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Psychology Wayne Weiten

Psychology By Wayne Weiten

Psychology by Wayne Weiten


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This fourth revision introductory psychology text is designed to get students involved with psychology.

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Psychology: Themes and Variations by Wayne Weiten

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Table of Contents

Part 1. The evolution of psychology. From Speculation to Science: How Psychology Developed. Psychology Today: Vigorous and Diversified. Putting It in Perspective: Seven Key Themes. Application: Improving Academic Performance. Part 2 The research enterprise in psychology. Looking for Laws: The Scientific Approach to Behaviour. Looking for Causes: Experimental Research. Looking for Links: Descriptive/Correlational Research. Looking for Conclusions Statistics and Research. Looking for Flaws: Evaluating Research. Looking at Ethics: Do the Ends Justify the Means? Putting It in Perspective. Application: Finding and Reading Journal Articles. Part 3. The biological bases of behaviour. Communication in the Nervous System. Organization of the Nervous System. Looking Inside the Brain: Research Methods. The Brain and Behaviour. Right Brain/Left Brain: Cerebral Laterality. The Endocrine System: Another Way to Communicate. Heredity and Behaviour: Is It All in the Genes? Putting It in Perspective. Application: Thinking Critically About the Concept of Two Minds in One. Part 4 Sensation and perception. Psychophysics: Basic Concepts and Issues. Our Sense of Sight: The Visual System. Our Sense of Hearing: The Auditory System. Our Chemical Senses: Taste and Smell. Our Sense of Touch. Our Other Senses. Putting It in Perspective. Application: Thinking About Art and Illusion. Part 5. Variations in consciousness. On the Nature of Consciousness. Biological Rhythms and Sleep. The Sleep and Waking Cycle. The World of Dreams. Hypnosis: Altered Consciousness or Role Playing? Meditation: Pure Consciousness or Relaxation? Altering Consciousness with Drugs. Putting It in Perspective. Application: Addressing Practical Questions About Sleep and Dreams. Part 6. Learning through conditioning. Classical Conditioning. Operant Conditioning. New Directions in the Study of Conditioning. Observational Learning. Putting It in Perspective. Application: Achieving Self-Control Through Behaviour Modification. Part 7 Human memory. Encoding: Getting Information into Memory. Storage: Maintaining Information in Memory. Retrieval: Getting Information Out of Memory. Forgetting: When Memory Lapses. In Search of the Memory Trace: The Physiology of Memory. Are There Multiple Memory Systems? Putting It in Perspective. Application: Improving Everyday Memory. Part 8 Language and thought. The Cognitive Revolution in Psychology. Language: Turning Thoughts Into Words. Problem Solving: In Search of Solutions. Decision Making: Choices and Chances. Putting It in Perspective. Application: Understanding Pitfalls in Reasoning About Decisions. (Part contents).

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GOR012433069
9780534340148
0534340148
Psychology: Themes and Variations by Wayne Weiten
Used - Well Read
Hardback
Cengage Learning, Inc
19971003
852
N/A
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