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List of contents
PART I: The Foundations of Modern Psychology: What We Know About Human Beings
Chapter 1: Once Upon a Time...The Evolution of Human Behaviour - James Stiller and Philip Banyard
Chapter 2: How Psychology Became a Science - Sarah Buglass, Lydia Harkin, Peter Macaulay, Luke Vinter and Rosie Daly
Chapter 3: Doing Psychological Research - Philip Banyard, Darren Rhodes, David Crundall, Mark Griffiths, Sarah Seymour-Smith and Belinda Winder
Chapter 4: The Replication Crisis - Mark Andrews and Lucy Justice
PART II: Cognitive Psychology: How We Think and Make Sense of the World
Chapter 5: Memory - Thom Baguley, Harriet Smith, Lucy Justice and Duncan Guest
Chapter 6: An Introduction to Sensation, Perception and Attention - Andrew K. Dunn, Paula C. Stacey and Kate Roberts
Chapter 7: Learning - Andrew MacKenzie and Philip Banyard
Chapter 8: Thinking and Problem Solving - Gary Jones, Georgina Gous, Mark J.T. Sergeant and Antonio Castro
Chapter 9: Language and Literacy - Jens Roeser and Clare Wood
PART III: Biological Psychology: How Our Brains Affect Our Behaviour
Chapter 10: The Human Nervous System: Functional Anatomy - Antonio Castro, Gary Jones and Mark J.T. Sergeant
Chapter 11: Communication within the Brain - Lucy Webster and Christine Norman
Chapter 12: Brain and Behaviour: Sex Differences - Mark J.T. Sergeant and Antonio Castro
Chapter 13: Motivation and Emotion - Sebastiano Costa, Joshua Baker, Preethi Premkumar and Pancy Poon
PART IV: Social Psychology: How We Interact with Each Other
Chapter 14: Behaviour within Groups - Mhairi Bowe and Juliet Wakefield
Chapter 15: Behaviour between Groups - Juliet Wakefield and Mhairi Bowe
Chapter 16: Social Judgements and Behaviour - Sebastian Teicher and Maria Kontogianni
PART V: Developmental Psychology: How We Grow and Change
Chapter 17: Development during the Early Years - Lucy Betts, James Stiller, Rebecca Larkin, Gareth Williams and Kate Ellis-Davies
Chapter 18: Development during the School Years - James Stiller, Lucy Betts, Rebecca Larkin and Gareth Williams
Chapter 19: Atypical Child Development - Lai Sang Iao, Matthew Belmonte, Gayle Dillon, Andrew Grayson and Susannah Lamb
Chapter 20: Adulthood to Ageing - Olatz Lopez-Fernandez, Rebecca Stack, Suvo Mitra and Louise A. Brown Nicholls
PART VI: The Psychology of Individual Differences: How We Know and Measure Our Individuality
Chapter 21: Personality - David J. Wilde, Nadja Heym, Glenn A. Williams and Loren Abell
Chapter 22: Intelligence: Measuring the Mind - Eva Sundin, Sarah McDonald and Philip Banyard
Chapter 23: Self - Jill Arnold, Ben Oldfield and Filipa Dascostaricocalad
PART VII: Applied Psychology: How We Use Psychology
Chapter 24: Mental Health, Mental Illness and Psychopathology - Sarah McDonald, Palwinder Athwal-Kooner and Karen Slade
Chapter 25: Psychological Interventions - Karen Slade, Palwinder Athwal-Kooner and Sarah McDonald
Chapter 26: Health Psychology - Rebecca Stack, Mike Rennoldson, Prrethi Premkumar and Eva Sundin
Chapter 27: Forensic Psychology - Rebecca Lievesley, Sebastian Teicher and Lorraine Smith
Summary
With a vivid narrative writing style for undergraduates, this third edition gives students a firm foundation in all areas covered on accredited British Psychological Society degree courses. Â
