Key Question: How Does Stimulation Become Sensation?.ģ.1: Transduction: Changing Stimulation to Sensation.ģ.2: Thresholds: The Boundaries of Sensation.ģ.3: Signal Detection Theory.
Summary: Biopsychology, Neuroscience and Human Nature.ĬHAPTER PROBLEM: Is there any way to tell whether the world we "see" in our minds is the same as the external world-and whether we see things as most others do?. Psychology Matters: Contact Sports and Traumatic Brain Injury.Ĭritical Thinking Applied: Left Brain versus Right Brain. Psychology Matters: How Psychoactive Drugs Affect the Nervous System.Ģ.7.4: Which Scanning Method Is Best?.Ģ.8: Three Layers of the Brain.Ģ.8.1: The Brain Stem and Its Neighbors.Ģ.8.2: The Limbic System: Emotions, Memories, and More.Ģ.8.3: The Cerebral Cortex: The Brain's Thinking Cap.Ģ.9.5: The Association Cortex.Ģ.10.4: Male and Female Brains.Ģ.10.5: The Strange and Fascinating Case of the Split Brain.Ģ.10.6: Understanding Brain Damage.
Key Question: How Does the Body Communicate Internally?.Ģ.4.3: Glial Cells: A Support Group for Neurons.Ģ.5.2: The Peripheral Nervous System.Ģ.6.1: How Does the Endocrine System Respond in a Crisis?. Psychology Matters: Choosing Your Children's Genes.
Summary: Mind, Behavior, and Psychological Science.Ģ Biopsychology, Neuroscience, and Human Nature.ĬHAPTER PROBLEM: What does Jill's experience teach us about how our brain is organized and about its amazing ability to adapt?.Ģ.1: Evolution and Natural Selection.Ģ.1.2: Evolutionary Explanations for Psychological Processes.Ģ.2: Genetics and Inheritance.Ģ.2.2: Genetic Explanations for Psychological Processes.Ģ.3.2: More About the Genome.Ģ.3.3: How Life Experiences Change the Epigenome. Psychology Matters: The Perils of Pseudo-Psychology.Ĭritical Thinking Applied: Do Childhood Vaccinations Increase Risk of Autism?. Key Question: How Do Psychologists Develop New Knowledge?.ġ.7.2: Collect Objective Data.ġ.8.2: Correlational Studies.ġ.8.4: Naturalistic Observations.ġ.9.2: Ethical Issues in Psychological Research.ĭo It Yourself! Is This Research Ethical?. Key Question: What Are Psychology's Six Main Perspectives?.ġ.3.2: Two Variations on the Biological Theme.ġ.4: The Founding of Scientific Psychology.ĭo It Yourself! An Introspective Look at the Necker Cube.ġ.4.5: The Modern Cognitive Perspective.ġ.5.1: The Behavioral Perspective Focuses on the Observable and Measurable.ġ.5.3: The Sociocultural Perspective Links Us to Others.ġ.5.4: The Whole-Person Perspectives Revives Emphasis on the Whole.ĭo It Yourself! Applying Psychology's Perspectives.
1 Mind, Behavior, and Psychological Science.ġ.1: Psychology: It's More Than You Think.ġ.1.2: Applied Psychological Specialties.ġ.2: Thinking Critically About Psychology and Pseudo-Psychology.ġ.2.1: What Is Critical Thinking?.ĭo It Yourself! Psychological Science or Psychobabble?.
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