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This highly successful and student-friendly text looks at the relationship between biological factors (mostly brain activity) and behavior, and shows students what biology has to do with psychology. As he captures and engages readers' interest, Kalat reveals how such aspects of brain activity as neurotransmission and neuroanatomy relate to "real" psychological topics such as language and learning, sexual behavior, anxiety, aggressive behavior, depression, and schizophrenia.

Now thoroughly revised throughout with new art, research, examples, and more coverage of genetics and evolution, this latest edition maintains the strengths of past editions while adding a whole new look and feel--in less than 600 pages! ... Read more

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Not well define enough.....
This book is good for those who have some basic knowledge in biology. For those who doesn't, would find it hard to understand. I have compared it with other text books and I felt that some of the terms are defined verybriefly.

Highly recommended
I highly recommend this book.As an undergraduate psychology student who just completed a physiological psychology course using this text, I can assure professors that it is a very useful, clear, and well organized textbook.It is much better than most college textbooks. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Biological Psychology, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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The polyvagal theory introduced a new perspective relating autonomic function to behavior, that included an appreciation of the autonomic nervous system as a ''system,'' the identification of neural circuits involved in the regulation of autonomic state, and an interpretation of autonomic reactivity as adaptive within the context of the phylogeny of the vertebrate autonomic nervous system. The paper has two objectives: first, to provide an explicit statement of the theory; and second, to introduce the features of a polyvagal perspective. The polyvagal perspective emphasizes how an understanding of neurophysiological mechanisms and phylogenetic shifts in neural regulation leads to different questions, paradigms, explanations, and conclusions regarding autonomic function in biobehavioral processes than peripheral models. Foremost, the polyvagal perspective emphasizes the importance of phylogenetic changes in the neural structures regulating the autonomic nervous system and how these phylogenetic shifts provide insights into the adaptive function and the neural regulation of the two vagal systems. ... Read more

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Well, it's a textbook
These things are always obscenely overpriced, and this book is no different. If you're buying it it's probably because you're in college taking a class and you need it, so find the cheapest price. Be careful you don't accidentally buy the accompanying study guide to this book.

Great!
This book was sent quickly, and was in great condition. I have been using it frequently for the class I am taking. Cheers! ... Read more

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In a visually appealing format, this book demonstrates how such aspects of the brain as neurotransmission and neuroanatomy relate to “real” psychological topics such as emotion, language and learning, sexual behavior, anxiety, aggression, recovery from brain damage, depression, and pain.The book focuses on the structures and function of brain anatomy first, then introduces the resulting behaviors. Topics include: Integrating Explanations; Coordinated Action; Neurons and the Nervous System; The Brain; Development; Sensory Systems—General Principles; Vision; The Other Senses; The Control of Movement; Learning and Memory; From Reflexes to Goals; Emotion; Stress and Coping; Pain; Motivation; Feeding and Drinking; Sexual Behavior; Drugs; Sleep and Waking; Psychopathology; Cognitive Processes and Consciousness.For psychologists. ... Read more

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Boring and wordy explanations
I took a Biopsychology course with this textbook and I was entirely ungrateful that my professor chose it.This textbook is like a conglomeration of hundreds of research publications, instead of an introductory textbook.It would explain one topic after another without giving the reader a larger view of what all of this means in context to answering big biology and psychology questions.The paragraphs and sections were needlessly long and wordy.Instead of presenting easily accessible information, the author surrounded every fact with long-winded explanations.

Poorly organized! Boring!
As an introductory textbook for Biological Psychology, this book could certainly take a step back.There is jumbles of information slipped in between long, and not to mention boring, wordy non-explanations.I think the author assumes too much of its readers.I can't seem to make sense of half this text, and I'm not dumb!This book was just organized in a fashion that I find extremely confusing.All graphics and the book itself was fine, just the writing was horrible.

Toates on Biological Psychology
This text by Fred Toates is a spectacularly well done summary of the field of biological psychology.Not only would it be a first-rate text for courses, but an excellent self-education tool in one of the most exciting areas of science.The writing is crisp and interesting, permitting relatively easy reading of difficult materials.There are abundant examples to engage any student, and the illustrations are stunning.Toates does not avoid important philosophical issues as do many books of this type.He puts the all too abundant facts in a context which makes assimilation of material a delight. This is on the top of my list of texts to use in the relevant courses.It is also among the foremost I would recommend for those who want to study how brain and bodily functions help make us who we are. ... Read more

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Never HIGHLIGHT a Book Again!Virtually all testable terms, concepts, persons, places, and events are included. Cram101 Textbook Outlines gives all of the outlines, highlights, notes for your textbook with optional online practice tests. Only Cram101 Outlines are Textbook Specific. Cram101 is NOT the Textbook. ... Read more

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This pack draws on successful classroom practice to focus on the demands of the examination. It features 'lessons' on key topic areas, consisting of lively introductory activities, class and individual practicals, details of key studies, worksheets, structured discussion acitivties and exam-style questions. Each topic begins with a comprehensive lesson plan. ... Read more

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Stress and Health: Biological and Psychological Interactions, Second Edition examines the biological links between our emotions and changes in our health. Author William R. Lovallo provides an introduction to the concept of psychological stress, its physiological manifestations, and its effects on health and disease. The book concentrates on the psychophysiological relationship between cognitions, emotions, brain functions, and the peripheral mechanisms by which the body is regulated. Stress and Health is the only book on the biology of psychological stress for students and researchers in the behavioral sciences.

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Good primer for those without a background in biology.
This book is a fairly easy read that makes the science and biology of stress accessible to non scientists. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Biological Psychology, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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In science, theories lend coherence to vast amounts of descriptive information. However, current diagnostic approaches in psychopathology are primarily atheoretical, emphasizing description over etiological mechanisms. We describe the importance of Polyvagal Theory toward understanding the etiology of emotion dysregulation, a hallmark of psychopathology. When combined with theories of social reinforcement and motivation, Polyvagal Theory specifies etiological mechanisms through which distinct patterns of psychopathology emerge. In this paper, we summarize three studies evaluating autonomic nervous system functioning in children with conduct problems, ages 4-18. At all age ranges, these children exhibit attenuated sympathetic nervous system responses to reward, suggesting deficiencies in approach motivation. By middle school, this reward insensitivity is met with inadequate vagal modulation of cardiac output, suggesting additional deficiencies in emotion regulation. We propose a biosocial developmental model of conduct problems in which inherited impulsivity is amplified through social reinforcement of emotional lability. Implications for early intervention are discussed. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Biological Psychology, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Although respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) is a commonly quantified physiological variable, the methods for quantification are not consistent. This manuscript questions the assumption that respiration frequency needs to be manipulated or monitored to generate an accurate measure of RSA amplitude. A review of recent papers is presented that contrast RSA amplitude with measures that use respiratory parameters to adjust RSA amplitude. In addition, data from two studies are presented to evaluate empirically both the relation between RSA amplitude and respiration frequency and the covariation between RSA frequency and respiration frequency. The literature review demonstrates similar findings between both classes of measures. The first study demonstrates, during spontaneous breathing without task demands, that there is no relation between respiration frequency and RSA amplitude and that respiration frequency can be accurately derived from the heart period spectrum (i.e., frequency of RSA). The second study demonstrates that respiration frequency is unaffected by atropine dose, a manipulation that systematically mediates the amplitude of RSA, and that the tight linkage between the RSA frequency and respiration frequency is unaffected by atropine. The research shows that the amplitude of RSA is not affected by respiration frequency under either baseline conditions or vagal manipulation via atropine injection. Respiration frequency is therefore unlikely to be a concern under these conditions. Research examining conditions that produce (causal) deviations from the intrinsic relation between respiratory parameters and the amplitude of RSA combined with appropriate statistical procedures for understanding these deviations are necessary. ... Read more

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The Study Guide for Bob Garrett’s Brain & Behavior: An Introduction to Biological Psychology, 2nd Edition enhances student learning by offering the additional review and practice necessary to succeed in a biopsychology class. Each chapter in this affordable, robust student study guide corresponds to the appropriate chapter in Brain & Behavior: An Introduction to Biological Psychology, Second Edition and contains the following:

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Every student using the Second Edition of Brain & Behavior will benefit from this study guide chock-full of invaluable learning aids.

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A must if you want to get an A
This review book is a must if you want to get an A in your class.I read the chapter in the accompaning text then would go through the chapter in the workbook.There are fill in the blank to review and practice quiz with answers to everything.I got 100 on most all my chapter quizes using this.I don't think it will help much if you try and use it in place of reading the text but in combination you will do great!

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Product was as described - it was like new - could have been new.Excellent transaction - would definitely buy from again. ... Read more

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This new and engaging text provides students with the latest research, theories, and skills to examine their health-related behaviors and attitudes. Emphasizing the biopsychosocial model, Health Psychology examines how biological, psychological, and social-cultural perspectives influence an individual s overall health, and guides students through common health psychology topics, such as the rehabilitation of the sick and injured, how emotions cause change in the body s biological system, the effects of stress on health, and much more. With its accessible writing style and numerous real-world examples, the text motivates students to make positive changes that are based on current health research. ... Read more

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For sophomore through graduate-level courses in Biological Psychology, Physiological Psychology, Biologically oriented Introductory Psychology, Psychophysiology, Neuropsychology, Psychobiology.This text emphasizes that to adequately understand, predict and control human behavior, we need to understand how the sensory, neural, and muscular systems of the body interact to generate various kinds of behavior. Cybernetics is used as the model to reverse standard modes of looking at behavior in terms of isolated systems. ... Read more

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This is the first comprehensive Dictionary to cover the terminology of this rapidly growing field.
With this new resource, students and professionals can gain fast access to short, comprehensible definitions - in non-specialist language - of over 4000 terms drawn from a variety of non-psychological sources, with coverage of key areas in clinical medicine, psychiatry and neuroscience as well as specialist areas of psychology such as ethology, learning theory andpsychophysics. ... Read more

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* Includes established theories and cutting-edge developments.
* Presents the work of an international group of experts.
* Presents the nature, origin, implications, an future course of major unresolved issues in the area. ... Read more

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In psychology, biological psychology or psychobiology is the application of the principles of biology to the study of mental processes and behaviour. A psychobiologist, for instance, may compare the imprinting behaviour in goslings to the early attachment behaviour in human infants and construct theory around these two phenomena. Biological psychologists may often be interested in measuring some biological variable, e.g. an anatomical, physiological, or genetic variable, in an attempt to relate it quantitatively or qualitatively to a psychological or behavioural variable; and thus, contribute to evidence based practice. Biopsychology is another synonym for biological psychology. This book presents the latest research in the field. ... Read more