000			05168nam a2200169Ia 4500
020			_a978-0471387541
100			_aWesten, Drew
245			_aPsychology: brain, behavior & culture
250			_a3
260			_c2002 _bJohn Wiley & Sons _aNew York
300			_axxix,656p _b28 cm ; Hard Bound
500			_a$28.95
505			_aChapter 1 Psychology: The Study of Mental Processes and Behavior 1 -- The Boundaries and Borders of Psychology 3 -- Perspectives in Psychology 9 -- Central Questions: Facts, Theories, and Perspectives in Psychology 25 -- Chapter 2 Research Methods in Psychology 27 -- Characteristics of Good Psychological Research 29 -- Experimental Research 35 -- Descriptive Research 41 -- Correlational Research 44 -- How to Evaluate a Study Critically 49 -- Central Questions: How Do We Know When We Know Something? 52 -- Supplement: Statistical Principles in Psychological Research 55 -- Summarizing the Data: Descriptive Statistics 55 -- Testing the Hypothesis: Inferential Statistics 58 -- Central Questions: What Does It Mean to Say That a Finding Is "Significant"? 61 -- Chapter 3 Biological Bases of Mental Life and Behavior 64 -- Neurons: Basic Units of the Nervous System 66 -- The Endocrine System 74 -- The Peripheral Nervous System 75 -- The Central Nervous System 78 -- Brain, Gene, Behavior 96 -- Central Questions: Brain-Behavior Relationships 98 -- Chapter 4 Sensation and Perception 101 -- Sensing the Environment 105 -- Vision 112 -- Hearing 124 -- Other Senses 130 -- Perception 139 -- Central Questions: Physical Reality and Psychological Reality 156 -- Chapter 5 Learning 159 -- Classical Conditioning 162 -- Operant Conditioning 171 -- Cognitive-Social Theory 184 -- Central Questions: What Have We Learned About Learning? 190 -- Chapter 6 Memory 193 -- Memory and Information Processing 195 -- Working Memory 201 -- Varieties of Long-Term Memory 206 -- Encoding and Organization of Long-Term Memory 213 -- Remembering, Misremembering, and Forgetting 223 -- Central Questions: What Is Memory? 229 -- Chapter 7 Thought and Language 233 -- Units of Thought 235 -- Reasoning, Problem Solving, and Decision Making 242 -- Implicit and Everyday Thinking 249 -- Language 259 -- Language Development 266 -- Central Questions: What Is So Rational about Reason? 274 -- Chapter 8 Intelligence 277 -- The Nature of Intelligence 279 -- Intelligence Testing 281 -- Approaches to Intelligence 288 -- Heredity and Intelligence 294 -- Central Questions: What Is Intelligence and How Can We Measure It? 300 -- Chapter 9 Consciousness 302 -- The Nature of Consciousness 303 -- Perspectives on Consciousness 307 -- Sleep and Dreaming 315 -- Altered States of Consciousness 323 -- Central Questions: Perspectives on Consciousness 331 -- Chapter 10 Motivation 334 -- Perspectives on Motivation 336 -- Eating 347 -- Sexual Motivation 355 -- Psychosocial Motives 361 -- Central Questions: The Nature and Causes of Human Motives 365 -- Chapter 11 Emotion, Stress, and Coping 367 -- Central Questions: Thinking about Feeling 399 -- Chapter 12 Personality 402 -- Psychodynamic Theories 404 -- Cognitive-Social Theories 416 -- Trait Theories 421 -- Humanistic Theories 430 -- Personality and Culture 433 -- Central Questions: What Are the Elements of Personality, and How Stable Are They? 436 -- Chapter 13 Physical and Cognitive Development 439 -- Central Questions in Developmental Psychology 441 -- Studying Development 444 -- Physical Development and Its Psychological Consequences 445 -- Cognitive Development in Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence 452 -- Cognitive Development and Change in Adulthood 465 -- Central Questions: The Nature of Development 470 -- Chapter 14 Social Development 473 -- Attachment 475 -- Socialization 482 -- Peer Relationships 487 -- Development of Social Cognition 490 -- Moral Development 498 -- Social Development Across the Life Span 506 -- Central Questions: Nature and Nurture, Cognition and Emotion 512 -- Chapter 15 Psychological Disorders 515 -- The Cultural Context of Psychopathology 516 -- Contemporary Approaches to Psychopathology 519 -- Descriptive Diagnosis: DSM-IV and Psychological Syndromes 526 -- Central Questions: When Nurture Becomes Nature 555 -- Chapter 16 Treatment of Psychological Disorders 558 -- Psychodynamic Therapies 560 -- Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies 565 -- Humanistic, Group, and Family Therapies 571 -- Biological Treatments 578 -- Evaluating Psychological Treatments 584 -- Central Questions: What Works for Whom? 588 -- Chapter 17 Attitudes and Social Cognition 591 -- Attitudes 593 -- Social Cognition 603 -- The Self 617 -- Central Questions: Social and Nonsocial Cognition 622 -- Chapter 18 Interpersonal Processes 625 -- Relationships 627 -- Altruism 635 -- Aggression 639 -- Social Influence 646 -- Central Questions: Individuals, Groups, and the Nature of Human Nature 654.
520			_a This high level introductory psychology text covers both the biological basis of psychology and the role of culture in shaping basic biological processes. Theories are provided in a conceptual framework that captures the excitement of the Field.
650			_aPsychology
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