Includes bibliographical references and index.

Psychology and scientific thinking : a framework for everyday life -- Research methods : safeguards against error -- Biological psychology : bridging the levels of analysis -- Sensation and perception : how we sense and conceptualize the world -- Consciousness : expanding the boundaries of psychological inquiry -- Learning : how nurture changes us -- Memory : constructing and reconstructing our pasts -- Language, thinking, and reasoning : getting inside our talking heads -- Intelligence and IQ testing : controversy and consensus -- Human development : how and why we change -- Emotion and motivation : what moves us -- Stress, coping, and health : the mind-body interconnection -- Social psychology : how others affect us -- Personality : who we are -- Psychological disorders : when adaptation breaks down -- Psychological and biomedical treatments : helping people change.