Introduction to psychology /

Plotnik, Rod.

Introduction to psychology / Rod Plotnik, San Diego State University, Haig Kouyoumdjian. - Tenth edition - Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Cengage Learning c2014 - xli, 710 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 639-684) and indexes.

Psychology's foundations & methods of research -- Discovering psychology -- Psychology and science -- The brain, biology, & behavior -- Brain's building blocks -- Incredible nervous system -- Sensing & perceiving -- Sensation -- Perception -- Consciousness -- Sleep and dreams -- Hypnosis and drugs -- Learning -- Classical conditioning -- Operant & cognitive approaches -- Types of memory -- Remembering & forgetting -- Cognition -- Intelligence -- Thought & language -- Motivation & emotion -- Motivation -- Emotion -- The Developing human -- Infancy & childhood -- Adolescence & adulthood -- Personality -- Freudian & humanistic -- Social cognitive & trait theories -- Health psychology -- Health, stress, & copying -- Psychological disorders -- Assessment & Psychological disorders I -- Psychological disorders II -- Therapies -- Social Psychology -- Social cognition & behavior -- Appendix: Statistics in psychology.

9781133943495

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Psychology.

BF121 / .P626 2014

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