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Introduction to Psychology

Version 2.1
By Charles Stangor

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This textbook is suitable for the following courses: Introduction to Psychology.

Introduction to Psychology is a concise and conceptual introduction to the subject. Stangor focuses on behavior and empiricism throughout the text in an effort to better organize the material with fewer chapters, making it ideal for a one-semester introductory course.

New in This Version

  • Updated with new references to DSM-V.
  • Reorganized chapters to present social psychology earlier in the textbook, allowing for a better flow of information and concepts.
  • Many updates of theory and research examples throughout text along with hundreds of contemporary citations.
  • Enhanced focus on critical thinking, with expanded exercises and critical thinking questions in every chapter.
  • About the Author
  • Acknowledgments
  • Dedication
  • Preface

    • Chapter 1: Introducing Psychology

  • 1.1 Psychology as a Science
  • 1.2 The Evolution of Psychology: History, Approaches, and Questions
  • 1.3 Chapter Summary

    • Chapter 2: Psychological Science

  • 2.1 Psychologists Use the Scientific Method to Guide Their Research
  • 2.2 Psychologists Use Descriptive, Correlational, and Experimental Research Designs to Understand Behavior
  • 2.3 You Can Be an Informed Consumer of Psychological Research
  • 2.4 Chapter Summary

    • Chapter 3: Brains, Bodies, and Behavior

  • 3.1 The Neuron Is the Building Block of the Nervous System
  • 3.2 Our Brains Control Our Thoughts, Feelings, and Behavior
  • 3.3 Psychologists Study the Brain Using Many Different Methods
  • 3.4 Putting It All Together: The Nervous System and the Endocrine System
  • 3.5 Chapter Summary

    • Chapter 4: Sensing and Perceiving

  • 4.1 We Experience Our World Through Sensation
  • 4.2 Seeing
  • 4.3 Hearing
  • 4.4 Tasting, Smelling, and Touching
  • 4.5 Accuracy and Inaccuracy in Perception
  • 4.6 Chapter Summary

    • Chapter 5: States of Consciousness

  • 5.1 Sleeping and Dreaming Revitalize Us for Action
  • 5.2 Altering Consciousness With Psychoactive Drugs
  • 5.3 Altering Consciousness Without Drugs
  • 5.4 Chapter Summary

    • Chapter 6: Growing and Developing

  • 6.1 Conception and Prenatal Development
  • 6.2 Infancy and Childhood: Exploring and Learning
  • 6.3 Adolescence: Developing Independence and Identity
  • 6.4 Early and Middle Adulthood: Building Effective Lives
  • 6.5 Late Adulthood: Aging, Retiring, and Bereavement
  • 6.6 Chapter Summary

    • Chapter 7: Learning

  • 7.1 Learning by Association: Classical Conditioning
  • 7.2 Changing Behavior Through Reinforcement and Punishment: Operant Conditioning
  • 7.3 Learning by Insight and Observation
  • 7.4 Using the Principles of Learning to Understand Everyday Behavior
  • 7.5 Chapter Summary

    • Chapter 8: Remembering and Judging

  • 8.1 Memories as Types and Stages
  • 8.2 How We Remember: Cues to Improving Memory
  • 8.3 Accuracy and Inaccuracy in Memory and Cognition
  • 8.4 Chapter Summary

    • Chapter 9: Intelligence and Language

  • 9.1 Defining and Measuring Intelligence
  • 9.2 The Social, Cultural, and Political Aspects of Intelligence
  • 9.3 Communicating With Others: The Development and Use of Language
  • 9.4 Chapter Summary

    • Chapter 10: Emotions and Motivations

  • 10.1 The Experience of Emotion
  • 10.2 Stress: The Unseen Killer
  • 10.3 Positive Emotions: The Power of Happiness
  • 10.4 Two Fundamental Human Motivations: Eating and Mating
  • 10.5 Chapter Summary

    • Chapter 11: Psychology in Our Social Lives

  • 11.1 Social Cognition: Making Sense of Ourselves and Others
  • 11.2 Interacting With Others: Helping, Hurting, and Conforming
  • 11.3 Working With Others: The Costs and Benefits of Social Groups
  • 11.4 Chapter Summary

    • Chapter 12: Personality

  • 12.1 Personality and Behavior: Approaches and Measurement
  • 12.2 The Origins of Personality
  • 12.3 Is Personality More Nature or More Nurture? Behavioral and Molecular Genetics
  • 12.4 Chapter Summary

    • Chapter 13: Defining Psychological Disorders

  • 13.1 Psychological Disorder: What Makes a Behavior “Abnormal”?
  • 13.2 Anxiety and Dissociative Disorders: Fearing the World Around Us
  • 13.3 Depressive Disorders: Emotions as Illness
  • 13.4 Schizophrenia: The Edge of Reality and Consciousness
  • 13.5 Personality Disorders
  • 13.6 Physical, Sexual, Eating, and Sleeping Disorders
  • 13.7 Chapter Summary

    • Chapter 14: Treating Psychological Disorders

  • 14.1 Reducing Disorder by Confronting It: Psychotherapy
  • 14.2 Reducing Disorder Biologically: Drug and Brain Therapy
  • 14.3 Reducing Disorder by Changing the Social Situation
  • 14.4 Evaluating Treatment and Prevention: What Works?
  • 14.5 Chapter Summary
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    Charles Stangor University of Maryland - College Park

    Charles Stangor is former Professor of Psychology at the University of Maryland. He has also taught at the University of Tübingen in Germany. He received his B.A. from Beloit College and his Ph.D. from New York University. Dr. Stangor is the recipient of research grants from the National Institute of Mental Health and from the National Science Foundation. He has published seven books and over fifty research articles and book chapters, and has served as an associate editor of the European Journal of Social Psychology. Dr. Stangor's research interests concern the development of stereotypes and prejudice, and their influences on individuals who are potential victims of discrimination. He is a charter fellow of the American Psychological Society and currently serves as a member of the executive committee of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology. Dr. Stangor regularly teaches Social Psychology (Psyc 221), Research Methods (Psyc 420) and, at the graduate level, Group Processes (Psyc 742). Dr. Stangor has also won a distinguished teaching award from the University of Maryland.

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