Psychology : the science of mind and behaviour / Richard D. Gross.
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Hodder & Stoughton,
1996.
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| Edition: | Third edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. What is this thing called psychology?
- 2. Theoretical approaches to psychology
- 3. Psychology as a science
- 4. The nervous system
- 5. Sensory processes
- 6. Parapsychology
- 7. States of consciousness and bodily rhythms
- 8. Substance dependence and abuse
- 9. Motivation
- 10. Emotion
- 11. Learning and conditioning
- 12. Application : health psychology
- 13. Attention and performance
- 14. Pattern recognition
- 15. Perception : processes and theories
- 16. The development of perceptual abilities
- 17. Memory and forgetting
- 18. Language, thought and culture
- 19. Language acquisition
- 20. Problem-solving, decision-making and artificial intelligence
- 21. Application : cognition and the law
- 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
- 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
- 41. Intelligence
- 42. Personality
- 43. Psychological abnormality : definitions and classification
- 44. Psychopathology
- 45. Treatments and therapies
- 46. Application : criminological psychology
- 47. Bias in psychological theory and research
- 48. Ethical issues in psychology
- 49. Free will and determinism, and reductionism
- 50. Nature and nurture.