Defining the subject -- Ancient foundations -- Minds possessed -- Three enduring "isms"-Empiricism, rationalism, materialism -- Sensation and perception -- The visual process -- Hearing -- Signal-detection theory -- Perceptual constancies and illusions -- Learning and memory -- Pavlov and the conditioned reflex -- Watson and American behaviorism -- B.F. Skinner and modern behaviorism -- B.F. Skinner and the engineering of society -- Language -- The integration of experience -- Perception and attention -- Cognitive "Maps, ""Insight," and animal minds -- Memory revisited-Mnemonics and context -- Piaget's stage theory of cognitive development -- The development of moral reasoning -- Knowledge, thinking, and understanding -- Comprehending the world of experience -- Psychobiology, Nineteenth Century foundations -- B.F. Skinner and modern behaviorism -- B.F. Skinner and the engineering of society -- Language -- The integration of experience -- Perception and attention -- Cognitive "Maps, ""Insight," and animal minds -- Memory revisited -- Piaget's stage theory of cognitive development -- The development of moral reasoning -- Knowledge, thinking, and understanding -- Comprehending the world of experience -- Psychobiology, Nineteenth Century foundations.

Language and the brain -- Rationality, problem-solving, and brain function -- The "Emotional" brain -- Violence and the brain -- Psychopathology -- The medical model -- Artificial intelligence and the neurocognitive revolution -- Is artificial intelligence "Intelligent"? -- What makes an event "Social"? -- Socialization--Darwin and the "Natural History" method -- Freud's debt to Darwin -- Freud, Breuer, and the theory of repression -- Freud's theory of psychosexual development -- Critiques of Freudian theory -- What is "Personality"? -- Obedience and conformity -- Altruism -- Prejudice and self-deception -- On being sane in insane places -- Intelligence -- Personality traits and the problem of assessment -- Genetic psychology and "The Bell Curve" -- Psychological and biological determinism -- Civic development--Psychology, the person, and the polis. psychosexual development -- Critiques of Freudian theory -- What is "Personality"? -- Obedience and conformity -- Altruism -- Prejudice and self-deception --On being sane in insane places -- Intelligence -- Personality traits and the problem of assessment -- Genetic psychology and "The Bell Curve" -- Psychological and biological determinism -- Civic development.