Ellen Pastorino and Susann Doyle-Portillo are dedicated, award-winning psychology professors with an infectious enthusiasm for teaching psychology. Praised in previous editions for fostering students' curiosity, "What is Psychology? International Edition", extends the authors' successful and engaging approach to teaching the introductory psychology course.
The authors have found that when students are curious they are motivated to explore and truly learn how psychological concepts are connected. This book unlocks readers' curiosity by capturing their interest and then helping them see connections between personal stories, applications to their own lives, and psychological concepts that they will use and retain in and out of the classroom.
1. What is Psychology?
2. How Does Biology Influence Our Behavior?
3. How Do We Sense and Perceive Our World?
4. Consciousness: Wide Awake, in a Daze, or Dreaming?
5. How Do We Learn?
6. How Does Memory Function?
7. Cognition, Language, and Intelligence : How Do We Think?
8. Motivation and Emotion : What Guides Behavior?
9. How Do People Grow, Change, and Develop?
10. How Do Gender and Sexuality Affect Our Behavior?
11. Social Psychology : How Do We Understand and Interace With Others?
12. Health, Stress, and Coping: How Can You Create a Healthy Life?
13. What Is Pesonality, and How Do We Measure It?
14. What Are Psychological Disorders, and How Can We Understand Them?
15. What Therapies Are Used to Treat Psychological Problems?