Integrator for Biological Psychology

Wendy Kohn, Arthur Kohn (Autoren)

CD-ROM (Software)

1997
Brooks/Cole (Hersteller)
978-0-534-34921-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Enabling students to explore biological psychology interactively, this CD-ROM for Windows and Macintosh uses audio, video, static and animated sequences to present psychological concepts.

Inhalt

Part 1 The global issues of biological psychology - nerve cells and nerve impulses: the cells of the nervous system; the nerve impulse. Part 2 Synapses and drugs: the concept of synapse; chemical events at the synapse; synapses, drugs and behaviour. Part 3 Anatomy of the nervous system: basic subdivisions of the vertebrate nervous system; the cerebral cortex; method of investigating how the brain controls behaviour. Part 4 Development and evolution of the brain: development of the brain; evolution of the brain and its capacities. Part 5 Vision: visual coding and the retinal receptors; neural basis of visual perception; development of the visual system. Part 6 The non-visual sensory systems: audition; the mechanical senses; the chemical senses. Part 7 Rhythms of wakefulness and sleep: the alternation of waking and sleeping; sleeping and dreaming; brain mechanisms in sleep and its disorders. Part 8 The regulation of internal body states: temperature regulation; thirst; hunger. Part 9 Hormones and sexual behaviour: hormones and behaviour; variations in sexual development and sexual orientation. Part 10 Emotional behaviours and stress: emotion, autonomic nervous-system arousal, and health problems; reinforcement, escape and attack behaviours, and the brain. Part 11 The biology of learning and memory: learning, memory, amnesia, and brain functioning; mechanisms of storing information in the nervous system. Part 12 Lateralization and language: lateralization of function and the corpus callosum; the biological basis of language. Part 13 Recovery from brain damage: brain damage and mechanisms of recovery; factors influencing recovery from brain damage. Part 14 Biology of mood disorders, schizophrenia and autism: depression; schizophrenia and autism. Appendices: genetics and evolution; brief, basic chemistry.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.9.1997
• Verlagsort: CA
• Sprache: englisch
• Gewicht: 91 g
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
• ISBN-10: 0-534-34921-8 / 0534349218
• ISBN-13: 978-0-534-34921-9 / 9780534349219
• Zustand: Neuware