Description
Book SynopsisFrederick Toates is a Professor of Biological Psychology at the Open University who has 44 years experience of researching and teaching the subject across the UK, continental Europe and the USA.
Trade Review"Toates holds out a friendly hand and offers to guide new psychology students through the groundwork they will need before they can move on to a more critical and indepth study of the topics covered. For psychology students with little experience of biology, the concepts they encounter in their first year of study can be intimidating. Having Biological Psychology to hand will ease their transition into an exciting multidisciplinary subject and hopefully inspire them to read further about the biological foundations of the human mind." - Reviewed by Tom Hardwicke, University of Birmingham in Psychology Learning & Teaching
Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Genes, Environment and Evolution
Chapter 3: The Nervous and Endocrine Systems
Chapter 4: Neurons: How They Work
Chapter 5: The Brain: Basics of Structure and Role
Chapter 6: Development and Plasticity
Chapter 7: Sensory Systems: General Principles
Chapter 8: Vision
Chapter 9: The Other Sensory Systems
Chapter 10: The Control of Movement
Chapter 11: Learning and Memory
Chapter 12: Emotion
Chapter 13: Stress and Coping
Chapter 14: Pain
Chapter 15: Motivation
Chapter 16: Feeding and Drinking
Chapter 17: Sexual Behaviour
Chapter 18: Drugs and Addiction
Chapter 19: Sleep and Walking
Chapter 20: Cognition and Action
Chapter 21: Consciousness
Chapter 22: When Things Go Wrong
