Includes bibliographical references.

Psychology: Perspective -- The roots -- Psychology subfield -- Big issues: Nature & scope of psychology: Scientific method -- Institution & common sense -- Research strategies: Biological base of behavior: Foundations of behavior -- Nervous system -- Genetics -- Behavior -- Nature, nurture issue: Human development: Developmental processes -- Neo natal -- Infant and childhood -- Adolescences -- Adult hood: Sensation: Basic principle -- Thresholds -- Visual information -- Sensory restrictions: Perception: Selective attention -- Perceptual illusions -- Perceptual organizations -- Interpretations -- Extra sensory perceptions: Consciousness: Consciousness -- Sleep and dreams -- Hypnosis: Learning: Classical conditioning -- Operant conditioning -- Observational learning: Memory: Phenomenon of memory -- Encoding -- Storage -- Retrieval -- Memory construction: Thinking & language: Thinking -- Language -- Thinking and language: Intelligence: Origins of intelligence -- Assessing intelligence -- Dynamics of intelligence -- Influences of intelligence: Motivation: Motivation -- Hunger motivation -- Achievement motivation -- Theory x and y: Emotion: Physiology of emotion -- Expressing emotion -- Theories of emotion: Personality: Psycho analytic perspective -- Trait perspective -- Humanistic perspective -- Social cognitive perspectives -- Personality disorder: Stress health: Stress and illness -- Promoting health: Psychology and society: Society's issue on human behavior -- Deviant behavior/abnormal behavior -- Symptoms, signs and syndrome -- Mental & physical disorder -- Causes & treatment.