Instructor Preface

Student Preface: Skills for Student Success—How to Apply Psychology to Live Your Best Life

Chapter 01: Thinking Critically With Psychological Science (Modules 1-2)

Module 01: The History and Scope of Psychology

Module 02: Research Strategies: How Psychologists Ask and Answer Questions

Chapter 02: The Biology of Behavior (Modules 3-7)

Module 03: Neural and Hormonal Systems

Module 04: Tools of Discovery: Having Our Head Examined

Module 05: Brain Regions and Structures

Module 06: Damage Response and Brain Hemispheres

Module 07: Genetics, Evolutionary Psychology, and Behavior

Chapter 03: Consciousness and the Two-Track Mind (Modules 8-10)

Module 08: Consciousness: Some Basic Concepts

Module 09: Sleep and Dreams

Module 10: Drugs and Their Effects

Chapter 04: Developing Through the Life Span (Modules 11-14)

Module 11: Developmental Issues, Prenatal Development, and the Newborn

Module 12: Infancy and Childhood

Module 13: Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood

Module 14: Adulthood

Chapter 05: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality (Modules 15-16)

Module 15: Gender Development

Module 16: Human Sexuality

Chapter 06: Sensation and Perception (Modules 17-19)

Module 17: Basic Concepts of Sensation and Perception

Module 18: Vision: Sensory and Perceptual Processing

Module 19: Hearing, Skin, Chemical, and Body Senses

Chapter 07: Learning (Modules 20-22)

Module 20: Basic Learning Concepts and Classical Conditioning

Module 21: Operant Conditioning

Module 22: Biology, Cognition, and Learning

Chapter 08: Memory (Modules 23-25)

Module 23: Studying and Encoding Memories

Module 24: Storing and Retrieving Memories

Module 25: Forgetting, Memory Construction, and Improving Memory

Chapter 09: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence (Modules 26-29)

Module 26: Thinking

Module 27: Language and Thought

Module 28: Intelligence Assessment and Dynamics

Module 29: Genetic and Environmental Influences on Intelligence

Chapter 10: Motivation and Emotion (Modules 30-33)

Module 30: Basic Motivational Concepts, Affiliation, and Achievement

Module 31: Hunger

Module 32: Theories and Physiology of Emotion

Module 33: Expressing and Experiencing Emotion

Chapter 11: Stress, Health, and Human Flourishing (Modules 34-35)

Module 34: Stress and Illness [

Module 35: Health and Happiness

Chapter 12: Social Psychology (Modules 36-38)

Module 36: Social Thinking and Social Influence

Module 37: Antisocial Relations

Module 38: Prosocial Relations

Chapter 13: Personality (Modules 39-40)

Module 39: Classic Perspectives on Personality

Module 40: Contemporary Perspectives on Personality

Chapter 14: Psychological Disorders (Modules 41-46)

Module 41: Basic Concepts of Psychological Disorders

Module 42: Anxiety Disorders, Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders, and Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders

Module 43: Depressive Disorders and Bipolar Disorders

Module 44: Schizophrenia

Module 45: Eating Disorders, Personality Disorders, and Dissociative Disorders

Module 46: Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Chapter 15: Therapy (Modules 47-49)

Module 47: Introduction to Therapy and the Psychological Therapies

Module 48: Evaluating Psychotherapies

Module 49: The Biomedical Therapies and Preventing Psychological Disorders

Appendix A: Statistical Reasoning in Everyday Life

Appendix B: Psychology at Work

Appendix C: The Story of Psychology: A Timeline

Appendix D: Career Fields in Psychology

Appendix E: Complete Module Reviews

Appendix F: Answers to the Retrieve It and Experience the Testing Effect Questions