Psychology : the science of mind and behaviour / Richard Gross.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Hodder Education, 2010.Edition: 6th edDescription: viii, 902 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), ports. (some col.) ; 28 cmISBN:- 9781444108316 (pbk.) :
- 9781444108316 (Paper)
- 150 GRO
- BF121 .G76 2010
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Previous ed.: London: Hodder Arnold, 2005.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I: The nature and scope of psychology -- 1.What is this thing called psychology? -- 2.Theoretical approaches to psychology -- 3.Psychology as a science -- Part 2: The biological basis of behaviour and experience -- 4.The nervous system -- 5.Sensory processes -- 6.Parapsychology -- 7.States of consciousness and bodily rhythms -- 8.Addictive behaviour -- 9.Motivation -- 10.Emotion -- 11.Learning and conditioning -- 12.Application: health psychology -- Part 3: Cognitive psychology -- 13.Attention -- 14.Pattern recognition -- 15.Perception: processes and theories -- 16.The development of perceptual abilities -- 17.Memory and forgetting -- 18.Language and thought -- 19.Language acquisition -- 20.Problem-solving, decision-making and artificial intelligence -- 21.Application: cognition and the law -- 22.Part 4: Social psyhology -- 22.Social perception -- 23.Attribution -- 24.Attitudes and attitude change -- 25.Prejudice and discrimination -- 26.Conformity and group influence -- 27.Obedience -- 28.Interpersonal relationships -- 29.Agression and antisocial behaviour -- 30.Altruism and prosocial behaviour -- 31.Application: the social psychology of sport -- Part 5: Developmental psychology -- 32.Early experience and social development -- 33.Development of the self-concept -- 34.Cognitive development -- 35.Moral development -- 36.Gender development -- 37.Adolescence -- 38.Adulthood -- 39.Old age -- 40.Application: exceptional development -- Part 6.Individual differences -- 41.Intelligence -- 42.Personality -- 43.Psychological abnormality; definitions and classification -- 44.Psychopathology -- 45.Treatments and therapies -- 46.Application: criminological psychology -- Part 7: Issues and debates -- 48.Ethical issues in psychology -- 49.Free will and determinism, and reductionism -- 50.Nature and nuture.
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.