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Chapter 1:	Introduction to the Science of Psychology
	Believing is Seeing
	Connect the Dots
	Jealousy: The Two-Headed Monster
	Psychology Today--The Cultural Context
	Psychology Today--The Historical Context
Chapter 2:	Biology and Behavior
	Know Your Brain: The Cerebral Cortex
	Know Your Brain: Major Structures
	Lost in Biospace
	The Nervous System: The Big Picture
	The Neuron-Infrastructure of Behavior
	Scanning the Brain
Chapter 3:	Sensation and Perception
	Build an Ear
	If You Can't Do This NetLab, You Have Monochromotopia!
	Let's Hear It for the Ears
	Pain: Where Does It Come From? Where Does It Go?
	Seeing Is Believing
	What Do You See?
	What's So Complicated About Seeing?
	When Meaning Interferes with Image
Chapter 4:	Consciousness
	Activating Neurotransmitter Receptors
	You Are Getting Very Sleepy: Hypnosis Myths
	Identifying Sleep Disorders
	Identifying the Reinforcers for Your Favorite Psychoactive Substance
	Sleeping in Stages
	Test Your Alcohol Knowledge
Chapter 5:	Learning
	Learning About Learning
	Learning by Removing, Not Receiving
	Learning to Be Helpless
	Negotiating the Learning Maze
	Schedules of Reinforcement
	Test Your Knowledge of Positive Reinforcement
	Understanding Classical Conditioning
Chapter 6:	Memory
	A Chunk of Pie
	How Do You Process Memory?
	How's Your Memory for Memory?
	How's Your Short-Term Memory?
	Memories Are Made of This
	Pay Attention!
	Shortcuts and Schemas
Chapter 7:	Thought, Language, and Intelligence
	Avoiding Cognitive Traps
	Language Development
	Matchsticks and Squares Problem
	Mind Benders
	Test Your Intelligence: A Psychometric Approach
	The Missing Dollar
	The Yuks and the Nerds
	Understanding Mental Retardation
	What's the Pattern?
	Why Did Deep Blue Beat Garry Kasparov?
Chapter 8:	Motivation and Emotion
	Achievement Motivation
	Are You Emotionally Intelligent?
	Autonomic Nervous System: Fight and Flight or Rest and Recover?
	Explaining Motives
	Gender Expectations as Motivators
	How Do You Motivate Others?
	Planting the Seeds of Eating Disorders
	What Is Motivation?
Chapter 9:	Human Development
	Baby's First Love Affair
	Becoming Gendered: How Others Tell if We Are an "X" or a "Y"
	Developing Morals
	Do You Value Yourself?
	How Does Your Baby Grow?
	Milestones of Motor Development
	Peers and Psychosocial Development
	Test Your Knowledge of Early Childhood Development
	When Conformity Leads to Danger: Teenagers and Drinking Behavior
	Which Programs Targeted at Young People Have the Effect of Reducing Alcohol (and Drug) Consumption?
	Why Do You Want to Have Children?
Chapter 10:	Health, Stress, and Coping
	Coping with Stress
	How We Kill Ourselves
	Living Well Is the Best Revenge
	Putting Common Sense About Health to the Test
	Staying Healthy for the Long Journey
	Student Stress
	What Do You Know About Stress?
	What You Don't Know Can Hurt You
	What's So Bad About Being Mad?
	When Trauma Causes Severe Stress
Chapter 11:	Personality
	Defensive Strategies
	It Wasn't My Fault I Failed The Exam!
	Name that Perspective
	Personality Testing in the Workplace
	Sigmund Freud-Twentieth-Century Giant
	The G-B Three Factor Personality Profile
	What Makes Tiger Win?
	Where Did That Come From?
	Where Do Adult Behaviors Come From?
	Which Jury Consultant Wants You?
Chapter 12:	Psychological Disorders
	Categorizing Disorders
	Jenna's Case: One Disorder--Many Causes
	How Impaired Were You?
	Schizophrenia: What's the Question?
	Schizophrenic Thought and Talk
	Suicide--A Public Health Problem
	The Case of Jackson and Jared: Somatoform and Dissociative Disorders
	The Insanity Plea--Coddling Criminals?
	What's the Problem with this Person?
	What's Your Anxiety Level?
	You Be the Jury
Chapter 13:	Treatment of Psychological Disorders
	Name That Therapy!
	What's My Specialty?
Chapter 14:	Social Psychology
	Does It Pay to Be a Snitch?
	Helping Others
	How Could You Not Agree with Me?
	How Far Would You Go?
	Primed for Perception
	Putting Common Sense to the Test: Aggression
	Putting Common Sense to the Test: Attitudes
	Putting Common Sense to the Test: Attraction and Close Personal Relationships
	Putting Common Sense to the Test: Conformity
	Putting Common Sense to the Test: Group Processes
	Putting Common Sense to the Test: Helping Others
	Putting Common Sense to the Test: Perceiving Persons
	Putting Common Sense to the Test: The Social Self
	What Is Aggression?
	What Does It Take to Be a Leader?
	What's Your GBQ (Group Behavior Quotient)?
	Whom Do You Trust? Stereotypes and Credibility