Psychology: Pearson New International Edition: The Science of Behavior - Softcover

Carlson, Neil R; Miller Jr., Harold L.; Heth, Donald S.; Donahoe, John W.; Martin, G. Neil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1292039698 ISBN 13: 9781292039695

Publisher: Pearson, 2013

Synopsis

For undergraduate courses in Introductory Psychology for two and four year institutions.

 

A rigorous biological and evolutionary approach to introductory psychology text written by an international team of authors.

 

Based on the connections between behavior and its biological underpinnings, Psychology: The Science of Behavior presents psychological behavior in the context of its adaptive significance. The Seventh Edition again combines a scholarly survey of research with real-world applications of research results to problems that confront us today. The authors apply the discovery method to take students inside the research process to foster a critical understanding of the logic and significance of empirical findings

About this title

About the Author:

Neil Carlson, U Mass Amherst Emeritus at the University of Masschusetts at Amherst, Neil Carlson is an active researcher focusing on the relationship between the brain and behavior -- specifically the role of the limbic system in learning and species-typical behavior. Dr. Carlson received his undergraduate degree and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. In addition to writing Psychology: The Science of Behavior, Dr. Carlson is also the author of two best-selling physiology of behavior textbooks -- "Psychology: The Science of Behavior "and "Foundations of Physiological ""Psychology,"

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1292039698
• ISBN 13: 9781292039695
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 668