Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour 6th Edition
Richard Gross


500,000 students later Gross continues to set the standard for Psychology textbooks. This thoroughly updated edition is colourful, engaging, and packed with features that help students to understand and evaluate classic and contemporary Psychology. Gross is the 'bible' for students of Psychology and anyone in related fields such as Counselling, Nursing and Social Work who needs a reliable, catch-all text.

All the major domains of Psychology are covered in detail across 50 manageable chapters that will help you get to grips with anything from the nervous system to memory, from attachment to personality, and everything in-between. A final section on issues and debates allows students to cast a critical eye on the research process, to explore the nature of Psychology as an evolving science, and understand some of the ethical issues faced by Psychologists.

- Brings contemporary Psychology alive with brand new double-page features which showcase contributions from Psychology's leading figures
- Packed with features: Introductions and Summaries, Ask Yourself Questions, Key Studies, Critical and Cross-Cultural material
- Improved coverage throughout of work from neuroscience, neuropsychology and evolutionary psychology
- Covers everything you need to know, in the depth in which you need to know it
- Explicitly links different areas of Psychology to help more able students get better grades.

New for this edition, Gross is supported by an extensive and interactive Dynamic Learning resource package. Just as Gross the book 'does everything', this comprehensive online resources package will help students to learn, and course leaders to deliver that learning. A free Dynamic Learning resources website supports students in revision, essay writing, and matching the book content to their course. A separately available set of multimedia-rich online resources can be tailored to the varied needs of course leaders.

• The one-stop-shop for Psychology, with everything you need to know in one place.
• New contributions from leading figures in contemporary Psychology, including Elizabeth Loftus, Andy Young, Chris Frith, David Canter and many others.
• Full colour, user-friendly visuals and packed with features that will help you learn about Psychological research and evaluate it critically.
• Supported by Dynamic Learning, a digital resource package which includes lesson presentations and planning resources, videos showcasing top Psychology researchers and their work, multiple choice test banks, and much, much more.
  
  
  Table of Contents:
  Part 1: The Nature and Scope of Psychology
  What is this thing called psychology?
  Theoretical approaches to psychology
  Psychology as a science
  Part 2: The Biological Basis of Behaviour and Experience
  The nervous system
  Sensory processes
  Parapsychology
  States of consciousness and bodily rhythms
  Substance dependence and abuse
  Motivation
  Emotion
  Learning and conditioning
  Application: health psychology
  Part 3: Cognitive Psychology
  Attention and performance
  Pattern recognition
  Perception: processes and theories
  The development of perceptual abilities
  Memory and forgetting
  Language, thought and culture
  Language acquisition
  Problem-solving, decision-making and artificial intelligence
  Application: cognition and the law
  Part 4: Social Psychology
  Social perception
  Attribution
  Attitudes and attitude change
  Prejudice and discrimination
  Conformity and group influence
  Obedience
  Interpersonal relationships
  Aggression and antisocial behaviour
  Altruism and prosocial behaviour
  Application: the social psychology of sport
  Part 5: Developmental Psychology
  Early experience and social development
  Development of the self-concept
  Cognitive development
  Moral development
  Gender development
  Adolescence
  Adulthood
  Old age
  Application: exceptional development
  Part 6: Individual Differences
  Intelligence
  Personality
  Psychological abnormality: definitions and classification
  Psychopathology
  Treatments and therapies
  Application: criminological psychology
  Part 7: Issues and Debates
  Bias in psychological theory and research
  Ethical issues in psychology
  Free will and determinism, and reductionism
  Nature and nurture