Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour 8th Edition
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Language
English
ISBN
9781510468467
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Guided tour
Preface
PART 1: 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
PART 4: SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
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 Aggression 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
47 Bias in psychological theory and research
48 Ethical issues in Psychology
49 Free will and determinism, and reductionism
50 Nature and nurture
Acknowledgements
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