Module

Title of Module

Chapters in Myers 8th Edition

1

The History and Scope of Psychology

Prologue (not required)

2

Thinking Critically with Psychological Science

1

3

Research Strategies

4

Neural and Hormonal Systems

2

5

The Brain

6

Behavior Genetics and Evolutionary Psychology

3

7

Environmental Influences on Behavior

8

Prenatal Development and the Newborn

4

9

Infancy and Childhood

10

Adolescence

11

Adulthood and Reflections on Developmental Issues

12

Introduction to Sensation and Perception

5

13

Vision

14

Hearing

15

Other Important Senses

16

Perceptual Organization

6

17

Perceptual Interpretation

18

Waking and Sleeping Rhythms

7

19

Hypnosis

20

Drugs and Consciousness

21

Classical Conditioning

8

22

Operant Conditioning

23

Learning by Observation

24

Introduction to Memory

9

25

Encoding: Getting Information In

26

Storage: Retaining Information

27

Retrieval: Getting Information Out

28

Forgetting, Memory Construction, and Memory Improvement

29

Thinking

10

30

Language and Thought

31

Introduction to Intelligence

11

32

Assessing Intelligence

33

Genetic and Environmental Influences on Intelligence

34

Introduction to Motivation

12

35

Hunger

36

Sexual Motivation and the Need to Belong

37

Motivation at Work

38

Introduction to Emotion

13

39

Expressed Emotion

40

Experienced Emotion

41

Stress and Illness

14

42

Coping With Stress

43

Modifying Illness-Related Behaviors

44

The Psychoanalytic Perspective

15

45

The Humanistic Perspective

46

Contemporary Research on Personality

47

Introduction to Psychological Disorders

16

48

Anxiety Disorders

49

Dissociative and Personality Disorders

50

Mood Disorders

51

Schizophrenia

52

The Psychological Therapies

17

53

Evaluating Psychotherapies

54

The Biomedical Therapies

55

Social Thinking

18

56

Social Influence

57

Antisocial Relations

58

Prosocial Relations