One of the strengths of this book is that each chapter is written by a prominent specialist in their field. They particularly highlight points of clinical relevance and come from both academic and clinical psychology backgrounds. Many have worked with psychiatrists or have been involved in teaching psychology to psychiatrists in training.Contents ? Part One Basic Psychology ? Behaviourism and Learning Theory ? Sensation and Perception ? Information Processing and Attention ? Remembering and Forgetting ? The Development of Cognition, Moral Reasoning and Language ? Understanding the Psychology of Personality ? Motivation ? Stress and Emotion: Physiology, Cognition and Health ? Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy ? Sleep, Sleep Deprivation, Sleepiness, Circadian Rhythms, Sleep Neurophysiology, Sleep Disorders and Dreaming ? Neuro-psychology: Studying Behaviour following Brain Damage ? Intelligence and its Measurement ? Some Empirical Approaches to Individual Differences Part Two Human Development ? Human Development ? The Development of Sociability and Fears ? Psychological Aspects of Adolescence and the Development of Identities ? Psychological Development in Adult LIfe ? Normal Ageing Part Three Social Psychology
Contributors ix Introduction xi Part One: Basic Psychology 1(276) Behaviourism and learning theory 3(17) Dennis Trent Sensation and perception 20(21) Helen E. Ross Attention and information processing: applications to schizophrenia 41(19) Gerry Kent Graham Turpin Remembering and forgetting 60(19) M. Eacott The development of cognition, moral reasoning and language 79(25) Kieron Sheeby Understanding the psychology of personality 104(25) Man Cheung Chung Motivation 129(14) Richard Toogood Stress and emotion: physiology, cognition and health 143(32) Gerald Matthews Hypnosis and hypnotherapy 175(23) Peter Davies Sleep, sleep deprivation, sleepiness, circadian rhythms, sleep neurophysiology, sleep disorders, and dreaming 198(17) Mark Blagrove Neuropsychology - studying behaviour following brain damage 215(22) M. Eacott Intelligence and its measurement 237(17) John Pickering Some empirical approaches to individual differences 254(23) Marilyn J. Williams Part Two: Human Development 277(96) Human development 279(21) Helen Graham The development of sociability and fears 300(18) N.J. Banks Psychological aspects of adolescence and the development of identities 318(11) N.J. Banks Psychological development in adult life 329(21) Janet R. Wheatley Normal ageing 350(23) Janet R. Wheatley Part Three: Social Psychology 373(44) Social psychology 375(42) Guy Cumberbatch Paul Humphreys Index 417
Rajinder M. Gupta studied psychology at the universities of Cambridge and Manchester. He did his professional training as an educational psychologist at Exeter University and PhD at Aston. Following his training, he worked as an educational psychologist for nearly two decades. In the last 15 years, he has worked as a Child and Adolescent Psychologist in the clinical psychology departments of several NHS trusts in the Midlands and has also helped train a number of clinical psychology trainees studying for their doctorate programme at Birmingham University. His current main area of interest, both from a clinical and academic standpoint, is the study of families with interactional diffi culties with their children and effective and effi cient ways of helping them.
