This book provides parents with easy-to-understand explanations of how a child's brain develops from conception to age five, and also demonstrates ways that parents can help their children "grow better brains."
This popular, practical guide by an expert author and media favorite presents new scientific evidence on the physical changes to the teen brain and detailed advice that parents and teachers can use to protect, educate, and guide adolescents.
This text emphasizes "applied/real-life" issues related to human development, allowing students to make connections between the material world and the world around them. Throughout the text, multicultural and gender issues are examined. The book covers many new topics; some of these include genetic testing, ethnic factors in identity formation, ...
This book studies the relationship between biological factors (mostly brain activity) and behaviour. It shows students how such aspects of brain physiology as neuro-transmission and neuroanatomy relate to "real" psychological topics such as language, sexual behaviour, drug addiction, depression, depression and schizophrenia. The fifth edition has ...
"Biological Psychology Fifth Edition" is a comprehensive survey of the bases of behaviour that is both authoritative and up-to-date. Building on the strengths of its predecessors, it continues to offer an outstanding illustration program and a very broad perspective - encompassing lucid descriptions of behaviour, evolutionary history, development, ...
"Human Development", Tenth Edition, provides the extensive cross-cultural and multicultural coverage, the innovative pedagogical learning system, and the balance between research and real-life applications that make this book a favorite of students and professors. In the warmly-written and engaging style that is their hallmark, Papalia, Olds, and ...
Biopsychologyclearly presents the fundamentals of the study of the biology of behavior and makes the topics personally and socially relevant to the student. The defining feature of Biopsychology is its unique combination of biopsychological science and personal, reader-oriented discourse. It is a textbook that is "untextbooklike." Rather than ...
Many of the hypotheses that Rossi proposed when this book was published in 1986 have now been confirmed. The mind-body connection is a process that can be seen, measured and accessed through hypnosis. In establishing that it is possible to use the mind to heal body illness, he now brings together new evidence from psychoneuroimmunology, ...
With its comprehensive, authoritative coverage and reader-friendly pedagogy, DISCOVERING BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY, 2nd Edition is ideal for a broad range of students taking a beginning undergraduate course in biological or physiological psychology. The book provides a foundational understanding of the structure and function of the nervous system and ...
Basics of Biopsychology is a unique combination of science and personal reader-oriented discourse weaving the fundamentals of the field with clinical case studies, social issues, personal implications and humorous anecdotes. It is a friendly mentor that speaks directly to students. Basics of Biopsychology conveys the excitement of scientific ...
Thoroughly updated this Second Edition engages students with its progressive and accessible content and useful pedagogy. Covering all the topics of a biological psychology course, yet following an atypical chapter order, the textbook fosters student interest earlier in the course than the traditional format and provides an improved sequence for ...
The author of "Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers"--"first-rate science for the nonscientist" ("Kirkus Reviews")--now treats readers to a sparkling and erudite collection of essays about science, the world, and humankind's relationship to both. Illustrations throughout.
This long-trusted text features an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, and contextual perspective on development. Applications to psychology, health care, social work, education, and family dynamics make this a perfect book for classes with a mixed population of majors. Continuing the hallmark diversity coverage of the prior eight editions, ...
This revised and expanded text approaches the study of child development from an inside/outside perspective, looking at children from a research-based point of view, as well as from a personal or experiential perspective. Addresses the whole child at each stage of development, chronologically. Paired chapters for each stage of development present ...
For undergraduate courses in Human Development, Lifespan Development, Developmental Psychology offered in departments of Psychology, Human Ecology, Education, Early Childhood Education, Nursing and Social Work. In an approach that reflects the fascinating story of our development and the development of others around us, this text encourages ...
The first book to show precisely how genes build the wonders of the human brain, and why the Human Genome project could radically alter our view of the world. In The Birth of the Mind , award-winning cognitive scientist Gary Marcus irrevocably alters the nature vs. nurture debate by linking the findings of the Human Genome project to the ...
Biological Psychology 4th edition is a comprehensive survey of the bases of behaviour that is both authoritative and up to date. Building on the strengths of its predecessor, it continues to offer an outstanding illustration program and a very broad perspective encompassing lucid descriptions of behaviour, evolutionary history, development, ...
Psychophysiology is a field concerned with the relationship between ongoing physiological activities and behaviour. The objective of this third edition - as it was for earlier versions - is to introduce the beginning student to psychophysiology - its concepts, empirical data, subject matter and research techniques. As such, it provides a ...
These timely, cutting-edge articles allow instructors to bring their students real-world perspective--from a reliable source--about today's most current and pressing issues in biopsychology.
Diana Hales critically examines the assumptions about women that seem based on biology. Drawing on knowledge from fields such as medicine, psychology, and anthropology, among others, she points out how our knowledge of female physiology can be enhanced by gender-specific research. She offers insights into women's health, and points out how ...
This clearly and concisely written book provides a general introduction to the interaction of biological systems and behavior. The author assumes the reader has little or no neuroscience background and includes carefully chosen learning aids which allow the reader to make the connection between his own experiences and what physiology determines ...
In this intellectual biography, Frank Sulloway seeks to demonstrate that Freud always remained, despite his denials, a "biologist of the mind", and, indeed, that his most creative inspirations derived significantly from biology. Sulloway analyzes the political aspects of the complex myth of Freud as "psychoanalytic hero" as it served to ...
Personality is now understood to be a function of both biological and environmental influences. This revised and updated edition of Psychobiology of Personality describes what is currently known about the biological basis of the primary personality traits, including genetic, neurological, biochemical, physiological, and behavioral influences. ...
'This fantastic introduction to Biological Psychology brings the subject to life in a way that no traditional textbook can. I will certainly be recommending it' - Brian Wink, Southampton Solent University. 'My first reaction was that it was both imaginative and courageous. Having read it, I would add that it also makes a significant contribution ...
This book traces the development of evolutionary theories of mind and behavior from their first distinctive appearance in the 18th century to their controverted state in the present.
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