Statement
1
Skinner
1.1
B.F. Skinner
1.2
Habituation
1.3
Classical conditioning
1.4
Instrumental Conditioning (aka operant conditioning)
1.5
Scientific assessment of Skinner
2
Development
2.1
Piaget
2.2
Piaget’s Developmental Stage Theory
2.3
Scientific evaluation of Piaget
2.4
Methods for studying infants
2.5
How are children different from adults?
2.6
Explanations for development
3
Language
3.1
Basic facts about language
3.2
Phonology, Morphology and Syntax
3.3
Language acquisition
3.4
Language and thought
4
Cognition
4.1
Perception and Attention
4.1.1
Problems of perception
4.1.2
Perception of brightness
4.1.3
Perception of object
4.1.4
Perception of depth
4.1.5
Attention
4.2
Memory
4.2.1
Important memory distinctions
4.2.2
Encoding
4.2.3
Remembering
4.2.4
Forgetting
4.2.5
False memories
5
Emotions
6
Why evolution matters
7
Facial expressions
7.1
Fear
7.2
Kinship
7.3
Attachment
7.4
Prisoner’s dilemma
7.5
Irrationality and culture
8
Social
8.1
Self
8.2
Attribution
8.3
Liking
8.4
The psychology of groups
8.5
Social categories
9
Differences
9.1
Personality
9.2
Intelligence
9.3
Behavioral genetics
9.4
Major discoveries about genes and the environment
9.5
Parents
10
Clinical psychology
10.1
Schizophrenia
10.2
Mood disorders
10.3
Anxiety disorders
10.4
Therapy
11
Happiness
12
Humility and Optimism
Introduction to psychology
Chapter 4
Cognition