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 15: Abnormal Psychology
- Chapter 16: Therapy
- Chapter 17: Attitudes, Attributions and Social Cognition
- CHAPTER OUTLINE
- LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- INTRODUCTION
- ATTITUDES
- ATTRIBUTIONS
- SOCIAL COGNITION
- FINAL THOUGHTS
- SUMMARY
- REVISION QUESTIONS
- FURTHER READING
- Chapter 18: Interpersonal Relations and Group Processes
- Chapter 19: Health Psychology
- Chapter 20: Organizational Psychology
- Chapter 21: Forensic Psychology
- How do you measure an attitude?
- The three components of attitude
- How do attitudes influence behaviour?
- Forming and changing attitudes
- Early theories of attribution
- The effects of bias
- Cultural differences
- Social schemas
- Categorization and stereotyping
- How do schemas work?
- Recent research into social processing
- The power of stereotypes
References
Illustration sources and credits
Author index
Subject index