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  • Book title: Psychology
  • Authors: Gray and Bjorklund
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Summary of Psychology by Gray and Bjorklund - 8th edition - Exclusive

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  • Chapter 1 - What is the background of the study of psychology?
  • Chapter 2 - What different methods are there in the field of psychology?
  • Chapter 3 - How do genetics and evolution form the foundation for behavior?
  • Chapter 4 - How do neurons control behavior?
  • Chapter 5 - What are the mechanisms of motivation and emotion?
  • Chapter 6 - How are smell, taste, pain and hearing studied?
  • Chapter 7 - How does the psychology of vision work?
  • Chapter 8 - What basic processes underly learning?
  • Chapter 9 - How do memory, attention, and consciousness work?
  • Chapter 10 - How do we solve problems when taking reasoning and intelligence into account?
  • Chapter 11 - How did thought and language develop?
  • Chapter 12 - What is the course of psychosocial development?
  • Chapter 13
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Psychology by Gray and Bjorklund (7th edition) - a summary

Psychology by Gray and Bjorklund (7th edition) - a summary

This is a summary of Psychology by Gray and Bjorklund. This book is an introduction to psychology and is used in the course 'Introduction to psychology' in the first year of the study Psychology at the UvA.

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Psychology - Gray: BulletPoints

Psychology - Gray: BulletPoints

What is the background of the study of psychology? - BulletPoints 1

  • The three fundamental ideas of psychology come down to: Behavior and mental experiences have physical causes that can be studied scientifically; the way people behave, feel and think is shaped over time by their experiences in their environment; the body produces behavior and mental experiences, and is a product of evolution through natural selection.
  • According to Descartes, the difference between humans and animals was the mind. He defined thoughts as conscious considerations and judgments. He suggested that the soul influences the body in a specific place: a small organ (pineal body) located between the two hemispheres of the brain. Descartes argued that thread-like structures bring sensory information through physical pathways to the brain (we now know as nerves or neurons). The soul receives the information and processes
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