Study guide to accompany Psychology /

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INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY AND SCIENCE OF PSYCHOLOGY
Module 1 The history and scope of psychology
Module 2 Research strategies: how psychologists ask and answer questions

NEUROSCIENCE AND BEHAVIOR
Module 3 Neural and hormonal systems
Module 4 The brain

THE NATURE AND NURTURE OF BEHAVIOR
Module 5 Genetic influences on behavior
Module 6 Environmental influence on behavior and reflections on nature and nurture
Module 7 Parental development and the newborn
Module 8 Infancy and childhood
Module 9 Adolescence
Module 10 adulthood and reflections on development issues

SENSATION AND PERCEPTION
Module 11 Introduction to sensation and perception
Module 12 Vision
Module 13 Hearing
Module 14 The other scenes
Module 15 The perceptual organization
Module 16 Perceptual interpretation

STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Module 17 Walking and sleeping rhythms
Module 18 Hypnosis
Module 19 Drugs and consciousness

LEARNING
Module 20 Classical condition
Module 21 Operant condition
Module 22 Learning by observation

MEMORY
Module 23 Introduction to memory
Module 24 Encoding: getting information in
Module 25 Storage: retaining information
Module 26 Retrieval: getting information out
Module 27 Forgetting, memory
construction, and improving memory

THINKING, LANGUAGE AND INTELLIGENCE
Module 28 Thinking
Module 29 Language and thought
Module 30 Introduction to intelligence
Module 31 Assessing intelligence
Module 32 Genetic and enviromental influence on intelligence

MOTIVATION AND WORK
Module 33 Introduction to motivation
Module 34 Hunger
Module 35 Sexual motivation
Module 36 Motivation at work

EMOTION
Module 37 Theories of emotion
38 Experienced and expressed emotion

STRESS AND HEALTH
Module 39 Stress and illness

Module 40 Promoting health
Module 41 Historic perspectives: psychoanalytic and humanistic
Module 42 Contemporaneity research: the trait perspective
Module 43 Contemporary research: the social cognitive perspective
Module 44 Contemporaneity research: the self and the modern unconscious
Module 45 Introduction to psychology
Module 46 Anxiety disorders
Module 47 Dissociative and personality disorders
Module 48 Mood disorders
Module 49 Schizophrenia

THERAPY
Module 50 The psychological therapies
Module 51 Evaluating psychotherapies
Module 52 The biomedical therapy

SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Module 53 Social thinking
Module 54 Social influence
Module 55 Social relations