Myers' Psychology

Name: Myers' Psychology
Author: David G. Myers; C. Nathan DeWall; Elizabeth Yost Hammer

Fourth Edition©2024 David G. Myers; C. Nathan DeWall; Elizabeth Yost Hammer

Unit 0: An Introduction to Psychology Science Practices: Research Methods and Data Interpretation
Module 0.1 The Scientific Attitude, Critical Thinking, and Developing Arguments
Module 0.2 The Need for Psychological Science
Module 0.3 The Scientific Method and Description
Module 0.4 Correlation and Experimentation
Module 0.5 Research Design and Ethics in Psychology
Module 0.6 Statistical Reasoning in Everyday Life
Unit 0 AP® Practice Questions

Unit 1: Biological Bases of Behavior
Module 1.1 Interaction of Heredity and Environment
Module 1.2 Overview of the Nervous System
Module 1.3A The Neuron and Neural Firing: Neural Communication and the Endocrine System
Module 1.3B The Neuron and Neural Firing: Substance Use Disorders and Psychoactive Drugs
Module 1.4A The Brain: Neuroplasticity and Tools of Discovery
Module 1.4B The Brain: Brain Regions and Structures
Module 1.4C The Brain: Damage Response and Brain Hemispheres
Module 1.5A Sleep: Consciousness
Module 1.5B Sleep: Sleep Stages and Theories
Module 1.5C Sleep: Sleep Loss, Sleep Disorders, and Dreams
Module 1.6A Sensation: Basic Concepts
Module 1.6B Sensation: Vision
Module 1.6C Sensation: Hearing
Module 1.6D Sensation: Skin, Chemical, and Body Senses and Sensory Interaction
Unit 1 AP® Practice Questions

Unit 2: Cognition
Module 2.1A Perception: Influences on Perception
Module 2.1B Perception: Perceptual Organization and Interpretation
Module 2.2A Thinking, Problem-Solving, Judgments, and Decision-Making: Concepts and Creativity
Module 2.2B Thinking, Problem-Solving, Judgments, and Decision-Making: Solving Problems and Making Decisions
Module 2.3 Introduction to Memory
Module 2.4 Encoding Memories
Module 2.5 Storing Memories
Module 2.6 Retrieving Memories
Module 2.7 Forgetting and Other Memory Challenges
Module 2.8A Intelligence and Achievement: Theories of Intelligence
Module 2.8B Intelligence and Achievement: Assessing Intelligence
Module 2.8C Intelligence and Achievement: Stability of, and Influences on, Intelligence
Module 2.8D Intelligence and Achievement: Group Differences and the Question of Bias
Unit 2 AP® Practice Questions

Unit 3: Development and Learning
Module 3.1 Themes and Methods in Developmental Psychology
Module 3.2A Physical Development Across the Lifespan: Prenatal Development, Infancy, and Childhood
Module 3.2B Physical Development Across the Lifespan: Adolescence and Adulthood
Module 3.3A Gender and Sexual Orientation: Gender Development
Module 3.3B Gender and Sexual Orientation: The Biology and Psychology of Sex
Module 3.3C Gender and Sexual Orientation: Sexual Orientation
Module 3.4 Cognitive Development Across the Life Span
Module 3.5 Communication and Language Development
Module 3.6A Social-Emotional Development Across the Life Span: Infancy and Childhood
Module 3.6B Social-Emotional Development Across the Life Span: Adolescence, Emerging Adulthood, and Adulthood
Module 3.7A Classical Conditioning: Basic Concepts
Module 3.7B Classical Conditioning: Applications and Biological Limits
Module 3.8A Operant Conditioning: Basic Concepts
Module 3.8B Operant Conditioning: Applications, Biological Limits, and Contrasts with Classical Conditioning
Module 3.9 Social, Cognitive, and Neurological Factors in Learning
Unit 3 AP® Practice Questions

Unit 4: Social and Personality
Module 4.1 Attribution Theory and Person Perception
Module 4.2 Attitude Formation and Attitude Change
Module 4.3A Psychology of Social Situations: Conformity and Obedience
Module 4.3B Psychology of Social Situations: Group Behavior
Module 4.3C Psychology of Social Situations: Aggression
Module 4.3D Psychology of Social Situations: Attraction
Module 4.3E Psychology of Social Situations: Altruism, Conflict, and Peacemaking
Module 4.4 Introduction to Personality
Module 4.5A Psychoanalytic and Humanistic Theories of Personality: Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Theories
Module 4.5B Psychoanalytic and Humanistic Theories of Personality: Humanistic Theories
Module 4.6A Social-Cognitive and Trait Theories of Personality: Trait Theories
Module 4.6B Social-Cognitive and Trait Theories of Personality: Social-Cognitive Theories
Module 4.6C Social-Cognitive and Trait Theories of Personality: Exploring the Self
Module 4.7A Motivation: Motivational Concepts
Module 4.7B Motivation: Affiliation and Achievement
Module 4.7C Motivation: Hunger Motivation
Module 4.8A Emotion: Theories and Physiology of Emotion
Module 4.8B Emotion: Expressing and Experiencing Emotion
Unit 4 AP® Practice Questions

Unit 5: Mental and Physical Health
Module 5.1A Introduction to Health Psychology: Stress and Illness
Module 5.1B Introduction to Health Psychology: Coping With Stress
Module 5.2A Positive Psychology: Positive Emotions and Positive Traits
Module 5.2B Positive Psychology: Enhancing Well-Being
Module 5.3 Explaining and Classifying Psychological Disorders
Module 5.4A Selection of Categories of Psychological Disorders: Anxiety Disorders, Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, and Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders
Module 5.4B Selection of Categories of Psychological Disorders: Depressive Disorders and Bipolar Disorders
Module 5.4C Selection of Categories of Psychological Disorders: Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders
Module 5.4D Selection of Categories of Psychological Disorders: Dissociative Disorders, Personality Disorders, Feeding and Eating Disorders, and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Module 5.5A Treatment of Psychological Disorders: Introduction to Therapy, and Psychodynamic and Humanistic Therapies
Module 5.5B Treatment of Psychological Disorders: Behavior, Cognitive, and Group Therapies
Module 5.5C Treatment of Psychological Disorders: Evaluating Psychotherapies
Module 5.5D Treatment of Psychological Disorders: The Biomedical Therapies and Preventing Psychological Disorders
Unit 5 AP® Practice Questions

Enrichment Modules
Influences on Drug Use
Psychology at Work
Animal Thinking and Language

Appendix A Practice AP-Style Exam
Appendix B Preparing for Further Psychology Studies
Appendix C Answers to Examine the Concept Questions
Glossary/Glosario
Index

Authors

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 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 has authored five general audience books, including The Pursuit of Happiness and Intuition: Its Powers and Perils. 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 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 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

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 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 golden retriever, Finnegan. 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 local rock bands.

Elizabeth Yost Hammer

Elizabeth Yost Hammer is the director of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Faculty Development and a Kellogg professor in teaching at Xavier University of Louisiana. Her work in the center includes organizing pedagogical workshops and faculty development initiatives for instructors, both new and seasoned, and thinking generally about teaching and learning. Yet her favorite part of her job is in the classroom, trying out new teaching innovations. She is a recipient of the College of Arts & Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award, and received an XU Girls Rock! Award from Xavier students. She regularly teaches introductory psychology, research methods, health psychology, and human sexuality.

Liz received her Ph.D. in social psychology from Tulane University in 1994. Her research interests focus on the scholarship of teaching and learning, and she has contributed to books intended to enhance teaching preparation, including The Oxford Handbook of Psychology Education, Hot Topics: Best Practices in Teaching Controversial Issues in Psychology, and Effective College and University Teaching: Strategies and Tactics for the New Professoriate. In addition, Liz has published in Teaching of Psychology, for which she has served as consulting editor, and a special teaching-related issue of the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology.

In 2005, Liz was named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. She is a past president of Psi Chi (the international honor society in psychology) and a past treasurer of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology. AP® psychology has had an influential role in Liz’s professional development. She began attending the AP® psychology reading in 1998, where she developed a national network of dedicated high school teachers who have informed both her own teaching and her faculty development work. Liz served as chief reader for AP® psychology from 2012 to 2016 and was a co-strand leader (along with Randy Ernst) at the 2017 APA Summit on High School Psychology Education.

Liz is married to Elliott Hammer, who is also a psychology professor and is involved in AP® psychology. They and their two rescue dogs work and play in New Orleans, Louisiana. They maintain their mental health by spending time camping and hiking in a national park every summer.