Exploring Psychology, 9th Edition
David G. Myers
Language: English
Pages: 581
ISBN: 1464111723
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
This new edition provides a state-of-the-art introduction to psychology that merges the rigor of science with a broad human perspective. All the Myers’ hallmarks are here—the vivid presentation, intense attention to detail and currency in the field, research-based study aids and media learning tools, and above all, the inviting, authorial voice of David Myers that speaks to the life experiences of all kinds of students.
Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology
The Tell: The Little Clues That Reveal Big Truths about Who We Are
Good Stuff: Generosity, Resilience, Humility, Gratitude, Forgiveness, and Sacrifice
Forensic Psychology For Dummies
confrontation, blunt honesty, and uncomfortable topics, people often defer to others’ wishes and display a polite, selfeffacing humility (Markus & Kitayama, 1991). Elders and superiors receive respect, and duty to family may trump personal career preferences. In new groups, collectivists may be shy and more easily embarrassed than are individualist Westerners (Singelis et al., 1995, 1999). People in Japanese and Chinese cultures, for example, exhibit greater shyness toward strangers and greater
Developmental psychology examines how people are continually developing— physically, cognitively, and socially—from infancy through old age. Much of its research centers on three major issues: 1. Nature / nurture: How do genetic inheritance (our nature) and experience (the nurture we receive) influence our development? 2. Continuity / stages: Is development a gradual, continuous process like riding an escalator, or does it proceed through a sequence of separate stages, like climbing rungs on a
cycles, usually within a few years of age 50. Will she see it as a sign that she is losing her femininity and growing old? Or will she view it as liberation from menstrual periods and fears of pregnancy? As in so many areas, her expectations and attitudes will influence the emotional impact of this event. Men experience no equivalent to menopause—no cessation of fertility, no sharp drop in sex hormones. They do experience a gradual decline in sperm count, testosterone level, and speed of erection
occur naturally in sets of random data. Our tendency to interpret these patterns as meaningful connections may be an attempt to make sense of the world around us. 10 How do experiments, powered by random assignment, clarify cause and effect? To discover cause-effect relationships, psychologists conduct experiments, manipulating one or more factors of interest and controlling other factors. Random assignment minimizes preexisting differences between the experimental group (exposed to the
Stage 1 (FIGURE 3.9). In one of his 15,000 research participants, William Dement (1999) observed the moment the brain’s perceptual window to the outside world slammed shut. Dement asked this sleep-deprived young man, lying on his back with eyelids taped open, to press a button every time a strobe light flashed in his eyes (about every 6 seconds). After a few minutes the young man missed one. Asked why, he said, “Because there was no flash.” But there was a flash. He missed it because (as his