Psychology/ A Concise Introduction Richard A.Griggs.

PART ONE: THE SCIENCE OF PSYCHOLOGY; The Four Major Research Perspectives; Research Methods Used by Psychologists; How to Understand Research Results; PART TWO: NEUROSCIENCE; The Neuron; The Nervous System and The Endocrine System; The Brain; Neuroscience of Motivation, Sleep and Emotion; The Emotional Brain; PART THREE: SENSATION AND PERCEPTION; How the Physical World Relates to the Psychological World; How We See and How We Hear; How We Make Sense of What We See; PART FOUR: LEARNING; Learning Through Classical Conditioning; Learning Through Operant Conditioning; Biological and Cognitive Aspects of Learning; PART FIVE: MEMORY; Three-Stage Model of Memory; Encoding Information into Memory; Retrieving Information from Memory; PART SIX: THINKING AND INTELLIGENCE; Problem Solving; Thinking Under Uncertainty; Intelligent Thinking; PART SEVEN: DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY; Prenatal Development and Development Through Infancy; How We Think Throughout Our Lives; Moral Development and Social Development; PART EIGHT: PERSONALITY THEORIES AND ASSESSMENT; The Psychoanalytic Approach to Personality; The Humanistic Approach and the Social-Cognitive Approach; Trait Theories of Personality and Personality Assessment; PART NINE: SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; How Others Influence Our Behavior; How We Think About Our Own and Others' Behavior; PART TEN: ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY; The Diagnosis and Classification of Mental Disorders; Three Major Categories of Mental Disorders; The Treatment of Mental Disorders.