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Myers' Psychology for the AP® Course
Third Edition©2018 David G. Myers; C. Nathan DeWall
With wit, humor, and the inclusion of personal stories from the authors, Myers' Psychology for the AP® Course stimulates you to learn as you prepare to take the AP® Psychology exam.
Table of Contents
Unit I Psychology's History and Approaches
(1) Psychology and Its History
(2) Today’s Psychology and Its Approaches
(3) Subfields in Psychology
Unit II Research Methods: Thinking Critically With Psychological Science
(4) The Need for Psychological Science
(5) The Scientific Method and Description
(6) Correlation and Experimentation
(7) Research Design and Ethics in Psychology
(8) Statistical Reasoning in Everyday Life
Unit III Biological Bases of Behavior
(9) Biological Psychology and Neurotransmission
(10) The Nervous and Endocrine Systems
(11) Studying the Brain, and Older Brain Structures
(12) The Cerebral Cortex
(13) Brain Hemisphere Organization and the Biology of Consciousness
(14) Behavior Genetics: Predicting Individual Differences
(15) Evolutionary Psychology: Understanding Human Nature
Unit IV Sensation and Perception
(16) Basic Concepts of Sensation and Perception
(17) Influences on Perception
(18) Vision: Sensory and Perceptual Processing
(19) Visual Organization and Interpretation
(20) Hearing
(21) The Other Senses
Unit V Consciousness and the Two-Track Mind
(22) Understanding Consciousness and Hypnosis
(23) Sleep Patterns and Sleep Theories
(24) Sleep Deprivation, Sleep Disorders, and Dreams
(25) Psychoactive Drugs
Unit VI Learning
(26) How We Learn and Classical Conditioning
(27) Operant Conditioning
(28) Operant Conditioning’s Applications, and Comparison to Classical Conditioning
(29) Biology, Cognition, and Learning
(30) Observational Learning
Unit VII Cognition
(31) Studying and Encoding Memories
(32) Storing and Retrieving Memories
(33) Forgetting, Memory Construction, and Improving Memory
(34) Thinking, Concepts, and Creativity
(35) Solving Problems and Making Decisions
(36) Thinking and Language
Unit VIII Motivation, Emotion, and Stress
(37) Motivational Concepts
(38) Hunger Motivation
(39) Sexual Motivation
(40) Affiliation and Achievement
(41) Theories and Physiology of Emotion
(42) Expressing Emotion
(43) Stress and Illness
(44) Health and Happiness
Unit IX Developmental Psychology
(45) Developmental Issues, Prenatal Development, and the Newborn
(46) Infancy and Childhood: Physical Development
(47) Infancy and Childhood: Cognitive Development
(48) Infancy and Childhood: Social Development
(49) Gender Development
(50) Parents, Peers, and Early Experiences
(51) Adolescence: Physical and Cognitive Development
(52) Adolescence: Social Development and Emerging Adulthood
(53) Sexual Development
(54) Adulthood: Physical, Cognitive, and Social Development
Unit X Personality
(55) Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Theories
(56) Humanistic Theories
(57) Trait Theories
(58) Social-Cognitive Theories
(59) Exploring the Self
Unit XI Testing and Individual Differences
(60) Introduction to Intelligence
(61) Assessing Intelligence
(62) The Dynamics of Intelligence
(63) Studying Genetic and Environmental Influences on Intelligence
(64) Group Differences and the Question of Bias
Unit XII Abnormal Behavior
(65) Introduction to Psychological Disorders
(66) Anxiety Disorders, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
(67) Depressive Disorders, Bipolar Disorder, Suicide, and Self-Injury
(68) Schizophrenia
(69) Other Disorders
Unit XIII Treatment of Abnormal Behavior
(70) Introduction to Therapy, and Psychodynamic and Humanistic Therapies
(71) Behavior, Cognitive, and Group Therapies
(72) Evaluating Psychotherapies
(73) The Biomedical Therapies and Preventing Psychological Disorders
Unit XIV Social Psychology
(74) Attribution, Attitudes, and Actions
(75) Conformity and Obedience
(76) Group Behavior
(77) Prejudice and Discrimination
(78) Aggression
(79) Attraction
(80) Altruism, Conflict, and Peacemaking
Enrichment Modules
(81) Influences on Drug Use
(82) Psychology at Work
(83) Animal Thinking and Language
Appendix A: Practice AP-Style Exam
Appendix B: AP Tips
Appendix C: Psychological Science’s Key Contributors
Appendix D: Preparing for Further Psychology Studies
Appendix E: Answers to Test Yourself Questions
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, by a 2010 Honored Scientist award from the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences, by a 2010 Award for Service on Behalf of Personality and Social Psychology, by a 2013 Presidential Citation from APA Division 2, by his 2015 election as an American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow, and by three dozen 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 the American Psychologist. In addition to his scholarly writing and his textbooks for introductory and social psychology, he also 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 five general audience books, including The Pursuit of Happiness and Intuition: Its Powers and Perils.
David Myers has chaired his city's Human Relations Commission, helped found a thriving assistance center for families in poverty, and spoken to hundreds of college, community, and professional groups worldwide. Drawing on his experience, he also has written articles and a book (A Quiet World) about hearing loss, and he is advocating a transformation in American assistive listening technology (see www.hearingloop.org). For his leadership, he received an American Academy of Audiology Presidential Award in 2011, and the Hearing Loss Association of America Walter T. Ridder Award in 2012.
He bikes to work year-round and plays daily pick-up basketball. David and Carol Myers have raised two sons and a daughter, and have one granddaughter.
C. Nathan DeWall
Nathan DeWall is professor of psychology and director of the Social Psychology Lab 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 2011 College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award, which recognizes excellence in undergraduate and graduate teaching. In 2011, the Association for Psychological Science identified DeWall as a "Rising Star" for "making significant contributions to the field of psychological science." DeWall conducts research on close relationships, self-control, and aggression. With funding from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, he has published over 170 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 outlets, including Good Morning America, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Atlantic Monthly, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Harvard Business Review, USA Today, and National Public Radio. DeWall blogs for Psychology Today. He has lectured nationally and internationally, including in Hong Kong, China, the Netherlands, England, Greece, Hungary, Sweden, and Australia.
Nathan is happily married to Alice DeWall and is the proud father of Beverly “Bevy” DeWall and brand-new baby Ellis DeWall. He enjoys playing with his two golden retrievers, Finnegan and Atticus. In his spare time, he writes novels, watches sports, tends his chickens and goats, and runs and runs and runs. He has braved all climates—from freezing to ferocious heat—to complete over 1000 miles’ worth of ultramarathons.
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