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About

Centered on experiences common for college students, My Psychology uses easy-to-understand examples to make your introduction to psychology feel personal.

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Contents

Table of Contents

1. The Science of Psychology

· What Is Psychology?

· Psychology’s Many Subfields

· Psychology Then and Now

· The Science of Psychology

2. Brain and Behavior

· Brain and Behavior Connections: An Introduction

· Activity Within the Brain

· The Brain and Its Parts

· The Nervous System and the Endocrine System

· How We Know All of This: Viewing the Brain

3. Sensation and Perception

· The Fundamentals of Sensation and Perception

· Vision

· Hearing

· Smell and Taste

· Other Senses

4. Consciousness

· Sleep

· Dreams

· Hypnosis

· Psychoactive Drugs and Consciousness

· Other Altered States of Consciousness

5. Memory

· Defining Memory

· The Three Steps of Memory

· Types of Memory

· What Affects Memory?

· Memory Problems

6. Learning

· What Is Learning?

· Classical Conditioning

· Operant Conditioning

· Observational Learning

· Biological Influences on Learning

· Cognitive Influences on Learning

7. Cognition: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence

· Thinking

· Language

· Intelligence

8. Motivation and Emotion

· Motivation

· A Primary Motivation: Hunger and Eating

· Emotion

9. Development Across the Life Span

· Big Questions About Developmental Psychology

· Development Before Birth

· Infancy and Childhood

· Adolescent Development

· Adulthood

10. Diversity in Psychology: Multiculturalism, Sexuality, and Gender

· Diversity Surrounds You

· Multiculturalism

· Gender and Sexuality: Essential Examples of Diversity

11. Stress and Health

· Stress: What Is It and What Causes It?

· Stress and the Mind-Body Connection

· Stress and Culture

· Coping with Stress: Psychological Strategies and Social Strategies

· Coping with Stress: Physical Strategies and Medical Strategies

12. Personality

· What Is Personality?

· Psychodynamic Theory of Personality

· Humanistic Theory of Personality

· Behavioral and Social-Cognitive Theories of Personality

· Trait Theory of Personality

· Assessing Personality

13. Social Psychology

· Social Cognition: How We Think About Each Other

· Social Influence: How We Influence Each Other

· Social Relations: How We Relate to Each Other

· Prosocial Behavior: Helping Each Other

14. Psychological Disorders

· What’s Abnormal?

· What Causes Abnormality?

· The Diagnostic Manual: DSM

· Anxiety Disorders and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

· Depressive and Bipolar Disorders

· Eating Disorders

· Schizophrenia

· Disorders of Childhood

· Dissociative Disorders

· Personality Disorders

15. Therapy

· History of Treatment of Psychological Disorders

· Psychotherapies for Individual Clients

· Psychotherapies for Groups and Families

· How Well Does Psychotherapy Work?

· The Importance of Culture in Psychotherapy

· Ethics in Psychotherapy

· Cybertherapy: Psychotherapy via Modern Technology

· Biomedical Therapies

Appendix A: An Introduction to Statistics in Psychological Research

Authors

Andrew M. Pomerantz

Andrew M. Pomerantz is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Clinical Psychology Graduate Program at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE). For over two decades, he has taught Introduction to Psychology as well as undergraduate and graduate courses related to clinical psychology. His research on teaching in psychology has been published in Teaching of Psychology, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology, and Training and Education in Professional Psychology, and been presented at conferences of the American Psychological Association and the National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology. He has served on the editorial boards of Journal of Clinical Psychology, Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, and Ethics & Behavior. At SIUE, Pomerantz has received the Paul Simon Outstanding Teacher-Scholar Award and was an invited member of the Peer Consultant Team of the Excellence in Learning and Teaching Initiative. He is also the author of the textbook Clinical Psychology: Science, Practice, and Culture.

His research focuses on various topics within clinical psychology, especially those related to ethical and professional issues. He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Clinical Psychology, Ethics & Behavior, and the Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy. He maintains a part-time private practice of psychotherapy in St. Louis, Missouri, where he sees adults and children with a wide range of issues and disorders. He also served two terms as president of Psychotherapy Saint Louis, a multidisciplinary therapist organization.

He earned his B.A. degree in psychology from Washington University in St. Louis and his M.A. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Saint Louis University. He completed his predoctoral internship at the Indiana University School of Medicine Psychology Training Consortium.


With My Psychology, intro psych is intro me.

Centered on experiences common for college students, My Psychology uses easy-to-understand examples to make your introduction to psychology feel personal.

E-book

Read online (or offline) with all the highlighting and notetaking tools you need to be successful in this course.

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Read & Practice

Achieve Read & Practice is the marriage of our LearningCurve adaptive quizzing and our mobile, accessible e-book, in one easy-to-use and affordable product.

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Launchpad

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Table of Contents

1. The Science of Psychology

· What Is Psychology?

· Psychology’s Many Subfields

· Psychology Then and Now

· The Science of Psychology

2. Brain and Behavior

· Brain and Behavior Connections: An Introduction

· Activity Within the Brain

· The Brain and Its Parts

· The Nervous System and the Endocrine System

· How We Know All of This: Viewing the Brain

3. Sensation and Perception

· The Fundamentals of Sensation and Perception

· Vision

· Hearing

· Smell and Taste

· Other Senses

4. Consciousness

· Sleep

· Dreams

· Hypnosis

· Psychoactive Drugs and Consciousness

· Other Altered States of Consciousness

5. Memory

· Defining Memory

· The Three Steps of Memory

· Types of Memory

· What Affects Memory?

· Memory Problems

6. Learning

· What Is Learning?

· Classical Conditioning

· Operant Conditioning

· Observational Learning

· Biological Influences on Learning

· Cognitive Influences on Learning

7. Cognition: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence

· Thinking

· Language

· Intelligence

8. Motivation and Emotion

· Motivation

· A Primary Motivation: Hunger and Eating

· Emotion

9. Development Across the Life Span

· Big Questions About Developmental Psychology

· Development Before Birth

· Infancy and Childhood

· Adolescent Development

· Adulthood

10. Diversity in Psychology: Multiculturalism, Sexuality, and Gender

· Diversity Surrounds You

· Multiculturalism

· Gender and Sexuality: Essential Examples of Diversity

11. Stress and Health

· Stress: What Is It and What Causes It?

· Stress and the Mind-Body Connection

· Stress and Culture

· Coping with Stress: Psychological Strategies and Social Strategies

· Coping with Stress: Physical Strategies and Medical Strategies

12. Personality

· What Is Personality?

· Psychodynamic Theory of Personality

· Humanistic Theory of Personality

· Behavioral and Social-Cognitive Theories of Personality

· Trait Theory of Personality

· Assessing Personality

13. Social Psychology

· Social Cognition: How We Think About Each Other

· Social Influence: How We Influence Each Other

· Social Relations: How We Relate to Each Other

· Prosocial Behavior: Helping Each Other

14. Psychological Disorders

· What’s Abnormal?

· What Causes Abnormality?

· The Diagnostic Manual: DSM

· Anxiety Disorders and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

· Depressive and Bipolar Disorders

· Eating Disorders

· Schizophrenia

· Disorders of Childhood

· Dissociative Disorders

· Personality Disorders

15. Therapy

· History of Treatment of Psychological Disorders

· Psychotherapies for Individual Clients

· Psychotherapies for Groups and Families

· How Well Does Psychotherapy Work?

· The Importance of Culture in Psychotherapy

· Ethics in Psychotherapy

· Cybertherapy: Psychotherapy via Modern Technology

· Biomedical Therapies

Appendix A: An Introduction to Statistics in Psychological Research

Andrew M. Pomerantz

Andrew M. Pomerantz is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Clinical Psychology Graduate Program at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE). For over two decades, he has taught Introduction to Psychology as well as undergraduate and graduate courses related to clinical psychology. His research on teaching in psychology has been published in Teaching of Psychology, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology, and Training and Education in Professional Psychology, and been presented at conferences of the American Psychological Association and the National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology. He has served on the editorial boards of Journal of Clinical Psychology, Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, and Ethics & Behavior. At SIUE, Pomerantz has received the Paul Simon Outstanding Teacher-Scholar Award and was an invited member of the Peer Consultant Team of the Excellence in Learning and Teaching Initiative. He is also the author of the textbook Clinical Psychology: Science, Practice, and Culture.

His research focuses on various topics within clinical psychology, especially those related to ethical and professional issues. He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Clinical Psychology, Ethics & Behavior, and the Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy. He maintains a part-time private practice of psychotherapy in St. Louis, Missouri, where he sees adults and children with a wide range of issues and disorders. He also served two terms as president of Psychotherapy Saint Louis, a multidisciplinary therapist organization.

He earned his B.A. degree in psychology from Washington University in St. Louis and his M.A. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Saint Louis University. He completed his predoctoral internship at the Indiana University School of Medicine Psychology Training Consortium.


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