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Biological Psychology: An Integrative Approach By Fred Toates ( Pearson Education )
Release Date: 2001-06-06
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List Price: $100.00
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Product Description
In a visually appealing format, this book demonstrates how such aspects of the brain as neurotransmission and neuroanatomy relate to “real” psychological topics such as emotion, language and learning, sexual behavior, anxiety, aggression, recovery from brain damage, depression, and pain. The book focuses on the structures and function of brain anatomy first, then introduces the resulting behaviors. Topics include: Integrating Explanations; Coordinated Action; Neurons and the Nervous System; The Brain; Development; Sensory Systems—General Principles; Vision; The Other Senses; The Control of Movement; Learning and Memory; From Reflexes to Goals; Emotion; Stress and Coping; Pain; Motivation; Feeding and Drinking; Sexual Behavior; Drugs; Sleep and Waking; Psychopathology; Cognitive Processes and Consciousness. For psychologists.
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 Boring and wordy explanations ( mlomize )
I took a Biopsychology course with this textbook and I was entirely ungrateful that my professor chose it. This textbook is like a conglomeration of hundreds of research publications, instead of an introductory textbook. It would explain one topic after another without giving the reader a larger view of what all of this means in context to answering big biology and psychology questions. The paragraphs and sections were needlessly long and wordy. Instead of presenting easily accessible information, the author surrounded every fact with long-winded explanations.
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Poorly organized! Boring!
As an introductory textbook for Biological Psychology, this book could certainly take a step back. There is jumbles of information slipped in between long, and not to mention boring, wordy non-explanations. I think the author assumes too much of its readers. I can't seem to make sense of half this text, and I'm not dumb! This book was just organized in a fashion that I find extremely confusing. All graphics and the book itself was fine, just the writing was horrible.
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 Toates on Biological Psychology
This text by Fred Toates is a spectacularly well done summary of the field of biological psychology. Not only would it be a first-rate text for courses, but an excellent self-education tool in one of the most exciting areas of science. The writing is crisp and interesting, permitting relatively easy reading of difficult materials. There are abundant examples to engage any student, and the illustrations are stunning. Toates does not avoid important philosophical issues as do many books of this type. He puts the all too abundant facts in a context which makes assimilation of material a delight. This is on the top of my list of texts to use in the relevant courses. It is also among the foremost I would recommend for those who want to study how brain and bodily functions help make us who we are.
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