Title Statements
- Full title :Discovering psychology / Don H. Hockenbury, Sandra E. Hockenbury.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:©2011.
- Edition:5th ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Worth Publishers
- Place of Publication:New York, NY
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2011.
The Physical Object
- Description:xlvi, 619 pages, [172] : : illustrations (some color) ; : 28 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781429216500, 1429216506, 9781429232029, 1429232021, 9781429237635, 1429237635, 1429217480, 9781429217484
- oclc:ocn463639317
- LC Classification:BF121
- Dewey Decimal:150
Table of Contents
Introducing psychology -- 1. Introduction and research methods -- Influence of philosophy and physiology -- Wilhelm Wundt : the founder of psychology -- Edward B. Titchener : structuralism -- William James : functionalism -- Sigmund Freud : psychoanalysis -- John B. Watson : behaviorism -- Carl Rogers : humanistic psychology -- The scientific method -- Naturalistic observation : the science of people- and animal-watching -- The experimental method -- The Gingko Biloba experiment -- The Hotel experiment -- Ethics and psychological research -- Psychobiological processes -- 2. Neuroscience and behavior -- The neuron : basic unit of communication -- Neurotransmitters and their effects -- How drugs affect synaptic transmission -- The nervous system and the endocrine system : communication throughout the body -- A guided tour of the brain -- The dynamic brain : plasticity and neurogenesis -- The brainstem : hindbrain and midbrain structures -- The forebrain -- Specialization in the cerebral hemispheres -- Language and the left hemisphere : the early work of Broca and Wernicke -- Cutting the corpus callosum : the split brain -- 3. Sensation and perception -- Basic principles of sensation…
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