Psychology Express: Biological Psychology, 2nd edition

Published by Pearson (25 April 2025) © 2025

  • Emma Preece University of Birmingham
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Title overview

Help students thoroughly plan, prepare and practice for their assessments

This concise guide helps students to grasp key concepts in preparation for their assessments. Features including topic maps, revision checklists, summaries of key studies and further reading provide students with a framework for revision success. They can also assess their progress with test questions, improve their critical thinking skills by evaluating sample answers and learn how to make their answers stand out with assessment guidelines.

Table of contents

  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Guided tour
  • Key research studies
  • Chapter 1: Introduction to biopsychology: origins, approaches and applications
  • Chapter 2: Structure and function of the central and peripheral nervous systems
  • Chapter 3: The endocrine system: hormones and behaviour
  • Chapter 4: Biological basis of language
  • Chapter 5: Mechanisms of perception and sensation
  • Chapter 6: Biological mechanisms of sleep and dreaming
  • Chapter 7: Biological aspects of emotion
  • Chapter 8: The biology of learning and memory
  • Chapter 9: Biological basis of psychological abnormality
  • Glossary of terms
  • References
  • Index

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