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Understanding Biological Psychology

ISBN: 978-0-631-21953-8

October 2006

Wiley-Blackwell

704 pages

Description

Understanding Biological Psychology is an accessible and distinctive new core textbook that helps students to appreciate the central role that biological processes play in psychology.

  • gives conceptual clarity to a complex and often confusing field;
  • innovative integration of theory and methods;
  • covers a core area of the undergraduate syllabus;
  • accessible, student-friendly text;
  • synthesizes biological processes with mainstream psychological topics to make the subject both interesting and accessible;
  • focuses on what biological psychology is for, rather than treating it as an end in itself;
  • provides basic introductions to biological principles and applications;
  • covers recent advances, such as neuroimaging and molecular genetics.

Upon publication, the textbook will be supported by an accompanying website containing a multiple choice testbank, weblinks, electronic versions of figures, and other additional resources. Visit www.blackwellpublishing.com/corr for more information.

About the Author
Philip J. Corr is Professor of Psychology at the University of Wales, Swansea.
Features


  • a distinctive and student-friendly textbook;


  • helps students to appreciate the central role that biological processes play in psychology;


  • gives conceptual clarity to a complex and often confusing field;


  • innovative integration of theory and methods;


  • covers a core area of the undergraduate syllabus;


  • synthesizes biological processes with mainstream psychological topics to make the subject both interesting and accessible;


  • focuses on what biological psychology is for, rather than treating it as an end in itself;


  • provides basic introductions to biological principles and applications;


  • covers recent advances, such as neuroimaging and molecular genetics.