Book Title: Biopsychology in Context
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Book Description: Biopsychology is the study of the biological bases of behavior and mental processes. It explores how biological factors like genes, hormones, neurotransmitters, and brain structures influence psychological components like thoughts, emotions, memories, and actions. This free and open textbook provides a wide ranging and up-to-date introduction to the main topics and methods of biological psychology.
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Biopsychology is the study of the biological bases of behavior and mental processes. It explores how biological factors like genes, hormones, neurotransmitters, and brain structures influence psychological components like thoughts, emotions, memories, and actions. This free and open textbook provides a wide ranging and up-to-date introduction to the main topics and methods of biological psychology. It starts by covering foundations of biological psychology (brain anatomy, neurons, research methods), continues to higher-level topics that link biology and psychology (how drugs and hormones affect the brain and behavior; brain development; genetics; and emotions) and concludes with neural and behavioral differences associated with brain damage, neurological diseases, and psychological disorders.
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This book is a cloned version of Biological Psychology [1st Edition] by Michael J. Hove and Steven A. Martinez, published using Pressbooks by ROTEL (Remixing Open Textbooks with an Equity Lens) Project under a CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike) license. It may differ from the original.
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Biopsychology in Context Copyright © 2025 by Steffi Schrepfer is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
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Physiological psychology, neuropsychology, biopsychology
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Biopsychology in Context Copyright © 2025 by Steffi Schrepfer is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
Edited and adapted by Steffi Schrepfer, Tacoma Community College in 2025, as part of the Library & Learning Innovation Development Program. Except for otherwise noted, the content in this OER textbook is licensed under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
Adapted primarily from Biological Psychology [Revised Edition] by ROTEL (Remixing Open Textbooks with an Equity Lens) Project, CC BY NC SA 4.0. Additional attributions provided on the Attributions page.