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PSYCHOLOGY
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Dedication
To Laya Naomi and Shayla Dee, my beautiful youngest granddaughters; Freya Louise, their beautiful older cousin and sister
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ISBN: 9781444108316
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Year 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010
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CONTENTS
Guided Tour vi
Preface viii
Part 1: The Nature and Scope of Psychology
1 What Is this Thing Called Psychology? 1
2 Theoretical Approaches to Psychology 14
3 Psychology as a Science 36
Part 2: The Biological Basis of Behaviour and Experience
4 The Nervous System 49
5 Sensory Processes 69
6 Parapsychology 82
7 States of Consciousness and Bodily Rhythms 95
8 Addictive Behaviour 112
9 Motivation 129
10 Emotion 144
11 Learning and Conditioning 158
12 Application: Health Psychology 173
Part 3: Cognitive Psychology
13 Attention 197
14 Pattern Recognition 212
15 Perception: Processes and Theories 224
16 The Development of Perceptual Abilities 241
17 Memory and Forgetting 256
18 Language and Thought 275
19 Language Acquisition 287
20 Problem-Solving, Decision-Making and Artificial Intelligence 303
21 Application: Cognition and the Law 318
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gross richard
PSYCHOLOGY
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Dedication
To Laya Naomi and Shayla Dee, my beautiful youngest granddaughters; Freya Louise, their beautiful older cousin and sister
respectively; Tanya and Jo, their respective beautiful mothers; and Jan, my beautiful wife, who’s had to wait so long for this
huge project to finally reach a conclusion.
I love you all.
Orders: please contact Bookpoint Ltd, 130 Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4SB.
Telephone: +(44) 01235 827720. Fax: +(44) 01235 400454. Lines are open from 9.00 to 5.00,
Monday to Saturday, with a 24-hour message answering service. You can also order through
our website www.hoddereducation.co.uk.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library
ISBN: 9781444108316
First Published 2010
Impression number 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Year 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010
Copyright © 2010 Richard Gross
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted
in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording,
or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from
the publisher or under license from the Copyright Licensing Agency Limited. Further
details of such licenses (for reprographic reproduction) may be obtained from the
Copyright Licensing Agency Limited, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS.
Cover photo © 2010 Richard Gross
Illustrations by Kate Nardoni/Cactus Design
Typeset by 11/12 pt Bembo, MPS Limited, A Macmillan Company, Chennai.
Printed in Dubai for Hodder Education, an Hachette UK Company, 338 Euston Road, London NW1 3BH
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CONTENTS
Guided Tour vi
Preface viii
Part 1: The Nature and Scope of Psychology
1 What Is this Thing Called Psychology? 1
2 Theoretical Approaches to Psychology 14
3 Psychology as a Science 36
Part 2: The Biological Basis of Behaviour and Experience
4 The Nervous System 49
5 Sensory Processes 69
6 Parapsychology 82
7 States of Consciousness and Bodily Rhythms 95
8 Addictive Behaviour 112
9 Motivation 129
10 Emotion 144
11 Learning and Conditioning 158
12 Application: Health Psychology 173
Part 3: Cognitive Psychology
13 Attention 197
14 Pattern Recognition 212
15 Perception: Processes and Theories 224
16 The Development of Perceptual Abilities 241
17 Memory and Forgetting 256
18 Language and Thought 275
19 Language Acquisition 287
20 Problem-Solving, Decision-Making and Artificial Intelligence 303
21 Application: Cognition and the Law 318
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