Elitedocs
Elitedocs
, Biopsychology
Eighth Edition
Elitedocs
John P. J. Pinel
University of British Columbia
Allyn & Bacon
Boston Columbus Indianapolis New York San Francisco Upper Saddle River
Amsterdam Cape Town Dubai London Madrid Milan Munich Paris Montreal Toronto
Delhi Mexico City Sao Paulo Sydney Hong Kong Seoul Singapore Taipei Tokyo
Elitedocs
, To Maggie, the love of my life.
Editor in Chief: Jessica Mosher
Executive Editor: Susan Hartman
Editorial Assistant: Laura Barry
Marketing Manager: Nicole Kunzmann
Senior Production Project Manager: Roberta Sherman
Manufacturing Buyer: Debbie Rossi
Cover Administrator: Joel Gendron
Editorial Production and Composition Service: Nesbitt
Interior Design: Nesbitt
Photo Researcher: Katherine S. Cebik
Developmental Editor: Erin K. L. Grelak
Production Editor: Jane Hoover
Credits appear on pages 564 565, which constitute an extension of the copyright page.
Elitedocs
Copyright © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Allyn & Bacon, 75 Arlington Street,
Suite 300, Boston, MA 02116. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States of
America. This publication is protected by Copyright, and permission should be obtained from
the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or
transmission in any from or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording,
or likewise. To obtain permission(s) to use material from this work, please submit a written
request to Pearson Higher Education, Rights and Contracts Department, 501 Boylston Street,
Suite 900, Boston, MA 02116, or fax your request to 617-671-3447.
Many of the designations by manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their products are
claimed as trademarks. Where those designations appear in this book, and the publisher was
aware of a trademark claim, the designations have been printed in initial caps or all caps.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data.
Pinel, John P. J.
Biopsychology / John P.J. Pinel. -- 8th ed.
p. ; cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-205-83256-9 (alk. paper)
1. Psychobiology--Textbooks. I. Title.
[DNLM: 1. Psychophysiology--methods. 2. Behavior--physiology. 3.
Brain--physiology. 4. Brain Diseases--physiopathology. WL 103]
QP360.P463 2012
612.8--dc22
2010038756
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 RRD-OH 14 13 12 11
ISBN 10: 0-205-83256-3
www.pearsonhighered.com ISBN 13: 978-0-205-83256-9
Elitedocs
, Brief Contents
Part One 10 Brain Damage and Neuroplasticity 240
What Is Biopsychology? Can the Brain Recover from Damage?
1 Biopsychology as a Neuroscience 1 11 Learning, Memory, and Amnesia 268
What Is Biopsychology, Anyway? How Your Brain Stores Information
Part Two Part Five
Foundations of Biopsychology Biopsychology of Motivation
2 Evolution, Genetics, and Experience 20 12 Hunger, Eating, and Health 298
Thinking about the Biology of Behavior Why Do Many People Eat Too Much?
3 13
Elitedocs
Anatomy of the Nervous System 50 Hormones and Sex 327
Systems, Structures, and Cells That Make What s Wrong with the Mamawawa?
Up Your Nervous System
14 Sleep, Dreaming, and
4 Neural Conduction and Synaptic Circadian Rhythms 355
Transmission 75 How Much Do You Need to Sleep?
How Neurons Send and Receive Signals
15 Drug Addiction and the Brain s
5 The Research Methods Reward Circuits 383
of Biopsychology 101 Chemicals That Harm with Pleasure
Understanding What Biopsychologists Do
Part Six
Part Three Disorders of Cognition and Emotion
Sensory and Motor Systems
16 Lateralization, Language, and
6 The Visual System 131 the Split Brain 411
How We See The Left Brain and the Right Brain
of Language
7 Mechanisms of Perception: Hearing,
Touch, Smell, Taste, and Attention 164 17 Biopsychology of Emotion, Stress,
How You Know the World and Health 442
Fear, the Dark Side of Emotion
8 The Sensorimotor System 191
How You Move 18 Biopsychology of
Psychiatric Disorders 466
The Brain Unhinged
Part Four
Brain Plasticity
9 Development of the Nervous System 219
From Fertilized Egg to You
iii
Elitedocs
Elitedocs
, Biopsychology
Eighth Edition
Elitedocs
John P. J. Pinel
University of British Columbia
Allyn & Bacon
Boston Columbus Indianapolis New York San Francisco Upper Saddle River
Amsterdam Cape Town Dubai London Madrid Milan Munich Paris Montreal Toronto
Delhi Mexico City Sao Paulo Sydney Hong Kong Seoul Singapore Taipei Tokyo
Elitedocs
, To Maggie, the love of my life.
Editor in Chief: Jessica Mosher
Executive Editor: Susan Hartman
Editorial Assistant: Laura Barry
Marketing Manager: Nicole Kunzmann
Senior Production Project Manager: Roberta Sherman
Manufacturing Buyer: Debbie Rossi
Cover Administrator: Joel Gendron
Editorial Production and Composition Service: Nesbitt
Interior Design: Nesbitt
Photo Researcher: Katherine S. Cebik
Developmental Editor: Erin K. L. Grelak
Production Editor: Jane Hoover
Credits appear on pages 564 565, which constitute an extension of the copyright page.
Elitedocs
Copyright © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Allyn & Bacon, 75 Arlington Street,
Suite 300, Boston, MA 02116. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States of
America. This publication is protected by Copyright, and permission should be obtained from
the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or
transmission in any from or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording,
or likewise. To obtain permission(s) to use material from this work, please submit a written
request to Pearson Higher Education, Rights and Contracts Department, 501 Boylston Street,
Suite 900, Boston, MA 02116, or fax your request to 617-671-3447.
Many of the designations by manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their products are
claimed as trademarks. Where those designations appear in this book, and the publisher was
aware of a trademark claim, the designations have been printed in initial caps or all caps.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data.
Pinel, John P. J.
Biopsychology / John P.J. Pinel. -- 8th ed.
p. ; cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-205-83256-9 (alk. paper)
1. Psychobiology--Textbooks. I. Title.
[DNLM: 1. Psychophysiology--methods. 2. Behavior--physiology. 3.
Brain--physiology. 4. Brain Diseases--physiopathology. WL 103]
QP360.P463 2012
612.8--dc22
2010038756
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 RRD-OH 14 13 12 11
ISBN 10: 0-205-83256-3
www.pearsonhighered.com ISBN 13: 978-0-205-83256-9
Elitedocs
, Brief Contents
Part One 10 Brain Damage and Neuroplasticity 240
What Is Biopsychology? Can the Brain Recover from Damage?
1 Biopsychology as a Neuroscience 1 11 Learning, Memory, and Amnesia 268
What Is Biopsychology, Anyway? How Your Brain Stores Information
Part Two Part Five
Foundations of Biopsychology Biopsychology of Motivation
2 Evolution, Genetics, and Experience 20 12 Hunger, Eating, and Health 298
Thinking about the Biology of Behavior Why Do Many People Eat Too Much?
3 13
Elitedocs
Anatomy of the Nervous System 50 Hormones and Sex 327
Systems, Structures, and Cells That Make What s Wrong with the Mamawawa?
Up Your Nervous System
14 Sleep, Dreaming, and
4 Neural Conduction and Synaptic Circadian Rhythms 355
Transmission 75 How Much Do You Need to Sleep?
How Neurons Send and Receive Signals
15 Drug Addiction and the Brain s
5 The Research Methods Reward Circuits 383
of Biopsychology 101 Chemicals That Harm with Pleasure
Understanding What Biopsychologists Do
Part Six
Part Three Disorders of Cognition and Emotion
Sensory and Motor Systems
16 Lateralization, Language, and
6 The Visual System 131 the Split Brain 411
How We See The Left Brain and the Right Brain
of Language
7 Mechanisms of Perception: Hearing,
Touch, Smell, Taste, and Attention 164 17 Biopsychology of Emotion, Stress,
How You Know the World and Health 442
Fear, the Dark Side of Emotion
8 The Sensorimotor System 191
How You Move 18 Biopsychology of
Psychiatric Disorders 466
The Brain Unhinged
Part Four
Brain Plasticity
9 Development of the Nervous System 219
From Fertilized Egg to You
iii
Elitedocs
