Introductory Psychology in Modules

Understanding Our Heads, Hearts, and Hands

Brett Pelham, David Boninger

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9780367418274
• eBook ISBN: 9781000209020
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Applied Psychology
• Index: Psychology

Introductory Psychology in Modules: Understanding Our Heads, Hearts, and Hands is a unique and comprehensive introduction to psychology. It consists of 36 short modules that keep students engaged with humor, a narrative style, and hands-on activities that facilitate interactive learning and critical thinking.

Each stand-alone module focuses on a major topic in psychology, from the brain, sensation, memory, and cognition to human development, personality, social psychology, and clinical psychology. The modular format also allows a deep dive into important topics that have less coverage in other introductory psychology textbooks. This includes cross-cultural psychology, stereotypes and discrimination, evolutionary psychology, sex and gender, climate change, health psychology, and sport psychology. This truly modular format – ideal for both face to face and virtual learning – makes it easy for instructors to customize their readings and assign exactly what they wish to emphasize. The book also contains an abundance of pedagogical features, including numerous hands-on activities and/or group discussion activities, multiple-choice practice quizzes, and an instructor exam bank written by the authors.

By covering both classic and contemporary topics, this book will delight students and instructors alike. The modular format also makes this a useful supplementary text for classes in nursing, medicine, social work, policing, and sociology.

Index

Page locators in italics and bold refer to figures and tables, respectively.

2D:4D ratios 316

9/11 terrorist attacks 232

19th Amendment 398

Aamodt, M. G. 288

Abel, E. L. 53

Abelson, R. P. 395

Abramson, P. R. 220

Abrevaya, J. 414

absent-mindedness 395

absolute pitch 290

absolute thresholds 123–124, 124

abstract thinking 334–346

abstraction 341

abuse of medication 493–494

accessibility of memory 233–234

acetylcholine 60–61, 66

achievers 292–293, 293

ACID (complex thinking) 341

Ackerman, P. 426

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) 220

action potentials 65

activators 292–293, 293

active genotype-environment effects 100

Adams, A. 292

Adams, H. E. 46–47

Adams, R. B., Jr. 217

adaptability 292–293, 293

adaptation 112–113

adaptation, sensory 147

addictive disorders 473, 474

adjustment, and anchoring 259

adolescence 363; and identity 355–356

Adolph, K. E. 288

adult development 362–375

adult romantic attachment style 440

aerobic exercise 522–523, 523

African Americans, Jim Crow laws 398

African gray parrots 276

African Kalahari Desert 461

Afrocentrism 102

age and IQ 285

age of strength and beauty 364

age of tragic risk taking 364

aggression 35–36, 410–421; con...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• About the Authors
• About this Book
• A Note to Instructors
• Acknowledgments
• I: History of, and Methods in, Psychology
• II: The Brain
• III: Genetics and Evolution
• IV: Sensation and Perception
• V: Learning
• VI: Motivation, Emotion, and More
• VII: Memory and Cognition
• VIII: Lifespan Human Development
• IX: Social, Personality, and Cultural Psychology
• X: Clinical Psychology
• XI: Applied Psychology
• Glossary
• Index