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Chapter 5: Outlines and Concept Maps
Lab Activity 25: The Table of Contents in a Textbook

Objective
To use the table of contents to understand the relationship between general and specific ideas.

Step 2: Read the partial brief table of contents from the college textbook African American Lives, and then answer the questions that follow it.

Chapter 1. Ancient Africa
Chapter 2. Africa and the Atlantic World
Chapter 3. Africans in Early North America, 1619–1726
Chapter 4. Africans in Bondage: Early Eighteenth Century to the American Revolution
Chapter 5. The Revolutionary Era: Crossroads of Freedom
Chapter 6. After the Revolution: Constructing Free Life and Combating Slavery, 1787–1816

— Carson and Nash, African American Lives

6. What is the best description of how the chapters are organized?

a. They show the movement from Africa to America.

b. They go through time from prehistory to the early 1800s.

c. They cover two sides of the Atlantic Ocean, moving back and forth between them.

d. They show the movement from Africa to America and go through time from prehistory to the early 1800s.

7. Which chapter seems to cover the time during which Americans struggled for freedom from Great Britain?

a. Chapter 3

b. Chapter 4

c. Chapter 5

d. Chapter 6

8. If you wanted to find a description of an event that took place in 1802, where would you look?

a. Chapter 3

b. Chapter 6

c. either Chapter 4 or Chapter 5

d. either Chapter 1 or Chapter 2

9. Read the detailed table of contents for Chapter 2 of the same textbook.

Chapter 2. Africa and the Atlantic World
     Africa and Europe: The Fateful Connection
     Africa and the Rising Atlantic World
     The Trauma of Enslavement
     Africans in North America
     First Person: Oladuah Equiano Describes his Enslavement
     First Person: Slave Ship Captain Explains Bargaining for Slaves on African Coast
     First Person: A Slave Ship Surgeon Describes the Middle Passage
     First Person: Ottobah Cugano Describes Mid-Atlantic Slave Mutiny

—Carson and Nash, African American Lives

Four sections of the chapter are called "First Person." They seem to be accounts told directly by people who lived during certain events. Who were Oladuah Equiano and Ottobah Cugano?

a. American shipowners who traveled to Africa for trade

b. African people who were taken as slaves to America

c. European slave traders who were driven out of Africa

d. Cuban revolutionaries who were exiled from their country

10. Read the detailed table of contents for Chapter 5 of the college textbook Psychology and Life, 16th ed.

5. Perception.
     Sensing, Organizing, Identifying, Recognizing
     Psychology in the 21st Century: Virtual Reality
     Attentional Processes
     Organizational Processes in Perception
     Psychology in Your Life: How Do You Catch a Fly Ball?
     Identification and Recognition Processes

— Gerrig and Zimbardo, Pyschology and Life, 16th ed.

If you wanted to find a practical example to help you understand the topic of perception, which section would you examine?

a. Attentional Processes

b. Organizational Processes in Perception

c. Psychology in Your Life: How Do You Catch a Fly Ball?

d. Identification and Recognition Processes