Handbook of Psychology, Volume 3, Behavioral Neuroscience (eBook)

Irving B. Weiner, Randy J. Nelson, Sheri Mizumori (Autoren)

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2012 | 2. Auflage
768 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-28546-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Psychology is of interest to academics from many fields, as well as to the thousands of academic and clinical psychologists and general public who can't help but be interested in learning more about why humans think and behave as they do. This award-winning twelve-volume reference covers every aspect of the ever-fascinating discipline of psychology and represents the most current knowledge in the field. This ten-year revision now covers discoveries based in neuroscience, clinical psychology's new interest in evidence-based practice and mindfulness, and new findings in social, developmental, and forensic psychology.

Autor

Irving B. Weiner, Ph.D., is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at the University of South Florida and former Director of Psychological Services at the University of South Florida Psychiatry Center in Tampa, Florida. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and of the Association for Psychological Science, a Diplomat of the American Board of Professional Psychology in both Clinical and Forensic Psychology, and a Licensed Psychologist in the State of Florida. He is currently President of APA Division 5 (Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics) and Past President of APA Division 12 (Society of Clinical Psychology), formerly president of the Society for Personality Assessment and of the International Rorschach Society, and a recipient of the Society for Personality Assessment Distinguished Contribution Award. He has authored or edited over 15 scholarly and professional books including the first edition of the Handbook of Psychology and, with W. Edward Craighead, the fourth edition of the Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology.

Inhalt

Handbook of Psychology Preface xiii

Irving B. Weiner

Volume Preface xv

Randy J. Nelson and Sheri J. Y. Mizumori

Contributors xxv

1 BEHAVIORAL GENETICS 1

Stephen C. Maxson

2 EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY 26

Russil Durrant and Bruce J. Ellis

3 COMPARATIVE VISION 52

Gerald H. Jacobs

4 VISUAL PROCESSING IN THE PRIMATE BRAIN 81

Chris I. Baker

5 COMPARATIVE AUDITION 115

Cynthia F. Moss and Catherine E. Carr

6 AUDITORY PROCESSING IN PRIMATE BRAINS 157

Jon H. Kaas, Barbara M. J. O'Brien, and Troy A.
Hackett

7 COMPARATIVE LOCOMOTOR SYSTEMS 176

Karim Fouad, David Bennett, Hanno Fischer, and Ansgar
B¨uschges

8 NEURAL MECHANISMS OF TACTILE PERCEPTION 206

Steven S. Hsiao and Manuel Gomez-Ramirez

9 THE BIOPSYCHOLOGY OF PAIN 240

Magali Millecamps, David A. Seminowicz, M. Catherine Bushnell,
and Terence J. Coderre

10 TASTE AND OLFACTION 272

Patricia M. Di Lorenzo and Steven L. Youngentob

11 FOOD AND FLUID INTAKE 306

Timothy H. Moran and Randall R. Sakai

12 SEXUAL BEHAVIOR 331

Elaine M. Hull and Juan M. Dominguez

13 SLEEP AND BIOLOGICAL RHYTHMS 365

Stephanie G. Jones and Ruth M. Benca

14 MOTIVATIONAL SYSTEMS: REWARDS AND INCENTIVE VALUE 395

Ryan T. LaLumiere and Peter W. Kalivas

15 EMOTION 422

Paul J. Whalen, M. Justin Kim, Maital Neta, and F. Caroline
Davis

16 STRESS, COPING, AND IMMUNE FUNCTION 440

Angela Liegey Dougall, Minhnoi C. Wroble Biglan, Jeffrey N.
Swanson, and Andrew Baum

17 ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES ON DEVELOPMENT OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
461

Laura Petrosini, Debora Cutuli, and Paola De Bartolo

18 COMPARATIVE COGNITION 480

Edward A. Wasserman and Leyre Castro

19 BIOLOGICAL MODELS OF ASSOCIATIVE LEARNING 509

Jeansok Kim, Richard F. Thompson, and Joseph E.
Steinmetz

20 MEMORY SYSTEMS 551

Howard Eichenbaum

21 SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS, SOCIAL COGNITION, AND THE EVOLUTION OF
MIND IN PRIMATES 574

Robert M. Seyfarth and Dorothy L. Cheney

22 THE NEURAL BASIS OF LANGUAGE FACULTIES 595

Chantel S. Prat

23 NEURALLY INSPIRED MODELS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL PROCESSES 620

Eduardo Mercado III and Cynthia M. Henderson

24 NORMAL NEUROCOGNITIVE AGING 643

Bonnie R. Fletcher and Peter R. Rapp

Author Index 665

Subject Index 725

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.10.2012
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• Schlagworte: Psychologie • Psychology • Wissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 1-118-28546-8 / 1118285468
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-28546-6 / 9781118285466