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Psychology and Life
17th Edition
Richard Gerrig, Philip Zimbardo
0-205-41799-X
Cloth
704 pages
2005
Brief Description
This classic text emphasizes the science of psychology, with a special focus on applying that science to students' daily lives.
Psychology and Life continues to provide a rigorous, research-centered survey of the discipline while offering students special features and learning aids that will spark their interest and excite their imaginations. The seventeenth edition, which has been thoroughly updated to reflect the latest cutting-edge research, features a beautiful new design and an updated art program.
Psychology and Life is now the sole, premiere text accompanying the Discovering Psychology Telecourse Series. A telecourse faculty guide and student guide are available to accompany the text are available through Allyn & Bacon
Appropriate Courses
Designed for undergraduate courses in Introductory Psychology and General Psychology at both two- and four-year schools.
Features
- An important goal of Psychology and Life is to teach the scientific basis of psychological reasoning. With a feature called “Putting Ideas to the Test” (formerly “How We Know”), students are confronted with the experimental basis of key psychological concepts several times in each chapter. Nearly 200 key studies are woven through the text, and many are new or have been revised for this edition.
- “Psychology in Your Life” sections show students how psychological knowledge is directly relevant to the decisions they make every day by presenting and exploring questions posed by psychology students around the U.S.
- The “Psychology in the 21st Century” sections highlight a wide range of cutting edge topics, demonstrating the flexibility with which psychological research and knowledge tackles emerging issues and creates new applications.
- Expanded cultural coverage looks to the past, present, and future. The authors call students attention to the diversity of peoples' life experiences by emphasizing both classic and contemporary research on cultural psychology.
- Social psychology is covered in two chapters. Chapter 16 covers classic and contemporary social psychological research on social cognition and relationships. Chapter 17, on social processes, society, and culture, shows students how psychology influences public policy and how psychologists participate responsibly in society. It includes current research in social behavior in a cross-cultural perspective, moral judgments, aggression and prejudice, authority influences, and political and peace psychology.
- Separate chapters on Motivation (Ch. 11) and Emotion (Ch. 12) allow students to explore these prevalent topics on more depth.
New to this Edition
The Seventeenth Edition is fresh with the most up-to-date coverage and brimming with more than 300 new references.
The authors have expanded coverage of cognitive neuroscience throughout the book, enhanced by the addition of new MRI photos in several chapters, keeping students abreast of the latest developments in the field.
Coverage of sensation and perception has been streamlined into a single chapter (Chapter 4), helping to reduce the overall number of chapters to seventeen.
“Put Yourself to the Test!,” a new feature that appears at the end of every major section, provides students with thought-provoking questions to test their mastery of material before moving on.
TECHNOLOGY ADVANTAGE—MyPsychLab is an exciting new learning and teaching tool designed to increase student success in the classroom and provide instructors with every resource needed to teach and administer an introductory psychology course. Designed to be used as a supplement to a traditional lecture course or completely administer an online course, MyPsychLab features a text-specific e-book matching the exact layout of the printed textbook with multimedia and assessment icons in the margins. These icons launch to exciting resources simulations, animations, video clips, audio explanations, activities, controlled assessments, and profiles of prominent psychologists to expand upon the key topics students encounter as they read the text.
Contents
1. The Science of Psychology in Your Life.
What Makes Psychology Unique?
Psychology in Your Life: Why Study Psychology.
What Psychologists Do.
Psychology in the 21st Century: The Future is Now.
2. Research Methods in Psychology.
The Process of Research.
Psychological Measurements.
Ethical Issues in Human and Animal Research.
Becoming a Wiser Research Consumer.
Psychology in the 21st Century: Psychological Research and the Information Explosion.
Statistical Supplement.
Analyzing the Data.
Becoming a Wise Consumer of Statistics.
3. The Biological Bases of Behavior.
Heredity and Behavior.
Biology and Behavior.
Psychology in the 21st Century: Advances in Localizing Brain Function.
The Nervous System in Action.
Psychology in Your Life: How Does Music Have an Impact on How You Feel?
4. Sensation and Perception.
Sensing, Organizing, Identifying, and Recognizing.
Sensory Knowledge of the World.
The Visual System.
Psychology in the 21st Century: Can Technology Restore Sight?
Hearing.
Your Other Senses.
Psychology in Your Life: Why is “Hot” Food Painful?
Organizational Processes in Perception.
Identification and Recognition Processes.
5. Mind, Consciousness, and Alternate States.
The Contents of Consciousness.
The Functions of Consciousness.
Psychology in Your Life: When Do Children Acquire Consciousness?
Sleep and Dreams.
Psychology in the 21st Century: The 24/7 Lifestyle and Sleep.
Altered States of Consciousness.
6. Learning and Behavior Analysis.
The Study of Learning.
Classical Conditioning: Learning Predictable Signals.
Operant Conditioning: Learning About Consequences.
Psychology in Your Life: Spare the Rod, Spoil the Child?
Biology and Learning.
Cognitive Influences on Learning.
7. Memory.
What is Memory?
Sensory Memory.
Short-term Memory and Working Memory.
Long-Term Memory: Encoding and Retrieval.
Psychology in Your Life: How Can Memory Research Help You Prepare for Exams?
Structures in Long-Term Memory.
Biological Aspects of Memory.
Psychology in the 21st Century: Understanding Alzheimers Disease.
8. Cognitive Processes.
Studying Cognition.
Language Use.
Psychology in Your Life: Can Nonhuman Animals Learn Language?
Visual Cognition.
Problem Solving and Reasoning.
Psychology in the 21st Century: Expert Systems and Medicine.
Judgment and Decision Making.
9. Intelligence and Intelligence Testing.
What Is Assessment?
Intelligence Assessment.
Psychology in the 21st Century: Assessment on the World Wide Web.
Theories of Intelligence.
Psychology in Your Life: Do Theories of Intelligence Matter?
The Politics of Intelligence.
Creativity.
Assessment and Society.
10. Human Development Across the Life Span.
Studying Development.
Physical Development Across the Life Span.
Cognitive Development Across the Life Span.
Acquiring Language.
Social Development Across the Life Span.
Psychology in Your Life: How Does Day Care Affect Childrens Development.
Gender Development.
Moral Development.
Learning to Age Successfully.
11. Motivation.
Understanding Motivation.
Eating.
Psychology in the 21st Century: Genes and Obesity.
Sexual Behaviors.
Motivation for Personal Achievement.
Psychology in Your Life: Can Psychology Help Find Me a Career?
12. Emotion, Stress, and Health.
Emotions.
Psychology in Your Life: Why Are Some People Happier Than Others?
Stress of Living.
Health Psychology.
Psychology in the 21st Century: Healthy People 2010.
13. Personality.
Type and Train Personality Theories.
Psychology in Your Life: Why Are Some People Shy?
Psychodynamic Theories.
Humanistic Theories.
Social-Learning and Cognitive Theories.
Self Theories.
Psychology in the 21st Century: The Self on the Internet.
Comparing Personality Theories.
Assessing Personality.
14. Psychological Disorders.
The Nature of Psychological Disorders.
Classifying Psychological Disorders.
Psychology in Your Life: Is “Insanity” Really a Defense?
Major Types of Psychological Disorders.
Psychology in the 21st Century: Pinpointing Interactions of Nature and Nurture.
Schizophrenic Disorders.
The Stigma of Mental Illness.
15. Therapies for Psychological Disorders.
The Therapeutic Context.
Psychodynamic Therapies.
Psychology in Your Life: Are Lives Haunted by Repressed Memories?
Behavior Therapies.
Cognitive Therapies.
Existential-Humanistic Therapies.
Group Therapies.
Biomedical Therapies.
Psychology in the 21st Century: Therapies and Brain Activity.
Does Therapy Work?
16. Social Cognition and Relationships.
Constructing Social Reality.
ttitudes, Attitude Change, and Action.
Psychology in Your Life: Do Late Night TV Ads Really Work?
Prejudice.
Social Relationships.
Psychology in the 21st Century: Relationships and the Internet.
17. Social Processes, Society, and Culture.
The Power of the Situation.
Altruism and Prosocial Behavior.
Aggression.
Psychology in the 21st Century: The World Grows Smaller.
The Psychology of Conflict and Peace.
A Personal Endnote.
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