Preface
Learning Features
Web Ancillaries
Chapters 1 - 21
Glossary
References
Illustration sources and credits
Author index
Subject index
Learning Features
Web Ancillaries
Chapters 1 - 21
- Chapter 1: The Science of Psychology
- Chapter 2: Methodology
- Chapter 3: The Nervous System
- Chapter 4: Learning
- Chapter 5: Motivation
- Chapter 6: Emotion
- Chapter 7: Sensory Processes
- Chapter 8: Perception
- Chapter 9: Infancy and Childhood
- Chapter 10: Adolescence and Adulthood
- Chapter 11: Memory
- Chapter 12: Language and Thought
- Chapter 13: Intelligence
- Chapter 14: Personality
- Chapter 15: Abnormal Psychology
- CHAPTER OUTLINE
- LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- INTRODUCTION
- WHAT DOES ‘ABNORMAL’ MEAN?
- WHAT CAUSES ABNORMAL BEHAVIOUR?
- DISORDERS – SYMPTOMS AND CAUSES
- FINAL THOUGHTS
- SUMMARY
- REVISION QUESTIONS
- FURTHER READING
- Chapter 16: Therapy
- Chapter 17: Attitudes, Attributions and Social Cognition
- Chapter 18: Interpersonal Relations and Group Processes
- Chapter 19: Health Psychology
- Chapter 20: Organizational Psychology
- Chapter 21: Forensic Psychology
- Biology and genetics
- Psychodynamics and the parent–child relationship
- Attachment and security
- Learned behaviour
- Distorted thinking
- Integrative models
- Schizophrenia – a living nightmare
- Mood disorders – depression
- Anxiety disorders – when fear takes over
- Eating disorders – bulimia and anorexia
- Substance use disorders – abuse and dependence
- Personality disorders – a way of being
References
Illustration sources and credits
Author index
Subject index