InterActive Psychology Online
Published on 1. May 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
512 pages
978-0-205-32286-2 (ISBN)
Description
This innovative, technology-based alternative based on Lester Lefton's Psychology is presented as a black-and-white paperback text containing the core coverage, supplemented and enhanced by Internet content and activities.
In this innovative product, a black-and-white text contains the "core" coverage (the text) of the general topics of Introductory Psychology with a built-in section review. It is supplemented by a website that contains the full-color illustrations usually found within the text and a multitude of study aids including a customized version of The Psychology Place Website and Chapter 15, "Applied Psychology." Based on Lefton's Psychology, this is a briefer, more cost-effective alternative to a traditional Introductory Psychology text. It is intended that the student use both the text and the website as the basis for learning. Visit www.ablongman.com/leftononline.
In this innovative product, a black-and-white text contains the "core" coverage (the text) of the general topics of Introductory Psychology with a built-in section review. It is supplemented by a website that contains the full-color illustrations usually found within the text and a multitude of study aids including a customized version of The Psychology Place Website and Chapter 15, "Applied Psychology." Based on Lefton's Psychology, this is a briefer, more cost-effective alternative to a traditional Introductory Psychology text. It is intended that the student use both the text and the website as the basis for learning. Visit www.ablongman.com/leftononline.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 279 mm
Width: 216 mm
Weight
1000 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-205-32286-2 (9780205322862)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
All chapters conclude with "Summary and Review."
1. What Is Psychology?
What Is This Science of Psychology?
The Research Process.
Ethics in Psychological Research.
Who Are These People We Call Psychologists?
Choosing Psychology as a Career.
Applied Research, Human Services Psychology, and Experimental Psychology.
How Have Schools of Psychological Thought Developed?
2. Biological Bases of Behavior.
Nature versus Nurture.
Communication in the Nervous System.
Organization of the Peripheral and Central Nervous Systems.
Brain Structures.
Studying the Brain.
Brain Specialization-The Left and Right of Things.
Hormones and Glands.
3. Sensation and Perception.
The Perceptual Experience.
The Visual System.
Visual Perception.
Hearing.
Taste and Smell.
The Skin Senses.
Kinesthesis and the Vestibular Sense.
Extrasensory Perception.
4. Consciousness.
Consciousness.
Sleep.
Dreams.
Controlling Consciousness: Biofeedback, Hypnosis, and Meditation.
Altering Consciousness with Drugs.
5. Learning.
Pavlovian, or Classical, Conditioning Theory.
Key Variables in Classical Conditioning.
Operant Conditioning.
Key Variables in Operant Conditioning.
Cognitive Learning.
6. Memory and Cognition.
Memory: The Brain as Information Processor.
Encoding.
Storage.
Retrieval.
Forgetting: When Memory Fails.
Cognitive Psychology: An Overview.
Concept Formation: The Process of Forming Mental Groups.
Problem Solving: Confronting Situations That Require Solutions.
Reasoning and Decision Making: Generating Ideas and Reaching Conclusions.
Artificial Intelligence.
Language.
Language Acquisition.
7. Intelligence.
What Is Intelligence?
The Process of Test Development.
Three Important Intelligence Tests.
Environmental and Biological Factors in Intelligence.
Exceptionality and Education.
8. Motivation.
Theories of Motivation.
Hunger: A Physiological Need.
Sexual Behavior: Physiology Plus Thought.
Achievement: A Social Need.
Emotion.
9. Development.
Key Issues, Theories, and Research Designs.
The First Ten Months.
Cognitive Development.
Moral Reasoning.
Emotional and Social Development.
Adolescence: Bridging the Gap.
Adulthood: Years of Stability and Change.
Late Adulthood: Limitations and Possibilities.
10. Personality and Its Assessment.
Psychoanalytic Theory: Unconscious Drives and Defenses.
Humanistic Approaches: Self-Fulfillment and Self-Actualization.
Trait and Type Theories: Stable Behavioral Dispositions.
Behavioral Approaches: Learning Is Key.
Cognitive Approaches: Dynamics of Personality.
Personality Assessment.
11. Social Psychology.
Attitudes: Deeply Held Feelings and Beliefs.
Social Cognition: The Impact of Thought.
Social Interactions: The Power of People and Situations.
12. Stress and Health Psychology.
Stress.
Coping.
Health Psychology.
13.Psychological Disorders.
What Is Abnormal Behavior?
Anxiety, Somatoform, and Dissociative Disorders.
Personality Disorders.
Mood Disorders.
Schizophrenia.
14. Therapy.
Therapy Comes in Many Forms.
Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic Therapies.
Humanistic Therapies.
Behavior Therapy.
Cognitive Therapy.
Group Therapy.
Biologically Based Therapies.
1. What Is Psychology?
What Is This Science of Psychology?
The Research Process.
Ethics in Psychological Research.
Who Are These People We Call Psychologists?
Choosing Psychology as a Career.
Applied Research, Human Services Psychology, and Experimental Psychology.
How Have Schools of Psychological Thought Developed?
2. Biological Bases of Behavior.
Nature versus Nurture.
Communication in the Nervous System.
Organization of the Peripheral and Central Nervous Systems.
Brain Structures.
Studying the Brain.
Brain Specialization-The Left and Right of Things.
Hormones and Glands.
3. Sensation and Perception.
The Perceptual Experience.
The Visual System.
Visual Perception.
Hearing.
Taste and Smell.
The Skin Senses.
Kinesthesis and the Vestibular Sense.
Extrasensory Perception.
4. Consciousness.
Consciousness.
Sleep.
Dreams.
Controlling Consciousness: Biofeedback, Hypnosis, and Meditation.
Altering Consciousness with Drugs.
5. Learning.
Pavlovian, or Classical, Conditioning Theory.
Key Variables in Classical Conditioning.
Operant Conditioning.
Key Variables in Operant Conditioning.
Cognitive Learning.
6. Memory and Cognition.
Memory: The Brain as Information Processor.
Encoding.
Storage.
Retrieval.
Forgetting: When Memory Fails.
Cognitive Psychology: An Overview.
Concept Formation: The Process of Forming Mental Groups.
Problem Solving: Confronting Situations That Require Solutions.
Reasoning and Decision Making: Generating Ideas and Reaching Conclusions.
Artificial Intelligence.
Language.
Language Acquisition.
7. Intelligence.
What Is Intelligence?
The Process of Test Development.
Three Important Intelligence Tests.
Environmental and Biological Factors in Intelligence.
Exceptionality and Education.
8. Motivation.
Theories of Motivation.
Hunger: A Physiological Need.
Sexual Behavior: Physiology Plus Thought.
Achievement: A Social Need.
Emotion.
9. Development.
Key Issues, Theories, and Research Designs.
The First Ten Months.
Cognitive Development.
Moral Reasoning.
Emotional and Social Development.
Adolescence: Bridging the Gap.
Adulthood: Years of Stability and Change.
Late Adulthood: Limitations and Possibilities.
10. Personality and Its Assessment.
Psychoanalytic Theory: Unconscious Drives and Defenses.
Humanistic Approaches: Self-Fulfillment and Self-Actualization.
Trait and Type Theories: Stable Behavioral Dispositions.
Behavioral Approaches: Learning Is Key.
Cognitive Approaches: Dynamics of Personality.
Personality Assessment.
11. Social Psychology.
Attitudes: Deeply Held Feelings and Beliefs.
Social Cognition: The Impact of Thought.
Social Interactions: The Power of People and Situations.
12. Stress and Health Psychology.
Stress.
Coping.
Health Psychology.
13.Psychological Disorders.
What Is Abnormal Behavior?
Anxiety, Somatoform, and Dissociative Disorders.
Personality Disorders.
Mood Disorders.
Schizophrenia.
14. Therapy.
Therapy Comes in Many Forms.
Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic Therapies.
Humanistic Therapies.
Behavior Therapy.
Cognitive Therapy.
Group Therapy.
Biologically Based Therapies.