Textbook Readings

This page contains extra information concerning the textbook readings that are assigned in the course. In addition to the page numbers on the syllabus and main course page, below you'll find the chapters and section headings that corresponding to those pages.

Note that the only approved text for our class is Psychology (4th Edition), by Schacter, Gilbert, Wegner & Nock [ISBN: 9781464155468]. The page numbers and section headings correspond to the material in that edition of that book. If you have a different edition of the textbook (or some version you found elsewhere by some other means 😲), we cannot vouch for the accuracy or completeness of those or any other physical or digital textbooks.

(When you see the word "until" below, it is not inclusive of the heading that follows the word "until". So, for example, if it says "Chapter 3, beginning until subheading titled 'Chemical Signaling: Transmission Between Neurons'", you are not responsible for the material in the subheading titled "Chemical Signaling: Transmission Between Neurons")

• Brain

  Page numbers: 75-82; 91b-102t; 109b-118
  
  Chapter and section headings: Chapter 3, beginning until subheading titled "Chemical Signaling: Transmission Between Neurons"; "Structure of the Brain", until the subheading titled "The Development and Evolution of Nervous Systems"; "Investigating the Brain", until the end of the chapter

• Foundations of Psychology

  Page numbers: 261-284t
  
  Chapter and section headings: Chapter 7, until the heading "Learning to Trust: For Better or For Worse"

• Language

  Page numbers: 349-365m
  
  Chapter and section headings: Chapter 9, until the heading "Language and Thought: How Are They Related?"

• Memory

  Page numbers: 215-240m
  
  Chapter and section headings: Chapter 6, until the heading "Episodic Memory Contributes to Imagination and Creativity"

• Mental Illness

  Page numbers: 587-612m
  
  Chapter and section headings: Chapter 15, until the heading "Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders"

• Personality

  Page numbers: 471-484m
  
  Chapter and section headings: Chapter 12, until the heading "The Psychodynamic Approach"

• Emotions

  Page numbers: 309-326m
  
  Chapter and section headings: Chapter 8, until the heading "Instincts and Drives"