Psychology
Psychology - The Science of Mind and Behaviour
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2010, 912pp, 6th ed.
Gross's book has been described as the trailblazer in the psychology textbook revolution and the psychology student's bible. It has established itself as the benchmark psychology textbook. This thoroughly updated edition is colorful, engaging, and packed with features that help students to understand and evaluate classic and contemporary Psychology.
Table of contents
| 1 | What is this thing called psychology? | 3 |
| 2 | Theoretical approaches to psychology | 16 |
| 3 | Psychology as a science | 36 |
| 4 | The nervous system | 53 |
| 5 | Sensory processes | 77 |
| 6 | Parapsychology | 92 |
| 7 | States of consciousness and bodily rhythms | 104 |
| 8 | Substance dependence and abuse | 123 |
| 9 | Motivation | 139 |
| 10 | Emotion | 156 |
| 11 | Learning and conditioning | 170 |
| 12 | Application : health psychology | 186 |
| 13 | Attention and performance | 215 |
| 14 | Pattern recognition | 231 |
| 15 | Perception : processes and theories | 243 |
| 16 | The development of perceptual abilities | 264 |
| 17 | Memory and forgetting | 281 |
| 18 | Language, thought and culture | 306 |
| 19 | Language acquisition | 319 |
| 20 | Problem-solving, decision-making and artificial intelligence | 338 |
| 21 | Application : cognition and the law | 355 |
| 22 | Social perception | 375 |
| 23 | Attribution | 394 |
| 24 | Attitudes and attitude change | 405 |
| 25 | Prejudice and discrimination | 423 |
| 26 | Conformity and group influence | 441 |
| 27 | Obedience | 455 |
| 28 | Interpersonal relationships | 468 |
| 29 | Aggression and antisocial behaviour | 494 |
| 30 | Altruism and prosocial behaviour | 511 |
| 31 | Application : the social psychology of sport | 526 |
| 32 | Early experience and social development | 541 |
| 33 | Development of the self-concept | 566 |
| 34 | Cognitive development | 581 |
| 35 | Moral development | 601 |
| 36 | Gender development | 620 |
| 37 | Adolescence | 635 |
| 38 | Adulthood | 648 |
| 39 | Old age | 666 |
| 40 | Application : exceptional development | 682 |
| 41 | Intelligence | 705 |
| 42 | Personality | 730 |
| 43 | Psychological abnormality : definitions and classification | 757 |
| 44 | Psychopathology | 775 |
| 45 | Treatments and therapies | 807 |
| 46 | Application : criminological psychology | 835 |
| 47 | Bias in psychological theory and research | 855 |
| 48 | Ethical issues in psychology | 867 |
| 49 | Free will and determinism, and reductionism | 886 |
| 50 | Nature and nurture | 900 |