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Contents
- 1. What is psychology? How do you study it?
- 2. What gets into our minds? Perception
- 3. What stays in the mind? Learning and memory
- 4. How do we use what is in the mind? Thinking, reasoning, and communicating
- 5. Why do we do what we do? Motivation and emotion
- 6. Is there a set pattern? Developmental psychology
- 7. Can we categorize people? Individual differences
- 8. What happens when things go wrong? Abnormal psychology
- 9. How do we influence each other? Social psychology
- 10. What is psychology for?
