Companion encyclopedia of psychology
By: edited by Andrew M. Colman.
Contributors: Colman, Andrew M.
Series: Routledge reference
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1994
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1356
Subjects: Psychology -- Encyclopedias
Description: The Companion Encyclopedia to Psychology is an authoritative, in-depth reference work on all major branches of psychological research and professional practice. The book is aimed at a serious but not necessarily specialist readership, including students and teachers of psychology and a wide range of other subjects that deal with psychology components (such as medicine, nursing, sociology, social work, and education) and seriously interested members of the general reading public. The contributors, who include some of the world's leading psychologists, have written in a lively style, with clarity and vigor, at a level accessible to attentive readers without any specialist knoweldge of psychology.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : What is psychology? / Andrew M. Colman -- Historical background of psychology / Raymond E. Fancher -- Biological aspects of behaviour : Heredity and behaviour genetics / C.P. Kyriacou -- Behavioural ecology and evolution / John Lazarus -- The nervous system and the brain / Daniel Kimble -- Sleep and dreaming / J. Allan Hobson -- Psychopharmacology / Leonard W. Hamilton and C. Robin Timmons -- 3. Sensation and perception : Fundamental processes in vision / Peter C. Dodwell -- Computational theories of vision / Mike G. Harris and Glyn W. Humphreys -- Hearing / Brian C.J. Moore -- The skin, body, and chemical senses / Harvey Richard Schiffman -- Psychophysics / Donald Laming -- Cognition : Memory / Alan Baddeley -- Attention / Michael W. Eysenck -- Psycholinguistics / Willem J.M. Levelt -- Thinking and reasoning / Jonathan St B.T. Evans -- Artificial intelligence / Alan Garnham -- Learning and skills : Classical and operant conditioning / Nicholas J. Mackintosh -- Applied behaviour analysis / Donald M. Baer -- Cognitive skills / K. Anders Ericsson and William L. Oliver -- Motor skills / John Annett -- Social skills / Michael Argyle -- Emotion and motivation : Emotion / Brian Parkinson -- Hunger and appetite / John E. Blundell and Andrew J. Hill -- Social motivation / Russell G. Geen -- Sexual motivation and behaviour / John Bancroft -- Stress and coping / Robert J. Gatchel -- Individual differences and personality : Intelligence and cognitive styles / Robert J. Sternberg -- The construction of personality / Sarah E. Hampson -- Trait theories of personality / H.J. Eysenck -- Freudian theories of personality / Richard Stevens -- Personality tests / Paul Kline Developmental psychology : Infancy / George Butterworth -- Cognitive development / Sara Meadows -- Social development / Peter K. Smith -- Adolescence / John C. Coleman -- Ageing / John C. Cavanaugh -- Social psychology : Attitudes and persuasion / Klaus Jonas and Alice H. Eagly and Wolfgang Stroebe -- Social influence processes / Peter B. Smith -- Attribution and social cognition / David J. Schneider -- Prejudice and intergroup conflict / James Vivian and Rupert Brown -- Non-verbal communication / Peter Bull and Lesley Frederikson -- Abnormal psychology : Neuroses : depressive and anxiety disorders / J. Mark G. Williams and Isabel R. Hargreaves -- Psychotic disorders : schizophrenia, affective psychoses, and paranoia / Chris Frith and Connie Cahill -- Infantile autism / Simon Baron-Cohen -- Eating disorders / Peter J. Cooper -- Alcohol and drug addiction / Geoffrey Lowe -- Special topics : Parapsychology / Susan Blackmore -- Hypnosis / Graham F. Wagstaff -- Gender issues in psychology / Mary Crawford and Rhoda K. Unger -- Psychology and the law / Robert T. Croyle and Elizabeth F. Loftus -- Health psychology / John Weinman -- Research methods and statistics : Experimental design / David D. Stretch -- Analysis of variance designs / Brian S. Everitt -- Descriptive and inferential statistics / A.W. MacRae -- Quasi-experiments and correlational studies / Michael L. Raulin and Anthony M. Graziano -- Survey methods, naturalistic observations, and case-studies / Francis C. Dane -- Ethical issues in psychological research / Anthony Gale -- The professions of psychology : Clinical and counselling psychology / Graham E. Powell -- Educational (school) psychology / David Fontana -- Industrial (occupational) and organizational psychology / Wendy Hollway -- Forensic (criminological) psychology / Clive R. Hollin -- Psychoanalysis / Peter Fonagy.