Preface
Learning Features
Web Ancillaries
Chapters 1 - 21
Glossary
References
Illustration sources and credits
Author index
Subject index
Learning Features
Web Ancillaries
Chapters 1 - 21
- Chapter 1: The Science of Psychology
- Chapter 2: Methodology
- Chapter 3: The Nervous System
- Chapter 4: Learning
- Chapter 5: Motivation
- Chapter 6: Emotion
- Chapter 7: Sensory Processes
- Chapter 8: Perception
- Chapter 9: Infancy and Childhood
- Chapter 10: Adolescence and Adulthood
- Chapter 11: Memory
- Chapter 12: Language and Thought
- Chapter 13: Intelligence
- Chapter 14: Personality
- CHAPTER OUTLINE
- LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- INTRODUCTION
- WHAT IS PERSONALITY?
- PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORIES – FREUD AND BEYOND
- HUMANISTIC THEORIES – INDIVIDUALITY
- TRAIT THEORIES – ASPECTS OF PERSONALITY
- BIOLOGICAL AND GENETIC THEORIES – THE WAY WE ARE MADE
- SOCIAL–COGNITIVE THEORIES – INTERPRETING THE WORLD
- FINAL THOUGHTS
- SUMMARY
- REVISION QUESTIONS
- FURTHER READING
- Chapter 15: Abnormal Psychology
- Chapter 16: Therapy
- Chapter 17: Attitudes, Attributions and Social Cognition
- Chapter 18: Interpersonal Relations and Group Processes
- Chapter 19: Health Psychology
- Chapter 20: Organizational Psychology
- Chapter 21: Forensic Psychology
- Freud’s models of the mind
- In the wake of Freud
- The drive to fulfil potential
- Understanding our own psychological world
- Cattell’s 16 trait dimensions
- Eysenck’s supertraits
- Five factors of personality
- Trait debates
- Inhibition and arousal
- Genetics vs. environment
- Encodings – or how we perceive events
- Expectancies and the importance of self-efficacy
- Affects – how we feel
- Goals, values and the effects of reward
- Competencies and self-regulatory plans
References
Illustration sources and credits
Author index
Subject index