1st Edition
A Companion to Introductory Psychology Engaging Essays for Students
1. Foundational Theme (Research): Understanding the Replication Crisis in Psychology
Section 1: Biological Essays
2. Return to the Right Hemisphere
3. The Real Story of Phineas Gage
4. Moving Machines with the Mind
5. Do Plants Control Humans?
6. Fear Is Not a Factor: What Nightmare Research Tells Us
Section 2: Cognition Essays
7. The World We Miss
8. Feeling What Other People Feel
9. Fascinating Case Studies in Memory Research
10. Intelligence: Measuring Mental Ability
11. The Psychology of Human Expertise
Section 3: Developmental Essays
12. The Brain’s Long-term Construction Project
13. Are We Too Safe in Our Thinking?
14. Rerouting: Language Plasticity in the Human Brain
Section 4: Social and Personality Essays
15. All Evil Begins with 15 Volts
16. The Best Time to be Alive?
17. Too Many Options
18. Psychological Paths into Conspiratorial Thinking
Section 5: Mental and Physical Health Essays
19. Happy Pills: Do Antidepressants Work?
20. The Place as the Cure: History of Mental Asylums
21. Sports Psychology: Historical and Modern Contributions
Appendix A: Mind Crime: The Role of Forensic Psychology (Applied Psychology)
Appendix B: Unconventional: The Psychological Contributions of Henry Murray (History of Psychology)
Appendix C: Five “Hidden Figures” of Psychology (History of Psychology)
Conclusion
Biography
Frank M. Ferraro III earned a Ph.D. in psychology (behavioral neuroscience) from Kansas State University, USA, and is now Adjunct Professor teaching psychology at Midland University, USA. He has published scientific articles in the areas of alcohol/drug addiction and the benefits of wilderness experiences on human creativity. Much of his career has been spent at liberal arts teaching institutions, where he has taught introductory psychology, research methods, psychopharmacology, behavioral neuroscience, and upper-level research capstones. He is an award-winning teacher, having been honored by both Nebraska Wesleyan University and Midland University for excellence in teaching. This companion book is an accumulation of engaging chapters he has written for his undergraduate psychology students. They are published here now, in the hopes that they enhance classroom discussions. He lives in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.
