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Here is your unofficial companion to the 10th edition of David G. Myers' bestselling textbook Psychology. It consolidates the material in the textbook, providing students taking an Introduction to Psychology course with a handy way to preview material before class, to reinforce content after lectures, or to review prior to exams, saving valuable time while increasing comprehension.
Like all introductory psych textbooks, Psychology, 10th Edition covers a lot of material, and because the material is scientific in nature, some of it can be difficult to understand and assimilate. This study guide is a helpful choice for busy college students to enhance comprehension.
Technical language, an important aspect to understanding psychology (and therefore usually on the exam!), is italicized and defined for easy review. When it makes sense to do so, vocabulary is italicized within running text; in other chapters, vocabulary is listed (dictionary-style) and defined.
This Summary & Study Guide is your companion to the 10th edition of the bestselling textbook Psychology, written by David G. Myers. It consolidates the material in the textbook, providing students with a handy way to preview material before class, to reinforce content after lectures, or to review prior to exams, saving valuable time while increasing comprehension.
The human brain has perplexed the minds of philosophers since the age of the ancient Greeks. In the late 1800s, the study of the brainpsychologybecame its own discipline independent from philosophy when the scientific method was employed to study the underlying mechanisms of the psyche. Although the original research produced by the first psychologists was widely subjective and biased, it helped to pave the way for serious research conducted later in psychology's history. After the textbook covers the roots of psychology and the ways in which it developed into a full-blown scientific field of study, the authors take a look at the state of psychology today.
Psychology saw its first use of experimental methods when Wilhelm Wundt devised a machine that measured human reaction times. Wundt believed that with his machine he was indirectly measuring the components of the mind. Wundt's student Edward Titchener pioneered Structuralism, a school of thought in psychology aimed at discovering the underlying structure of the mind. Titchener was famous for utilizing the introspective method to uncover certain psychological phenomena. Introspection called on people to examine their interior lives in order to describe how a certain stimulus made them act or feel.
Functionalism was pioneered by the acclaimed philosopher/psychologist William James, who felt that one should try to explain the evolved function of the mind when examining it, rather than describe its structure. James worked on a textbook that is still revered as one of the most eloquent and brilliant introductions of psychology ever written.
In the last century, psychology has seen a number of schools of thought spring up, including Behaviorism, Positivism and the Cognitive Psychology movement. Today, psychology is comprised of a multitude of perspectives that one can use separately or in conjunction to uncover the workings of the mind. Psychology can be defined as the study of human behavior and mental processes.
One debate that has raged on between psychologists has been the question of whether our psychology is influenced more heavily by our genetic makeup or our environment. This is referred to as the debate of nature vs. nurture. We now understand that the development of our minds depends on both our genetics (nature) and our environment (nurture).
Psychology has many subfields of study for prospective psychologists. Counseling psychology, clinical psychology, psychiatry, positive psychology and community psychology are all fields that psychology students can pursue after graduation.
The first chapter of this textbook answers three main questions about psychology: Why do we need to study psychology? How do we study psychology? How do we measure psychological findings? To answer the first question, the authors refer to many examples of human beings thinking that their intuitions, or gut feelings, aid in their judgment-making processes. In reality, their intuitions are actually hindering their abilities to make reasonable judgments. Then the authors discuss how science can aid humans in their critical-thinking skills and their overall perspectives on the world. To answer the second question, the authors refer to the scientific method and the ways in which it is used to conduct worthwhile experiments. Finally, the authors answer the third question by explaining some of the statistical methods utilized to quantify and test experimental data in organized and efficient manners.
Psychology in Modules, a full-length introductory psychology text (identical to the full-length Psychology except organized into 55 short chapters called modules) published by Worth Publishers. The easy-to-digest modules (averaging 12 pages) have few cross-references. This enables instructors to assign the modules in their own preferred order.
APS Fellow David G. Myers is a professor of psychology at Hope College. His scientific writing has appeared in three dozen academic periodicals, and he has published 17 books, including Psychology (10th ed.), Exploring Psychology (9th ed.), and Social Psychology (11th ed.). Myers can be contacted via www.davidmyers.org.
Susan M. Frantz is a psychology instructor at Highline Community College. Her interests include the teaching of psychology and technology for academics. Visit her blog at SueFrantz.com.
C. Nathan DeWall is an associate professor of psychology at the University of Kentucky. His research interests include social acceptance and rejection, self-control, and aggression. DeWall can be contacted at nathan...@uky.edu.
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