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Exploring Psychology in Modules creatively helps students retain and appreciate psychologys big ideas, with insights that enable readers to be better students, more tuned-in friends and partners, more effective co-workers, and wiser parents. These best-selling authors aim to captivate students with what psychologists are learning about our human nature, to help them think more like psychological scientists, and to help them relate psychology to their own lives--their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

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Contents

Table of Contents

Thinking Critically With Psychological Science
Module 1: The History and Scope of Psychology
Module 2: Research Strategies: How Psychologists Ask and Answer Questions

The Biology of Behavior
Module 3: Neural and Hormonal Systems
Module 4: The Tools of Discovery: Having Our Head Examined
Module 5: Brain Regions and Structures
Module 6: Damage Response and Brain Hemispheres
Module 7: Genetics, Evolutionary Psychology, and Behavior

Consciousness and the Two-Track Mind
Module 8: Consciousness: Some Basic Concepts
Module 9: Sleep and Dreams
Module 10: Drugs and Consciousness

Developing Through the Life Span
Module 11: Developmental Issues, Prenatal Development, and the Newborn
Module 12: Infancy and Childhood
Module 13: Adolescence
Module 14: Adulthood

Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
Module 15: Gender Development
Module 16: Human Sexuality

Sensation and Perception
Module 17: Basic Concepts of Sensation and Perception
Module 18: Vision: Sensory and Perceptual Processing
Module 19: Hearing, Skin, Chemical, and Body 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, Language, and Intelligence
Module 26: Thinking
Module 27: Language and Thought
Module 28: Intelligence Assessment and Dynamics
Module 29: Genetic and Environmental Influences on Intelligence

Motivation and Emotion
Module 30: Basic Motivational Concepts, Affiliation, and Achievement
Module 31: Hunger
Module 32: Theories and Physiology of Emotion
Module 33: Expressing and Experiencing Emotion

Stress, Health, and Human Flourishing
Module 34: Stress and Illness
Module 35: Health and Happiness

Social Psychology
Module 36: Social Thinking and Social Influence
Module 37: Antisocial Relations
Module 38: Prosocial Relations

Personality
Module 39: Classic Perspectives on Personality
Module 40: Contemporary Perspectives on Personality

Psychological Disorders
Module 41: Basic Concepts of Psychological Disorders
Module 42: Anxiety-Related Disorders
Module 43: Depressive Disorders and Bipolar Disorders
Module 44: Schizophrenia
Module 45: Dissociative, Personality, and Eating Disorders
Module 46: Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Therapy
Module 47: Introduction to Therapy and the Psychological Therapies
Module 48: Evaluating Psychotherapies
Module 49: The Biomedical Therapies and Preventing Psychological Disorders

Appendix A: Statistical Reasoning in Everyday Life
Describing Data

  • Measures of Central Tendency
  • Measures of Variation
  • Correlation: A Measure of Relationships

Significant Differences

Appendix B: Psychology at Work
Work and Life Satisfaction

  • Flow at Work
  • Finding Your Own Flow, and Matching Interests to Work

Industrial-Organizational Psychology
Personnel Psychology

  • Using Strengths for Successful Selection
  • Do Interviews Predict Performance?
  • Appraising Performance

Organizational Psychology

  • Satisfaction and Engagement at Work
  • Effective Leadership

Human Factors Psychology

Appendix C: The Story of Psychology: A Timeline

Appendix D: Career Fields in Psychology

Appendix E: Complete Module Reviews

Appendix F: Answers to the Retrieve It and Experience the Testing Effect Questions

Glossary
References
Name Index
Subject Index

Authors

David G. Myers

David Myers received his B.A. in chemistry from Whitworth University, and his psychology Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. He has spent his career at Hope College, Michigan, where he has taught dozens of introductory psychology sections. Hope College students have invited him to be their commencement speaker and voted him “outstanding professor.” His research and writings have been recognized by the Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize, an Honored Scientist award from the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences, an Award for Distinguished Service on Behalf of Social-Personality Psychology, a Presidential Citation from APA Division 2, election as an American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow, and three honorary doctorates.

With support from National Science Foundation grants, Myers’ scientific articles have appeared in three dozen scientific periodicals, including Science, American Scientist, Psychological Science, and American Psychologist. In addition to his scholarly and textbook writing, he digests psychological science for the general public. His writings have appeared in four dozen magazines, from Today’s Education to Scientific American. He also has authored six general audience books, including, in 2022, How Do We Know Ourselves? Curiosities and Marvels of the Human Mind. And he blogs about psychology and life at TalkPsych.com.

David Myers has chaired his city’s Human Relations Commission, helped found a thriving assistance center for low-income families, and spoken to hundreds of college, community, and professional groups worldwide. Drawing on his experience of hearing loss, which now includes a cochlear implant, he also has written articles and a book (A Quiet World) about hearing loss, and he is advocating a transformation in U.S. assistive listening technology (see HearingLoop.org). For his leadership, he has received awards from the American Academy of Audiology, the hearing industry, and the Hearing Loss Association of America.

David and Carol Myers met and married while undergraduates, and have raised sons Peter and Andrew, and a daughter, Laura. They have one grandchild, Allie.


C. Nathan DeWall

Nathan DeWall is professor of psychology at the University of Kentucky. He received his bachelor’s degree from St. Olaf College, a master’s degree in social science from the University of Chicago, and a master’s degree and Ph.D. in social psychology from Florida State University. DeWall received the College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award, which recognizes excellence in undergraduate and graduate teaching. The Association for Psychological Science identified DeWall as a “Rising Star” early in his career for “making significant contributions to the field of psychological science.” He has been included in the top 1 percent of all cited scientists in psychology and psychiatry on the Institute for Scientific Information list, according to the Web of Science. DeWall conducts research on close relationships, self-control, aggression, the psychology of religion, and intellectual humility. With funding from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the John Templeton Foundation, he has published 225 scientific articles and chapters. DeWall’s research awards include the SAGE Young Scholars Award from the Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology, the Young Investigator Award from the International Society for Research on Aggression, and the Early Career Award from the International Society for Self and Identity. His research has been covered by numerous media and entertainment outlets, including Good Morning America, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Harvard Business Review, USA Today, National Public Radio, The Guardian, the BBC, and Netflix. He has lectured nationally and internationally, including in Hong Kong, China, the Netherlands, England, Greece, Hungary, Sweden, Australia, and France.

Nathan is happily married to Alice DeWall and is the proud father of Beverly “Bevy” and Ellis. He also enjoys taking care of the family dog, “Artie.” As an ultramarathon runner, he completed numerous races, including the Badwater 135 in 2017 (dubbed “the World’s toughest foot race”). In his spare time now, he enjoys hiking, attending live concerts, setting up and maintaining aquariums, watching sports, and playing guitar and singing in local rock bands.


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Exploring Psychology in Modules creatively helps students retain and appreciate psychologys big ideas, with insights that enable readers to be better students, more tuned-in friends and partners, more effective co-workers, and wiser parents. These best-selling authors aim to captivate students with what psychologists are learning about our human nature, to help them think more like psychological scientists, and to help them relate psychology to their own lives--their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

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Table of Contents

Thinking Critically With Psychological Science
Module 1: The History and Scope of Psychology
Module 2: Research Strategies: How Psychologists Ask and Answer Questions

The Biology of Behavior
Module 3: Neural and Hormonal Systems
Module 4: The Tools of Discovery: Having Our Head Examined
Module 5: Brain Regions and Structures
Module 6: Damage Response and Brain Hemispheres
Module 7: Genetics, Evolutionary Psychology, and Behavior

Consciousness and the Two-Track Mind
Module 8: Consciousness: Some Basic Concepts
Module 9: Sleep and Dreams
Module 10: Drugs and Consciousness

Developing Through the Life Span
Module 11: Developmental Issues, Prenatal Development, and the Newborn
Module 12: Infancy and Childhood
Module 13: Adolescence
Module 14: Adulthood

Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
Module 15: Gender Development
Module 16: Human Sexuality

Sensation and Perception
Module 17: Basic Concepts of Sensation and Perception
Module 18: Vision: Sensory and Perceptual Processing
Module 19: Hearing, Skin, Chemical, and Body 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, Language, and Intelligence
Module 26: Thinking
Module 27: Language and Thought
Module 28: Intelligence Assessment and Dynamics
Module 29: Genetic and Environmental Influences on Intelligence

Motivation and Emotion
Module 30: Basic Motivational Concepts, Affiliation, and Achievement
Module 31: Hunger
Module 32: Theories and Physiology of Emotion
Module 33: Expressing and Experiencing Emotion

Stress, Health, and Human Flourishing
Module 34: Stress and Illness
Module 35: Health and Happiness

Social Psychology
Module 36: Social Thinking and Social Influence
Module 37: Antisocial Relations
Module 38: Prosocial Relations

Personality
Module 39: Classic Perspectives on Personality
Module 40: Contemporary Perspectives on Personality

Psychological Disorders
Module 41: Basic Concepts of Psychological Disorders
Module 42: Anxiety-Related Disorders
Module 43: Depressive Disorders and Bipolar Disorders
Module 44: Schizophrenia
Module 45: Dissociative, Personality, and Eating Disorders
Module 46: Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Therapy
Module 47: Introduction to Therapy and the Psychological Therapies
Module 48: Evaluating Psychotherapies
Module 49: The Biomedical Therapies and Preventing Psychological Disorders

Appendix A: Statistical Reasoning in Everyday Life
Describing Data

  • Measures of Central Tendency
  • Measures of Variation
  • Correlation: A Measure of Relationships

Significant Differences

Appendix B: Psychology at Work
Work and Life Satisfaction

  • Flow at Work
  • Finding Your Own Flow, and Matching Interests to Work

Industrial-Organizational Psychology
Personnel Psychology

  • Using Strengths for Successful Selection
  • Do Interviews Predict Performance?
  • Appraising Performance

Organizational Psychology

  • Satisfaction and Engagement at Work
  • Effective Leadership

Human Factors Psychology

Appendix C: The Story of Psychology: A Timeline

Appendix D: Career Fields in Psychology

Appendix E: Complete Module Reviews

Appendix F: Answers to the Retrieve It and Experience the Testing Effect Questions

Glossary
References
Name Index
Subject Index

Headshot of David G. Myers

David G. Myers

David Myers received his B.A. in chemistry from Whitworth University, and his psychology Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. He has spent his career at Hope College, Michigan, where he has taught dozens of introductory psychology sections. Hope College students have invited him to be their commencement speaker and voted him “outstanding professor.” His research and writings have been recognized by the Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize, an Honored Scientist award from the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences, an Award for Distinguished Service on Behalf of Social-Personality Psychology, a Presidential Citation from APA Division 2, election as an American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow, and three honorary doctorates.

With support from National Science Foundation grants, Myers’ scientific articles have appeared in three dozen scientific periodicals, including Science, American Scientist, Psychological Science, and American Psychologist. In addition to his scholarly and textbook writing, he digests psychological science for the general public. His writings have appeared in four dozen magazines, from Today’s Education to Scientific American. He also has authored six general audience books, including, in 2022, How Do We Know Ourselves? Curiosities and Marvels of the Human Mind. And he blogs about psychology and life at TalkPsych.com.

David Myers has chaired his city’s Human Relations Commission, helped found a thriving assistance center for low-income families, and spoken to hundreds of college, community, and professional groups worldwide. Drawing on his experience of hearing loss, which now includes a cochlear implant, he also has written articles and a book (A Quiet World) about hearing loss, and he is advocating a transformation in U.S. assistive listening technology (see HearingLoop.org). For his leadership, he has received awards from the American Academy of Audiology, the hearing industry, and the Hearing Loss Association of America.

David and Carol Myers met and married while undergraduates, and have raised sons Peter and Andrew, and a daughter, Laura. They have one grandchild, Allie.


Headshot of C. Nathan DeWall

C. Nathan DeWall

Nathan DeWall is professor of psychology at the University of Kentucky. He received his bachelor’s degree from St. Olaf College, a master’s degree in social science from the University of Chicago, and a master’s degree and Ph.D. in social psychology from Florida State University. DeWall received the College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award, which recognizes excellence in undergraduate and graduate teaching. The Association for Psychological Science identified DeWall as a “Rising Star” early in his career for “making significant contributions to the field of psychological science.” He has been included in the top 1 percent of all cited scientists in psychology and psychiatry on the Institute for Scientific Information list, according to the Web of Science. DeWall conducts research on close relationships, self-control, aggression, the psychology of religion, and intellectual humility. With funding from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the John Templeton Foundation, he has published 225 scientific articles and chapters. DeWall’s research awards include the SAGE Young Scholars Award from the Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology, the Young Investigator Award from the International Society for Research on Aggression, and the Early Career Award from the International Society for Self and Identity. His research has been covered by numerous media and entertainment outlets, including Good Morning America, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Harvard Business Review, USA Today, National Public Radio, The Guardian, the BBC, and Netflix. He has lectured nationally and internationally, including in Hong Kong, China, the Netherlands, England, Greece, Hungary, Sweden, Australia, and France.

Nathan is happily married to Alice DeWall and is the proud father of Beverly “Bevy” and Ellis. He also enjoys taking care of the family dog, “Artie.” As an ultramarathon runner, he completed numerous races, including the Badwater 135 in 2017 (dubbed “the World’s toughest foot race”). In his spare time now, he enjoys hiking, attending live concerts, setting up and maintaining aquariums, watching sports, and playing guitar and singing in local rock bands.


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