Psychology in Modules

In Psychology in Modules, David Myers and Nathan DeWall break down the content of their chapter-based Psychology into 55 independent modules, assignable in any sequence and brief enough to be read in one sitting. In this remarkably fresh and current new edition, Myers and DeWall have found extraordinarily effective ways to involve students with the remarkable research underlying our understanding of human behaviour. The text itself continues to be shaped by goals David Myers established at the outset. These were to connect students to high-impact research, to focus on developing critical thinking skills, and to present a multicultural perspective on psychology, so students can see themselves in the context of a wider world. This new edition offers 2100 research citations dated 20152020. With so many exciting new findings, students will see the importance and value of psychological research, and how psychology can help them make sense of the world around them.

Undergraduate students taking modules in Introductory Psychology

Auteur

David G. Myers; C. Nathan DeWall

Contenu
Instructor Preface.- Student Preface: Student SuccessHow to Apply Psychology to Live Your Best Life.- The Story of Psychology.- Module 1, What Is Psychology? Thinking Critically With Psychological Science.- Module 2, Research Strategies: How Psychologists Ask and Answer Questions.- Module 3, Statistical Reasoning in Everyday Life.- The Biology of Mind.- Module 4, Neural and Hormonal Systems.- Module 5, Tools of Discovery, Older Brain Structures, and the Limbic System.- Module 6, The Cerebral Cortex.- Consciousness and the Two-Track Mind.- Module 7, Basic Consciousness Concepts.- Module 8, Sleep and Dreams.- Module 9, Drugs and Consciousness.- Nature, Nurture, and Human Diversity.- Module 10, Behavior Genetics: Predicting Individual Differences.- Module 11, Evolutionary Psychology: Explaining Human Nature and Nurture.- Module 12, Culture and Gender Diversity: Understanding Nature and Nurture.- Developing Through the Life Span.- Module 13, Developmental Issues, Prenatal Development, and the Newborn.- Module 14, Infancy and Childhood.- Module 15, Adolescence.- Module 16, Adulthood.- Sensation and Perception.- Module 17, Basic Concepts of Sensation and Perception.- Module 18, Vision: Sensory and Perceptual Processing.- Module 19, The Nonvisual Senses.- Learning.- Module 20, Basic Learning Concepts and Classical Conditioning.- Module 21, Operant Conditioning Module 22, Biology, Cognition, and Learning.- Memory.- Module 23, Studying and Encoding Memories.- Module 24, Storing and Retrieving Memories.- Module 25, Forgetting, Memory Construction, and Improving Memory.- Thinking and Language.- Module 26, Thinking.- Module 27, Language and Thought.- Intelligence.- Module 28, What Is Intelligence?.- Module 29 Intelligence Assessment and Dynamics.- Module 30, Genetic and Environmental Influences on Intelligence What Drives Us: Hunger, Sex, Belonging, and Achievement.- Module 31, Basic Motivational Concepts.- Module 32, Hunger.- Module 33, Sexual Motivation.- Module 34, Affiliation and Achievement.- Emotions, Stress, and Health.- Module 35, Introduction to Emotion.- Module 36, Expressing Emotion.- Module 37, Experiencing Emotion.- Module 38, Stress and Illness.- Module 39, Health and Coping.- Social Psychology.- Module 40, Social Thinking.- Module 41, Social Influence.- Module 42, Antisocial Relations.- Module 43, Prosocial Relations.- Personality.- Module 44, Introduction to Personality and Psychodynamic Theories Module 45, Humanistic Theories and Trait Theories.- Module 46, Social-Cognitive Theories and the Self.- Psychological Disorders.- Module 47, Introduction to Psychological Disorders.- Module 48, Anxiety-Related Disorders.- Module 49, Depressive Disorders and Bipolar Disorders.- Module 50, Schizophrenia.- Module 51, Dissociative, Personality, and Eating Disorders.- Module 52, Neurodevelopmental Disorders.- Therapy.- Module 53, Introduction to Therapy and the Psychological Therapies.- Module 54 Evaluating Psychotherapies.- Module 55, Biomedical Therapies and Preventing Psychological Disorders