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 OUTLINE
- LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- INTRODUCTION
- SOME FUNDAMENTALS
- DESIGNING EXPERIMENTS IN PSYCHOLOGY
- STATISTICS IN PSYCHOLOGY
- FINAL THOUGHTS
- SUMMARY
- REVISION QUESTIONS
- FURTHER READING
- 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 18: Interpersonal Relations and Group Processes
- Chapter 19: Health Psychology
- Chapter 20: Organizational Psychology
- Chapter 21: Forensic Psychology
- Research methods and statistics
- Carrying out quality research
- The role of theory in psychology
- What can we measure?
- A rundown on research methods
- Experiment versus survey
- Which is the best method to use?
- Deciding what to manipulate
- Deciding what to measure
- Different ways of measuring
- Producing trustworthy results
- Samples and populations - sorting out the jargon
- Describing numerical results
- How can we confidently generalize our results
- Finding out if our results are remarkable
- Judging whether two variables are related
- Understanding correlation
References
Illustration sources and credits
Author index
Subject index