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Tables of Contents for Psychology for Kids II
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Reproducible Pages
vi
Foreword
vii
Jim Matiya
Introduction
1
1
Are You a Diver or a Wader?
1
1
Your Obligations as an Experimenter
2
1
Going Beyond the Book
3
1
Make Your Own Experimenter's Bookmark
4
6
A Special Note to Parents and Teachers
10
3
What Do Experiments Do?
13
10
Do People Get What They Expect?
14
3
Do People Change When They Are Part of an Experiment?
17
3
Are People More Logical or More Emotional?
20
3
Attitudes and Beliefs
23
14
How Easily Are People Fooled?
24
4
Do People of Different Ages Have Different Views of Life?
28
3
How Do Young Children View the Physical World?
31
3
What Are People's Attitudes about Money?
34
3
Opinions and Judgments
37
12
Can One Negative Word Change an Opinion?
38
6
Are Opinions Influenced by First Impressions?
44
2
How Do People Make Judgments?
46
3
Perceptions
49
14
How Does the Brain Organize What We See?
50
6
Does Caffeine Influence People's Perceptions?
56
3
How Much Personal Space Do People Need?
59
2
Can we Tell the Difference between Male and Female Touch?
61
2
Communication
63
18
Do the Words People Use Reveal Their Personalities?
64
5
Can we Listen to Our Parents as People?
69
2
Is One Way of Communicating Better Than Another?
71
6
Why Ask Questions?
77
4
Gender Differences
81
14
Do Males and Females have Different Thinking Styles?
82
2
How Much Do People Know about Their Own Gender?
84
3
Do We Picture Males and Females Differently?
87
3
Do Males and Females See Things Differently?
90
5
People in Groups
95
10
Does Competition Improve Performance?
96
2
Are Some People More Cooperative than Others?
98
3
Do Children and Adults Group people Differently?
101
2
How Do Individuals Come Together as a Group?
103
2
Self-Expression
105
10
Do People Reveal Themselves More in Their Art or in Their Writing?
106
2
What Does Handwriting Reveal?
108
3
Are We More Alike or More Different?
111
2
Are People More Subjective or More Objective?
113
2
Behavior
115
24
Can We Shape Other people's Behavior?
116
3
Can We Condition People to Respond in Certain Ways?
119
2
What Can We Learn From Mealworms?
121
3
Can we use Rewards to Change Behavior?
124
4
Will Ignoring a Behavior make It Go Away?
128
5
Can We Reward Creativity?
133
3
Are Rewards and Success the Same?
136
3
Memory and Learning
139
10
Do We Learn More When We Rest Between Practices?
140
2
Is it Easier to Remember Something Meaningful?
142
3
Is Helplessness a Learned Behavior?
145
4
How Will It All Turn Out?
149
4
The Most Important Experiment of All
150
3
Bibliography
153
2
Index
155
4
About the Author
159