Biological Psychology (Hardcover)

1. The Biological Approach to Psychology 1.1 The Biological Approach to Behavior 1.2 Genetics and Behavior (See your eBook for this chapter) 1.3 The Use of Animals in Research (See your eBook for this chapter) 2. Neurons and Action Potentials 2.1 The Cells of the Nervous System 2.2 The Nerve Impulse 3. Communication at Synapses 3.1 The Concept of the Synapse 3.2 Chemical Events at the Synapse 3.3 Synapses, Drugs, and Addictions 4. Brain Anatomy 4.1 Structure of the Vertebrate Nervous System 4.2 The Cerebral Cortex 4.3 Research Methods 5. Brain Development and Plasticity 5.1 Development of the Brain 5.2 Plasticity After Brain Damage (See your eBook for this chapter) 6. The Visual System 6.1 Visual Coding 6.2 How the Brain Processes Visual Information 6.3 Parallel Processing in the Visual Cortex 7. Hearing, the Body Senses, and the Chemical Senses 7.1 Audition 7.2 The Mechanical Senses 7.3 The Chemical Senses 8. Control of Movement 8.1 The Control of Movement (See your eBook for this chapter) 8.2 Brain Mechanisms of Movement (See your eBook for this chapter) 8.3 Movement Disorders (See your eBook for this chapter) 9. Sleeping and Waking 9.1 Rhythms of Waking and Sleeping 9.2 Stages of Sleep and Brain Mechanisms 9.3 Why Sleep? Why REM? Why Dreams? (See your eBook for this chapter) 10. Temperature Control, Thirst, and Hunger 10.1 Temperature Regulation (See your eBook for this chapter) 10.2 Thirst 10.3 Hunger 11. Sexual Behaviors 11.1 Sex and Hormones 11.2 Variations in Sexual Behavior (See your eBook for this chapter) 12. Biology of Emotion 12.1 What Is Emotion? 12.2 Attack and Escape Behaviors (See your eBook for this chapter) 12.3 Stress and Health 13. Learning and Memory 13.1 Learning, Memory, Amnesia, and Brain Functioning 13.2 Storing Information in the Nervous System (See your eBook for this chapter) 14. Lateralization, Language, and Consciousness 14.1 Lateralization of Function (See your eBook for this chapter) 14.2 Evolution and Physiology of Language 14.3 Conscious and Unconscious Processes and Attention 15. Abnormal Behavior 15.1 Mood Disorders (See your eBook for this chapter) 15.2 Schizophrenia (See your eBook for this chapter)