Psychology: Media and Research update / Carole Wade and Carole Tavris

Content

1 What is psychology ?
Psychology, pseudoscience, and popular opinion
Thinking critically and creatively about psychology
Psychology's past: From the armchair to the Laboratory
Psychology's present: Behavior, body mind and culture
etc.

2 How psychologists do research
What makes psychological research scientific ?
Descriptive studies: Establishing the facts
Correlational studies; Looking for relationships
Experiments: Hunting for causes
etc.

Part Two Biology and behavior
3 Evolution, genes and behavior
Unlocking the secrets of genes
The genetics of similarity
Our human heritage: Language
etc.

4 Neurons, hormones and the brain
The nervous system: A basic blue print
Communication in the nervous system
Mapping the brain
A walk through the brain
The two hemispheres of the brain
etc.

5 Body rhythms and mental states
Biological rhythms: The tides of experience
The rhythms of sleep
Exploring the dream world
Consciousness- altering drugs
etc.

6 Sensation and perception
Our sensational senses
Vision
Hearing
Other senses
Perceptual powers: Origins and influences
etc.

Part Three The environment and behavior
7 Learning and conditioning
Classical conditioning
Classical conditioning in real life
Operant conditioning
Operant conditioning in real life
etc.

8 Behavior in social and cultural context
Roles and rules
Social influences on beliefs
Individuals in groups
Group conflict and prejudice
etc.

Part Four Thinking and feeling
9 Thinking and intelligence
Thought: Using what we know
Reasoning rationally
Barriers to reasoning rationally
etc.

10 Memory
Reconstructing the past
Memory and the power of suggestion
In pursuit of memory
The three-box model of memory
etc.

11 Emotion
Elements of emotion 1: The body
Elements of emotions 2 ; The mind
Elements of emotion 3: The culture
Putting the elements together: Emotion and gender

12 Motivation
The hungry animals: Motives to eat
The social animal: Motives to love
The erotic animals: Motives for sex
The competent animal: Motives to achieve
etc.

Part Five The developing person
13 Theories of personality
Measuring personality
Genetic influences on personality
Environmental influences on personalities
Cultural influences on personalities
etc.

14 Development over the life span
From conception through the first year
Cognitive development
Moral development
Gender development
Adolescence
etc.

Part Six Health and disorder
15 Health, Stress, and Coping
The stress-illness mystery
The physiology of stress
The psychology of stress
Coping with stress
etc.

16 Psychological disorders
Defining and diagnosis disorder
Anxiety disorders
Mood disorders
Personality disorders
Drug abuse and addiction
etc.

17 Approaches to treatment and therapy
Biological treatments for mental disorders
Kinds of psychotherapy
Evaluating psychotherapy
The value and values of psychotherapy

Includes ; Bibliography and Index.