of memory: How the mind forgets and remembers
18. Memory's mind games

UNIT 5 CONGINITIVE PROCESSES
19. Cognitive development in social and cultural context
20. Mind in a mirror

UNITE 6 EMOTION AND MOTIVATION
21. Fundamental feelings
24. Witness
25. What's your emotional
26. How to multitask

UNIT DEVELOPMENT
27. The biology of aging
28. Fetal Psychology
29. Parenting: the lost Ark
30. Living to 100: What's the secret
31. Start the conversion

UNIT 8 PERSONALITY PROCESSES
32. Psychoanalyst: Sigmund Freud
33. Positive psychology
34. Oldest, young or in between

UNIT 9 SOCIAL PROCESSES
35. Got time for friends
36. Rational and Irrational fears combine in terrorism's wake
37. Whodunit - he media
38 The Feminization of American culture
39. The emperor has No clothes, or, do you see individualist-collectivist societies
40. Disarming the rage

UNIT 10 PSYCHOLOGY DISODERS
41. Mental health gets noticed
42. Up from depression
43. The quest for a cure
44. Post-traumatic stress disorder
45. The Schizophrenic mind
46. The secrets of autism

UNIT 11
PSYCHOLOGICAL TREATMEMENTS
47. Are we nuts
48. Support groups: study casts some doubts
49. Treating anxiety




Includes index: p. 217-219

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