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Students First. Bob Feldman's Understanding Psychology guides students through Introductory Psychology concepts in an accessible manner, bringing comprehension of difficult material into the grasp of all students – because when students understand psychology, they learn psychology. The thoroughly revised Ninth Edition integrates a variety of elements that foster students' understanding of psychology and its impact on their everyday lives, including a new Neuroscience In Your Life feature, alerts to key topics, and study skills for specific concepts. This text also provides instructors with a fully integrated supplements package to objectively gauge their students' mastery of psychology's key principles and concepts and to create dynamic lectures.

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• Chapter 1 Introduction to Psychology
• Module 1 Psychologists at Work
• Module 2 A Science Evolves: The Past, the Present, and the Future
• Module 3 Psychology's Key Issues and Controversies
• Chapter 2 Psychological Research
• Module 4 The Scientific Method
• Module 5 Conducting Psychological Research
• Module 6 Critical Research Issues
• Chapter 3 Neuroscience and Behavior
• Module 7 Neurons: The Basic Elements of Behavior
• Module 8 The Nervous System and the Endocrine System: Communicating Within the Body
• Module 9 The Brain
• Chapter 4 Sensation and Perception
• Module 10 Sensing the World Around Us
• Module 11 Vision: Shedding Light on the Eye
• Module 12 Hearing and the Other Senses
• Module 13 Perceptual Organization: Constructing Our View of the World
• Chapter 5 States of Consciousness
• Module 14 Sleep and Dreams
• Module 15 Hypnosis and Meditation
• Module 16 Drug Use: The Highs and Lows of Consciousness
• Chapter 6 Learning
• Module 17 Classical Conditioning
• Module 18 Operant Conditioning
• Module 19 Cognitive Approaches to Learning
• Chapter 7 Memory
• Module 20 The Foundations of Memory
• Module 21 Recalling Long-Term Memories
• Module 22 Forgetting: When Memory Fails
• Chapter 8 Cognition and Language
• Module 23 Thinking and Reasoning
• Module 24 Problem Solving
• Module 25 Language
• Chapter 9 Intelligence
• Module 26 What Is Intelligence?
• Module 27 Variations in Intellectual Ability
• Module 28 Group Differences in Intelligence: Genetic and Environmental Determinants
• Chapter 10 Motivation and Emotion
• Module 29 Explaining Motivation
• Module 30 Human Needs and Motivation: Eat, Drink, and Be Daring
• Module 31 Understanding Emotional Experiences
• Chapter 11 Sexuality and Gender
• Module 32 Gender and Sex
• Module 33 Understanding Human Sexual Response: The Facts of Life
• Module 34 The Diversity of Sexual Behavior
• Chapter 12 Development
• Module 35 Nature and Nurture: The Enduring Developmental Issue/
• Module 36 Prenatal Development: Conception to Birth
• Module 37 Infancy and Childhood
• Module 38 Adolescence: Becoming an Adult
• Module 39 Adulthood
• Chapter 13 Personality
• Module 40 Psychodynamic Approaches to Personality
• Module 41 Trait, Learning, Biological, Evolutionary, and Humanistic Approaches to Personality
• Module 42 Assessing Personality: Determining What Makes Us Distinctive
• Chapter 14 Health Psychology: Stress, Coping, and Well-Being
• Module 43 Stress and Coping
• Module 44 Psychological Aspects of Illness and Well-Being
• Module 45 Promoting Health and Wellness
• Chapter 15 Psychological Disorders
• Module 46 Normal Versus Abnormal: Making the Distinction
• Module 47 The Major Psychological Disorders
• Module 48 Psychological Disorders in Perspective
• Chapter 16 Treatment of Psychological Disorders
• Module 49 Psychotherapy: Psychodynamic, Behavioral, and Cognitive Approaches to Treatment
• Module 50 Psychotherapy: Humanistic, Interpersonal, and Group Approaches to Treatment
• Module 51 iomedical Therapy: Biological Approaches to Treatment
• Chapter 17 Social Psychology
• Module 52 Attitudes and Social Cognition
• Module 53 Social Influence
• Module 54 Prejudice and Discrimination
• Module 55 Positive and Negative Social Behavior APPENDIX Going by the Numbers: Statistics in Psychology A-1
• Module 56 Descriptive Statistics A-3
• Module 57 Measures of Variability A-7
• Module 58 Using Statistics to Answer Questions: Inferential Statistics and Correlation A-11
• Glossary G-1
• References R-1
• Credits C-1
• Name Index I-1
• Subject Index I-15