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The Norton Psychology.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Marcus, Gary, 1970-
Contributor:
GIC Course Text Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Psychology.
Local Subjects:
Psychology.
Summary:
If you've ever wondered about the mind and behavior, the "Norton Psychology Reader is the perfect place to start. From the biological basis of emotion to the psychological basis of culture, from the nature of nurture to the nature of intelligence, with selections by leading scientists with a knack for writing--including Steven Pinker, Joseph Ledoux, Antonio Damasio, Oliver Sacks, and Robert Sapolsky--and top-notch journalists with an uncanny sense for psychology--including Natalic Angier, Daniel Goleman, and Sylvia Nasar--the "Norton Psychology Reader presents the best that psychology has to offer. Edited by noted New York University psychologist Gary Marcus, the "Norton psychology Reader is an unparalleled guided tour through the modern science of the human mind and a perfect companion to any introductory psychology course, filled with insights completely accessible to the interested lay reader.
Contents:
Chapter 1 Pioneers 1
From The Principles of Psychology / William James 3
From The Unconscious / Sigmund Freud 12
Chapter 2 Methods 18
From How to Lie with Statistics / Darrell Huff 20
From How to Think Straight about Psychology / Keith Stanovich 27
Chapter 3 Evolution and Genes 38
From How the Mind Works / Steven Pinker 39
From The Birth of the Mind: How a Tiny Number of Genes Create the Complexities of Human Thought / Gary Marcus 45
Chapter 4 The Brain 57
From Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain / Antonio R. Damasio 58
From The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales / Oliver Sacks 70
Chapter 5 Sensation and Perception 80
From Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See / Donald D. Hoffman 81
From Sensory Exotica: A World beyond Human Experience / Howard C. Hughes 91
Chapter 6 Language 96
From The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language / Steven Pinker 97
From The Atoms of Language: The Mind's Hidden Rules of Grammar / Mark C. Baker 108
Chapter 7 Learning 115
Conditioned Emotional Reactions / John B. Watson, Rosalie Rayner 117
A Review of B. F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior / Noam Chomsky 129
From Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think / Marc D. Hauser 137
Chapter 8 Cognitive Development 145
From The Scientist in the Crib: Minds, Brains, and How Children Learn / Alison Gopnik, Patricia Kuhl, Andrew Meltzoff 146
From Descartes' Baby: How the Science of Child Development Explains What Makes Us Human / Paul Bloom 154
Chapter 9 Memory and Cognition 164
From Searching for Memory: The Brain, the Mind, and the Past / Daniel L. Schacter 165
From The Illusion of Conscious Will / Daniel M. Wegner 177
Chapter 10 Intelligence 187
From The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life / Richard J. Herrnstein, Charles Murray 188
From Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ / Daniel Goleman 199
Chapter 11 Motivation and Stress 209
From Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 210
From Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: An Updated Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping / Robert M. Sapolsky 223
Chapter 12 Emotion 232
From The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life / Joseph LeDoux 233
From Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life / Paul Ekman 245
From Woman: An Intimate Biography / Natalie Angier 255
Chapter 13 Social Psychology 263
From Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion / Robert B. Cialdini 265
From The Tending Instinct: How Nurturing Is Essential to Who We Are and How We Live / Shelley Taylor 273
Chapter 14 Personality 282
From Galen's Prophecy: Temperament in Human Nature / Jerome Kagan 283
From The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do / Judith Rich Harris 291
Personality Plus / Malcolm Gladwell 304
Chapter 15 Culture 317
From Human Universals / Donald E. Brown 318
From The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently... and Why / Richard E. Nisbett 330
From Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution / Peter J. Richerson, Robert Boyd 335
Chapter 16 Disorders 342
From A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash / Sylvia Nasar 343
From An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness / Kay Redfield Jamison 349
From Thinking in Pictures, and Other Reports from My Life with Autism / Temple Grandin 358
Chapter 17 Treatment 365
From Listening to Prozac: A Psychiatrist Explores Antidepressant Drugs and the Remaking of the Self / Peter D. Kramer 366
From Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders / Aaron T. Beck 380.
ISBN:
9780393927122

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