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 OUTLINE
- LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- INTRODUCTION
- HOW YOUR BRAIN PLAYS TENNIS
- COMPONENTS OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
- NEURAL INTERACTION
- NEURAL INTERACTION
- FINAL THOUGHTS
- SUMMARY
- REVISION QUESTIONS
- FURTHER READING
- 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 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
- Deceptively simple...
- ...Immensely complex
- The support and structure of neurons
- The peripheral nervous system
- The central nervous system
- Regions within the brain
- The structure of the human brain
- What do neurons look like?
- Electrical activity
- Neurotransmisison
- Neurons as integrators
- Disrupting the system
- Inhibitory neurotransmission
- Further intricacies
- Experience as a modifier
- Neonatal brain development
- Can we repair damaged brains?
- Modular processing
References
Illustration sources and credits
Author index
Subject index