Psychology
United States Edition
11th Edition
Published on 27. February 2013
Book
Hardback
720 pages
978-0-205-25431-6 (ISBN)
Description
Emphasizes critical thinking, culture, and gender
Psychology, 11/e, shows students why scientific and critical thinking is so important in the decisions they make. In clear, lively, warm prose, this edition continues the title's integration of gender, culture, and ethnicity. By the end, readers will learn how to interpret research and to address and resolve controversies.
MyPsychLab is an integral part of the Wade/Tavris/Garry program. Engaging activities and assessments provide a teaching and learning system that helps students think like a psychologist. With MyPsychLab, students can watch videos on psychological research and applications, participate in virtual classic experiments, and develop critical thinking skills through writing.
Psychology, 11/e, is available in a new DSM-5 Updated edition. To learn more, click here.
This title is available in a variety of formats - digital and print. Pearson offers its titles on the devices students love through Pearson's MyLab products, CourseSmart, Amazon, and more.
Psychology, 11/e, shows students why scientific and critical thinking is so important in the decisions they make. In clear, lively, warm prose, this edition continues the title's integration of gender, culture, and ethnicity. By the end, readers will learn how to interpret research and to address and resolve controversies.
MyPsychLab is an integral part of the Wade/Tavris/Garry program. Engaging activities and assessments provide a teaching and learning system that helps students think like a psychologist. With MyPsychLab, students can watch videos on psychological research and applications, participate in virtual classic experiments, and develop critical thinking skills through writing.
Psychology, 11/e, is available in a new DSM-5 Updated edition. To learn more, click here.
This title is available in a variety of formats - digital and print. Pearson offers its titles on the devices students love through Pearson's MyLab products, CourseSmart, Amazon, and more.
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Edition
11th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
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Pearson Education (US)
Target group
College/higher education
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Height: 276 mm
Width: 229 mm
Weight
1600 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-205-25431-6 (9780205254316)
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CAROLE WADE earned her Ph.D. in cognitive psychology at Stanford University. At the University of New Mexico she taught courses in psycholinguistics and developed the first course there on the psychology of gender. She was professor of psychology for ten years at San Diego Mesa College, then taught at College of Marin and Dominican University of California. In addition to this text, she and Carol Tavris have written Invitation to Psychol-ogy; Psychology in Perspective; and The Longest War: Sex Differences in Perspective. Dr. Wade has long sought to make psychology accessible to students and the general public, focusing on the promotion of critical-thinking skills. She chaired the APA Board of Educational Affairs's Task Force on Diversity Issues at the Precollege and Undergradu-ate Levels of Education in Psychology; presented a G. Stanley Hall lecture at the APA convention; and served on the steering committee for the National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology. She is a Fellow of two divisions of the American Psychological Association and a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science.
CAROL TAVRIS earned her Ph.D. in social psychology at the University of Michigan. In addition to her other books with Carole Wade, she is coauthor, with Elliot Aronson, of Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me), and author of The Mismeasure of Woman and Anger: The Misunderstood Emotion. She has written on psychological topics for a wide variety of magazines, journals, edited books, and newspapers; some of her essays have been collected in Psychobabble and Biobunk: Using Psychological Science to Think Critically About Popular Psychology. Dr. Tavris lectures widely on topics involving science vs. pseudoscience in psychology and many other subjects of contemporary interest. She has taught in the psychology department at UCLA and at the Human Relations Center of the New School for Social Research in New York. She is a Fellow of three divisions of the American Psychological Associa-tion, a charter Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, and a member of the editorial board of the APS journal Psychological Science in the Public Interest.
MARYANNE GARRY earned her PhD at the University of Connecticut and did postdoctoral training at the University of Washington before moving to Victoria University of Wellington in 1996. She is best known for her research on the causes and consequences of false memories, including "imagination inflation" and its dangers as a therapeutic technique, the effects of inert substances such as fake alcohol on susceptibility to misleading infor-mation, and the power of photographs to rewrite our childhood stories and bias our decisions. In her efforts to apply psychological science to the law, she has worked with the New Zealand Law Commission and police, served as a Director of the Innocence Project New Zealand, and acted as an expert witness in criminal and civil trials worldwide on the (un)reliability of human memory. She is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and served as President of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. Dr. Garry has received her university's Merit Awards for Excellence in Research and for Excellence in Teaching.
Content
In this Section:
1. Brief Table of Contents
2. Full Table of Contents
1. Brief Table of Contents
Chapter 1: What Is Psychology?
Chapter 2: How Psychologists Do Research
Chapter 3: Genes, Evolution, and Environment
Chapter 4: The Brain and Nervous System
Chapter 5: Body Rhythms and Mental States
Chapter 6: Sensation and Perception
Chapter 7: Learning and Conditioning
Chapter 8: Behavior in Social and Cultural Context
Chapter 9: Thinking and Intelligence
Chapter 10: Memory
Chapter 11: Emotion, Stress, and Health
Chapter 12: Motivation
Chapter 13: Development Over the Life Span
Chapter 14: Theories of Personality
Chapter 15: Psychological Disorders
Chapter 16: Approaches to Treatment and Therapy
2. Full Table of Contents
Chapter 1: What Is Psychology?
Psychology, Pseudoscience, and Popular Opinion
Thinking Critically and Creatively about Psychology
Psychology's Past: From the Armchair to the
Laboratory
Psychology's Present: The Four Perspectives of
Psychological Science
What Psychologists Do
Chapter 2: How Psychologists Do Research
What Makes Psychological Research Scientific?
Descriptive Studies: Establishing the Facts
Correlational Studies: Looking for Relationships
Experiments: Hunting for Causes 49
Evaluating the Findings
Keeping the Enterprise Ethical
Chapter 3: Genes, Evolution, and Environment
Unlocking the Secrets of Genes
The Genetics of Similarity
Our Human Heritage: Courtship and Mating
The Genetics of Difference
Our Human Diversity: The Case of Intelligence
Chapter 4: The Brain and Nervous System
The Nervous System: A Basic Blueprint
Communication in the Nervous System
Mapping the Brain
A Tour through the Brain
The Two Hemispheres of the Brain
The Flexible Brain
Chapter 5: Body Rhythms and Mental States
Biological Rhythms: The Tides of Experience
The Rhythms of Sleep
Exploring the Dream World
The Riddle of Hypnosis
Consciousness-Altering Drugs
Chapter 6: Sensation and Perception
Our Sensational Senses
Vision
Hearing
Other Senses
Perceptual Powers: Origins and Influences
Chapter 7: Learning and Conditioning
Classical Conditioning
Classical Conditioning in Real Life
Operant Conditioning
Principles of Operant Conditioning
Operant Conditioning in Real Life
Learning and the Mind
Chapter8: Behavior in Social and Cultural Context
Roles and Rules
Social Influences on Beliefs and Behavior
Individuals in Groups
Us versus Them: Group Identity
Group Conflict and Prejudice
The Question of Human Nature
Chapter 9: Thinking and Intelligence
Thought: Using What We Know
Reasoning Rationally
Barriers to Reasoning Rationally
Measuring Intelligence: The Psychometric Approach
Dissecting Intelligence: The Cognitive Approach
Animal Minds
Chapter 10: Memory
Reconstructing the Past
Memory and the Power of Suggestion
In Pursuit of Memory
The Three-Box Model of Memory
The Biology of Memory
How We Remember
Why We Forget 3
Autobiographical Memories
Chapter 11: Emotion, Stress, and Health
The Nature of Emotion
Emotion and Culture
The Nature of Stress
Stress and Emotion
Coping with Stress
Chapter 12: Motivation
The Hungry Animal: Motives to Eat
The Social Animal: Motives to Love
The Erotic Animal: Motives for Sex
The Competent Animal: Motives to Achieve
Chapter 13: Development Over the Life Span
From Conception through the First Year
Cognitive Development
Moral Development
Gender Development
Adolescence
Adulthood
The Wellsprings of Resilience
Chapter 14: Theories of Personality
Psychodynamic Theories of Personality
The Modern Study of Personality
Genetic Influences on Personality
Environmental Influences on Personality
Cultural Influences on Personality
The Inner Experience
Chapter 15: Psychological Disorders
Diagnosing Mental Disorders
Anxiety Disorders
Mood Disorders
Personality Disorders
Drug Abuse and Addiction
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Schizophrenia
Chapter 16: Approaches to Treatment and Therapy
Biological Treatments for Mental Disorders
Major Schools of Psychotherapy
Evaluating Psychotherapy
The Value and Values of Psychotherapy
1. Brief Table of Contents
2. Full Table of Contents
1. Brief Table of Contents
Chapter 1: What Is Psychology?
Chapter 2: How Psychologists Do Research
Chapter 3: Genes, Evolution, and Environment
Chapter 4: The Brain and Nervous System
Chapter 5: Body Rhythms and Mental States
Chapter 6: Sensation and Perception
Chapter 7: Learning and Conditioning
Chapter 8: Behavior in Social and Cultural Context
Chapter 9: Thinking and Intelligence
Chapter 10: Memory
Chapter 11: Emotion, Stress, and Health
Chapter 12: Motivation
Chapter 13: Development Over the Life Span
Chapter 14: Theories of Personality
Chapter 15: Psychological Disorders
Chapter 16: Approaches to Treatment and Therapy
2. Full Table of Contents
Chapter 1: What Is Psychology?
Psychology, Pseudoscience, and Popular Opinion
Thinking Critically and Creatively about Psychology
Psychology's Past: From the Armchair to the
Laboratory
Psychology's Present: The Four Perspectives of
Psychological Science
What Psychologists Do
Chapter 2: How Psychologists Do Research
What Makes Psychological Research Scientific?
Descriptive Studies: Establishing the Facts
Correlational Studies: Looking for Relationships
Experiments: Hunting for Causes 49
Evaluating the Findings
Keeping the Enterprise Ethical
Chapter 3: Genes, Evolution, and Environment
Unlocking the Secrets of Genes
The Genetics of Similarity
Our Human Heritage: Courtship and Mating
The Genetics of Difference
Our Human Diversity: The Case of Intelligence
Chapter 4: The Brain and Nervous System
The Nervous System: A Basic Blueprint
Communication in the Nervous System
Mapping the Brain
A Tour through the Brain
The Two Hemispheres of the Brain
The Flexible Brain
Chapter 5: Body Rhythms and Mental States
Biological Rhythms: The Tides of Experience
The Rhythms of Sleep
Exploring the Dream World
The Riddle of Hypnosis
Consciousness-Altering Drugs
Chapter 6: Sensation and Perception
Our Sensational Senses
Vision
Hearing
Other Senses
Perceptual Powers: Origins and Influences
Chapter 7: Learning and Conditioning
Classical Conditioning
Classical Conditioning in Real Life
Operant Conditioning
Principles of Operant Conditioning
Operant Conditioning in Real Life
Learning and the Mind
Chapter8: Behavior in Social and Cultural Context
Roles and Rules
Social Influences on Beliefs and Behavior
Individuals in Groups
Us versus Them: Group Identity
Group Conflict and Prejudice
The Question of Human Nature
Chapter 9: Thinking and Intelligence
Thought: Using What We Know
Reasoning Rationally
Barriers to Reasoning Rationally
Measuring Intelligence: The Psychometric Approach
Dissecting Intelligence: The Cognitive Approach
Animal Minds
Chapter 10: Memory
Reconstructing the Past
Memory and the Power of Suggestion
In Pursuit of Memory
The Three-Box Model of Memory
The Biology of Memory
How We Remember
Why We Forget 3
Autobiographical Memories
Chapter 11: Emotion, Stress, and Health
The Nature of Emotion
Emotion and Culture
The Nature of Stress
Stress and Emotion
Coping with Stress
Chapter 12: Motivation
The Hungry Animal: Motives to Eat
The Social Animal: Motives to Love
The Erotic Animal: Motives for Sex
The Competent Animal: Motives to Achieve
Chapter 13: Development Over the Life Span
From Conception through the First Year
Cognitive Development
Moral Development
Gender Development
Adolescence
Adulthood
The Wellsprings of Resilience
Chapter 14: Theories of Personality
Psychodynamic Theories of Personality
The Modern Study of Personality
Genetic Influences on Personality
Environmental Influences on Personality
Cultural Influences on Personality
The Inner Experience
Chapter 15: Psychological Disorders
Diagnosing Mental Disorders
Anxiety Disorders
Mood Disorders
Personality Disorders
Drug Abuse and Addiction
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Schizophrenia
Chapter 16: Approaches to Treatment and Therapy
Biological Treatments for Mental Disorders
Major Schools of Psychotherapy
Evaluating Psychotherapy
The Value and Values of Psychotherapy