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ESSENTIALS of PSYCHOLOGY ESSENTIALS of PSYCHOLOGY Essentials of Psychology,Fourth Edition, Action sections,a review of key terms, offers an integrated pedagogical system and multiple-choice questions. designed to help students get the most out of their reading.Hallmark features include Two optional chapters on Industrial/ an outline, a preview statement, preview Organizational Psychologyand questions, instructional captions, In Review Neuropsychologycan be packaged charts, and a marginal glossary. Each with the text upon request.Please chapter ends with an Active Review that consult your sales representative includes a Linkages diagram, a chapter for further details. summary, Learn by Doing and Step into 304440_ch03_084134 / 1 3 Introduction to the Science of Psychology Sensation and Perception TheS Wubofirledld osf o Pfs Pyscyhcohloolgoyg:yAn4 Overview4 Linkages Within Psychology and Beyond7 A Brief History of Psychology10 SSeennCAssioobndrsgyion alSguny tSdeset PTenhemsrraecstesiohivn8ois6lnd: gsD :t iIdhs e YS oWoumo Fereltdheli nTg8h6 aOtu?t T8h7ere?87 AppTTTTrhhhhoeeeea BEPBcvshieoyohelclsoahu vgtotioiiodco arytnalhna lAea rAy pmS ppAcipcripeo rAopnaparccohcpeahr oochf1a 14cPh6s1y5c1h6ology14 Seeing 90 The Cognitive Approach16 LFCSTCiooeghocenheluoivtonsrerigbnire 9ltgCisi0nn o Lodgliofgn LrCheisgotshl9ot49r 9i 0nV6tisoi oImnag9e4s92 HT(ohurim nTTFAihhkavneieneny IHtgQDmh uiuCipvmneraegiscatrt tinsEi coioilatssnfytle lsiS yc)a of nAoAcdirp2bo 1pCocPurrusoilytttai cucPchrahsaoly llT c1oDhh7giiovnyelkorisgni1tyg8y o2n2 Psychology19 Hearing 98 Critical Thinking and Scientific Research24 Sound98 Research Methods in Psychology26 TSheeTCnSOO ThCosmouueidhnuer rieE g cnlSSlmah ,geYe r T inanoScanssuaos9eedrtlu9 e oSonBT,fe efdoa nmSsTdnasmydpes ee1tsFerl:0lla1aT1t0avu161osr0t0ree53 a11n00d26 Smell 102 SNCSCEFLeuxaoOIaNlpsrrteverCueceKe rrtSUlayiiaAmtnlstSuig:isGe do tL nOHiinoEcetau ossSNOl:m:k :SbET i anRatxsPungekpsEd r iylPanvoSicaetgarhE rsitt nota:ihA iogl LceoCnRio pCglB:ooC aaiWicksgnuHaei tanslPrs :et gRi Lc cfS aeohotftunsooiurne rdrkdReag RyeEr Becisfn2hflee2ae6g ah7atc raiEtncovMhdni o3sDhr0R3ip52s36229 PTSaReHiennIlsiNeinv1Kge0 I 6BPNoaGdiny ? 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PREVIEW Have you ever forgotten where you parked your car? Have you ever had a name on the tip of your tongue, but couldn’t quite recall it? Researchers in the field of memory explore these common experiences. Memoryis a complex process of storing and retrieving information. You use different kinds of memory for different types of information, such as personal experiences, specific skills, and abstract concepts. Once information is stored in your memory, recalling it can sometimes be difficult. In this chapter, you will learn about some techniques Preview Statement that can help you to retrieve memories. What psychologists have learned about memory has been used to create study techniques that really work! Reading this chapter will help you to answer the following questions: (cid:2)How does information turn into memories? 208 (cid:2)What am I most likely to remember? 213 (cid:2)How do I retrieve stored memories? 218 (cid:2)How accurate are my memories? 222 Preview Questions (cid:2)What causes me to forget things? 227 (cid:2)How does my brain change when I store a memory? 234 (cid:2)How can I remember more information? 237 “I’ll make him an offer he can’t refuse.”“I’ll be back.”“Trust no one.”“Life is like a box ofchocolates.”“I see dead people.”“Show me the money.”“Is that Forgetting your final answer?”Do you remember where you heard these words? They are memorable lines from The Godfather,The Terminator,The X-Files,Forrest Gump,The Sixth Sense,Jerry Maguire,and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.Can you say who Private Ryan was and why he needed to be saved? And do you know which clas- Preview Question (cid:2) What causes me to forget things? sic film character said “Play it again,Sam”? (Ifyou don’t,ask a friend who knows about old movies.) The most common answer to the latter question is Rick,the café owner played by Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca.Bogart never actually said this often-quoted The frustrations offorgetting—where you left your lkineey,sth,otuhghe maannys wpeeorp let oar ea s utrees tth eqy u“reemsteimobner,”it. an anniversary—are apparent to most people nearly Yeovuer rmye mdoaryy st(oNrese viassste arm,o2un0t0s 0ofbu)s.efuLl eatn’ds not-so-useful information from all ofyour experiences.This chapter will help you understand the nature ofmemory— look more closely at the nature offorgetting and whhoawt ycoau ufosrems mite.mories,how memory errors happen,and how you forget. The Nature of Memory (cid:2) How does information turn into memories? Memory is a funny thing.You might be able to remember the name ofyour first-grade teacher,but not the name ofsomeone you met five minutes ago.Mathematician John Griffith estimated that in an average lifetime,a person stores roughly five hundred 208 Summary THE NATURE OF MEMORY capacity oflong-term memory to store new information is extremely Preview Question (cid:2) How does information turn into memories? laa rrgecee anncdy epfefrehctapsus gugnelsitms ittheadt. sThhoer ta-ptepremar aanndce l oonfga- pterrimm amcye mefofercyt manady Human memory depends on a complex mental system.There are be distinct systems. three basic memory processes.Encodingtransforms stimulus infor- RETRIEVING MEMORIES mation into some type ofmental representation.Material can be encoded by acoustic (sound), visual (appearance), or semantic (cid:2) How do I retrieve stored memories? (meaning) codes.Storagemaintains information in the memory sys- Retrieval cueshelp people remember things that they would other- tem over time.Retrievalis the process ofgaining access to previously wise not be able to recall.The effectiveness ofretrieval cues follows stored information. the encoding specificity principle:Cues help retrieval only ifthey Mostpsychologistsagreethatthereareatleastthreetypesof iii An Integrated Pedagogical System 190 Chapter 5 Learning wREINFORCEMENT AND PUNISHMENT In Review Chartssummarize information e viConcept Description Example or Comment in a convenient format and offer three n re Preoinsiftoivrecement aIitn pcwrleeitaahss iatnhnget , tpphroees sifetrienvqetau steitonimncy uo lofu fas a op bro eesihxtpiavveeiro irere nibncyefo froclelor—wing Yhoaurd s taoy p“Georfoodrm jo ab !t”aasfkt.er someone works new fill-in-the -blank self-testing items to i further aid student learning and review of Negative Increasing the frequency of a behavior by following You learn to use the “mute”button on the TV reinforcement it with the removal of an unpleasant stimulus or remote control to remove the sound of an experience obnoxious commercial. the chapter material. Escape conditioning Learning to make a response that removes an A little boy learns that crying will cut short unpleasant stimulus the time that he must stay in his room. Avoidance Learning to make a response that avoids You slow your car to the speed limit when conditioning an unpleasant stimulus you spot a police car,thus avoiding being stopped and reducing the fear of a fine; very resistant to extinction. Punishment Decreasing the frequency of a behavior by either You swat the dog after it steals food from presenting an unpleasant stimulus (punishment 1) the table,or you take a favorite toy away or removing a pleasant one (punishment 2, from a child who misbehaves.A number of or penalty) cautions should be kept in mind before using punishment. Instructional captionsfor all ?1.Taking an aspirin can relieve headache pain,so people learn to do so through the process of reinforcement. figures,tables,photographs, 2.The “walk”sign that tells people it is safe to cross the street is an example of a stimulus. 3.Response rates tend to be higher under schedules of reinforcement than under schedules. and cartoons reiterate core concepts and help to interpret more productive lives (e.g.,Alberto,Troutman,& Feagin,2002;Pear & Martin,2002). Online Study Center These programs include establishing goal behaviors,choosing reinforcers and punishers, visual material. Improve Your Grade and developing a systematic plan for applying them to achieve desired changes.Many Tutorial:Reinforcement self-help books also incorporate principles ofpositive reinforcement,recommending and Punishment self-reward following each small victory in people’s efforts to lose weight,stop smoking, avoid procrastination,or reach other goals (e.g.,Grant & Kim,2002;Rachlin,2000). When people cannot do anything to alter the consequences ofa behavior,discrim- inative stimuli may hold the key to changing that behavior.For example,people often find it easier to quit smoking if,at first,they stay away from bars and other places where there are discriminative stimuli for smoking.Old cues can trigger old beChealvlsio or,f stoh et hNeeyrvous System 51 should avoid the old cues until new behavior can be established.Stimulus control can also help alleviate insomnia.Insomniacs tend to use their beds for activities such as watching television,writing letters,reading magazines,worrying,and so FonI.GSoUonR thEe 2.3 bsleedepro boemco bmeceo lmesse sa na dd ilsecsrs ilmikienlay.tiSvtei mstuimluus lcuosn ftororl stoh emraapnyye ancctoivuirtaiegse st hinats ormeClaonxmiaatcmiso utnon aiucnsadetion Between Neurons Cboedlly their beds only for sleeping,and perhaps sex,making it more likely that Wthheeyn wstiilml uslleaetipon of a neuron reaches a better when in bed (Edinger et al.,2001). certain level,the neuron fires,sending an action potential shooting to the end of 1.An action potential itsaxon and triggering the release of a shoots down the axon, Associations between conditioned LINKAGEnpSeroucreostsra sntsimmuitltaetre sin ntoei gthheb osyrinnagp nsee.uTrhoinss away from the cell body. 1 Axon play an srietmismppoounrlits aensat n radon lder eintfhl elexeiears r ncioonnrg s,ebbqueuttew nhecoeewns Networks of Learniaancngtdio mn apyo ctaeunstiea ltsh.em to fire their own 2.Are lneeausreodt rinatnos mthiett esry nisapse, Neurotransmitters are they actually stored in the brain? No one yet knows for sure,but associative net- where the dendrites of work models provide a good way ofthinking about the process.As suggested in the neighboring neurons detect it. See enlarged area. Synapse 2 3.If there is a receptor for this neurotransmitter Marginal Calloutsin the text onneu trhoet rdaennsdmriittteesr, athned 3 receptor bind, creating Receptors for show students the online an electrochemical signal. Dendrite neurotransmitters 4 Tutorials available,which help 4.If that signal is strong to illustrate key topics. ethneo udgehn,d irti tsepsr aenadds a dcroowsns Cell body the cell body of the next neuron, and begins another action potential. affair:The cell either fires its action potential at full strength or it does not fire at all. Once a cell has fired,a very short recovery time called the refractory period follows, during which the cell cannot fire again.Even so,neurons are able to fire as often as 1,000 times per second.The speed ofan action potential ranges from about 5 to about 260 miles per hour and depends on the thickness or diameter ofthe axon—larger ones are faster—and on the presence ofmyelin (pronounced “MY-a-lin”).Myelinis a fatty substance that wraps around some axons like a stocking and speeds up action poten- tials.When a neuron fires,dendrites in the next cell detect the message and send the signal to their cell body. Synapses and Communication Between Neurons How do the dendrites detect a signal from another neuron? As shown in Figure 2.3,it works a little like the game oftag you played as a child.In this neural communication tag game,however,one neuron “sends”a tag without actually touching the next neuron. 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The Trait Approach 427 FIGURE 11.2 Two Personality Profiles Industry 2blyedaorinngTarlaitiyt itnh etoerrmy ds eosfc trhibee sst preenrsgothn- of particular dimensions,or Figure and Photo Captions tinranietrs-.cHiteyr eso acriea lt wraoitr kperor,fialneds fJoamr Reos,dan esya,leasn Generosity clerk.Compared with James,Rodney is about equally industrious;more generous; Dozens of new figure and photo captions asinvde .leJussst n feorrv fouuns,,mexatrrka vtehrist efidg,uarned t oag igndrei-s- Nervousness cate how strong you think you are on each of the listed traits.Trait theorists suggest identified with a “Learn by Doing”symbol tchaauts et,htish esyh osualyd, vbiert euaasllyy feovre yroyoun teo ddiosp blaey-s Extraversion a certain amount of almost any personal- reinforce concepts by suggesting ways ity characteristic. Aggression in which students can demonstrate the Low Moderate High concepts for themselves. Strength of trait Rodney James Source:Costa & McCrae (1992). that organize and control behavior in many different situations.Central traits are roughly equivalent to the descriptive terms used in letters ofrecommendation (reliable or distractible,for example) that are meant to tell what can be expected from a person most ofthe time (Schultz & Schultz,2005).Allport also believed that people possess secondary traits—those that are more specific to certain situations and control far less behavior.“Dislikes crowds”is an example ofa secondary trait. (cid:2) Applying Psychology Photos applying SELECTING A JURY psychologySome psychologists employ trait theories of personality in advising prosecution or These photos highlight the diversity of djuerfoerns saer ea tmtoorsnte lyikse alyb otou tb we hsyicmh ppaottheenttiical to their side of a court case. applied psychology. p p y p p y 3.People differ in how much ofa particular personality trait they possess;no two people are exactly alike on all traits.The result is an endless variety ofunique personalities. In short,psychologists who take the traitapproachsee personality as a combina- Learn by Doing Icon tion ofstable internal characteristics that people display consistently over time and across situations (Pervin et al.,2005).Trait theorists seek to measure the relative strength ofthe many personality characteristics that they believe are present in every- one (see Figure 11.2). A symbol appears next to the text where Early Trait Theories Today’s trait theories ofpersonality are largely based on the work ofGordon Allport and active learning opportunities occur. Raymond Cattell.(The contributions ofanother early trait theorist,Hans Eysenck,are discussed later.) Allport spent thirty years searching for the traits that combine to form personality.When he looked at the nearly 18,000 dictionary terms that can be used to describe human behavior (Allport & Odbert,1936),he noticed that there are clusters of terms referring refer to the same thing.For example,hostile,nasty,and meanall convey sttoiroanniat olaitfpy ps ttrahobaaltce vh ciehwaArs a pictet earsrspi stethciects icv toehm aotbn pi npeaeo-rp-le 2obnlyedlyao rainn fgew aaat trrisevai meliit,k ialelaan bmrd em oljsso.etta A pndlelioopnwpogn.lret T, aobyll oe blutihee twvet eeepdrre e urt sahnobadnltee ar tlthsiotteay cn satderpt at tiuohtsrfi estl haycboaluteu slrdst e ertreshiclnaargttii b,vdetee h’tssih cnpriksei b rposeoef ranas ao plcnialto.rytsI iuefc suyriloenalugr- display over time and across situations. person reflects that person’s central traits—those that are usually obvious to others and Put It in Writing and Personal Learning Activity 2 Learn by Doing As part of the Active Review section, Put It in Writing Personal Learning Activity What is stress like for you? To help you understand the role ofstress To get an idea ofthe differences in people’s stress-coping methods,cre- in your life,write a page or two describing a stressful incident that ate a one-paragraph story about a stressful situation (such as losing a Put It in Writinginvites readers to write you had to face in the recent past.Identify what the stressors were, job,having one’s home destroyed by fire,working for an obnoxious boss, and classify each ofthem as physical or psychological.List your phys- or being overburdened by schoolwork).Now show this description to ical,emotional,cognitive,and behavioral responses to these stressors, ten people and ask each ofthem to tell you how they would cope with about a specific chapter topic,and and how long the responses lasted.Include a briefsummary ofhow the situation ifit happened to them.Classify each oftheir coping meth- you coped with these stressors and how successful your coping efforts ods as problem focused or emotion focused.Did you notice any rela- were.Some research suggests that writing about stressful experiences tionships between the kind ofcoping responses these people chose and Personal Learning Activityprovides cparnoj ehcetl ph apveeo panley tsou cdhe abl ewnietfiht st hfoosre yeoxup?e rFioenr cmeso.rDe idab tohuist wwrriittiinngg tehnecier wpeitrhs osntrael ssc?h aIfrascot,erwishtyic sd,os uycohu aths iangke ,thgoesned reer,laettiohnnsichiitpy,s oarp peexapreerdi-? and health,visit http://homepage.psy.utexas.edu/homepage/faculty/ For additional projects,see the Personal Learning Activities in the corre- another opportunity to do psychology— pennebaker/Home2000/WritingandHealth.html sponding chapter ofthe study guide that accompanies this text. not just read about it. vi Thinking Critically A dedicated section in each chapter helps improve this vital skill. Some researchers and clinicians worry THINKING CRITICALLY Structured around five questions, that problems with the reliability and these sections encourage readers to validity ofthe diagnostic system are due Is Psychological partly to bias in its construction and use.They Diagnosis Biased? analyze material before drawing point out,for example,that if the criteria for conclusions: diagnosing a certain disorder were based on research that focused on only one gender,one ethnic group,or one age group,those cri- • What am I being asked to believe teria might not apply to other groups.Moreover,diagnosticians,like other people,hold expectations and make assumptions about males versus females and about individuals or accept? from differing cultures or ethnic groups.These cognitive biases could color their judg- • Is there evidence available to ments and might lead them to apply diagnostic criteria in ways that are slightly but sig- nificantly different from one case to the next (Garb,1997;Hartung & Widiger,1998). support the claim? • ■ What am I being asked to believe or accept? Can that evidence be interpreted Here,we focus on ethnicity as a possible source ofbias in diagnosing psychopathology. another way? It is ofspecial interest because there is evidence that,like social class and gender,eth- • What evidence would help to nicity is an important sociocultural factor in the development ofmental disorder.The assertion to be considered is that clinicians in the United States base their diagnoses evaluate the alternatives? partly on a client’s ethnic background and,more specifically,that there is bias in diag- • What conclusions are most nosing African Americans. reasonable? ■ What evidence is available to support the claim? Several facts suggest the possibility ofethnic bias in psychological diagnosis.For exam- ple,African Americans receive the diagnosis ofschizophrenia more frequently than Euro- pean Americans do (Manderscheid & Barrett,1987;Minsky et al.,2003;Pavkov,Lewis, & Lyons, 1989). Further, relative to their presence in the general population,African Americans are overrepresented in public mental hospitals,where the most serious forms of disorder are seen,and they are underrepresented in private hospitals and outpatient New! Active Learningand THINKING CRITICALLY Critical Thinkingbooklets provide a wealth of thought- What Can fMRI Tell Us about Behavior and Mental Processes 58 provoking,hands-on activities Does Acupuncture Relieve Pain 109 that help students to apply Can Subliminal Messages Change Your Behavior 139 key concepts to their own Does Watching Violence on Television Make People More experiences and develop Violent 197 important critical thinking Can Traumatic Memories Be Repressed, Then Recovered 230 skills.Both of these password- Are Intelligence Tests Unfairly Biased Against Certain Groups 283 protected booklets may be What Shapes Sexual Orientation 313 accessed from the Online Study Centervia a passkey Does Day Care Harm the Emotional Development of Infants 364 packaged upon request with Does Hostility Increase the Risk of Heart Disease 409 the text.Instructor versions Are Personality Traits Inherited 430 of these booklets are available Is Psychological Diagnosis Biased 464 on the Online Teaching Center. Are All Forms of Therapy Equally Effective 518 Please consult your sales Does Pornography Cause Aggression 572 representative for further details. vii Focus on Research Highlighting a particular study,these sections emphasize the value of research and the creativity with which it is often conducted. These sections are organized around five questions: Why is self-esteem so important to so FOCUS ON RESEARCH • many people? An intriguing answer What was the researcher’s to this question comes from the Self-Esteem and the question? terror management theory proposed by Jeff Ultimate Terror Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, and Sheldon • How did the researcher answer Solomon.This theory is based on the notion the question? that humans are the only creatures capable ofthinking about the future and realizing that we will all eventually die.Terror management theory suggests that humans cope with anx- • What did the researcher find? iety,including the terror that thoughts about death might bring,by developing a variety • ofself-protective psychological strategies.One ofthese is the effort to establish and main- What do the results mean? tain high self-esteem (Greenberg,Pyszczynski,& Solomon,2003;Pyszczynski et al.,2004). • What do we still need to know? ■ What was the researchers’ question? In one series ofexperiments,Greenberg and his colleagues (1992) asked whether high self-esteem would, in fact, serve as a buffer against anxiety—specifically, the anxiety brought on by thoughts about death and pain. ■ How did the researchers answer the question? About 150 students at several North American universities participated in one ofthree studies,each ofwhich followed a similar format.The first step was to temporarily alter the participants’self-esteem.To do so,the researchers gave the students feedback about a personality or intelligence test they had taken earlier in the semester.Half the par- ticipants received positive feedback designed to increase their self-esteem. The other halfreceived feedback that was neutral—it was neither flattering nor depressing.(Mea- surement of the students’self-esteem showed that the positive feedback actually did create higher self-esteem than the neutral feedback.) In the next phase ofeach experi- ment,the researchers used either a film about death or the (false) threat ofa mild elec- tric shock to provoke some anxiety in half the participants in the positive-feedback FOCUS ON RESEARCH group and halfthe participants in the neutral-feedback group.The amount ofanxiety created was measured by the participants’self-reports or by monitoring galvanic skin resistance (GSR),a measure of perspiration in their skin that reflects anxiety-related Studying EMDR 32 physiological arousal (Dawson,Schell,& Filion,2000). The Case of the Disembodied Woman 67 Attention and the Brain 128 Subliminal Messages in Rock Music 141 The “I Can’t Do It” Attitude 192 I Could Swear I Heard It! 223 Problem-Solving Strategies in the Real World 258 Tell Me About Your Sex Life 309 What Do Infants Know About Physics 352 Personality and Health 405 Personality Development over Time 441 Exploring Links Between Child Abuse and Antisocial Personality Disorder 486 Which Therapies Work Best for Which Problems 519 Self-Esteem and the Ultimate Terror 541 viii Linkages The Linkagesfeature reflects the relationships among the subfields of psychology. ACTIVE REVIEW Sensation and Perception Linkages Linkages Diagram As noted in the introductory LINKAGES In the Active Review section at the chapter, all of psychology’s sub- CHAPTER 9 fields are related to one another. end of each chapter,a Linkages Our discussion of the development of per- How do infants HUMAN ception illustrates just one way in which perceive the world? DEVELOPMENT the topic of this chapter, sensation and (ans. on p. 125) diagrampresents three ques- perception, is linked to the subfield of developmental psychology, which is de- CHAPTER 3 CHAPTER 12 tions to illustrate how material in scribed in the chapter on human develop- mtmweoonr eto. t tThieheser t sLhuirnbokfiuaegglhdeoss,u dati nathdge rta hbmeor osehk ao. rLweos om tkiaeinns gyto SEPNESRACTEIOPTNIO ANND rDehaoal( aplslneuesonc. pisonlonear tpypi.o ee4nrv8cse1e na)ivstse? PSYDCISHOORLDOEGRICSAL tchhea pcthearps tienr tihs ere blaotoekd. to other for linkages among subfields will help you see how they all fit together and help you CHAPTER 14 better appreciate the big picture that is psychology Do we sometimes Marginal Callouts The Linkages diagram directs HLoINw KdoA iGnfEanSts perceive the We have seen that perception is influ- LINKAGES world? (a link to Human enced by the knowledge and expe- students to the pages that carry Development) rience we gain over time,but what Perception and Human perceptual abilities do we start with? To learn Development further discussion of each about infants’perception,psychologists have studied two inborn patterns called habituation question,where a marginal and dishabituation.Infants stop looking when they repeatedly see stimuli that they per- ceive to be the same.This is habituation.Ifthey see a stimulus that is perceived to be calloutappears. new and different,they resume looking.This is dishabituation.Using the habituation/ dishabituation technique,researchers have found that newborns can perceive differ- ences in stimuli showing various amounts ofblack-and-white contrast but that they cannot yet distinguish differences between colors (Burr,Morrone,& Fiorentini,1996). Other studies using the same methods have shown that newborns can perceive differ- ences in the angles oflines (Slater et al.,1991).Taken together,these studies suggest that we are born with the basic components offeature detection. A l b ithth bilit t bi f t i t ti f h l LINKAGES Linkages Sections Psychological Research and Behavioral Genetics 37 One of the questions in the Human Development and the Changing Brain 73 Linkages diagram is discussed at length in the chapter’s special Perception and Human Development 125 section titled Linkages. Meditation, Health, and Stress 154 Networks of Learning 190 Memory and Perception in the Courtroom 225 Group Processes in Problem Solving and Decision Making 268 Conflicting Motives and Stress 321 Development and Memory 358 Stress and Psychological Disorders 398 Personality, Culture, and Human Development 440 Anxiety Disorders and Learning 469 Biology, Behavior, and the Treatment of Psychological Disorders 531 Biological and Social Psychology 582 ix

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