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Psychology : the science of mind and behaviour / Richard Gross.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Hodder Arnold, 2005.Edition: 5th edDescription: xiii, 1007 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), ports. (some col.) ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 9780340900987 (pbk.) :
  • 0340900989 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 150 GRO
LOC classification:
  • BF121 .G76 2005
Contents:
PART 1: THE NATURE AND SCOPE OF PSYCHOLOGY. What is this thing called psychology; Theoretical approaches to psychology; Psychology as a science. PART 2: THE BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF BEHAVIOUR AND EXPERIENCE. The nervous system; Sensory system; Parapsychology; States of consciousness and bodily rhythms; Substance dependence and abuse; Motivation; Emotion; Learning and conditioning; Application: Health psychology. PART 3. COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY. Attention and performance; Pattern recognition; Perception: processes and theories; The development of perceptual abilities; Memory and forgetting; Language, Thought and culture; Language acquisition; Problem-solving, Decision-making and artificial intelligence; Application: cognition and the law. PART 4: SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY. Social perception; Attribution; Attitudes and attidue change; Prejudice and discrimination; Conformity and group influence; Obedience; Interpersonal relationships; Aggression and antisocial behaviour; Altruism and prosocial behaviour; Application: the social psychology of sport. PART 5: DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY. Early experience and social development; Development of the self-concept; Cognitive development; Moral development; Gender development; Adolescence; Adulthood; Old Age; Application: exceptional development. PART 6: INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES. Intelligence; Personality; Psychological abnormality: definitions and classification; Psychopathology; treatments and therapies; Application: criminological psychology; Bias in psychological theory and research; Ethical issues in psychology; Free will and determinism and reductionism; Nature and nurture.
Summary: Richard Gross offers a clear introduction to the key areas of psychology - the nature and scope of psychology, the biological basis of behaviour and experience, cognitive, social and developmental psychology, and individual differences.
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Previous ed.: London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2001.

CD-ROM in back pocket.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 915-978) and index.

PART 1: THE NATURE AND SCOPE OF PSYCHOLOGY. What is this thing called psychology; Theoretical approaches to psychology; Psychology as a science. PART 2: THE BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF BEHAVIOUR AND EXPERIENCE. The nervous system; Sensory system; Parapsychology; States of consciousness and bodily rhythms; Substance dependence and abuse; Motivation; Emotion; Learning and conditioning; Application: Health psychology. PART 3. COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY. Attention and performance; Pattern recognition; Perception: processes and theories; The development of perceptual abilities; Memory and forgetting; Language, Thought and culture; Language acquisition; Problem-solving, Decision-making and artificial intelligence; Application: cognition and the law. PART 4: SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY. Social perception; Attribution; Attitudes and attidue change; Prejudice and discrimination; Conformity and group influence; Obedience; Interpersonal relationships; Aggression and antisocial behaviour; Altruism and prosocial behaviour; Application: the social psychology of sport. PART 5: DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY. Early experience and social development; Development of the self-concept; Cognitive development; Moral development; Gender development; Adolescence; Adulthood; Old Age; Application: exceptional development. PART 6: INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES. Intelligence; Personality; Psychological abnormality: definitions and classification; Psychopathology; treatments and therapies; Application: criminological psychology; Bias in psychological theory and research; Ethical issues in psychology; Free will and determinism and reductionism; Nature and nurture.

Richard Gross offers a clear introduction to the key areas of psychology - the nature and scope of psychology, the biological basis of behaviour and experience, cognitive, social and developmental psychology, and individual differences.

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