Table of 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? Development psychology; 7. Can we categorize people? Individual difference; 8. What happens when things go wrong? Abnormal psychology; 9. How do we influence each other? Social psychology; 10. What is psychology for? A selection of further reading; Index