Product Description

Foundations of Biopsychology offers an engaging introduction to Biopsychology for undergraduate students.  It is particularly suitable for one semester or modular courses.

Assuming no background knowledge in biology or psychology, the text relates examples to clinical conditions or treatments, allowing students to fully understand the relevance of the subject to other areas of psychology.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #98285 in Books
• Published on: 2004-12-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 504 pages

Synopsis
Foundations of Biopsychology offers an engaging introduction to Biopsychology for undergraduate students. It is particularly suitable for one semester or modular courses. Assuming no background knowledge in biology or psychology, the text relates examples to clinical conditions or treatments, allowing students to fully understand the relevance of the subject to other areas of psychology.

From the Back Cover

Foundations of Biopsychology is an excellent introduction to a fascinating field of study. Up-to-date and comprehensive, this is an ideal companion for any biopsychology student and is particularly suitable for use on a semester-based course.

Foundations of Biopsychology is a lively and engaging introduction to how the brain produces behaviour. The book does not assume any background knowledge in biology or psychology. Although academically rigorous, it adopts an accessible, modular format and is supported throughout by diagrams and images.

This edition:

• Places a strong emphasis on the historical development of the subject to help students gain a deeper understanding of the main themes in biopsychology.
• References exciting and up-to-date research, emphasising how the discipline is moving forward.
• Special interest boxes provide new insights into the brain in order to stimulate debate. These include discussions on how Einstein’s brain was different; the effects of navigational experience on the shape of the brain; and how laughter affects the same areas of the brain as cocaine.

This book includes bibliographies to encourage further reading. It also features search terms to help students locate further information on the Internet.

A companion website is located at www.pearsoned.co.uk/wickens. This provides additional support for students and includes:

·        Mind Maps to bring study of the brain to life.

·        Multiple choice questions to test progress.

·        An essay writing guide to assist with assignments.

·        Links to relevant websites for further research.

Dr Andrew Wickens lectures at the University of Central Lancashire in biopsychology and neuroscience.

Front cover image: Coloured 3-dimensional MRI scan of the white matter pathways of the brain, side view.
Credit: Tom Barrick, Chris Clark, SGHMS/Science Photo Library

Customer Reviews

First Year Psychology
A must for anyone studying psych at UCLAN as it is written by the lecturer. A great, well written resource that makes quite a tough topic really interesting.

Perfect
This book is excellent for a few of the modules in my Psychology degree. Although the fact that Andy is my lecturer and the multiple choice questions will form part of the exam does help. Seriously though, this is an excellent book, written in a style that is easy to understand and conveys the enthusiasm the author has on the subject. The brain really is a remarkable object and this book is a good starting place to learning about it.

A great way into Biopsychology
Anyone starting out in Biopsychology could do a lot worse than taking a peek at this book. From first glance its an easy to read but hard to put down delve into the complex subject of biopsychology. The chapters are well laid out with plenty of diagrams and important new words or phrases in bold type so they are easy to find or refer to.

At the end of each chapter there are self-test questions, key terms and the page no. they were found on, a reference and further reading section and perhaps most useful a 20 question multiple choice quiz at the end of each chapter. This is really useful especially when revising for exams!

If only more psychology books were written like this.

Spot on.