Biological Psychology

Rating:
Summary: Highly recommended
Review: I highly recommend this book. As an undergraduate psychology student who just completed a physiological psychology course using this text, I can assure professors that it is a very useful, clear, and well organized textbook. It is much better than most college textbooks.

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Summary: The Biological Psychology Textbook of Choice
Review: The text has been called #1 of its kind in the market today. The chapters are clearly outlined and defined. The terms and their definitions are set apart within the text in a different color font. The text utilizes a vast number of cutting-edge resources for its respective chapters' content. The pictures, graphs, charts, and concept illustrations are extremely helpful and set the book apart as a student's best resource for concise introductory content in biological psychology. The latest edition is the seventh, published in 2001.

The text is made up of the following content: (1) The Mind-Brain Relationship; (2) Nature and Nurture; (3) The use of animals in research; (4) Prospects for further study; (5) Nerve cells and Nerve Impulses; (6) Communication within the body: synapses and hormones; (7) Anatomy of the nervous system; (8) Development and plasticity of the brain; (9) The nonvisual sensory systems; (10) Movement; (11) Rhythms of wakefulness and sleep; (12) The regulation of internal body states; (13) Reproductive behaviors; (14) Emotional behaviors; (15) The biology of learning and memory; (16) Lateralization and language; (17) And, alcoholism, mood disorders, and schizophrenia.

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Summary: Not well define enough.....
Review: This book is good for those who have some basic knowledge in biology. For those who doesn't, would find it hard to understand. I have compared it with other text books and I felt that some of the terms are defined very briefly.