General Introduction: Overview

General Introduction: Overview

1. Research Methods (Chapter 1)

   • Making Observations
     • Defining the Question
     • Systematically Collecting Data
     • Defining the Sample
     • Assessing External Validity
     • Monitoring Demand Characteristics
   • Working with Data
     • Descriptive Statistics
       • Means and Variability
       • Correlations
       • Correlations and Reliability
       • Validity of Measure
     • Inferential Statistics
       • Testing Differences
   • Research Ethics
   • The Power of Science
   • Observational Studies
     • Ambiguity about Causation
   • Establishing Cause and Effect: The Power of Experiments
     • Experimental Groups versus Control Groups
     • Random Assignment
     • Internal Validity
     • Within-Subject Comparisons
     • External Validity
     • Beyond the Single Experiment

2. The Genetic and Revolutionary Roots of Behavior (Chapter 2)

   • Genetics and DNA
     • Genes
     • Gene Expression
     • Gene Transmission
     • Interactions among Genes
     • Polygenic Inheritance
   • Evolution by Natural Selection
     • The Principles of Natural Selection
     • Genes and Evolution
     • Evidence for Evolution by Natural Selecion
     • The Unity of Life
   • The Genetics and Evolution of Behavior
     • The Biological Roots of Smiling
       • The Origins of Smiling
       • Smiles in other Species
     • The Genetics of Intelligence
       • Comparison Among Relatives
       • Heritability
       • The Evolution of Intelligence
     • The Evolution of Mating Patterns
       • Mating Systems
         • Which Mate does the Choosing?
         • Human Mate Choice
         • Jealousy
         • Paternity

3. The Brain and the Nervous System (Chapter 3)

   • The Organism as a Machine
   • Building Blocks of the Nervous System
     • The Neuron
     • Glia
   • Communication Among Neurons
     • Activity and Communication within the Neuron
     • Explaining the Action Potential
     • Propagation of the Action Potential
     • All-or-None Law
     • The Synapse
     • The Synaptic Mechanism
     • Neurotransmitters
     • Drugs and Neurotransmitters
   • Communication Through The Bloodstream
   • Methods for Studying the Nervous System
     • Recording from Individual Neurons
     • Studying the Effects of Brain Damage
       • Neuropsychological Studies
       • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
     • Recording from the Whole Brain
       • Recording the Brain's Electrical Activity
       • Neuroimaging Techniques
       • The Power of Combining Techniques
   • The Architecture of the Nervous System
     • The Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems
     • The Anatomy of the Brain
     • Lateralization
   • The Cerebral Cortex
     • Projection Areas
       • Primary Motor Areas
       • Primary Sensory Areas
     • Association Areas
     • The Results of Cortical Damage
       • Disorders of Action
       • Disorders of Perception and Attention
       • Disorders of Language
       • Disorders of Planning and Social Cognition
   • Plasticity
     • Changes in Neuronal Connections
     • Cortical Reorganization
     • New Neurons
     • Repairing Damage to the Nervous System

4. Sensation (Chapter 4)

   • the Origins of Knowledge
     • the Passive Perceiver
     • the Active Perceiver
   • Psychophysics
     • Sensory Thresholds
     • Detection and Decision
       • Signal-Detection Procedures
       • Implications of Signal Detections
   • a Survey of the Senses
     • Sensory Coding
     • Sensory Adaption
     • the Vestibular Sense
     • the Skin Senses
     • Plain
     • Smell
     • Taste
   • Hearing
     • the Stimulus: Sound
     • From Sound Waves to Hearing
       • Gathering the Sound Waves
       • Transduction in the Cochlea
       • Further Processing of Auditory Information
   • Vision
     • The Stimulus: Light
     • Gathering the Stimulus: the Eye
     • the Visual Receptors
     • Contrast Effects
     • Color
       • The Neural Basis of Color Vision
         • Color Receptors
         • Complementary Hues
         • The Opponent-Process Theory
     • Perceiving Shapes
       • Feature Detectors
       • Detectors for Complex Forms

5. Perception (Chapter 5)

   • Form Perception
     • Organization
       • perceptual parsing
       • Figure and Ground
     • Features
   • Neuroscience of Vision
     • the Visual Pathway
       • Parallel Processing in the visual cortex
       • the "what" and "where" systems
     • the Binding Problem
   • Network Models of Perception
     • Feature Nets
     • From Features to Geons to Meaning
   • Perceptual constancy
     • Unconscious Interference
     • Illusions
   • Distance Perception: where is it?
     • Binocular Cues
     • Molekular Cues
     • the Perception of Depth through Motion
     • the Role of Redundancy
   • Motion Perception: what is it doing?
     • Retinal Motion
     • Apparent Movement
     • Eye Movements
     • Induced Motion
     • The Correspondence Problem
   • Perceptual Selection: Attention
     • Selection
     • Perception in the Absence of Attention
   • Other Modalities

6. Consciousness (Chapter 6)

   • conscious
   • unconscious
   • introspection
   • neural basis
     • mind-body problem
   • varieties of consciousness
     • sleep
       • dreams
       • sleep and wake cycles
     • hypnosis
     • religious states
       • meditation
     • drug-induced
       • depressants
       • stimulants
       • marijuana
       • hallucinogenes
       • addiction

7. Learning (Chapter 7)

8. Memory (Chapter 8)

   • Memory (GIP A)

9. Thinking (Chapter 9)