Essentials of Understanding Psychology by Robert S Feldman

Essentials of Understanding Psychology is written around the philosophy that an effective textbook must be oriented to students: informing them, engaging them, exciting them about the field, and expanding their intellectual capabilities because when students understand psychology, they learn psychology. No matter what brings students into the introductory course and regardless of their initial motivation, Essentials of Understanding Psychology, Seventh Edition, draws students into the field and stimulates their thinking. This revision integrates a variety of elements that foster students' understanding of psychology and its impact on their everyday lives. It 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.

Contents

• Psychologists at Work 
• A Science that Evolves: The Past, the Present, and the Future 
• Research in Psychology 
• Research Challenges: Exploring the Process Mastering the Experimental Method: The Difference between Dependent and Independent Variables 
• Neurons The Basic Elements of Behavior 
• The Nervous System and the Endocrine System: Communicating Within the Body 
• The Brain Mastering the Action Potential 
• Sensing the World Around Us 
• Vision: Shedding Light on the Eye 
• Hearing and Other Senses 
• Perceptual Organization: Constructing our View of the World Mastering the Difference between Sensation and Perception 
• Sleep and Dreams 
• Hypnosis and Meditation 
• Drug Use: The Highs and Lows of Consciousness 
• Classical Conditioning