Psychology in Everyday Life

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by David G. Myers, C. Nathan DeWall

6th Edition

Publisher: Worth Publishers

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Print ISBN	9781319418724
eText ISBN	9781319447182
Publisher	Worth Publishers
Publishing Year	2022
Edition	6th Edition
Language	English

Published by Worth Publishers, Psychology in Everyday Life, 6th Edition, by David G. Myers and C. Nathan DeWall, offers a brief overview of basic psychology. Designed primarily for college students and general readers, the text introduces central concepts without requiring prior coursework in the discipline.

The text highlights critical thinking, scientific inquiry, and research ethics across core areas of study. Readers examine the biological bases of behavior, including neuroplasticity, neural communication, nervous system organization, and brain structures. Additional sections address human development across the life span, tracing growth from prenatal stages to adulthood alongside gender development and sexuality.

By highlighting practical applications of psychology, the volume provides introductory psychology instructors with a structured curriculum for introductory courses. Its balanced approach guides learners through empirical methods and real-world behavior, offering a clear entry point into contemporary psychological science.

Chapter 1: Psychology’s Roots, Critical Thinking, and Self-Improvement Tools
- • Psychology Is a Science
- • Critical Thinking and the Scientific Attitude
- • THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT: The Scientific Attitude
- • Psychological Science’s Birth and Development
- • Today’s Psychology
- • The Need for Psychological Science
- • The Limits of Common Sense
- • Psychological Science in a Post-Truth World
- • How Do Psychologists Ask and Answer Questions?
- • The Scientific Method
- • Description
- • Correlation
- • THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT: Correlation and Causation
- • Experimentation
- • Choosing a Research Design
- • Predicting Everyday Behavior
- • Psychology’s Research Ethics
- • Studying and Protecting Animals
- • Studying and Protecting Humans
- • Values in Psychology
- • Use Psychology to Become a Stronger Person—and a Better Student
Chapter 2: The Biology of Behavior and Consciousness
- • The Power of Neuroplasticity
- • Neural Communication
- • A Neuron’s Structure
- • How Neurons Communicate
- • How Neurotransmitters Influence Us
- • The Nervous System
- • The Peripheral Nervous System
- • The Central Nervous System
- • The Endocrine System
- • The Brain
- • Tools of Discovery—Having Our Head Examined
- • Brain Regions and Structures
- • The Limbic System
- • The Cerebral Cortex
- • THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT: Do We Use Only 10 Percent of Our Brain?
- • Damage Response and Brain Hemispheres
- • Brain States and Consciousness
- • Selective Attention
- • Sleep and Dreams
Chapter 3: Developing Through the Life Span
- • Developmental Psychology’s Major Issues
- • Nature and Nurture
- • Continuity and Stages
- • Stability and Change
- • Prenatal Development and the Newborn
- • Conception
- • Prenatal Development
- • The Competent Newborn
- • Twin and Adoption Studies
- • Infancy and Childhood
- • Physical Development
- • Cognitive Development
- • Social Development
- • THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT: Parenting Styles—Too Hard, Too Soft, Too Uncaring, and Just Right?
- • Adolescence
- • Emerging Adulthood
- • Adulthood
Chapter 4: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
- • Gender Development
- • Similarities and Differences
- • THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT: Gender Bias in the Workplace
- • The Nature of Gender
- • The Nurture of Gender
- • THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT: Sexual Aggression
- • Human Sexuality
- • The Physiology of Sex
- • The Psychology of Sex
- • Sexual Orientation
- • Cultural Attitudes and Prevalence
- • Why Do We Differ?
- • An Evolutionary Explanation of Human Sexuality
- • Male-Female Differences in Sexuality
- • Natural Selection and Mating Preferences
- • Critiquing the Evolutionary Perspective
- • Sex and Human Relationships
- • Reflections on the Nature and Nurture of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
Chapter 5: Sensation and Perception
- • Basic Concepts of Sensation and Perception
- • From Outer Energy to Inner Brain Activity
- • Thresholds
- • THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT: Subliminal Stimulation and Subliminal Persuasion
- • Sensory Adaptation
- • Perceptual Set
- • Context, Motivation, and Emotion
- • Vision
- • Light Energy and Eye Structures
- • Information Processing in the Eye and Brain
- • Perceptual Organization
- • Perceptual Interpretation
- • Hearing
- • Sound Waves: From the Environment Into the Brain
- • Decoding Sound Waves
- • How Do We Locate Sounds?
- • Skin, Chemical, and Body Senses
- • Touch
- • Chemical Senses: Taste and Smell
- • Body Position and Movement
- • Sensory Interaction
- • Perception Without Sensation?
Chapter 6: Learning
- • How Do We Learn?
- • Classical Conditioning
- • Pavlov’s Experiments
- • Pavlov’s Legacy
- • Operant Conditioning
- • Skinner’s Experiments
- • Skinner’s Legacy
- • Contrasting Classical and Operant Conditioning
- • Biology, Cognition, and Learning
- • Biological Limits on Conditioning
- • Cognitive Influences on Conditioning
- • Learning by Observation
- • Mirrors and Imitation in the Brain
- • Observational Learning in Everyday Life
- • THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT: The Effects of Viewing Media Violence
Chapter 7: Memory
- • Studying Memory
- • An Information-Processing Model
- • Building Memories: Encoding
- • Our Two-Track Memory System
- • Automatic Processing and Implicit Memories
- • Effortful Processing and Explicit Memories
- • Memory Storage
- • Retaining Information in the Brain
- • Synaptic Changes
- • Retrieval: Getting Information Out
- • Measuring Retention
- • Retrieval Cues
- • Forgetting
- • Forgetting and the Two-Track Mind
- • Encoding Failure
- • Storage Decay
- • Retrieval Failure
- • Memory Construction Errors
- • Misinformation and Imagination Effects
- • Source Amnesia
- • Recognizing False Memories
- • THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT: Can Memories of Childhood Sexual Abuse Be Repressed and Then Recovered?
- • Children’s Eyewitness Recall
- • Improving Memory
Chapter 8: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence
- • Thinking
- • Concepts
- • Solving Problems
- • Making Good (and Bad) Decisions and Judgments
- • THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT: The Fear Factor
- • Thinking Creatively
- • Do Other Species Share Our Cognitive Skills?
- • Language
- • Language Acquisition and Development
- • The Brain and Language
- • Thinking Without Language
- • Do Other Species Have Language?
- • Intelligence
- • What Is Intelligence?
- • Assessing Intelligence
- • The Nature and Nurture of Intelligence
- • Intelligence Across the Life Span
- • Group Differences in Intelligence Test Scores
Chapter 9: Motivation and Emotion
- • Motivational Concepts
- • Drives and Incentives
- • Arousal Theory
- • A Hierarchy of Needs
- • Hunger
- • The Physiology of Hunger
- • The Psychology of Hunger
- • THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT: The Challenges of Obesity and Weight Control
- • The Need to Belong
- • The Benefits of Belonging
- • The Pain of Being Shut Out
- • Connecting and Social Networking
- • Achievement Motivation
- • Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation
- • Goal Setting
- • Emotion: Arousal, Behavior, and Cognition
- • James-Lange Theory: Arousal Comes Before Emotion
- • Cannon-Bard Theory: Arousal and Emotion Happen at the Same Time
- • Schachter-Singer Two-Factor Theory: Arousal + Label = Emotion
- • Zajonc, LeDoux, and Lazarus: Emotion and the Two-Track Brain
- • Embodied Emotion
- • The Basic Emotions
- • Emotions and the Autonomic Nervous System
- • The Physiology of Emotions
- • THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT: Lie Detection
- • Expressed and Experienced Emotion
- • Detecting Emotion in Others
- • Culture and Emotion
- • The Effects of Facial Expressions
Chapter 10: Stress, Health, and Human Flourishing
- • Stress: Some Basic Concepts
- • Stressors—Things That Push Our Buttons
- • Stress Reactions—From Alarm to Exhaustion
- • Stress Effects and Health
- • Stress and Heart Disease
- • THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT: Stress and Health
- • Coping With Stress
- • Coping Strategies
- • Personal Control
- • Optimism and Pessimism
- • Emotion Regulation
- • Social Support
- • Finding Meaning
- • Managing Stress Effects
- • Aerobic Exercise
- • Relaxation and Meditation
- • Faith Communities and Health
- • Happiness and Well-Being
- • When Are We Happiest?
- • What Makes Us Happy?
- • Evidence-Based Suggestions for a Happy Life
- • Questioning Some Myths About Happiness
Chapter 11: Social Psychology
- • What Is Social Psychology’s Focus?
- • Social Thinking
- • The Fundamental Attribution Error
- • Attitudes and Actions
- • Persuasion
- • THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT: How to Be Persuasive
- • Social Influence
- • Cultural Influences
- • Conformity and Obedience
- • Group Influence
- • THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT: The Internet as Social Amplifier
- • Social Relations
- • Prejudice
- • Aggression
- • Attraction
- • Altruism
- • From Conflict to Peace
Chapter 12: Personality
- • What Is Personality?
- • Psychodynamic Theories
- • Freud’s Psychoanalytic Perspective: Exploring the Unconscious
- • The Neo-Freudian and Later Psychodynamic Theorists
- • Assessing Unconscious Processes
- • Evaluating Freud’s Psychoanalytic Perspective and Modern Views of the Unconscious
- • Humanistic Theories
- • Abraham Maslow’s Self-Actualizing Person
- • Carl Rogers’ Person-Centered Perspective
- • Assessing the Self
- • Evaluating Humanistic Theories
- • Trait Theories
- • Exploring Traits
- • THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT: The Stigma of Introversion
- • Assessing Traits
- • The Big Five Factors
- • Evaluating Trait Theories
- • Social-Cognitive Theories
- • Reciprocal Influences
- • Assessing Behavior in Situations
- • Evaluating Social-Cognitive Theories
- • Exploring the Self
- • The Benefits and Costs of Self-Esteem
- • Self-Serving Bias
- • Culture and the Self
Chapter 13: Psychological Disorders
- • What Is a Psychological Disorder?
- • Defining Psychological Disorders
- • Understanding Psychological Disorders
- • Classifying Disorders—and Labeling People
- • Anxiety-Related Disorders
- • Anxiety Disorders
- • Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
- • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- • Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders
- • Understanding Anxiety-Related Disorders
- • Substance Use Disorders
- • THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT: Tolerance and Addiction
- • Types of Psychoactive Drugs
- • Understanding Substance Use Disorders
- • Depressive Disorders and Bipolar Disorders
- • Depressive Disorders
- • Bipolar Disorders
- • Understanding Depressive Disorders and Bipolar Disorders
- • Schizophrenia
- • Symptoms of Schizophrenia
- • Onset and Development of Schizophrenia
- • Understanding Schizophrenia
- • Dissociative, Personality, and Eating Disorders
- • Dissociative Disorders
- • Personality Disorders
- • Eating Disorders
- • Risk of Harm to Self and Others
- • Understanding Suicide
- • Nonsuicidal Self-Injury
- • Does Disorder Equal Danger?
- • Neurodevelopmental Disorders
- • Intellectual Disability
- • Autism Spectrum Disorder
- • Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
- • THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT: ADHD—Normal High Energy or Disordered Behavior?
Chapter 14: Therapy
- • Treating Psychological Disorders
- • The Psychological Therapies
- • Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic Therapies
- • Humanistic Therapies
- • Behavior Therapies
- • Cognitive Therapies
- • Group, Couple, and Family Therapies
- • Evaluating Psychotherapies
- • Is Psychotherapy Effective?
- • Which Psychotherapies Work Best?
- • How Do Psychotherapies Help People?
- • Human Diversity and Psychotherapy
- • Seeking Psychotherapy
- • Ethical Principles in Psychotherapy
- • The Biomedical Therapies
- • THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT: Therapeutic Lifestyle Change
- • Drug Therapies
- • Brain Stimulation
- • Psychosurgery
- • Preventing Psychological Disorders and Building Resilience
- • Preventive Mental Health
- • Building Resilience
Chapter A: Statistical Reasoning in Everyday Life
Chapter B: Psychology at Work
Chapter C: The Story of Psychology: A Timeline
Chapter D: Career Fields in Psychology
Chapter E: Complete Chapter Reviews
Chapter F: Answers to the Retrieve & Remember and Chapter Test Questions