
Essentials of Understanding Psychology, 14th Edition
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Students First. Designed for student success, Essentials of Understanding Psychology provides students with a brief and powerful learning framework to help them connect, engage, and feel excited about psychology. Dr. Feldman believes that an effective introduction to a discipline must be oriented to students—informing them, engaging them, and exciting them about the field and helping them connect it to their world.
Module 1 Psychologists at Work
Module 2 A Science Evolves: The Past, the Present, and the Future
Module 3 Research in Psychology
Module 4 Critical Research Issues
Chapter 2 Neuroscience and Behavior
Module 5 Neurons: The Basic Elements of Behavior
Module 6 The Nervous System and the Endocrine System: Communicating with the Body
Module 7: The Brain
Chapter 3 Sensation and Perception
Module 8 Sensing the World Around Us
Module 9 Vision: Shedding Light on the Eye
Module 10 Hear and the Other Senses
Module 11 Perceptual Organization: Constructing Our View of the World
Chapter 4 States of Consciousness
Module 12 Sleep and Dreams
Module 13 Hypnosis and Meditation
Module 14 Drug Use: The Highs and the Lows of Consciousness
Chapter 5 Learning
Module 15 Classical Conditioning
Module 16 Operant Conditioning
Module 17 Cognitive Approaches to Learning
Chapter 6 Memory
Module 18 The Foundations of Memory
Module 19 Recalling Long-Term Memories
Module 20 Forgetting: When Memory Fails
Chapter 7 Thinking, Language, and Intelligence
Module 21 Thinking
Module 22 Language
Module 23 Intelligence
Chapter 8 Motivation and Emotion
Module 24 Explaining Motivation
Module 25 Human Needs and Motivation: Eat, Drink, and Be Daring
Module 26 Understanding Emotional Experiences
Chapter 9 Development
Module 27 Nature and Nurture: The Enduring Developmental Issue
Module 28 Infancy and Childhood
Module 29 Adolescence: Becoming an Adult
Module 30 Adulthood
Chapter 10 Personality
Module 31 Psychodynamic Approaches to Personality
Module 32 Trait, Learning, Biological and Evolutionary, and Humanistic Approaches to Personality
Module 33 Assessing Personality: Determining What Makes Us Distinctive
Chapter 11 Health Psychology: Stress, Coping, and Well-Being
Module 34 Stress and Coping
Module 35 Psychological Aspects of Illness and Well-Being
Module 36 Promoting Health and Wellness
Chapter 12 Psychological Disorders
Module 37 Normal Versus Abnormal: Making the Distinction
Module 38 The Major Psychological Disorders
Module 39 Psychological Disorders in Perspective
Chapter 13 Treatment of Psychological Disorders
Module 40 Psychotherapy: Psychodynamic, Behavioral, and Cognitive Approaches to Treatment
Module 41 Psychotherapy: Humanistic, Interpersonal, and Group Approaches to Treatment
Module 42 Biomedical Therapy: Biological Approaches to Treatment
Chapter 14 Social Psychology
Module 43 Attitudes and Social Cognition
Module 44Social Influence and Groups
Module 45 Prejudice and Discrimination
Module 46 Positive and Negative Social Behavior
Epilogue Diversity, Culture, Conflict, and Cooperation
Diversity and Culture
Conflict and Cooperation: Striving for a Just and Peaceful World


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