Psychology Matters. Robert Feldman's Psychology and Your Life is an
engaging new introductory psychology text that uses experiential exercises and activities,
career-oriented text examples, and features designed to directly correlate psychology
concepts to the professional and personal lives of readers.
Throughout the text and supplements, Psychology and Your Life reinforces why a
basic understanding of psychology is relevant to today's students.
This text also provides instructors with a fully-integrated supplements package to help
instructors objectively gauge their students mastery of psychology's key principles
and concepts and to create dynamic class experiences whether in the classroom or online.
All ancillary materials are organized by the measurable learning outcomes of each module
within the text there is no more wondering whether the text in use will meet the
accreditation guidelines for schools!
Emphasizing practical application, Psychology and Your Life offers examples and
perspectives from the healthcare industry (including Allied Health), technology, criminal
justice, legal, and business, among others to prepare students to readily prepare and
apply psychology throughout their lives and careers.
Table of Contents
Psychology and Your Life
Chapter 1: Introduction to Psychology
Module 1: Psychologists at Work
Module 2: A Science Evolves: The Past, the Present, and the Future
Module 3: Research in Psychology
Module 4: The Ethics of Research
Chapter 2: Neuroscience and Behavior
Module 5: Neurons: The Basic Elements of Behavior
Module 6: The Nervous System and the Endocrine System: Communicating Within the Body
Module 7: The Brain
Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception
Module 8: Sensing the World Around Us
Module 9: Vision: Shedding Light on the Eye
Module 10: Hearing and the Other Senses
Module 11: Perceptual Organization: Constructing Our View of the World
Chapter 4: States of Consciousness
Module 12: Sleep and Dreams
Module 13: Hypnosis and Meditation
Module 14: Drug Use: The Highs and Lows of Consciousness
Chapter 5: Learning
Module 15: Classical Conditioning
Module 16: Operant Conditioning
Module 17: Cognitive Approaches to Learning
Chapter 6: Thinking: Memory, Cognition, and Language
Module 18: The Foundations of Memory
Module 19: Recall and Forgetting
Module 20: Thinking, Reasoning, and Problem Solving
Module 21: Language
Chapter 7: Motivation and Emotion
Module 22: Explaining Motivation
Module 23: Human Needs and Motivation: Eat, Drink, and Be Daring
Module 24: Understanding Emotional Experiences
Chapter 8: Development
Module 25: Nature and Nurture, and Prenatal Development
Module 26: Infancy and Childhood
Module 27: Adolescence: Becoming an Adult
Module 28: Adulthood
Chapter 9: Personality and Individual Differences
Module 29: Psychodynamic Approaches to Personality
Module 30: Trait, Learning, Biological and Evolutionary, and Humanistic Approaches to
Personality
Module 31: Assessing Personality: Determining What Makes Us Distinctive
Module 32: Intelligence?
Chapter 10: Psychological Disorders
Module 33: Normal Versus Abnormal: Making a Distinction
Module 34: The Major Psychological Disorders
Module 35: Psychological Disorders in Perspective
Chapter 11: Treatment of Psychological Disorders
Module 36: Psychotherapy: Psychodynamic, Behavioral, and Cognitive Approaches to Treatment
Module 37: Psychotherapy: Humanistic and Group Approaches to Treatment
Module 38: Biomedical Therapy: Biological Approaches to Treatment
Chapter 12: Social Psychology
Module 39: Attitudes and Social Cognition
Module 40: Social Influence and Groups
Module 41: Prejudice and Discrimination
Module 42: Positive and Negative Social Behavior
Module 43: Stress and Coping
640 pages, Paperback
