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Chapter 1:	Introduction to Psychology and Methods of Research
	Is It Psychology or Common Sense?
	Careers in Psychology and Law
	Believing is Seeing
	Psychology Today—The Cultural Context
	Psychology Today—The Historical Context
	Connect the Dots
Chapter 2:	Biological Foundations of Behavior
	Lost in Biospace!
	Know Your Brain!
	Know Your Brain: Major Structures
	Scanning the Brain
	The Nervous System—The Big Picture
	Understanding Genetic Disorders
	The Neuron—Infrastructure of Behavior
Chapter 3:	Sensation and Perception
	If You Can't Do This Netlab, You May Have Monochromotopia!
	Pain-Where Does it Come From? Where Does it Go?
	Build an Ear
	Let’s Hear It for the Ears
	What's So Complicated about Seeing?
	Seeing is Believing
	Pay Attention!
	When Meaning Interferes with Image
Chapter 4:	Consciousness
	Test Your Alcohol Knowledge
	Identifying Sleep Disorders
	Sleeping in Stages
	You are Getting Very Sleepy: Hypnosis Myths
	Which Programs Targeted at Young People Have the Effect of Reducing Alcohol (and Drug) Consumption?
	How Are You Sleeping?
Chapter 5:	Learning
	Learning to Be Helpless
	Learning About Learning
	Learning by Removing, Not Receiving
	Understanding Classical Conditioning
	Test Your Knowledge of Positive Reinforcement
	Identifying the Reinforcers for Your Favorite Psychoactive Substance
Chapter 6:	Memory
	Memories Are Made of This
	How’s Your Memory for Memory?
	How’s Your Short-Term Memory?
	A Chunk of Pie
Chapter 7:	Thinking, Language, and Intelligence
	Avoiding Cognitive Traps
	Avoiding Loss at All Costs
	Developing Language
	It's All in How You Ask the Question
	Mind Benders
	The Ingredients of Thought
	Matchsticks and Squares Problem
	The Yuks and the Nerds
	The Missing Dollar
	What's the Pattern?
	Test Your Intelligence: A psychometric approach
	Test Your Mental Rotation Ability
	Understanding Mental Retardation
Chapter 8:	Motivation and Emotion
	How Do You Say "I Love You"?
	What is Motivation?
	Explaining Motives
	Achievement Motivation
	Autonomic Nervous System: Fight and Flight or Rest and Recover?
	Leader, Leader on the Wall, Who's the Best Leader of Them All?
	NetLab: Intercultural Differences in Perception of Primary Emotions
	Planting the Seeds for Eating Disorders
	Gender Expectations as Motivators
	How Do You Motivate Others?
Chapter 9:	Human Development
	Baby's First Love Affair
	Do You Value Yourself?
	Revisiting Erikson's Stages of the Life Span
	How Does Your Baby Grow?
	Milestones of Motor Development
	Mother and Baby Are Doing Fine
	Test Your Knowledge about Early Childhood Development
	What Does It Take To Succeed in Elementary School?
	Where'd You Get Those Eyes?
	Peers and Psychosocial Development
Chapter 10:	Personality
	Which Jury Consultant Wants You?
	I'm OK, You're OK, Right?
	Name The Perspective
	Testing In The Workplace
	The G-B Three Factor Profile
	Where Do Adult Behaviors Come From?
	What Type of Coworker Do You Find Most Annoying?
	Are You A Chameleon?
	Defensive Strategies
	Developing Morals
	Becoming Gendered: How Others Tell if We Are an "X" or a "Y"
	When Conformity Leads to Danger: Teenagers and Drinking Behavior
	What Is This Thing Called Love?
Chapter 11:	Psychological Disorders
	Depression - The Common Cold of Mental Disorders
	The Case of the Confused Clerk
	Alcohol - America's Favorite Medication
	What You Don't Know Can Hurt You
	The Insanity Plea - Coddling Criminals or Protecting the Mentally Ill?
	You Be the Jury
	Schizophrenic Thoughts and Talk
	Jenna's Case: One DisorderMany Causes
	SuicideA Public Health Problem
	The Case Of Jackson And Jared: Somatoform And Dissociative DisordersTesting Reality
	Schizophrenia: What's The Question?
	Schizophrenic Thought And Talk
	How Much Do You Know About Suicide?
	What's The Problem With This Person?
Chapter 12:	Methods of Therapy
	Name That Therapy!
	What's My Specialty?
Chapter 13:	Psychology and Health
	Living Well Is The Best Revenge
	Coping with Stess
	How We Kill Ourselves
	What's So Bad About Being Mad?
	Putting Common Sense To The Test (Health)
	What Do You Know About Stress?
	When Trauma Causes Severe Stress
Chapter 14:	Social Psychology
	Creating Cop-Outs
	Primed for Perception: Evaluating Persons
	I Believe in Equal Opportunity: Affirmitive Action In The Workplace
	I'll Figure it Out for Myself, Thanks - Critical Thinking and Persuasion
	Doing Social Psychology Research
	Putting Common Sense To The Test (Attitudes)
	Putting Common Sense To The Test (Attraction And Close Relationships)
	Putting Common Sense To The Test (Perceiving Persons)
	Putting Common Sense To The Test (Perceiving Groups)
	Putting Common Sense To The Test: The Social Self
	What Do You Know About Prejudice?
	How Far Would You Go in Response to Demands for Obedience?
	Maybe I'll Help and Maybe I Won't: Calculating the Costs of Helping
	What's Aggression and What's Not?
	What's Your GBQ (Group Behavior Quotient)?
	Does it Pay to be a Snitch?
	Are Men Really More Aggressive Than Women?
	Does Self-Interest Pay?
	Helping Others—It Begins In Childhood
	Putting Common Sense To The Test (Aggression)
	Putting Common Sense To The Test (Conformity)
	Putting Common Sense To The Test (Group Processes)
	Putting Common Sense To The Test Helping Others)
	What Does It Take To Be A Leader?
	Whom Do You Trust: Stereotypes And Credibility
	Distinguishing Social Psychology From Psychology