Introduction to Psychology

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Saylor URL: http://www.saylor.org/books Saylor.org Preface When I first started teaching Introduction to Psychology, I found it ...

Saylor URL: http://www.saylor.org/books Saylor.org The length of existing textbooks was creating a real and unnecessary impedime ...

Saylor URL: http://www.saylor.org/books Saylor.org Approach and Pedagogy I wrote this book to help students organize their think ...

Saylor URL: http://www.saylor.org/books Saylor.org My focus on behavior and empiricism has produced a text that is better organi ...

Saylor URL: http://www.saylor.org/books Saylor.org Chapter 1 Introducing Psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind a ...

Saylor URL: http://www.saylor.org/books Saylor.org This chapter provides an introduction to the broad field of psychology and th ...

Saylor URL: http://www.saylor.org/books Saylor.org appeared to have a relationship made in heaven, we try to determine what happ ...

Saylor URL: http://www.saylor.org/books Saylor.org Research Focus: Unconscious Preferences for the Letters of Our Own Name A stu ...

Saylor URL: http://www.saylor.org/books Saylor.org three letters of their partner’s name (only 36% of the time). Furthermore, th ...

Saylor URL: http://www.saylor.org/books Saylor.org inquiry. Scientists therefore draw a distinction between values and facts. Va ...

Saylor URL: http://www.saylor.org/books Saylor.org Table 1.1 Examples of Values and Facts in Scientific Research Personal value ...

Saylor URL: http://www.saylor.org/books Saylor.org The same topic can be studied within psychology at different levels of explan ...

Saylor URL: http://www.saylor.org/books Saylor.org A major goal of psychology is to predict behavior by understanding its causes ...

Saylor URL: http://www.saylor.org/books Saylor.org than people who score lower on the same test, but we cannot make very accurat ...

Saylor URL: http://www.saylor.org/books Saylor.org The hindsight bias leads us to think that we could have predicted events tha ...

Saylor URL: http://www.saylor.org/books Saylor.org [6] Brendl, C. M., Chattopadhyay, A., Pelham, B. W., & Carvallo, M. (2005 ...

Saylor URL: http://www.saylor.org/books Saylor.org The approaches that psychologists have used to assess the issues that interes ...

Saylor URL: http://www.saylor.org/books Saylor.org Figure 1.5 Timeline Showing Some of the Most Important Psychologists ...

Saylor URL: http://www.saylor.org/books Saylor.org Although it cannot capture every important psychologist, this timeline shows ...