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About the Book
Approach and Pedagogy
Charles Stangor
Acknowledgments
Dedication
2. Introduction to Major Perspectives
Jennifer Walinga
2.2 Psychodynamic Psychology
2.3 Behaviourist Psychology
2.4 Humanist, Cognitive, and Evolutionary Psychology
2.5 Chapter Summary
Exercises: Watch and Learn
1. Introducing Psychology
1.1 Psychology as a Science
1.2 The Evolution of Psychology: History, Approaches, and Questions
1.3 Chapter Summary
Exercises: Read and Learn
Chapter Quiz
6. States of Consciousness
6.1 Sleeping and Dreaming Revitalize Us for Action
6.2 Altering Consciousness with Psychoactive Drugs
6.3 Altering Consciousness without Drugs
6.4 Chapter Summary
Watch and Learn Chapter 6
9. Remembering and Judging
9.1 Memories as Types and Stages
9.2 How We Remember: Cues to Improving Memory
9.3 Accuracy and Inaccuracy in Memory and Cognition
9.4 Chapter Summary & Activities
11.3 Positive Emotions: The Power of Happiness
11. Emotions and Motivations
11.1 The Experience of Emotion
11.2 Stress: The Unseen Killer
11.4 Two Fundamental Human Motivations: Eating and Mating
11.5 Chapter Summary
Watch and Learn Chapter 11
12.4 Chapter Summary
12.3 Is Personality More Nature or More Nurture? Behavioural and Molecular Genetics
12.2 The Origins of Personality
12.1 Personality and Behaviour: Approaches and Measurement
12. Personality
Watch, Read & Learn Chapter 12
13.6 Somatoform, Factitious, and Sexual Disorders
13.5 Personality Disorders
13.4 Schizophrenia: The Edge of Reality and Consciousness
13.3 Mood Disorders: Emotions as Illness
13.2 Anxiety and Dissociative Disorders: Fearing the World Around Us
13.1 Psychological Disorder: What Makes a Behaviour Abnormal?
13. Defining Psychological Disorders
13.7 Chapter Summary
Watch and Learn Chapter 13
14. Treating Psychological Disorders
14.5 Chapter Summary
14.4 Evaluating Treatment and Prevention: What Works?
14.3 Reducing Disorder by Changing the Social Situation
14.2 Reducing Disorder Biologically: Drug and Brain Therapy
14.1 Reducing Disorder by Confronting It: Psychotherapy
Watch and Learn Chapter 14
15. Psychology in Our Social Lives
15.1 Social Cognition: Making Sense of Ourselves and Others
15.2 Interacting With Others: Helping, Hurting, and Conforming
15.3 Working With Others: The Costs and Benefits of Social Groups
15.4 Chapter Summary
Watch and Learn Chapter 15
16.1 Health and Stress
16.2 Stress and Coping
16.3 Stress, Health, and Coping in the Workplace
16.4 Chapter Summary
Watch and Learn 16
About the Authors
Versioning History
Glossary
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