Thinking about Psychology : The Science of Mind and Behavior

Special Consultant:David G. Myers, Hope College, Holland, Michigan Appropriate Course:High school-level psychology [not Advanced Placement] In a convenient and effective modular format,Thinking About Psychology offers a rigorous presentation of psychological science in a non-threatening way with numerous and immediate examples that help high school students bridge the abstract to the familiar. This book closely follows the American Psychological Association (APA) National Standards for the Teaching of High School Psychology, for which both Blair-Broeker and Ernst served as Task Force members.

PSYCHOLOGY AND ITS METHODS DOMAIN
  Chapter 1: Introduction, History, and Research Methods
    Module 1: Introduction, History, Perspectives, and Careers
    Module 2: Research Strategies
    Module 3: Nature and Nurture in Psychology
   
DEVELOPMENTAL DOMAIN
  Chapter 2: Lifespan Development
    Module 4: Prenatal and Childhood Development
    Module 5: Adolescence
    Module 6: Adulthood and Aging
   
BIOPSYCHOLOGICAL DOMAIN
  Chapter 3: Biological Basis of Behavior
    Module 7: Neural and Hormonal Systems
    Module 8: The Brain
 
 Chapter 4: Sensation and Perception
    Module 9: Sensation
    Module 10: Perception

  Chapter 5: Motivation and Emotion
    Module 11: Motivation
    Module 12: Emotion

  Chapter 6: Stress and Health
    Module 13: Effects of Stress
    Module 14: Promoting Wellness
   
COGNITIVE DOMAIN
  Chapter 7: Learning
    Module 15: Classical Conditioning
    Module 16: Operant Conditioning
    Module 17: Observational Learning

  Chapter 8: Memory
    Module 18: Information Processing
    Module 19: Forgetting and Memory Construction

  Chapter 9: States of Consciousness
    Module 20: Sleep, Dreams, and Body Rhythms
    Module 21: Hypnosis
    Module 22: Drugs

  Chapter 10: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence
    Module 23: Thinking and Language
    Module 24: Intelligence and Intelligence Testing
   
CLINICAL AND SOCIOCULTURAL DOMAIN
  Chapter 11: Personality and its Assessment
    Module 25: Psychoanalytic and Humanistic Perspectives
    Module 26: Trait and Social-Cognitive Perspectives

  Chapter 12: Psychological Disorders
    Module 27: Introduction to Psychological Disorders
    Module 28: Anxiety and Mood Disorders
    Module 29: Dissociative, Schizophrenic, and Personality Disorders

  Chapter 13: Treatment of Psychological Disorders
    Module 30: Psychological Therapies
    Module 31: Biomedical Therapies

  Chapter 14: Social and Cultural Dimensions of Behavior
    Module 32: Social Thinking and Social Influence         
    Module 33: Social Relations
    Module 34: Culture and Gender
   
  Appendix: Psychology's Statistics