This Reading Essentials and Study Guide is designed to help the student use recognized reading strategies to improve reading-for-information skills. For each section of the Student Edition, the student is alerted to key terms, asked to draw from prior knowledge, organize her/his thoughts with a graphic organizer, and then follow a process to read and understand the text.
Study Guide 1-1: Why Study Psychology?
Study Guide 1-2: A Brief History of Psychology
Study Guide 1-3: Psychology as a Profession
Study Guide 2-1: What Is Research?
Study Guide 2-2: Problems and Solutions in Research
Study Guide 2-3: Statistical Evaluation
Study Guide 3-1: Physical, Perceptual, and Language Development
Study Guide 3-2: Cognitive and Emotional Development
Study Guide 3-3: Parenting Styles and Social Development
Study Guide 4-1: Physical and Sexual Development
Study Guide 4-2: Personal Development
Study Guide 4-3: Social Development
Study Guide 4-4: Gender Roles and Differences
Study Guide 5-1: Adulthood
Study Guide 5-2: Old Age
Study Guide 5-3: Dying and Death
Study Guide 6-1: The Nervous System: The Basic Structure
Study Guide 6-2: Studying the Brain
Study Guide 6-3: The Endocrine System
Study Guide 6-4: Heredity and Environment
Study Guide 7-1: Sleep and Dreams
Study Guide 7-2: Hypnosis, Biofeedback, and Meditation
Study Guide 7-3: Drugs and Consciousness
Study Guide 8-1: Sensation
Study Guide 8-2: The Senses
Study Guide 8-3: Perception
Study Guide 9-1: Classical Conditioning
Study Guide 9-2: Operant Conditioning
Study Guide 9-3: Social Learning
Study Guide 10-1: Taking in and Storing Information
Study Guide 10-2: Retrieving Information
Study Guide 11-1: Thinking and Problem Solving
Study Guide 11-2: Language
Study Guide 12-1: Theories of Motivation
Study Guide 12-2: Biological and Social Motives
Study Guide 12-3: Emotions
Study Guide 13-1: Characteristics of Psychological Tests
Study Guide 13-2: Intelligence Testing
Study Guide 13-3: Measuring Achievement, Abilities, and Interests
Study Guide 13-4: Personality Testing
Study Guide 14-1: Purposes of Personality Theories
Study Guide 14-2: Psychoanalytic Theories
Study Guide 14-3: Learning Theories
Study Guide 14-4: Humanistic and Cognitive Theories
Study Guide 14-5: Trait Theories
Study Guide 15-1: Sources of Stress
Study Guide 15-2: Reactions to Stress
Study Guide 15-3: Coping With Stress
Study Guide 15-4: Stress in Your Life
Study Guide 16-1: What Are Psychological Disorders?
Study Guide 16-2: Anxiety Disorders
Study Guide 16-3: Somatoform and Dissociative Disorders
Study Guide 16-4: Schizophrenia and Mood Disorders
Study Guide 16-5: Personality Disorders and Drug Addiction
Study Guide 17-1: What Is Psychotherapy?
Study Guide 17-2: Psychoanalysis and Humanistic Therapy
Study Guide 17-3: Cognitive and Behavior Therapies
Study Guide 17-4: Biological Approaches to Treatment
Study Guide 18-1: Interpersonal Attraction
Study Guide 18-2: Social Perception
Study Guide 18-3: Personal Relationships
Study Guide 19-1: Group Behavior
Study Guide 19-2: Conformity and Obedience
Study Guide 19-3: Conflict and Cooperation
Study Guide 20-1: Attitude Formation
Study Guide 20-2: Attitude Change and Prejudice
Study Guide 20-3: Persuasion
Study Guide 21-1: Careers in Psychology