(Ebook) PSYCH 6th Edition by Spencer A Rathus ISBN 0357041216 9780357041215

(Ebook) PSYCH 6th Edition by Spencer A Rathus ISBN 0357041216 9780357041215

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ISBN 10: 0357041216 
ISBN 13: 9780357041215
Author: Spencer A Rathus

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(Ebook) PSYCH 6th Table of contents:

1. What Is Psychology?
1-1. Psychology as a Science
1-1a. What Psychologists Do
1-1b. Fields of Psychology
1-2. Historical Foundations of Psychology
1-2a. Structuralism
1-2b. Functionalism
1-2c. Behaviorism
1-2d. Gestalt Psychology
1-2e. Psychoanalysis
1-3. Contemporary Perspectives in Psychology
1-3a. The Biological Perspective
1-3b. The Cognitive Perspective
1-3c. The Humanistic–Existential Perspective
1-3d. The Psychodynamic Perspective
1-3e. Perspectives on Learning
1-3f. The Sociocultural Perspective
1-4. How Psychologists Study Behavior and Mental Processes
1-4a. The Scientific Method
1-4b. Samples and Populations
1-4c. Problems in Generalizing from Psychological Research
1-5. Methods of Research
1-5a. Methods of Observation
1-5b. Correlation
1-5c. The Experimental Method
1-6. Ethics in Psychological Research
1-6a. Ethics of Research with Humans
1-6b. Ethics of Research with Animals
1-7. Critical Thinking
1-7a. Principles of Critical Thinking
Self-Assessment
Self-Assessment
Fill-Ins
Multiple Choice
2. Biology and Psychology
2-1. The Nervous System: On Being Wired
2-1a. Neurons: Into the Fabulous Forest
2-1b. The Neural Impulse: “The Body Electric”
2-1c. Neurotransmitters: The Chemical Keys to Communication
2-2. The Divisions of the Nervous System
2-2a. The Peripheral Nervous System: The Body’s Peripheral Devices
2-2b. The Central Nervous System: The Body’s Central Processing Unit
2-3. The Brain: Wider Than the Sky
2-3a. Understanding the Brain
2-3b. Experimenting with the Brain
2-4. A Voyage through the Brain
2-5. The Cerebral Cortex
2-5a. The Structure of the Cerebral Cortex
2-5b. Thinking, Language, and the Cerebral Cortex
2-5c. Left Brain, Right Brain?
2-5d. Handedness
2-5e. Split-Brain Experiments
2-6. The Endocrine System
2-6a. The Pituitary and the Hypothalamus
2-6b. The Pineal Gland
2-6c. The Thyroid Gland
2-6d. The Adrenal Glands
2-6e. The Testes and the Ovaries
2-7. Evolution and Heredity
2-7a. Evolutionary Psychology: Doing What Comes Naturally
2-7b. Heredity, Genetics, and Behavioral Genetics
2-7c. Genes and Chromosomes
2-7d. Kinship Studies
Application
Fill-Ins
Multiple Choice
3. Sensation and Perception
3-1. Sensation and Perception
3-1a. Absolute Threshold
3-1b. Subliminal Stimulation
3-1c. Difference Threshold
3-1d. Signal–Detection Theory
3-1e. Feature Detectors in the Brain
3-1f. Sensory Adaptation
3-2. Vision
3-2a. Light
3-2b. The Eye
3-2c. Color Vision
3-2d. Theories of Color Vision
3-2e. Color Blindness
3-3. Visual Perception
3-3a. Perceptual Organization
3-3b. Perception of Motion
3-3c. Depth Perception
3-3d. Perceptual Constancies
3-3e. Visual Illusions
3-4. Hearing
3-4a. Pitch and Loudness
3-4b. The Ear
3-4c. Locating Sounds
3-4d. Perception of Loudness and Pitch
3-4e. Deafness
3-5. The Other Senses
3-5a. The Chemical Senses: Smell and Taste
3-5b. The Skin Senses
3-5c. Kinesthesis and the Vestibular Sense
3-6. ESP: Is There Perception Without Sensation?
Application
Application
Fill-Ins
Multiple Choice
4. Consciousness
4-1. What Is Consciousness?
4-1a. Consciousness as Awareness
4-1b. Conscious, Preconscious, Unconscious, and Nonconscious
4-1c. Consciousness as Personal Unity
4-1d. Consciousness as the Waking State
4-2. Sleep and Dreams
4-2a. Biological and Circadian Rhythms
4-2b. The Stages of Sleep
4-2c. The Functions of Sleep
4-2d. Dreams
4-2e. Sleep Disorders
4-3. Altering Consciousness: Hypnosis, Meditation, and Biofeedback
4-3a. Hypnosis
4-3b. Meditation
4-3c. Biofeedback
4-4. Altering Consciousness through Drugs
4-4a. Substance Use and Substance Use Disorders
4-4b. Causal Factors in Substance Use Disorders
4-5. Depressants
4-5a. Alcohol
4-5b. Opiates and Opioids
4-5c. Barbiturates
4-6. Stimulants
4-6a. Amphetamines and Related Stimulants
4-6b. Nicotine
4-7. Hallucinogenics
4-7a. Marijuana
4-7b. LSD and Other Hallucinogenics
Application
Self-Assessment
Fill-Ins
Multiple Choice
5. Learning
5-1. Learning, Experience, and Change
5-2. Classical Conditioning: Learning What Is Linked to What
5-2a. Explaining Classical Conditioning
5-2b. Stimuli and Responses in Classical Conditioning
5-2c. Extinction and Spontaneous Recovery
5-2d. Generalization and Discrimination
5-2e. Higher-Order Conditioning
5-3. Applications of Classical Conditioning
5-3a. Taste Aversion
5-3b. “Little Albert”: Classical Conditioning of Emotional Responses
5-3c. Counterconditioning
5-3d. Flooding and Systematic Desensitization
5-4. Operant Conditioning: Learning What Does What to What
5-4a. Edward L. Thorndike and the Law of Effect
5-4b. B. F. Skinner and Reinforcement
5-4c. Methods of Operant Conditioning
5-4d. Types of Reinforcers
5-4e. Extinction and Spontaneous Recovery in Operant Conditioning
5-4f. Reinforcers versus Rewards and Punishments
5-4g. Discriminative Stimuli
5-4h. Schedules of Reinforcement
5-5. Applications of Operant Conditioning
5-5a. Biofeedback Training
5-5b. Shaping

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