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A comprehensive introductory psychology textbook written for European courses. Based on Zimbardo's American text Psychology and Life, this textbook takes a distinctly European perspective on psychology whilst retaining the pedagogical features of the American text. Whilst American psychology takes a mainly scientific/quantitative approach to the subject, European psychology takes a broader approach that includes empirical/qualitative methods. This text places emphasis on the pluriformity of psychology and of its methods, by broadening the empirical basis of psychology and reassessing the view of psychology as simply a quantitative and scientific enterprise.

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• All chapters conclude with Using Psychology to Learn Psychology
• Chapter Summary
• Review Test, and If You're Interested(p. 170)
• 1 Mind, Behavior, and Science
• What Is Psychology, and What Are Its Goals?
• How Do Psychologists Do Research?
• 2 Biopsychology
• How Are Genes and Behavior Linked?
• How Does the Body Communicate Internally?
• How Does the Brain Produce Behavior and Mental Processes?
• 3 States of Mind
• What Is the Nature of Consciousness?
• What Are the Cycles of Everyday Consciousness?
• What Other Forms Can Consciousness Take?
• 4 Psychological Development
• How Do Psychologists Explain Development?
• What Capabilities Does the Newborn Possess?
• What Are the Developmental Tasks of Childhood?
• What Developmental Changes Occur in Adolescence and Adulthood?
• 5 Sensation and Perception
• How Does Stimulation Become Sensation?
• How Are the Senses Alike?
• And How Are They Different?
• How the Other Senses Are Like Vision and Hearing
• What Is the Relationship between Perception and Sensation?
• 6 Learning and Remembering
• How Does Classical Conditioning Explain Learning?
• How Do We Learn New Behaviors by Operant Conditioning?
• How Does Cognitive Psychology Explain Learning?
• How Does Memory Work?
• 7 Cognitive Processes
• How Do Cognitive Scientists Measure the Mind?
• What Does Thinking Consist Of?
• Do We Think Logically - Or Psychologically?
• 8 Emotion and Motivation
• What Do Our Emotions Do for Us?
• Where Do Our Emotions Come From?
• How Much Control Do We Have Over Our Emotions?
• Motivation: What Makes Us Act as We Do?
• How Are Achievement, Hunger, and Sex Alike?
• Different?
• 9 Stress, Health, and Well-being
• Is It the Stress or the Stressor?
• How Does Stress Affect Us Physically?
• How Do We Respond Psychologically to Stress?
• How Can We Cope Effectively with Stress?
• 10 Personality
• What Forces Shape Our Personalities?
• What Patterns Are Found in Personality?
• What Theories Do People Use to Understand Each Other?
• 11 Intelligence and the Psychology of Differences
• How Have Psychologists Described and Measured Intelligence?
• What Are the Components of Intelligence?
• How Do Psychologists Explain IQ Differences among Social and Racial Groups?
• 12 Social Psychology
• How Does the Situation Affect Our Behavior?
• How Do We Construct Our Social Reality?
• What Can Psychology Tell Us about Solving Social Problems?
• 13 Psychopathology
• What Is Mental Disorder?
• How Are Mental Disorders Classified?
• What Are the Consequences of Labeling?
• 14 Therapies for Mental Disorder
• What Is Therapy?
• How Do Psychologists Treat Mental Disorders?
• How Do the Biomedical Therapies Approach Mental Disorders?
• A Personal Endnote
• Appendix
• Glossary
• References