Neil R. Carlson Libri

Incorporating discoveries in the rapidly changing fields of neuroscience and physiological psychology, this book offers comprehensive and integrative coverage of research and theory in contemporary behavioural neuroscience. It emphasises the dynamic interaction between biology and behaviour.

This edition continues to treat the discipline as an experimental and natural science, combining a scholarly survey of research with applications of research results to problems that confront us today.KEY TOPICS:Emphasizes psychology as a science. Includes topics such as heredity, behavior genetics, sociobiology, and health psychology.

This text introduces readers to the scientific approach to understanding human behaviour. Each of the chapters in the book reviews the current state of knowledge about various aspects of behaviour - from intelligence and emotion to child development and prejudice - based on sound scientific study

A revision of the successful book that incorporates the most up-to-date changes from the quick-paced field of biological psychology. This book marries the clinical aspects of the field with the roots of biological research. The author uses many human examples to help make the material interesting and relevant to readers. Suitable for Intro Psychology students or anyone with an interest in physiological psychology, biological psychology, or neuroscience.