King, L: Science of Psychology
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Focusing on why things go right, this book helps students understand and appreciate psychology as a science and as an integrated whole.
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Focusing on why things go right, this book helps students understand and appreciate psychology as a science and as an integrated whole.
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The Science of Psychology: An Appreciative View, Third EditionBy Laura King
Chapter 1: What is Psychology?Defining PsychologyCritical Controversy: Are Young Americans in the Middle of a Narcissism Epidemic?Psychology in Historical PerspectivePsychological Inquiry: Explore Evolution from Giraffes to Human BeingsContemporary Approaches to PsychologyWhat Psychologists DoPsychological Inquiry: Questions That Psychology Specialists Ask
Intersection: Social Psychology and Cross-Cultural Psychology: How Does Culture Influence the Meaning of Success?The Science of Psychology and Health and Wellness
Chapter 2: Psychology's Scientific MethodPsychology's Scientific MethodTypes of Psychological ResearchPsychological Inquiry: Miserable but Helpful?
Intersection: Personality and Social Psychology: Does Socialability Lead to Happiness or Is It the Other Way Around?Research Samples and SettingsAnalyzing and Interpreting DataPsychological Inquiry: Experimentation in Natural SettingConducting Ethical ResearchCritical Controversy: Is it Ethical to Use Deception in Research?
Thinking Critically About Psychological ResearchThe Scientific Method and Health and Wellness
Chapter 3: Biological Foundations of BehaviorThe Nervous SystemNeuronsCritical Controversy: Do Mirror Neurons Hold the Key to Social Understanding?Structures of the Brain and Their FunctionsPsychological Inquiry: The Brain in Different SpeciesIntersection: Neuroscience and Emotion: How Does the Brain Recognize What Is Funny?The Endocrine SystemBrain Damage, Plasticity, and RepairGenetics and BehaviorPsychological Inquiry: The Jim TwinsPsychology's Biological Foundations and Health and Wellness
Chapter 4: Sensation and PerceptionHow We Sense and Perceive the WorldPsychological Inquiry: Old Woman or Young Woman?
Critical Controversy: Can We Feel the Future?
Psychological Inquiry: Subliminal Perception: Working Up a ThirstThe Visual SystemThe Auditory SystemOther SensesIntersection: Emotion and
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Sensation: What Do Feelings Smell Like?Sensation, Perception, and Health and Wellness
Chapter 5: States of ConsciousnessThe Nature of ConsciousnessCritical Controversy: Does Conscious Reflection Matter to Matters of Conscience?Sleep and DreamsPsychological Inquiry: Taking a Ride on the Sleep CyclesPsychoactive DrugsIntersection: Consciousness and Neuroscience: Can We Tell What the Brain is Dreaming About?
Psychological Inquiry: Drug Use by U.S. TeenagersHypnosisConsciousness and Health and Wellness: Meditation
Chapter 6: LearningTypes of LearningClassical ConditioningIntersection: Learning and Clinical Psychology: Can Classical Conditioning Help Us Understand Drug Abuse?
Psychological Inquiry: From Acquisition to Extinction (to Spontaneous Recovery)Operant ConditioningPsychological Inquiry: Schedules of Reinforcement and Different Patterns of RespondingObservational LearningCognitive Factors in LearningBiological, Cultural, and Psychological Factors in LearningCritical Controversy: Do Learning Styles Matter to Learning?Learning and Health and Wellness
Chapter 7: MemoryThe Nature of MemoryMemory EncodingMemory StoragePsychological Inquiry: The Inner Workings of Working Memory
Intersection: Cognitive and Cultural Psychology: How Does Culture Influence Episodic Memory?Memory RetrievalPsychological Inquiry: The Serial Position Effect: Lost in Midstream
Critical Controversy: Can Adults Tell If Children's Memories are AccurateForgettingStudy Tips from the Science of MemoryMemory and Health and Wellness
Chapter 8: Thinking, Intelligence, and LanguageThe Cognitive Revolution in PsychologyThinkingPsychological Inquiry: Thinking Outside the Box
Intersection: Cognitive Psychology and Personality: Do Sophisticated Thinkers Avoid the Bias Blind Spot?Critical Controversy: Is There a Link Between Creative Genius and PsychopathologyIntelligencePsychological Inquiry: The Normal CurveLanguageThinking, Problem Solving, and Health and Wellness
Alternative Chapter: Thinking and LanguageThe Cognitive Revolution in PsychologyThinkingPsychological Inquiry: Thinking Outside the BoxTwo Systems of Information ProcessingCritical Controversy: Should we be taking drugs to enhance our thinking?Biases and HeuristicsLanguageIntersection: Language, Culture, and Cognition: How Does Language Shape Answers to the Question "Where"?Thinking, Language, and Health and Wellness
Alternative Chapter: IntelligenceThe History and Definition of IntelligenceMeasuring IntelligencePsychological Inquiry: The Normal CurveSources of Bias in Intelligence TestingNature, Nurture, and IntelligenceExtremes of IntelligenceIntersection: Educational Psychology and Social Psychology: Do teachers have stereotypes about gifted children?Multiple Intelligences, Creativity, and Emotional IntelligenceIntelligence and Health and Wellness
Chapter 9: Human DevelopmentExploring Human DevelopmentChild DevelopmentPsychological Inquiry: Thinking Critically About Object Permanence
Intersection: Developmental and Social Psychology: Is Attachment an Enduring Aspect of Life?
Psychological Inquiry: Looking at Identity ExplorationAdolescenceEmerging Adulthood, Adult Development, and AgingCritical Controversy: Is Parenthood Associated with HappinessHuman Development and Health and Wellness
Alternative Chapter: Human Development (topical approach)Exploring Human DevelopmentPhysical DevelopmentCognitive DevelopmentPsychological Inquiry: Thinking Critically About Object PermanenceSocioemotional DevelopmentIntersection: Developmental and Social Psychology: Is Attachment of an Enduring Aspect of Life?
Psychological Inquiry: Looking at Identity Exploration
Chapter 5: States of ConsciousnessThe Nature of ConsciousnessCritical Controversy: Does Conscious Reflection Matter to Matters of Conscience?Sleep and DreamsPsychological Inquiry: Taking a Ride on the Sleep CyclesPsychoactive DrugsIntersection: Consciousness and Neuroscience: Can We Tell What the Brain is Dreaming About?
Psychological Inquiry: Drug Use by U.S. TeenagersHypnosisConsciousness and Health and Wellness: Meditation
Chapter 6: LearningTypes of LearningClassical ConditioningIntersection: Learning and Clinical Psychology: Can Classical Conditioning Help Us Understand Drug Abuse?
Psychological Inquiry: From Acquisition to Extinction (to Spontaneous Recovery)Operant ConditioningPsychological Inquiry: Schedules of Reinforcement and Different Patterns of RespondingObservational LearningCognitive Factors in LearningBiological, Cultural, and Psychological Factors in LearningCritical Controversy: Do Learning Styles Matter to Learning?Learning and Health and Wellness
Chapter 7: MemoryThe Nature of MemoryMemory EncodingMemory StoragePsychological Inquiry: The Inner Workings of Working Memory
Intersection: Cognitive and Cultural Psychology: How Does Culture Influence Episodic Memory?Memory RetrievalPsychological Inquiry: The Serial Position Effect: Lost in Midstream
Critical Controversy: Can Adults Tell If Children's Memories are AccurateForgettingStudy Tips from the Science of MemoryMemory and Health and Wellness
Chapter 8: Thinking, Intelligence, and LanguageThe Cognitive Revolution in PsychologyThinkingPsychological Inquiry: Thinking Outside the Box
Intersection: Cognitive Psychology and Personality: Do Sophisticated Thinkers Avoid the Bias Blind Spot?Critical Controversy: Is There a Link Between Creative Genius and PsychopathologyIntelligencePsychological Inquiry: The Normal CurveLanguageThinking, Problem Solving, and Health and Wellness
Alternative Chapter: Thinking and LanguageThe Cognitive Revolution in PsychologyThinkingPsychological Inquiry: Thinking Outside the BoxTwo Systems of Information ProcessingCritical Controversy: Should we be taking drugs to enhance our thinking?Biases and HeuristicsLanguageIntersection: Language, Culture, and Cognition: How Does Language Shape Answers to the Question "Where"?Thinking, Language, and Health and Wellness
Alternative Chapter: IntelligenceThe History and Definition of IntelligenceMeasuring IntelligencePsychological Inquiry: The Normal CurveSources of Bias in Intelligence TestingNature, Nurture, and IntelligenceExtremes of IntelligenceIntersection: Educational Psychology and Social Psychology: Do teachers have stereotypes about gifted children?Multiple Intelligences, Creativity, and Emotional IntelligenceIntelligence and Health and Wellness
Chapter 9: Human DevelopmentExploring Human DevelopmentChild DevelopmentPsychological Inquiry: Thinking Critically About Object Permanence
Intersection: Developmental and Social Psychology: Is Attachment an Enduring Aspect of Life?
Psychological Inquiry: Looking at Identity ExplorationAdolescenceEmerging Adulthood, Adult Development, and AgingCritical Controversy: Is Parenthood Associated with HappinessHuman Development and Health and Wellness
Alternative Chapter: Human Development (topical approach)Exploring Human DevelopmentPhysical DevelopmentCognitive DevelopmentPsychological Inquiry: Thinking Critically About Object PermanenceSocioemotional DevelopmentIntersection: Developmental and Social Psychology: Is Attachment of an Enduring Aspect of Life?
Psychological Inquiry: Looking at Identity Exploration
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Autoren-Porträt von Laura A. King
Laura King did her undergraduate work at Kenyon College, where, an English major, she declared a second major, in psychology, during the second semester of her junior year. She completed her A.B. in English with high honors and distinction and in psychology with distinction in 1986. Laura then did graduate work at Michigan State University and the University of California, Davis, receiving her Ph.D. in personality psychology in 1991.Laura began her career at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, moving to the University of Missouri, Columbia, in 2001, where she is now a professor. In addition to seminars in the development of character, social psychology, and personality psychology, she has taught undergraduate lecture courses in introductory psychology, introduction to personality psychology, and social psychology. At SMU, she received six different teaching awards, including the "M" award for "sustained excellence" in 1999. At the University of Missouri, she received the Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Activity in 2004.Her research, which has been funded by the National Institutes for Mental Health, has focused on a variety of topics relevant to the question of what it is that makes for a good life. She has studied goals, life stories, happiness, well-being, and meaning in life. In general, her work reflects an enduring interest in studying what is good and healthy in people. In 2001, her research accomplishments were recognized by a Templeton Prize in positive psychology. Laura's research (often in collaboration with undergraduate and graduate students) has been published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Cognition and Emotion, the Journal of Personality, and other publications . A new paper on the place of regrets in maturity is forthcoming in the American Psychologist.Currently editor-in-chief of the Journal of Research in Personality, Laura has also served as associate
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editor of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, as well as on numerous grant panels. She has edited or co-edited special sections of the Journal of Personality and the American Psychologist. In "real life," Laura is an accomplished cook and enjoys listening to music (mostly jazz vocalists and singer-songwriters), gardening, and chasing Sam, her 3-year-old son.
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Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Laura A. King
- 2013, 3rd edition, 864 Seiten, mit farbigen Abbildungen, Maße: 23 x 27,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: McGraw-Hill Education Ltd
- ISBN-10: 1259060578
- ISBN-13: 9781259060571
Sprache:
Englisch
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