Summary:
500,000 students later Gross continues to set the standard for Psychology textbooks. This thoroughly updated edition is colourful, engaging, and packed with features that help students to understand and evaluate classic and contemporary Psychology. Gross is the 'bible' for students of Psychology and anyone in related fields such as Counselling, Nursing and Social Work who needs a reliable, catch-all text.

All the major domains of Psychology are covered in detail across 50 manageable chapters that will help you get to grips with anything from the nervous system to memory, from attachment to personality, and everything in-between. A final section on issues and debates allows students to cast a critical eye on the research process, to explore the nature of Psychology as an evolving science, and understand some of the ethical issues faced by Psychologists.

- Brings contemporary Psychology alive with brand new double-page features which showcase contributions from Psychology's leading figures
- Packed with features: Introductions and Summaries, Ask Yourself Questions, Key Studies, Critical and Cross-Cultural material
- Improved coverage throughout of work from neuroscience, neuropsychology and evolutionary psychology
- Covers everything you need to know, in the depth in which you need to know it
- Explicitly links different areas of Psychology to help more able students get better grades.

New for this edition, Gross is supported by an extensive and interactive Dynamic Learning resource package. Just as Gross the book 'does everything', this comprehensive online resources package will help students to learn, and course leaders to deliver that learning. A free Dynamic Learning resources website supports students in revision, essay writing, and matching the book content to their course. A separately available set of multimedia-rich online resources can be tailored to the varied needs of course leaders.

• The one-stop-shop for Psychology, with everything you need to know in one place.
• New contributions from leading figures in contemporary Psychology, including Elizabeth Loftus, Andy Young, Chris Frith, David Canter and many others.
• Full colour, user-friendly visuals and packed with features that will help you learn about Psychological research and evaluate it critically.
• Supported by Dynamic Learning, a digital resource package which includes lesson presentations and planning resources, videos showcasing top Psychology researchers and their work, multiple choice test banks, and much, much more.

Table of Contents:
Part 1: The Nature and Scope of Psychology
What is this thing called psychology?
Theoretical approaches to psychology
Psychology as a science
Part 2: The Biological Basis of Behaviour and Experience
The nervous system
Sensory processes
Parapsychology
States of consciousness and bodily rhythms
Substance dependence and abuse
Motivation
Emotion
Learning and conditioning
Application: health psychology
Part 3: Cognitive Psychology
Attention and performance
Pattern recognition
Perception: processes and theories
The development of perceptual abilities
Memory and forgetting
Language, thought and culture
Language acquisition
Problem-solving, decision-making and artificial intelligence
Application: cognition and the law
Part 4: Social Psychology
Social perception
Attribution
Attitudes and attitude change
Prejudice and discrimination
Conformity and group influence
Obedience
Interpersonal relationships
Aggression and antisocial behaviour
Altruism and prosocial behaviour
Application: the social psychology of sport
Part 5: Developmental Psychology
Early experience and social development
Development of the self-concept
Cognitive development
Moral development
Gender development
Adolescence
Adulthood
Old age
Application: exceptional development
Part 6: Individual Differences
Intelligence
Personality
Psychological abnormality: definitions and classification
Psychopathology
Treatments and therapies
Application: criminological psychology
Part 7: Issues and Debates
Bias in psychological theory and research
Ethical issues in psychology
Free will and determinism, and reductionism
Nature and nurture

About the Author(s):
Richard Gross is the foremost author of psychology textbooks in Britain. His best-selling books include Themes, Issues and Debates in Psychology, 3rd edition, Key Studies in Psychology, AQA(A) Psychology for A2 and Psychology for Nurses and Allied Health Professionals: Applying Theory to Practice

Readership:
A Level/Undergraduate