Exploring Psychology

• The History and Scope of Psychology
• Research Strategies: How Psychologists Ask and Answer Questions

• 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

• Consciousness: Some Basic Concepts
• Sleep and Dreams
• Drugs and Their Effects

• Developmental Issues, Prenatal Development, and the Newborn
• Infancy and Childhood
• Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood
• Adulthood

• Gender Development
• Human Sexuality

• Basic Concepts of Sensation and Perception
• Vision: Sensory and Perceptual Processing
• Hearing, Skin, Chemical, and Body Senses

• Basic Learning Concepts and Classical Conditioning
• Operant Conditioning
• Biology, Cognition, and Learning

• Studying and Encoding Memories
• Storing and Retrieving Memories
• Forgetting, Memory Construction, and Improving Memory

• Thinking
• Language and Thought
• Intelligence Assessment and Dynamics
• Genetic and Environmental Influences on Intelligence

• Basic Motivational Concepts, Affiliation, and Achievement
• Hunger
• Theories and Physiology of Emotion
• Expressing and Experiencing Emotion

• Stress and Illness
• Health and Happiness

• Social Thinking and Social Influence
• Antisocial Relations
• Prosocial Relations

• Classic Perspectives on Personality
• Contemporary Perspectives on Personality

• 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

• Introduction to Therapy and the Psychological Therapies
• Evaluating Psychotherapies
• The Biomedical Therapies and Preventing Psychological Disorders

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