Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents: 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 and interconnection -- Social psychology; how others affects us -- Personality; who we are -- Psychological disorders; when adaptation breaks down -- Psychological and biological treatments; helping people change.