Title:
Psychology : the brain, the person , the world
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Edition:
2nd ed.
Publication Information:
Boston : Pearson, 2004
ISBN:
9780205376094
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Summary
Summary
An introductory text by a cognitive neuroscientist and a clinical psychologist, looking at psychology in terms of events that occur in the brain, the person, and the group. Fifteen chapters (which is less than most introductory psychology texts) allow students to sample all areas of psychology. Pedagogical features include opening vignettes, special interest boxes, color photos and illustrations, and first- person accounts of psychological disorders. Kosslyn teaches at Harvard University; Rosenberg at Lesley College. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. XV |
| About the Authors | p. XXVI |
| Using Psychology to Learn Psychology | p. 1 |
| Organization, Organization, Organization | p. 1 |
| Connections Across Topics | p. 2 |
| Learning Without Straining | p. 2 |
| Illustrations: Showing and Telling | p. 2 |
| In Sum | p. 4 |
| 1 The Science of Psychology: Yesterday and Today | p. 6 |
| Psychological Science: Getting to Know You | p. 8 |
| Psychology Then and Now | p. 13 |
| The Science of Psychology: Designed to Be Valid | p. 25 |
| Ethics: Doing It Right | p. 38 |
| A Deeper Level: Recap and Thought Questions | p. 41 |
| 2 The Brain: The Psychological Organ | p. 44 |
| Brain Circuits: Making Connections | p. 46 |
| Structure and Function: An Orchestra With Many Members | p. 53 |
| Probing the Brain | p. 71 |
| Genes, Brain, and Environment: The Brain in the World | p. 77 |
| A Deeper Level: Recap and Thought Questions | p. 85 |
| 3 Sensation and Perception: How the World Enters the Mind | p. 88 |
| Sensing and Selecting: Opening Up to the World | p. 90 |
| Vision | p. 96 |
| Hearing | p. 113 |
| Sensing in Other Ways | p. 119 |
| A Deeper Level: Recap and Thought Questions | p. 125 |
| 4 Consciousness | p. 128 |
| To Sleep, Perchance to Dream | p. 131 |
| Hypnosis | p. 143 |
| Meditation | p. 148 |
| Drugs and Alcohol | p. 151 |
| A Deeper Level: Recap and Thought Questions | p. 161 |
| 5 Learning | p. 164 |
| Classical Conditioning | p. 167 |
| Operant Conditioning | p. 176 |
| Cognitive and Social Learning | p. 189 |
| A Deeper Level: Recap and Thought Questions | p. 196 |
| 6 Memory Living With Yesterday | p. 198 |
| Memory: A Many-Splendored Thing | p. 200 |
| Encoding and Retrieving Information From Memory | p. 210 |
| Fact, Fiction, and Forgetting: When Memory Goes Wrong | p. 220 |
| Improving Memory: Tricks and Tools | p. 227 |
| A Deeper Level: Recap and Thought Questions | p. 231 |
| 7 Language and Thinking | p. 234 |
| Language: More Than Meets the Ear | p. 236 |
| Means of Thought: Words, Images, Concepts | p. 248 |
| Problem Solving | p. 256 |
| Logic, Reasoning, and Decision Making | p. 264 |
| A Deeper Level: Recap and Thought Questions | p. 269 |
| 8 Types of Intelligence: What Does It Mean to Be Smart? | p. 272 |
| Is There More Than One Way to Be Smart? | p. 274 |
| What Makes Us Smart: Nature and Nurture | p. 285 |
| Rare Intelligence | p. 297 |
| Creative Forces | p. 302 |
| A Deeper Level: Recap and Thought Questions | p. 307 |
| 9 Emotion and Motivation: Feeling and Striving | p. 310 |
| Emotion: I Feel, Therefore I Am | p. 312 |
| Motivation and Reward: Feeling Good | p. 324 |
| Hunger and Eating: Not Just About Fueling the Body | p. 333 |
| Sex: Not Just About Having Babies | p. 338 |
| A Deeper Level: Recap and Thought Questions | p. 346 |
| 10 Personality: Vive la Difference! | p. 348 |
| What Is Personality? | p. 350 |
| The Brain: The Personality Organ | p. 358 |
| The Person: Beliefs and Behaviors | p. 366 |
| The World: Social Influences on Personality | p. 376 |
| A Deeper Level: Recap and Thought Questions | p. 383 |
| 11 Psychology Over the Life Span: Growing Up, Growing Older, Growing Wiser | p. 386 |
| In the Beginning: From Conception to Birth | p. 388 |
| Infancy and Childhood: Taking Off | p. 396 |
| Adolescence: Between Two Worlds | p. 412 |
| Adulthood and Aging: The Continuously Changing Self | p. 417 |
| A Deeper Level: Recap and Thought Questions | p. 428 |
| 12 Stress, Health, and Coping | p. 431 |
| What Is Stress? | p. 432 |
| Stress, Disease, and Health | p. 442 |
| Strategies for Coping | p. 449 |
| A Deeper Level: Recap and Thought Questions | p. 464 |
| 13 Psychological Disorders | p. 466 |
| Identifying Psychological Disorders: What's Abnormal? | p. 468 |
| Anxiety and Mood Disorders | p. 476 |
| Schizophrenia | p. 491 |
| Other Axis I Disorders: Dissociative and Eating Disorders | p. 498 |
| Personality Disorders | p. 505 |
| A Cautionary Note About Diagnosis | p. 509 |
| A Deeper Level: Recap and Thought Questions | p. 509 |
| 14 Treatment | p. 512 |
| Insight-Oriented Therapies | p. 514 |
| Cognitive and Behavior Therapy | p. 521 |
| Other Forms of Therapy | p. 531 |
| Which Therapy Works Best? | p. 541 |
| A Deeper Level: Recap and Thought Questions | p. 550 |
| 15 Social Psychology: Meeting of the Minds | p. 552 |
| Social Cognition: Thinking About People | p. 554 |
| Social Behavior: Interacting With People | p. 571 |
| A Final Word: Ethics and Social Psychology | p. 590 |
| A Deeper Level: Recap and Thought Questions | p. 590 |
| Appendix A Statistics | p. 592 |
| Appendix B How to Read, Critically Evaluate, and Write Research Papers | p. 605 |
| References | p. 611 |
| Glossary | p. 675 |
| Name Index | p. 695 |
| Subject Index | p. 707 |
| Credits | p. 721 |
