Psychology in Modules
David G. Myers
Language: English
Pages: 912
ISBN: 1464167524
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
The new edition of Modules includes the same new features and content of Psychology, Eleventh Edition, and like that text, is more than ever a fully integrated text/media learning package. New features (How Would You Know; Assess Your Strengths) move students from reading the chapter to actively learning online. Those features and more are included in the book’s dedicated version of Worth Publishers’ breakthrough online course space, LaunchPad, which brings together a fully integrated e-Book, LearningCurve adaptive quizzing, a rich collection of student media resources, and easy setup, assessment, and course management options for instructors.
and heredity, behavior geneticists would need to design two types of experiments. The first would control the home environment while varying heredity. The second would control heredity while varying the home environment. Such experiments with human infants would be unethical, but happily for our purposes, nature has done this work for us. AP Photo/CP, Derek Oliver Olsen twins The actresses ᭤ Fraternal Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen have often been mistaken for identical twins. As babies and then
were huge, ranging from Egypt, where people disagreed 2 to 1, to Vietnam, where people agreed 11 to 1. The gendered tsunami In Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and India, the gendered division of labor helps explain the excess of female deaths from the 2004 tsunami. In some villages, 80 percent of those killed were women, who were mostly at home while the men were more likely to be at sea fishing or doing out-of-the-home chores (Oxfam, 2005). © DPA/The Image Works role a set of expectations (norms) MOD
The first bit of the axon opens its gates, rather like sewer covers flipping open, and the positively charged “I sing the body electric.” Walt Whitman, “Children of Adam” (1855) 48 MOD U LE 4 Neural and Hormonal Systems Cell body end of axon 2. This depolarization produces another action potential a little farther along the axon. Gates in this neighboring area now open, and charged sodium atoms rush in. Meanwhile, a pump in the cell membrane (the sodium/potassium pump) transports the sodium
the modular structure. For example, Rates of Psychological Disorders is a separate section at the end of the Psychological Disorders chapter in Psychology, Ninth Edition, but it is covered in the first of the Psychological Disorders modules in this modular version. The Modules Are Independent Each module in this book is self-standing rather than dependent upon the others for understanding. Cross references to other parts of the book have been replaced with brief explanations. In some cases,
we consciously attend to at once? Through selective attention, your conscious awareness focuses, like a flashlight beam, on only a very limited aspect of all that you experience. By one estimate, your five senses take in 11,000,000 bits of information per second, of which you consciously process about 40 (Wilson, 2002). Yet your mind’s unconscious track intuitively makes great use of the other 10,999,960 bits. Until reading this sentence, for example, you have been unaware that your shoes are