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Chapter 1:	Introducing Psychology
	Is It Psychology or Common Sense?
	Careers in Psychology and Law
	Is it Science or is it Common Sense?
	Believing is Seeing
	Psychology Today—The Cultural Context
	Psychology Today—The Historical Context
	Jealousy--The Two Headed Monster
Chapter 2:	Research in Psychology
	Connect the Dots
Chapter 3:	Biological Aspects of Psychology
	Lost in Biospace!
	Know Your Brain!
	Know Your Brain: Major Structures
	Scanning the Brain
	The Nervous System—The Big Picture
	The Neuron—Infrastructure of Behavior
Chapter 4:	Sensation
	If You Can't Do This Netlab, You May Have Monochromotopia!
	Pain-Where Does it Come From? Where Does it Go?
	Build an Ear
	Let’s Hear It for the Ears
	What's So Complicated about Seeing?
Chapter 5:	Perception
	Seeing is Believing
	Pay Attention!
	When Meaning Interferes with Image
	What Do You See?
	Shortcuts and Schemas
Chapter 6:	Learning
	Learning to Be Helpless
	Learning About Learning
	Learning by Removing, Not Receiving
	Negotiating the Learning Maze
	Schedules of Reinforcement
	Understanding Classical Conditioning
	Test Your Knowledge of Positive Reinforcement
	Identifying the Reinforcers for Your Favorite Psychoactive Substance
Chapter 7:	Memory
	Memories Are Made of This
	How Do You Process Memory?
	How’s Your Memory for Memory?
	How’s Your Short-Term Memory?
	A Chunk of Pie
Chapter 8:	Cognition and Language
	What's the Pattern?
	Avoiding Cognitive Traps
	Avoiding Loss at All Costs
	Developing Language
	It's All in How You Ask the Question
	Mind Benders
	NetLab: Why Did Deep Blue Beat Garry Kasparov?
	The Ingredients of Thought
	Matchsticks and Squares Problem
	The Yuks and the Nerds
	The Missing Dollar
	Are You a Logical Thinker?
Chapter 9:	Consciousness
	Test Your Alcohol Knowledge
	Identifying Sleep Disorders
	Sleeping in Stages
	You are Getting Very Sleepy: Hypnosis Myths
	How Are You Sleeping?
Chapter 10:	Cognitive Abilities
	NetLab: Are You Emotionally Intelligent?
	Test Your Intelligence: A psychometric approach
	Test Your Intelligence: How creative are you?
	Test Your Mental Rotation Ability
	Understanding Mental Retardation
Chapter 11:	Motivation and Emotion
	What is Motivation?
	Explaining Motives
	Achievement Motivation
	Autonomic Nervous System: Fight and Flight or Rest and Recover?
	Leader, Leader on the Wall, Who's the Best Leader of Them All?
	NetLab: Intercultural Differences in Perception of Primary Emotions
	Planting the Seeds for Eating Disorders
	Gender Expectations as Motivators
	How Do You Motivate Others?
Chapter 12:	Human Development
	Baby's First Love Affair
	Do You Value Yourself?
	Developing Morals
	Becoming Gendered: How Others Tell if We Are an "X" or a "Y"
	When Conformity Leads to Danger: Teenagers and Drinking Behavior
	Which Programs Targeted at Young People Have the Effect of Reducing Alcohol (and Drug) Consumption?
	What Is This Thing Called Love?
	Revisiting Erikson's Stages of the Life Span
	How Does Your Baby Grow?
	Milestones of Motor Development
	Mother and Baby Are Doing Fine
	Peers and Psychosocial Development
	Test Your Knowledge about Early Childhood Development
	What Does It Take To Succeed in Elementary School?
	Where'd You Get Those Eyes?
	Why Do You Want To Have Children?
	Understanding Genetic Disorders
Chapter 13:	Health, Stress, and Coping
	Health, Stress, and Coping
	What You Don't Know Can Hurt You
	Living Well Is The Best Revenge
	Coping with Stess
	How We Kill Ourselves
	What's So Bad About Being Mad?
	Putting Common Sense To The Test (Health)
	Staying Healthy For The Long Journey
	Student Sress
	What Do You Know About Stress?
	When Trauma Causes Severe Stress
Chapter 14:	Personality
	Will Your Personality Type Determine Whether Or Not You Get Your Dream Job? It Might!
	It Wasn't My Fault That I Failed The Exam!! That Teacher Never Liked Me And Never Will!
	Where Do Adult Behaviors Come From?
	What Type of Coworker Do You Find Most Annoying?
	Are You A Chameleon?
	Creating Cop-Outs
	Defensive Strategies
	Distinguishing Social Psychology From Personality Psychology
	How Does An Employer Assess Your Potential?
	I'm OK, You're OK, Right?
	Name The Perspective
	Personality Testing In The Workplace
	Sigmund FreudTwentieth-Century Giant
	The G-B Three Factor Personality Profile
	What Makes Tiger Win?
	Where Did That Come From?
	Which Jury Consultant Wants You?
Chapter 15:	Psychological Disorders
	Depression - The Common Cold of Mental Disorders
	The Case of the Confused Clerk
	Alcohol - America's Favorite Medication
	How Impaired Were You the Last Time You Drank?
	The Insanity Plea - Coddling Criminals or Protecting the Mentally Ill?
	You Be the Jury
	What's Your Anxiety Level?
	Schizophrenic Thoughts and Talk
	Categorizing Disorders
	Jenna's Case: One DisorderMany Causes
	SuicideA Public Health Problem
	The Case Of Jackson And Jared: Somatoform And Dissociative DisordersTesting Reality
	Schizophrenia: What's The Question?
	Schizophrenic Thought And Talk
	How Much Do You Know About Suicide?
	What's The Problem With This Person?
Chapter 16:	Treatment of Psychological Disorders
	Name That Therapy!
	What's My Specialty?
Chapter 17:	Social Cognition
	Primed for Perception: Evaluating Persons
	How Could You Not Agree with Me?
	I Believe in Equal Opportunity: Affirmitive Action In The Workplace
	I'll Figure it Out for Myself, Thanks - Critical Thinking and Persuasion
	Doing Social Psychology Research
	Putting Common Sense To The Test (Attitudes)
	Putting Common Sense To The Test (Attraction And Close Relationships)
	Putting Common Sense To The Test (Perceiving Persons)
	Putting Common Sense To The Test (Perceiving Groups)
	Putting Common Sense To The Test: The Social Self
	What Are Social Psychologists Studying?
	What Do You Call Your Love Object?
	What Do You Know About Prejudice?
	What Does It Take To Stay Married?
Chapter 18:	Social Influence
	How Far Would You Go in Response to Demands for Obedience?
	Maybe I'll Help and Maybe I Won't: Calculating the Costs of Helping
	What's Aggression and What's Not?
	What's Your GBQ (Group Behavior Quotient)?
	Does it Pay to be a Snitch?
	Are Men Really More Aggressive Than Women?
	Does Self-Interest Pay?
	Getting Assertive And Overcoming Pressures To Conform
	Helping OthersIt Begins In Childhood
	Putting Common Sense To The Test (Aggression)
	Putting Common Sense To The Test (Conformity)
	Putting Common Sense To The Test (Group Processes)
	Putting Common Sense To The Test Helping Others)
	What Does It Take To Be A Leader?
	Whom Do You Trust: Stereotypes And Credibility
	How Do You Say "I Love You"?