psychology fourth edition Saundra K. CiCCarelli Gulf Coast State College J. noland White Georgia College Boston Columbus Indianapolis New York San Francisco Upper Saddle River Amsterdam Cape Town Dubai London Madrid Milan Munich Paris Montréal Toronto Delhi Mexico City Sao Paulo Sydney Hong Kong Seoul Singapore Taipei Tokyo Editor in Chief: Dickson Musslewhite Associate Director of Design: Blair Brown Acquisitions Editor: Erin Mitchell Interior Design: Aptara (Bill Gillis), John Christiana Development Editor: Julie Swasey Cover Designer: Kathryn Foot Editorial Assistant: Sarah Henrich Cover Illustrator: Creative Circle (Michael Molloy) Director of Marketing: Brandy Dawson Digital Media Editor: Lisa Dotson Program Manager: Judy Casillo Digital Media Project Manager: Thomas Scalzo Program Team Lead: Amber Mackey Full-Service Project Management/Composition: Lindsay Bethoney/ Project Team Lead: Linda Behrens PreMediaGlobal Project Manager: Sherry Lewis Cover Printer: Lehigh-Phoenix Color/Hagerstown Operations Manager: Mary Fischer Printer/Binder: RR Donnelley/Willard Operations Specialist: Diane Peirano Credits and acknowledgments borrowed from other sources and reproduced, with permission, in this textbook appear on appropriate page within text (or on pages C-1–C-3). 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BF121.C52 2015 150—dc23 2013038820 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Student case edition: 0-205-97224-1/978-0-205-97224-1 Instructor’s Review Copy: 0-205-97337-X/978-0-205-97337-8 Student paper edition: 0-205-97336-1/978-0-205-97336-1 à la carte edition: 0-205-97225-X/978-0-205-97225-8 brief contents psychology in action Secrets for Surviving College and Improving Your Grades PIA-2 1 The Science of Psychology 2 2 The Biological Perspective 44 3 Sensation and Perception 90 4 Consciousness 134 5 Learning 174 6 Memory 218 7 Cognition: thinking, intelligence, and language 260 8 Development Across the Life Span 304 9 Motivation and Emotion 352 10 Sexuality and Gender 386 11 Stress and Health 418 12 Social Psychology 452 13 Theories of Personality 500 14 Psychological Disorders 536 15 Psychological Therapies 574 appendix A Statistics in Psychology A-1 appendix B Applied Psychology and Psychology Careers B-1 iii contents Psychological Professionals and Areas of Specialization 17 Psychology: The Scientific Methodology 20 The Five Steps of the Scientific Method 20 Preface x Descriptive Methods 22 About the Authors PIA-1 Correlations: Finding Relationships 27 The Experiment 29 issues in psychology: Stereotypes, Athletes, and College psychology in action Test Performance 32 secrets for surviving college and Ethics of Psychological Research 33 improving your grades The Guidelines for Doing Research With People 34 PIA-2 Animal Research 35 Study Skills PIA-4 Applying Psychology to Everyday Life: Thinking Critically Study Methods: Different Strokes for Different Folks PIA-4 About Critical Thinking 37 When and Where Do You Fit in Time to Study PIA-5 Chapter Summary 40 Test Yourself 42 Mastering the Course Content PIA-6 Reading Textbooks: Textbooks Are Not Meatloaf PIA-6 Getting the Most Out of Lectures PIA-9 2 Demonstrating Your Knowledge: Tests and Papers PIA-11 Studying for Exams: Cramming is Not an Option PIA-11 Writing Papers: Planning Makes Perfect PIA-14 the biological perspective Applying Psychology to Everyday Life: Strategies for Improving 44 Your Memory PIA-17 psychology in action summary PIA-18 Neurons and Nerves: Building the Network 46 Test Yourself 1 Structure of the Neuron: The Nervous System’s Building Block 46 Generating the Message Within the Neuron: The Neural Impulse 48 Sending the Message to Other Cells: The Synapse 51 Neurotransmitters: Messengers of the Network 52 1 Cleaning Up the Synapse: Reuptake and Enzymes 54 An Overview of the Nervous System 56 The Central Nervous System: The “Central Processing Unit” 56 psychology in the news: Fact or Fiction: Focus on the the science of psychology 2 Brain, but Check Your Sources! 58 The Peripheral Nervous System: Nerves on the Edge 60 What Is Psychology? 4 Distant Connections: The Endocrine Glands 63 Psychology’s Goals 4 The Pituitary: Master of the Hormonal Universe 63 Psychology Then: The History of Psychology 6 The Pineal Gland 65 In the Beginning: Wundt, Introspection, and the Laboratory 6 The Thyroid Gland 65 Titchener and Structuralism in America 7 Pancreas 65 William James and Functionalism 7 The Gonads 65 issues in psychology: Psychology’s African American The Adrenal Glands 65 Roots 8 Looking Inside the Living Brain 67 Gestalt Psychology: The Whole Is Greater Than the Sum of Lesioning Studies 67 Its Parts 9 Brain Stimulation 67 Sigmund Freud’s Theory of Psychoanalysis 10 Mapping Structure 68 Pavlov, Watson, and the Dawn of Behaviorism 11 Mapping Function 69 Psychology Now: Modern Perspectives 13 From the Bottom Up: The Structures of the Brain 71 Psychodynamic Perspective 14 The Hindbrain 72 Behavioral Perspective 14 Structures Under the Cortex: The Limbic System 74 Humanistic Perspective 14 The Cortex 77 Cognitive Perspective 14 The Association Areas of the Cortex 80 Sociocultural Perspective 15 Biopsychological Perspective 15 classic studies in psychology: Through the Looking Evolutionary Perspective 16 Glass—Spatial Neglect 81 The Cerebral Hemispheres: Are You in Your Right Mind? 82 iv CONTENTS v Applying Psychology to Everyday Life: Paying Attention to Sleep 138 Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder 85 The Biology of Sleep 138 Chapter Summary 87 Test Yourself 89 The Stages of Sleep 142 Sleep Disorders 146 psychology in the news: Murder While Sleepwalking 147 3 Dreams 150 Freud’s Interpretation: Dreams as Wish Fulfillment 151 The Activation-Synthesis Hypothesis 151 sensation and perception What Do People Dream About? 153 90 The Effects of Hypnosis 154 The ABCs of Sensation 92 Steps in Hypnotic Induction 154 What Is Sensation? 92 Fact or Myth: What Can Hypnosis Really Do? 155 Sensory Thresholds 92 Theories of Hypnosis 156 Habituation and Sensory Adaptation 94 The Influence of Psychoactive Drugs 158 The Science of Seeing 96 Dependence 158 Perceptual Properties of Light: Catching the Waves 96 Stimulants: Up, Up, and Away 160 The Structure of the Eye 96 Down in the Valley: Depressants 162 How the Eye Works 99 Hallucinogens: Higher and Higher 165 Perception of Color 100 Applying Psychology to Everyday Life: Thinking Critically The Hearing Sense: Can You Hear Me Now? 104 About Ghosts, Aliens, and Other Things That Go Bump in the Perception of Sound: Good Vibrations 104 Night 169 The Structure of the Ear: Follow the Vibes 105 Chapter Summary 170 Test Yourself 172 Perceiving Pitch 106 Types of Hearing Impairments 107 Chemical Senses: It Tastes Good and Smells Even Better 109 5 Gustation: How We Taste the World 110 The Sense of Scents: Olfaction 112 Somesthetic Senses: What the Body Knows 113 Perception of Touch, Pressure, Temperature, and Pain 113 learning 174 Pain: Gate-Control Theory 114 The Kinesthetic Sense 115 Definition of Learning 176 The Vestibular Sense 116 It Makes Your Mouth Water: Classical The ABCs of Perception 118 Conditioning 176 The Constancies: Size, Shape, and Brightness 118 Pavlov and the Salivating Dogs 177 The Gestalt Principles 118 Elements of Classical Conditioning 177 Depth Perception 120 Putting It All Together: Pavlov’s Canine Classic, or Tick Tock Tick Perceptual Illusions 123 Tock 178 Other Factors That Influence Perception 126 Conditioned Emotional Responses: Rats! 183 Applying Psychology to Everyday Life: Beyond “Smoke and Biological Influences on Conditioning 184 Mirrors”—The Psychological Science and Neuroscience of Why Does Classical Conditioning Work? 185 Magic 129 What’s in It for Me? Operant Conditioning 186 Chapter Summary 130 Test Yourself 132 Frustrating Cats: Thorndike’s Puzzle Box and the Law of Effect 186 B. F. Skinner: The Behaviorist’s Behaviorist 187 4 The Concept of Reinforcement 187 Schedules of Reinforcement: Why the One-Armed Bandit is so Seductive 190 The Role of Punishment in Operant Conditioning 194 consciousness 134 issues in psychology: The Link Between Spanking and Aggression in Young Children 198 What Is Consciousness? 136 Stimulus Control: Slow Down, It’s the Cops 199 Definition of Consciousness 136 Shaping and Other Concepts in Operant Altered States of Consciousness 137 Conditioning 199 vi CONTENTS 7 classic studies in psychology: Biological Constraints on Operant Conditioning 200 Using Operant Conditioning: Behavior Modification 201 Cognitive Learning Theory 205 cognition: thinking, intelligence, and Tolman’s Maze-Running Rats: Latent Learning 205 language Köhler’s Smart Chimp: Insight Learning 207 260 Seligman’s Depressed Dogs: Learned Helplessness 207 How People Think 262 Observational Learning 209 Mental Imagery 262 Bandura and the Bobo Doll 209 Concepts and Prototypes 264 The Four Elements of Observational Learning 210 Problem-Solving and Decision-Making Strategies 266 Applying Psychology to Everyday Life: Can You Really Toilet Problems with Problem Solving and Decision Making 270 Train Your Cat? 212 Creativity 271 Chapter Summary 215 Test Yourself 216 Intelligence 274 Definition 274 Theories of Intelligence 274 6 Measuring Intelligence 276 psychology in the news: Neuropsychology Sheds Light on Head Injuries 282 memory 218 Extremes of Intelligence 285 classic studies in psychology: Terman’s What Is Memory? 220 “Termites” 288 Three Processes of Memory 220 The Nature/Nurture Controversy Regarding Intelligence 290 Models of Memory 220 Language 294 The Information-Processing Model: Three Memory The Levels of Language Analysis 294 Systems 222 The Relationship Between Language and Thought 295 Sensory Memory: Why Do People Do Double Takes? 222 Applying Psychology to Everyday Life: Mental and Physical Short-Term Memory 225 Exercises Combine for Better Cognitive Health 299 Long-Term Memory 228 Chapter Summary 301 Test Yourself 302 Getting It Out: Retrieval of Long-Term Memories 235 Retrieval Cues 235 Recall and Recognition 236 classic studies in psychology: Elizabeth Loftus and 8 Eyewitnesses 239 Automatic Encoding: Flashbulb Memories 240 The Reconstructive Nature of Long-Term Memory Retrieval: development across the life span How Reliable Are Memories? 241 304 Constructive Processing of Memories 242 Memory Retrieval Problems 242 Issues in Studying Human Development 306 Research Designs 306 What Were We Talking About? Forgetting 245 Nature Versus Nurture 306 Ebbinghaus and the Forgetting Curve 246 Encoding Failure 247 The Basic Building Blocks of Development 308 Memory Trace Decay Theory 247 Chromosomes, Genes, and DNA 308 Interference Theory 248 Dominant and Recessive Genes 308 Genetic and Chromosome Problems 309 Neuroscience of Memory 249 Neural Activity, Structure, and Proteins in Memory Prenatal Development 312 Formation 249 Fertilization, the Zygote, and Twinning 312 The Hippocampus and Memory 249 psychology in the news: Abby and Brittany Hensel, When Memory Fails: Organic Amnesia 250 Together for Life 313 Applying Psychology to Everyday Life: Health and The Germinal Period 313 Memory 254 The Embryonic Period 314 Chapter Summary 256 Test Yourself 257 The Fetal Period: Grow, Baby, Grow 315 CONTENTS vii Infancy and Childhood Development 316 10 Physical Development 317 Baby, Can You See Me? Baby, Can You Hear Me? Sensory Development 317 sexuality and gender 386 classic studies in psychology: The Visual Cliff 319 Cognitive Development 320 The Physical Side of Human Sexuality 388 issues in psychology: The Facts and Myths About The Primary Sex Characteristics 388 Immunizations 326 The Secondary Sex Characteristics 389 Psychosocial Development 328 The Psychological Side of Human Sexuality: Gender 390 classic studies in psychology: Harlow and Contact Gender Roles and Gender Typing 390 Comfort 331 issues in psychology: Sex Differences in Science and Math: Adolescence 334 A Game Changer? 394 Physical Development 335 Theories of Gender-Role Development 396 Cognitive Development 335 Gender Stereotyping 397 Psychosocial Development 337 Gender Differences 397 Adulthood 339 Human Sexual Behavior 399 Physical Development: Use It or Lose It 339 Sexual Response 399 Cognitive Development 340 classic studies in psychology: Masters and Johnson’s Psychosocial Development 341 Observational Study of the Human Sexual Response 401 Theories of Physical and Psychological Aging 344 Different Types of Sexual Behavior 402 Stages of Death and Dying 344 Sexual Orientation 404 Applying Psychology to Everyday Life: Cross-Cultural Views on issues in psychology: What Is the Evolutionary Purpose Death 346 of H omosexuality? 408 Chapter Summary 347 Test Yourself 349 Sexual Dysfunctions and Problems 409 Causes and Influences 410 Prevalence 411 9 Sexually Transmitted Infections 411 Applying Psychology to Everyday Life: The AIDS Epidemic in Russia 414 motivation and emotion 352 Chapter Summary 415 Test Yourself 416 Approaches to Understanding Motivation 354 Instincts And The Evolutionary Approach 355 Approaches Based on Needs And Drives 355 11 Arousal Approaches 359 Incentive Approaches 361 Humanistic Approaches 361 stress and health What, Hungry Again? Why People Eat 365 418 Physiological Components of Hunger 365 Stress and Stressors 420 Social Components of Hunger 367 Obesity 368 Definition of Stress 420 What Are Stressors? 420 psychology in the news: Cartoon Characters Influence Environmental Stressors: Life’s Ups and Downs 421 Children’s Food and Taste Preferences 369 Psychological Stressors: What, Me Worry? 425 Emotion 371 Physiological Factors: Stress and Health 430 The Three Elements of Emotion 371 The General Adaptation Syndrome 430 Theories of Emotion 375 Immune System and Stress 430 classic studies in psychology: The Angry/Happy issues in psychology: Health Psychology and Stress 434 Man 378 The Influence of Cognition and Personality on Stress 435 Applying Psychology to Everyday Life: When Motivation Is Not Social Factors in Stress: People Who Need People 441 Enough 382 Coping With Stress 444 Chapter Summary 383 Test Yourself 384 Coping Strategies 445 viii CONTENTS How Culture Affects Coping 447 13 How Religion Affects Coping 447 Applying Psychology to Everyday Life: Becoming More O ptimistic 449 theories of personality Chapter Summary 450 Test Yourself 451 500 Theories of Personality 502 12 The Man and the Couch: Sigmund Freud and the Origins of the Psychodynamic Perspective 503 The Unconscious Mind 504 Freud’s Divisions of the Personality 504 social psychology 452 Stages of Personality Development 506 The Neo-Freudians 508 Social Influence: Conformity, Group Behavior, Compliance, and Current Thoughts on Freud and the Psychodynamic Perspective 509 Obedience 454 The Behaviorist and Social Cognitive View of Personality 512 Conformity 454 Bandura’s Reciprocal Determinism and Self-Efficacy 512 Group Behavior 457 Rotter’s Social Learning Theory: Expectancies 513 Compliance 458 Current Thoughts on the Behaviorist and Social Cognitive psychology in the news: Anatomy of a Cult 460 Views 514 Obedience 461 The Third Force: Humanism and Personality 514 Social Cognition: Attitudes, Impression Formation, and Carl Rogers and Self-Concept 515 A ttribution 465 Current Thoughts on the Humanistic View of Personality 516 Attitudes 465 Trait Theories: Who Are You? 518 Attitude Change: The Art of Persuasion 467 Allport 518 Cognitive Dissonance: When Attitudes and Behavior Cattell and the 16PF 518 Clash 468 The Big Five: OCEAN, or the Five-Factor Model of Personality 519 Impression Formation 471 Current Thoughts on the Trait Perspective 520 Attribution 473 The Biology of Personality: Behavioral Genetics 521 Social Interaction: Prejudice and Discrimination 476 Twin Studies 522 Defining Prejudice and Discrimination 476 Adoption Studies 522 How People Learn Prejudice 477 Current Findings 523 classic studies in psychology: Brown Eyes, Blue classic studies in psychology: Geert Hofstede’s Four Eyes 478 Dimensions of Cultural Personality 523 Overcoming Prejudice 479 Assessment of Personality 525 Liking and Loving: Interpersonal Attraction 482 Interviews 526 The Rules of Attraction 482 Projective Tests 526 psychology in the news: Facing Facebook—The Social Behavioral Assessments 527 Nature of Online Networking 483 Personality Inventories 528 Love Is a Triangle—Robert Sternberg’s Triangular Theory of Applying Psychology to Everyday Life: Biological Bases of the Love 484 Big Five 531 Aggression and Prosocial Behavior 487 Chapter Summary 533 Test Yourself 534 Aggression 487 Prosocial Behavior 490 Applying Psychology to Everyday Life: Peeking Inside the Social Brain 494 Chapter Summary 496 Test Yourself 498 CONTENTS ix 14 15 psychological disorders psychological therapies 536 574 What Is Abnormality? 538 Treatment of Psychological Disorders: Past to Present 576 A Very Brief History of Psychological Disorders 538 Early Treatment Of The Mentally Ill 576 What Is Abnormal? 539 Current Treatments: Two Kinds Of Therapy 576 Models of Abnormality 541 Psychotherapy Begins 577 Diagnosing and Classifying Disorders 543 Psychoanalysis 578 Disorders in the DSM-5 544 Evaluation of Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic Approaches 578 How Common Are Psychological Disorders? 544 Interpersonal Psychotherapy 579 The Pros and Cons of Labels 544 Humanistic Therapy: To Err Is Human 579 Disorders of Anxiety, Trauma, and Stress: What, Tell Me More: Rogers’s Person-Centered Therapy 580 Me Worry? 547 Gestalt Therapy 581 Phobic Disorders: When Fears Get Out of Hand 547 Evaluation of the Humanistic Therapies 582 Panic Disorder 548 Behavior Therapies: Learning One’s Way to Better Behavior 584 Generalized Anxiety Disorder 549 Therapies Based on Classical Conditioning 584 Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder 549 Therapies Based on Operant Conditioning 586 Acute Stress Disorder (ASD) and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Evaluation of Behavior Therapies 587 (PTSD) 550 Cognitive Therapies: Thinking Is Believing 588 Causes of AnxIety, Trauma, and Stress Disorders 551 Beck’s Cognitive Therapy 588 Disorders of Mood: The Effect of Affect 552 Ellis and Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) 589 Major Depressive Disorder 552 Evaluation of Cognitive and Cognitive–Behavioral Therapies 589 Bipolar Disorders 553 Group Therapies: Not Just for the Shy 590 Causes of Disordered Mood 554 Types of Group Therapies 590 Eating Disorders 556 Evaluation Of Group Therapy 591 Anorexia Nervosa 556 Does Psychotherapy Really Work? 593 Bulimia Nervosa 557 Studies of Effectiveness 593 Binge-Eating Disorder 558 Characteristics of Effective Therapy 594 Causes of Eating Disorders 558 Culture and Eating Disorders 558 psychology in the news: Mental Health on Campus 595 Dissociative Disorders: Altered Identities 559 Cultural, Ethnic, and Gender Concerns in Psychotherapy 596 Dissociative Amnesia And Fugue: Who Am I And How Did I Get Cybertherapy: Therapy in the Computer Age 598 Here? 559 Biomedical Therapies 598 Dissociative Identity Disorder: How Many Am I? 559 Psychopharmacology 598 Causes of Dissociative Disorders 560 Electroconvulsive Therapy 602 Schizophrenia: Altered Reality 562 Psychosurgery 603 Symptoms 562 Emerging Techniques 604 Causes Of Schizophrenia 563 Applying Psychology to Everyday Life: Virtual Reality Personality Disorders: I’m Okay, It’s Everyone Else T herapies 606 Who’s Weird 565 Chapter Summary 608 Test Yourself 610 Antisocial Personality Disorder 566 Borderline Personality Disorder 566 appendix A: Statistics in Psychology A-1 Causes of Personality Disorders 566 appendix B: Applied Psychology and Psychology Careers B-1 Applying Psychology to Everyday Life: Taking the Worry Answer Key AK-1 Out of Exams 568 Glossary G-1 Chapter Summary 570 Test Yourself 572 References R-1 Credits C-1 Name Index NI-1 Subject Index SI-1