Psychology /
Camille Wortman, Elizabeth Loftus and Charles Weaver.
- Fifth Edition
- Boston, Massachusetts : McGraw Hill Education, c1999
- xii, 632 pages ; 30 cm.
Includes index.
Chapter 1. The Science of Psychology -- Chapter 2. Research Methods -- Chapter 3. The Biological Foundations of Behavior -- Chapter 4. Sensation and Perception -- Chapter 5. The Nature of Consciousness -- Chapter 6. Learning and Behavior -- Chapter 7. Memory -- Chapter 8. Cognition and Language -- Chapter 9. Cognitive Development -- Chapter 10. Social and Personality Development -- Chapter 11. Motivation and Emotion -- Chapter 12. Health Psychology -- Chapter 13. Theories of Personality -- Chapter 14. Psychological Assessment and Individual Differences -- Chapter 15: Psychological Disorders -- Chapter 16. Psychological Treatments -- Chapter 17. Social Psychology I: Attitudes and Social Cognition -- Chapter 18. Social Psychology II: Social Influence, Aggression, and Altruism
Focuses on cognitive and neuroscience research, and provides introduction to the discipline, committed to the scientific approach to psychology. This research-oriented text incorporates a discussion of four key themes in psychology that act as a means of pulling together information from various sub fields and presenting a picture of psychology.