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Myers' Psychology for the AP® Course

Third  Edition©2018  David G. Myers; C. Nathan DeWall

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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, 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 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 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.

Nathan C. 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 is 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, and aggression. With funding from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the John Templeton Foundation, he has published over 200 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, 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 BBC, and The Guardian. 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 enjoys playing with his two golden retrievers, Finnegan and Atticus. 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 writes novels, watches sports, and plays guitar and sings in a rock band called Roar Shock.