G Neil Martin

Essential Biological Psychology

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Covering all the major topics within biopsychology, and evaluating the most up-to-date findings, this textbook is essential reading for first and second year psychology undergraduates as well as anyone studying courses in neuropsychology or behavioural neuroscience.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9781138175402
• ISBN-10: 1138175404
• Artikelnr.: 49004537

Autorenporträt

G Neil Martin is Principal Lecturer in Psychology at Middlesex University and is also associate editor for The Psychologist.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 What is biological psychology?
Chapter 2 Approaches to studying biological psychology
Chapter 3 The nervous system and how it works
Chapter 4 The brain: its structures, regions and functions
Chapter 5 The sensory and motor systems
Chapter 6 Motivation: genes, thirst, hunger, sex and aggression
Chapter 7 Learning and memory
Chapter 8 Emotion and stress
Chapter 9 Language and other higher functions
Chapter 10 Consciousness
Chapter 11 Psychological and degenerative disorders