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Exploring Psychology

Thirteenth Edition

Publication Date: February 15, 2025

Paperback ISBN: 9781319589929

Pages: 880

Explore the latest in psychology with fresh insights and essential skills in every chapter

Exploring Psychology excels as the top choice for introductory psychology courses due to its up-to-date research, engaging writing and focus on critical thinking. Authored by Myers, DeWall, and Gruber, it blends cutting-edge psychological science with a diverse range of perspectives, making...
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Chapter 1: Thinking Critically With Psychological Science
  • The History and Scope of Psychology
  • Research Strategies: How Psychologists Ask and Answer Questions
Chapter 2: The Biology of Mind
  • Neural and Hormonal Systems
  • Tools of Discovery: Having Our Head Examined
  • Brain Regions and Structures
  • Damage Response and Brain Hemispheres
  • Genetics, Evolutionary Psychology, and Behavior
Chapter 3: Consciousness and the Two-Track Mind
  • Consciousness: Some Basic Concepts
  • Sleep and Dreams
  • Drugs and Their Effects
Chapter 4: Developing Through the Life Span
  • Developmental Issues, Prenatal Development, and the Newborn
  • Infancy and Childhood
  • Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood
  • Adulthood
Chapter 5: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
  • Gender Development
  • Human Sexuality
Chapter 6: Sensation and Perception
  • Basic Concepts of Sensation and Perception
  • Vision: Sensory and Perceptual Processing
  • Hearing, Skin, Chemical, and Body Senses
Chapter 7: Learning
  • Basic Learning Concepts and Classical Conditioning
  • Operant Conditioning
  • Biology, Cognition, and Learning
Chapter 8: Memory
  • Studying and Encoding Memories
  • Storing and Retrieving Memories
  • Forgetting, Memory Construction, and Improving Memory
Chapter 9: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence
  • Thinking
  • Language and Thought
  • Intelligence Assessment and Dynamics
  • Genetic and Environmental Influences on Intelligence
Chapter 10: Motivation and Emotion
  • Basic Motivational Concepts, Affiliation, and Achievement
  • Hunger
  • Theories and Physiology of Emotion
  • Expressing and Experiencing Emotion
Chapter 11: Stress, Health, and Human Flourishing
  • Stress and Illness
  • Health and Happiness
Chapter 12: Social Psychology
  • Social Thinking and Social Influence
  • Antisocial Relations
  • Prosocial Relations
Chapter 13: Personality
  • Classic Perspectives on Personality
  • Contemporary Perspectives on Personality
Chapter 14: Psychological Disorders
  • Basic Concepts of Psychological Disorders
  • Anxiety Disorders, Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders, and Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders
  • Depressive Disorders and Bipolar Disorders
  • Schizophrenia
  • Dissociative, Personality, and Eating Disorders
  • Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Chapter 15: Therapy
  • Introduction to Therapy and the Psychological Therapies
  • Evaluating Psychotherapies
  • 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, by Jennifer Zwolinski
Appendix E: Complete  Reviews
Appendix F: Answers to the Retrieve It and Experience the Testing Effect Questions

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