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Note: Each Module includes a Review: Concept Check.
1. Introduction to Psychology and Methods of Research
1.1 Foundations of Modern Psychology
1.2 Psychologists: Who They Are and What They Do
1.3 Research Methods in Psychology
1.4 Application: Becoming a Critical Thinker
2. Biological Foundations of Behavior
2.1 Neurons: The Body's Wiring
2.2 The Nervous System: Your Body's Information Superhighway
2.3 The Brain: Your Crowning Glory
2.4 Methods of Studying the Brain
2.5 The Divided Brain: Specialization of Function
2.6 The Endocrine System: The Body's Other Communication System
2.7 Genes and Behavior: A Case of Nature and Nurture
2.8 Application: Biofeedback Training: Learning by Listening to the Body
3. Sensation and Perception
3.1 Sensing Our World: Basic Concepts of Sensation
3.2 Vision: Seeing the Light
3.3 Hearing: The Music of Sound
3.4 Our Other Senses: Chemical, Skin, and Body Senses
3.5 Perceiving Our World: Principles of Perception
3.6 Application: Psychology and Pain Management
4. Consciousness
4.1 States of Consciousness
4.2 Sleeping and Dreaming
4.3 Altering Consciousness Through Meditation and Hypnosis
4.4 Altering Consciousness Through Drugs
4.5 Application: Getting Your Z's
5. Learning
5.1 Classical Conditioning: Learning Through Association
5.2 Operant Conditioning: Learning Through Consequences
5.3 Cognitive Learning
5.4 Application: Putting Reinforcement into Practice
6. Memory
6.1 Remembering
6.2 Forgetting
6.3 The Biology of Memory
6.4 Application: Powering Up Your Memory
7. Thinking, Language, and Intelligence
7.1 Thinking
7.2 Language
7.3 Intelligence
7.4 Application: Becoming a Creative Problem Solver
8. Motivation and Emotion
8.1 Motivation: The "Whys" of Behavior
8.2 Hunger and Eating
8.3 Sexual Motivation
8.4 Emotions
8.5 Application: Managing Anger
9. Human Development
9.1 Prenatal Development: A Case of Nature and Nurture
9.2 Infant Development
9.3 Years of Discovery: Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Development in Childhood
9.4 Adolescence
9.5 Early and Middle Adulthood
9.6 Late Adulthood
9.7 Application: Living Longer, Healthier Lives
10. Personality
10.1 The Psychodynamic Perspective
10.2 The Trait Perspective
10.3 The Social-Cognitive Perspective
10.4 The Humanistic Perspective
10.5 Personality Tests
10.6 Application: Building Self-Esteem
11. Psychological Disorders
11.1 What Is Abnormal Behavior?
11.2 Anxiety Disorders
11.3 Dissociative and Somatoform Disorders
11.4 Mood Disorders
11.5 Schizophrenia
11.6 Personality Disorders
11.7 Application: Suicide Prevention
12. Methods of Therapy
12.1 Types of Psychotherapy
12.2 Biomedical Therapies
12.3 Application: Getting Help
13. Psychology and Health
13.1 Stress: What It Is and What It Does to the Body
13.2 Psychological Factors in Physical Illness
13.3 Application: Taking the Distress Out of Stress
14. Social Psychology
14.1 Perceiving Others
14.2 Relating to Others
14.3 Group Influences on Individual Behavior
14.4 Application: Compliance: Doing What Others Want You to Do
Appendices
A. Sample Answers to Thinking Critically About Psychology Questions
B. Statistics Appendix
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