volume 1., part 1. Defining the subject ; Ancient foundations : Greek philosophers and physicians ; Minds possessed : witchery and the search for explanations ; The emergence of modern science : Locke's "Newtonian" theory of mind ; Three enduring "isms" : empiricism, rationalism, materialism ; Sensation and perception --

volume 1., part 2. The visual process ; Hearing ; Signal-detection theory ; Perceptual constancies and illusions ; Learning and memory : associationism, Aristotle to Ebbinghaus ; Pavlov and the conditioned reflex.

volume 2., part 3. 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 --

volume 2., part 4. 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 : cognition summarized.

volume 3., part 5.tPsychobiology : nineteenth-century foundations ; Language and the brain ; Rationality, problem-solving, and brain function ; The "emotional" brain : the limbic system ; Violence and the brain ; Psychopathology : the medical model --

v. 3., pt. 6. 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.

volume 4, part 7. Freud's theory of psychosexual development ; Critiques of Freudian theory ; What is "personality"? ; Obedience and conformity ; Altruism ; Prejudice and self-deception --

v. 4., pt. 8. 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.