Psychology / Saul Kassin

Content
1. Introducing Psychology and its methods
What is psychology
Specific methods
Psychology today

2. Behavioral neuroscience
The body's communication
The Neuron
The brain
Prospects for the future

3. Sensation and perception
Measuring the sensory experience
Sensation
Perception
Extrasensory perception


4. Consciousness
Attentional processes
Sleeping and dreams
Hypnosis
Consciousness- Altering drugs
Consciousness and control

5. Learning
Classical conditioning
Operant conditioning
Observable learning

6. Memory
The sensory register
Short term memory
Long term memory
Autobiographical memory

7. Thought and language
Concepts
Solving problems
Making judgement
Language
The relationship between thought and language

8. Motivation
What mtivates us?
Basic human motives
Social motives
Motivating people at work

9. Emotion
The Physiological component
The expressive component
The cognitive component
Human emotion: Putting the pieces together

10. Infancy and childhood
Basic development questions
The unborn child
The remarkable new born
The infant and growing child

11. Adolescence and adulthood
Adolescence
adulthood and old age

12. Intelligence
Intelligence test
The nature of Intelligence
The great debates
Education

13. Social influences
Social perception
Social influence
Social relations

14. Social AND CULTURAL GROUPS
Cross- Cultural perspective
Multicultural perspectives
Gender: The great divide?
Prejudice

15. Personality
Psycoanalysis
The cognitive social- learning approach
Humanistic approach

16. Psychological disorders
Psychological disorders: A gender outlook
Anxiety disorders
Samatoform disorder
Dissociative disorder
Mood disorder
etc

17. Treatments
Psychological therapies
Perspective on psychotherapy
Medical intervention

18. Health and well-being
Mind over matter
The self and well-being
Stress and health
Coping with stress

Includes reference and index