Chapter 9: Brain and Behaviour: Sex Differences.Chapter 8: Communication within the Brain.Chapter 7: The Human Nervous System: Functional Anatomy.Section C: How Our Brains Affect Our Behaviour: Biological Psychology.Chapter 6: Thinking and Problem Solving.Chapter 5: An Introduction to Sensation, Perception and Attention.
Section B: How We Think and Make Sense of the World: Cognitive Psychology.Chapter 3: Issues and Debates in Psychology.Modern Psychology: Cognitive Science, Humanism and the Return of the Social Sciences.Conditioning: Watson, Pavlov, Skinner and the Study of Behaviour.Two Alternative Ways of Founding Psychology: Sigmund Freud and the Unconscious, William James and Functionalism.Psychology as a Study of the Conscious Mind: Helmholtz, Fechner, Wundt and a ‘Natural Science of the Mental’.Key Moments in the Emergence of Modern Psychology.Chapter 2: How Psychology Became a Science.Chapter 1: Sex, Lies and Digital Horizons.Section A: What We Know about Human Beings: The Foundations of Modern Psychology.The textbook is: stylish and presented in full colorhas an abundance of learning features to make your studies enjoyable and fruitful includes a companion website (with a host of lecturer and student-focused material to assist both teaching and learning Written by a UK team of authors, it spans 18 accessibly-sized chapters but concentrates on the six fundamental topic areas that are taught at introductory level in the UK – Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Biological Psychology Social Psychology, Developmental Psychology & The Psychology of Individual Differences – batching them into sections of 3 chapters each. It represents a fresh alternative to the range of expensive, American-oriented titles on the market that are full of topics you need but also many you don’t need on your course. Essential Psychology: A Core Textbook offers both the specialist and non-specialist Psychology student the perfect companion at an affordable price.
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