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Table of Contents READINGS IN PSYCHOLOGY
• AnExperimentintheSeventhCenturyB.C.
by Morton Hunt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
• The Wild Boy of Aveyron by David Hothersall. . 5 • Wasted byMaryaHornbacher ..............126 • ToSeeandNotSee byOliverSacks.........236
Charts, Tables, and Graphs
TestYourIntuitions...........................10 TheScientificMethod.........................12 Contemporary Approaches to Psychology . . . . . . . . 21 APersonalityWheel..........................23 WherePsychologistsWork.....................26 DivisionsoftheAPA..........................27 ACorrelationalStudy.........................39 ExperimentalResearch........................40 Single-Blind and Double-Blind Experiments. . . . . . . 44 Kate’sData .................................48 A Frequency Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 A Frequency Polygon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 A Normal Curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Measures of Central Tendency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Standard Deviation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 A Scatterplot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Cell-PhoneUse ..............................57 PhysicalandMotorDevelopment ..............64
• Memory’sGhost byPhilipF.Hilts............292 • letters from Jenny by Gordon W. Allport . . . . . . 408 • TheBellJar bySylviaPlath ................514 • TheWave byToddStrasser.................574
AdolescentIdentityCategories.................107 Arrests Per 100,000 Juveniles Ages 10-17. . . . . . . . . 113 TestYourself................................121 LeadingCausesofDeathintheUSA ...........125 HowOurBodiesAge........................131 Levinson’s Theory of Male Development . . . . . . . . 134 PercentageofOlderPopulation................142 Living Arrangements of Americans
65 and Older, 1997. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 The Nervous System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 AnatomyofTwoNeurons ....................157
The Visual Preferences of Infants . . . . . . . . . . .
The Flowering of Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Tasks to Measure Conservation . . . . . . . . . . . .
Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development. . . .
Freud’s Stages of Psychosexual Development
Erikson’s Stages of Psychosocial Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Development . . . .
Average Annual Gains in Height . . . . . . . . . . .
Glands That Release Hormones Into the Bloodstream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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