Table of Contents

1. The Biological Approach to Psychology 2. Neurons and Action Potentials 3. Communication at Synapses 4. Brain Anatomy 5. Brain Development and Plasticity 6. The Visual System 7. Hearing, the Body Senses, and the Chemical Senses 8. Control of Movement 9. Sleeping and Waking 10. Temperature Control, Thirst, and Hunger 11. Sexual Behaviors 12. Biology of Emotion 13. Learning and Memory 14. Lateralization, Language, and Consciousness 15. Abnormal Behavior

About the Author

James W. Kalat is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at North Carolina State University, where he taught courses in introduction to psychology and biological psychology from 1977 through 2012. He received an AB degree summa cum laude from Duke University and a PhD in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. He is also the author of INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY (10th Edition) and co-author with Michelle Shiota of EMOTION (2nd Edition). In addition to textbooks, he has written journal articles on taste-aversion learning, the teaching of psychology, and other topics. He was twice the program chair for the annual convention of the American Psychological Society, now named the Association for Psychological Science.