Understanding Psychology guides students through introductory psychology concepts in an accessible manner, bringing comprehension of difficult material into the grasp of all students. The thoroughly revised Ninth Edition integrates a variety of elements that foster students understanding of psychology and its impact on their everyday lives, including a new Neuroscience In Your Life feature, alerts to key topics, and study skills for specific concepts.
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| Introduction to Psychology | |
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| Psychologists at Work | |
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| A Science Evolves: The Past, the Present, and the Future | |
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| Research in Psychology | |
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| Research Challenges: Exploring the Process | |
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| Neuroscience and Behavior | |
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| Neurons: The Basic Elements of Behavior | |
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| The Nervous System and the Endocrine System: Communicating Within the Body | |
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| The Brain | |
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| Sensation and Perception | |
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| Sensing the World Around Us | |
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| Vision: Shedding Light on the Eye | |
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| Hearing and the Other Senses | |
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| Perceptual Organization: Constructing Our View of the World | |
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| States of Consciousness | |
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| Sleep and Dreams | |
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| Hypnosis and Meditation | |
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| Drug Use: The Highs and Lows of Consciousness | |
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| Learning | |
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| Classical Conditioning | |
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| Operant Conditioning | |
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| Cognitive Approaches to Learning | |
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| Memory | |
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| The Foundations of Memory | |
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| Recalling Long-Term Memories | |
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| Forgetting: When Memory Fails | |
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| Thinking, Language, and Intelligence | |
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| Thinking and Reasoning | |
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| Language | |
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| Intelligence | |
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| Motivation and Emotion | |
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| Explaining Motivation | |
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| Human Needs and Motivation: Eat, Drink, and Be Daring | |
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| Understanding Emotional Experiences | |
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| Development | |
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| Nature and Nurture and Prenatal Development | |
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| Infancy and Childhood | |
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| Adolescence: Becoming an Adult | |
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| Adulthood | |
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| Personality | |
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| Psychodynamic Approaches to Personality | |
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| Trait, Learning, Biological, Evolutionary, and Humanistic Approaches to Personality | |
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| Assessing Personality: Determining What Makes Us Distinctive | |
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| Health Psychology: Stress, Coping, and Well-Being | |
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| Stress and Coping | |
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| Psychological Aspects of Illness and Well-Being | |
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| Promoting Health and Wellness | |
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| Psychological Disorders | |
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| Normal Versus Abnormal: Making the Distinction | |
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| The Major Psychological Disorders | |
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| Psychological Disorders in Perspective | |
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| Treatment of Psychological Disorders | |
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| Psychotherapy: Psychodynamic, Behavioral, and Cognitive Approaches to Treatment | |
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| Psychotherapy: Humanistic, Interpersonal, and Group Approaches to Treatment | |
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| Biomedical Therapy: Biological Approaches to Treatment | |
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| Social Psychology | |
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| Attitudes and Social Cognition | |
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| Social Influence | |
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| Prejudice and Discrimination | |
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| Positive and Negative Social Behavior | |
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| Glossary G-1 | |
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| References R-1 | |
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| Credits C-1 | |
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| Name Index I-1 | |
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| Subject Index I-15 | |
Robert S. Feldman still remembers those moments of being overwhelmed when he started college at Wesleyan University. “I wondered whether I was up to the challenges that faced me,” he recalls, “and--although I never would have admitted it at the time--I really had no idea what it took to be successful at college.”That experience, along with his encounters with many students during his own teaching career, led to a life-long interest in helping students navigate the critical transition that they face at the start of their own college careers. Professor Feldman, who went on to receive a doctorate in psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, teaches at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he is Associate Dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Professor of Psychology. He directs POWER Up for Student Success, the UMass first-year experience course for incoming students.Professor Feldman’s proudest professional accomplishment is winning the College Outstanding Teaching Award at UMass. He also has been named a Hewlett Teaching Fellow and was Senior Online Instruction Fellow. He has taught courses at Mount Holyoke College, Wesleyan University, and Virginia Commonwealth University.Professor Feldman is a Fellow of both the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science. He is a winner of a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer award and has written some 100 scientific articles, book chapters, and books. His books, some of which have been translated into Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Chinese, include Improving the First Year of College: Research and Practice, Understanding Psychology, 8/e, and Development Across the Life Span, 4/e. His research interests encompass the study of honesty and truthfulness in everyday life, development of nonverbal behavior in children, and the social psychology of education. His research has been supported by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute on Disabilities and Rehabilitation Research. With the last of his three children completing college, Professor Feldman occupies his spare time with serious cooking and earnest, but admittedly unpolished, piano playing. He also loves to travel. He lives with his wife, who is an educational psychologist, in a home overlooking the Holyoke mountain range in western Massachusetts.
