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Chapter 1 Introduction to Psychology

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  • New text section on critical thinking--thinking like a scientist
  • Updated demographics of diversity
  • The animal rights controversy
  • Role of cognitive psychology and neuroscience
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  • The scientific method
  • Survey research
  • Experimental methods
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  • Ethics moved to the forefront of the section on participants in psychological research
  • Gestalt psychology moved to fall in more appropriate chronological order, in the history of psychological thought
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  • New chapter opening vignette--McCaughey septuplets
  • New Try It
  • Revised Remember Its
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  • scientific method
  • critical thinking
  • neuroscience
Chapter 2 Biology and Behavior

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  • The effects of drugs on neural transmission
  • Neuromodulators
  • "Runner's high"
  • Multiple sclerosis
  • Appearance of the cortex
  • The cortex in musicians
  • Functional MRI (fMRI)
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  • The synapse
  • Strokes
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  • Specialization of hemispheres incorporated under coverage of the hemispheres
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  • Improved anatomical drawings
  • Revised Remember Its
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  • functional MRI (fMRI)
Chapter 3 Sensation and Perception

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  • Keratotomy
  • Individuality of the iris
  • Genetic findings on color blindness
  • Sensorineural hearing loss
  • Pheromones
  • Psychological and cultural influences on the experience of pain
  • Stereograms
  • Backmasking in subliminal messages
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  • Sensory adaptation
  • The mechanics of smell
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  • New Try It
  • Revised Remember Its
New Key Terms
  • pheromones
Chapter 4 States of Consciousness

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  • Role of the suprachiasmatic nucleus in circadian rhythms
  • Melatonin as a sleep aid
  • REM sleep behavior disorder
  • The restorative and circadian theories of sleep
  • Sociocognitive and neodissociation theories of hypnosis
  • Hypnosis as an altered state of consciousness
  • MDMA (Ecstasy) as a "designer drug"
  • Binge drinking on college campuses
  • Inhalants
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  • Daydreaming
  • Shift work
  • Sleep deprivation
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  • Hallucinogens moved to follow depressants, so that stimulants and depressants are discussed consecutively
New Special Features
  • Revised Remember Its
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  • suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN)
  • melatonin
  • restorative theory
  • circadian theory
  • meditation (concentrative)
  • sociocognitive theory of hypnosis
  • neodissociation theory of hypnosis
  • MDMA (Ecstasy)
Chapter 5 Learning

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  • The cognitive perspective on classical conditioning (Rescorla)
  • Biological predispositions in classical conditioning
Organizational Changes
  • Topics in classical conditioning and operant conditioning reordered for more logical flow from fundamentals through applications
  • B. F. Skinner integrated within text
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  • New chapter opening vignette--authors' cat, Missy
  • Revised Remember Its
Chapter 6 Memory

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  • Hormones and memory
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  • Repressed memories
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  • Revised chapter opening vignette
  • Revised Remember Its
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  • elaborative rehearsal
  • priming
  • prospective forgetting
Chapter 7 Cognition and Language

A new, separate chapter devoted to cognition and language!

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  • An overview of cognition
  • Formal and natural concepts
  • Logical thinking
  • Syllogisms
  • Heuristics
  • Decision making
  • Bilingualism
Organizational Changes
  • This new chapter has taken the portions of the Second Edition's Chapter 7 dealing with cognition and language, and builds a full new chapter around them. Old Chapter 7's discussions of intelligence and creativity can now be found in Chapter 8.
New Special Features
  • New chapter opening vignette--Deep Blue
  • New Try Its
  • New Apply It on avoiding bad decisions
  • Revised Remember Its
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  • cognition
  • formal concept
  • natural concept
  • analogy heuristic
  • surface structure
  • deep structure
  • reasoning
  • inductive reasoning
  • decision making
  • additive strategy
  • heuristic
  • syllogism
  • deductive reasoning
  • availability heuristic
  • representativeness heuristic
  • framing
Chapter 8 Intelligence and Creativity

A new, separate chapter devoted to intelligence and creativity!

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  • Intelligence and neural speed and efficiency
  • Emotional intelligence
  • The creative process
  • The nature of creative thinking
  • Characteristics of creative people
  • Savant syndrome
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  • Theories of multiple intelligences (Gardner, Sternberg)
  • Twin studies
  • Creativity in general
Organizational Changes
  • This new chapter has taken the portions of the Second Edition's Chapter 7 dealing with intelligence and creativity, and builds a full new chapter around them. Old Chapter 7's discussions of cognition and language can now be found in Chapter 7.
  • Material on Alfred Binet integrated within text
New Special Features
  • Revised Remember Its
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  • intelligence
  • emotional intelligence
  • divergent thinking
  • savant syndrome
  • triarchic theory of intelligence
Chapter 9 Child Development

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  • The information-processing approach to cognitive development
  • Metacognition
  • Motherese
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  • Temperament
  • Types of attachment
New Special Features
  • New Try It
  • Revised Remember Its
Chapter 10 Adolescence and Adulthood

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  • "Male menopause"
  • Decisions about death
  • Hospice care
  • Bereavement
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  • The midlife crisis
  • Effects of various medications on Alzheimer's incidence among women
  • Death and dying
Organizational Changes
  • Teenage pregnancy integrated within text
  • Theories of adulthood grouped together in the chapter
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  • Revised Remember Its
  • New Apply It! on relationships
Chapter 11 Motivation and Emotion

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  • Work motivation
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  • Eating disorders integrated within text
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  • New chapter opening vignette--Princess Diana
  • New Apply It on happiness
  • Revised Remember Its
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  • anorexia nervosa
  • bulimia nervosa
  • industrial/organizational (I/O) psychologist
  • work motivation
  • Lazarus' theory
Chapter 12 Human Sexuality and Gender

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  • Biological influences on gender typing
  • Gender differences in social behavior and personality
  • Child sexual abuse
  • Genital warts
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  • Gender differences in cognitive ability
Organizational Changes
  • New section on viral STDs
New Special Features
  • Revised Remember Its
New Key Terms
  • sex
  • genital warts
Chapter 13 Personality Theory and Assessment

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  • The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
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  • Personality and culture moved to fall within section on nature-nurture determinants of personality
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  • Revised Remember Its
  • New Apply It on optimism
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  • Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
Chapter 14 Health and Stress

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  • Stress due simply to being a member of an ethnic minority group
  • Hostility's role in stress
  • Stress in the workplace
  • Proactive coping
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  • Social support
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  • New chapter opening vignette--the aftermath of Oklahoma City
  • Revised Remember Its
New Key Terms
  • proactive coping
Chapter 15 Psychological Disorders

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  • Chapter reorganized to follow order of DSM-IV
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  • New Try It
  • Revised Remember Its
Chapter 16 Therapies New Content
  • Virtual reality as therapy
New Special Features
  • Revised Remember Its
Chapter 17 Social Psychology

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  • Effects of crowding on aggression
New Special Features
  • Revised Remember Its
New Key Terms
  • crowding
  • density


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