David G. Myers; C. Nathan DeWall

Instructor Preface

Student Preface: Student Success

How to Apply Psychology to Live Your Best Life

The Story of Psychology

Module 1, What Is Psychology? Thinking Critically With Psychological Science
Module 2, Research Strategies: How Psychologists Ask and Answer Questions
Module 3, Statistical Reasoning in Everyday Life

The Biology of Mind

Module 4, Neural and Hormonal Systems
Module 5, Tools of Discovery, Older Brain Structures, and the Limbic System
Module 6, The Cerebral Cortex

Consciousness and the Two-Track Mind

Module 7, Basic Consciousness Concepts
Module 8, Sleep and Dreams
Module 9, Drugs and Consciousness

Nature, Nurture, and Human Diversity

Module 10, Behavior Genetics: Predicting Individual Differences
Module 11, Evolutionary Psychology: Explaining Human Nature and Nurture
Module 12, Culture and Gender Diversity: Understanding Nature and Nurture

Developing Through the Life Span

Module 13, Developmental Issues, Prenatal Development, and the Newborn
Module 14, Infancy and Childhood
Module 15, Adolescence
Module 16, Adulthood

Sensation and Perception

Module 17, Basic Concepts of Sensation and Perception
Module 18, Vision: Sensory and Perceptual Processing
Module 19, The Nonvisual Senses

Learning

Module 20, Basic Learning Concepts and Classical Conditioning
Module 21, Operant Conditioning
Module 22, Biology, Cognition, and Learning

Memory

Module 23, Studying and Encoding Memories
Module 24, Storing and Retrieving Memories
Module 25, Forgetting, Memory Construction, and Improving Memory

Thinking and Language

Module 26, Thinking
Module 27, Language and Thought

Intelligence

Module 28, What Is Intelligence?
Module 29 Intelligence Assessment and Dynamics
Module 30, Genetic and Environmental Influences on Intelligence

What Drives Us: Hunger, Sex, Belonging, and Achievement

Module 31, Basic Motivational Concepts
Module 32, Hunger
Module 33, Sexual Motivation
Module 34, Affiliation and Achievement

Emotions, Stress, and Health

Module 35, Introduction to Emotion
Module 36, Expressing Emotion
Module 37, Experiencing Emotion
Module 38, Stress and Illness
Module 39, Health and Coping

Social Psychology

Module 40, Social Thinking
Module 41, Social Influence
Module 42, Antisocial Relations
Module 43, Prosocial Relations

Personality

Module 44, Introduction to Personality and Psychodynamic Theories
Module 45, Humanistic Theories and Trait Theories
Module 46, Social-Cognitive Theories and the Self

Psychological Disorders

Module 47, Introduction to Psychological Disorders
Module 48, Anxiety-Related Disorders
Module 49, Depressive Disorders and Bipolar Disorders
Module 50, Schizophrenia
Module 51, Dissociative, Personality, and Eating Disorders
Module 52, Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Therapy

Module 53, Introduction to Therapy and the Psychological Therapies
Module 54 Evaluating Psychotherapies
Module 55, Biomedical Therapies and Preventing Psychological Disorders

In Psychology in Modules, David Myers and Nathan DeWall break down the content of their chapter-based Psychology into 55 independent modules, assignable in any sequence and brief enough to be read in one sitting. In this remarkably fresh and current new edition, Myers and DeWall have found extraordinarily effective ways to involve students with the remarkable research underlying our understanding of human behaviour. The text itself continues to be shaped by goals David Myers established at the outset. These were to connect students to high-impact research, to focus on developing critical thinking skills, and to present a multicultural perspective on psychology, so students can see themselves in the context of a wider world. This new edition offers 2100 research citations dated 2015-2020. With so many exciting new findings, students will see the importance and value of psychological research, and how psychology can help them make sense of the world around them.