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Primary Navigation Want to create or adapt books like this? Learn more about how Pressbooks supports open publishing practices. Book Contents Navigation Acknowledgements What Is Psychology? History of Psychology Contemporary Psychology Careers in Psychology References Learning Objectives Scientific Advances and World Progress What Is Science? Psychology as a Science Psychological Science is Useful Ethics of Scientific Psychology Why Learn About Scientific Psychology? Conclusion Outside Resources Discussion Questions Vocabulary Research Designs Research Methods: Why You Need Them Tradeoffs in Research Surveys Longitudinal Studies Quasi-Experimental Designs Qualitative Designs Correlational Designs Experimental Research Introduction Scientific Versus Everyday Reasoning The Interpretation of Research Results Why Should I Trust Science If It Can’t Prove Anything? Scientific Theories Is Science Objective? Science in Context Distributional Thinking Statistical Significance Generalizability Cause and Effect Conclusions Learners Encoding Activities General Principles of Learning Varieties of Memory Three Stages of the Learning/Memory Process Encoding Storage Retrieval Putting It All Together: Improving Your Memory What Is Eyewitness Testimony? Why Is Eyewitness Testimony an Important Area of Psychological Research? Misinformation Identifying Perpetrators Kinds of Memory Biases False Memory Causes of Forgetting Adaptive Forgetting Amnesia Two Types of Conditioning Useful Things to Know about Classical Conditioning Useful Things to Know about Instrumental Conditioning Putting Classical and Instrumental Conditioning Together Observational Learning What is Attention? Selective Attention Divided Attention and Multitasking Summary The Anatomy of the Brain A Brain Divided Studying the Human Brain The Structure of the Neuron Communication Within and Between Neurons Evolution of the Nervous System Development of the Nervous System The Structure of the Nervous System Studying the Nervous System Masters and Johnson The Anatomy of Pleasure and Reproduction Physiology and the Sexual Response Cycle Sexually Transmitted Infections Sexual Dysfunctions Vision Hearing (Audition) Touch Smell and Taste: The Chemical Senses Putting it all Together: Multimodal Perception A Little Bit of History Where Action Originates The Unconscious in Social Psychological Processes Unconscious Processing and the Role of Attention Conscious Experiences Conscious Experiences of Visual Perception Conscious Experiences of Memory Conscious Experiences of Body Awareness Conscious Experiences of Decision Making Understanding Consciousness Language and Language Use How Do We Use Language? What Do We Talk About? Psychological Consequences of Language Use What Would a Rational Decision Look Like? Biases in Our Decision Process Contemporary Developments Fixing Our Decisions Concluding Thoughts Appendix Previous/next navigation UPEI Introduction to Psychology 1 Copyright © by Philip Smith is licensed u