Book Description:Essential Psychology: A Core Textbook offers both the specialist and non-specialist Psychology student the perfect resource at an affordable price. As an introductory textbook It represents a fresh alternative to the range of expensive, hefty textbooks on the market that are full of topics you need but also many you don�t need on your course. Written by a UK team of authors, it spans 18 chapters concentrating on the following, core topic areas:
- Conceptual and historical issues in psychology;
- Cognitive psychology;
- Biological pscyhology;
- Social psychology;
- Developmental psychology;
- The psychology of individual differences.
The textbook is stylishly presented has an abundance of learning features, and comes with its own companion website (www.sagepub.co.uk./banyard) full of material for lecturers and students.
Compact yet comprehensive, user-friendly and contemporary, this textbook is perfect for anyone studying psychology at university for the very first time.
Table of Contents:I: WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT HUMAN BEINGS: THE FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN PSYCHOLOGY
Sex, Lies and Digital Horizons MARK N O DAVIES, PHILIP BANYARD
How Psychology Became a Science SIMON WATTS
Issues and Debates in Psychology GARRY YOUNG
II: HOW WE THINK AND MAKE SENSE OF THE WORLD: COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
Memory THOM BAGULEY, ANDREW J EDMONDS
An Introduction to Sensation, Perception and Attention ANDREW K DUNN, PAULA C STACEY
Thinking and Problem Solving GARY JONES
III: HOW OUR BRAINS AFFECT OUR BEHAVIOUR: BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
The Human Nervous System: Functional Anatomy ANTONIO CASTRO, MARK J T SERGEANT
Communication within the Brain RACHEL R HORSLEY, CHRISTINE NORMAN
Brain and Behaviour: Sex Differences MARK J T SERGEANT, ANTONIO CASTRO
IV: HOW WE INTERACT WITH EACH OTHER: SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Behaviour within Groups SUSAN HANSEN, PAIGE WILCOXSON, DAN BYSOUTH
Behaviour between Groups MICK GREGSON, ROWENA HILL, NICHOLAS BLAGDEN
Social Judgements and Behaviour ALEX MEREDITH, MONICA WHITTY
V: HOW WE GROW AND CHANGE: DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
Development during the Early Years LUCY J BETTS, LEE FARRINGTON-FLINT, JAMES STILLER, REBECCA LARKIN, GARETH L WILLIAMS/ Development during the School YEARS LEE FARRINGTON-FLINT, LUCY R BETTS, REBECCA LARKIN, JAMES STILLER, MARK TORRANCE, GARETH L WILLIAMS
Atypical Child Development GAYLE V DILLON, SUSANNAH J LAMB, ANDREW GRAYSON
VI: HOW WE KNOW AND MEASURE OUR INDIVIDUALITY: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
Personality GLENN WILLIAMS, JAMIE MURPHY , JAMES HOUSTON
Intelligence: Measuring the Mind EVA SUNDIN
Self JILL ARNOLD, BRENDAN GOUGH
Glossary
References
Index
