Brings contemporary Psychology alive with brand new double-page features which showcase contributions from Psychology's leading figures - Packed with features: Introductions and Summaries, Ask Yourself Questions, Key Studies, Critical and Cross-Cultural material - Improved coverage throughout of work from neuroscience, neuropsychology and evolutionary psychology - Covers everything you need to know, in the depth in which you need to know it - Explicitly links different areas of Psychology to help more able students get better grades. This 8th edition of Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour is the essential guide to studying Psychology, helping over half a million students during its 30 years of publication. According to Rosenberg and Hovland (1960), attitudes are ‘predispositions to respond to some class of stimuli with certain classes of response’. These include the ability to focus attention on a single aspect of the environment or activity (voluntary attentional vigilance) at one extreme, and automatic, uncontrollable responses to unusual or unexpected events (involuntary attentional capture) at the other.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Despite that, it's a fantastic book for anyone with a serious interest in psychology, I strongly recommend it.It progresses through a series of hierarchical, invariant and universal stages: the sensorimotor, pre-operational, concrete operational, and formal operational. Without memory, we would be servants of the moment, with nothing but our innate reflexes to help us deal with the world. A separately available set of multimedia-rich online resources can be tailored to the varied needs of course leaders. It’s the gender that gives us a sense of personal identity as male or female (Wade and Tavris, 1994). Psychology is commonly defined as the scientific study of behavior and cognitive processes (or mind or experience).

The human brain was designed by the same natural forces that shaped other natural phenomena, but it is a brain designed to think, learn, and construct cultures. Different psychological theories attempt to answer quite different questions about moral development. Interesting book, Interesting subject if only because you get to understand why your lecturer is the way she is.This is such a big disappointment because the 'new' book felt second hand despite being published just six days ago! Additionally, the text features ‘Question Time’ breaks that relate to methodological, theoretical and other issues; these are all aimed at helping the reader assimilate the material. Full of compelling information throughout, entails key studies and it is a brilliant book to reference from. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

Just as Gross the book 'does everything', this comprehensive online resources package will help students to learn, and course leaders to deliver that learning. Was their behavior something to do with them ‘as a person’, such as their motives, intentions, or personality (an internal cause)? Everyone, at some point in their lives, experiences bereavement and The Psychology of Grief will help readers understand both their own and others’ feelings of grief that accompany it. While there is a vast amount of topics covered, they can be broadly categorized in the history and development of psychology, the biological origins of behavior, cognitive psychology, social psychology, developmental psychology and individual differences. The text adopts a critical approach to ‘mainstream Psychology’, attempting to identify and challenge some of the underlying assumptions that are traditionally made about ‘human nature’ and how it can be investigated in ways based on the scientific study of the natural world.All the major domains of Psychology are covered in detail across 50 manageable chapters that will help you get to grips with anything from the nervous system to memory, from attachment to personality, and everything in-between. What is also certain is that differences among children in the nature of their relationships with others can have profound implications for the particular developmental path that each child embarks upon . It is the taking possession by the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seems several simultaneously possible objects or trains of thought. this was recommended to me by a professor and i would recommend it to anyone who is interested in psychology. Although anatomical sex is universal, gender, which refers to all the duties, rights, and behaviors a culture considers appropriate for males and females, is a social invention.