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This adaptation of this acclaimed psychololgy text has been thoroughly restructured and rewritten to meet the needs of a European audience. Features include a rewritten chapter on social psychology and a companion website.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Preface
• The science of psychology
• What is psychology? Psychology: The development of a science
• Modern Psychology: From the Leipzig Laboratory to the cognitive
• Revolution structuralism
• The ways and means of psychology
• The process of discovery in psychology
• Ethics
• Understanding research results
• Evolution, genetics and behaviour
• The development of evolutionary theory
• Heredity and genetics
• Sociobiology
• Psychobiology and neuroscience
• The nervous system: The brain and Its comoponents
• Techniques in psychobiology and neuroscience
• Control of behaviour
• Control of internal functions and automatic behaviour
• Drugs and behaviour
• Sensation
• Sensation and behaviour
• Vision
• Audition
• Gustation
• Olfaction
• The somatosenses
• Perception
• The nature of perception
• Perception of form
• Perception of space and motion
• Brain mechanisoms of visual perception
• Learning and behaviour
• The purpose of learning
• Habituation
• Classical conditioning
• Operant conditioning
• Conditioning of complex behaviours
• Memory
• Memory: An introduction
• Sensory memory
• Short-term memory
• learning and encoding in long-term memory
• The organisation of long-term memory
• Remembering
• Consciousness
• Consciousness: An introduction
• Theories of Consciousness
• Selective attention
• Hypnosis
• Sleep
• Language
• The use of language
• Psycholinguistics: The study of language acquisition and meaning
• Reading
• Language acquistion by children
• The neuropsychology of language
• Word recognition and production
• Intelligence and thinking
• What is intelligence? Theories of intelligence
• Intelligence testing
• The roles of heredity and environment
• Thinking
• Developmental psychology
• Prenatal development
• Physical and perceptual development in infancy and childhood
• Cognitive development in childhood
• Social development in childhood
• Development of sex roles
• Moral development
• Disorders of childhood
• Adolescence
• Adulthood and old age
• Motivation and Emotion
• Motivation
• Eating
• Sexual behaviour
• Aggressive behaviour
• Emotion
• Theories of emotion
• Personality
• Towards a definition of personality
• Trait theories of personality
• Heritability of personality traits
• The social learning approach
• The psychdynamic approach
• The humanistic approach
• Assessment of personality
• Social Psychology
• Social psychology: an introduction
• Social understanding: Social cognition and social knowledge
• Attitudes and attitude change
• Prejudice and intergroup behaviour
• Social influences and group processes
• Aggression, attraction and loving
• Health psychology
• A definition
• Health and ill-health
• Alternatives to orthodox medicine
• Stress and health
• Coping with everyday stress
• Abnormal Psychology
• Classification and diagnosis of mental disorders
• The treatment of mental disorders
• Mental disorder
• Glossary
• References
• Index