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Suggested Reading

DSE212

General Reference

Colman, A. M. (2003) A Dictionary of Psychology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Gross, R. (2010)Psychology: The science of mind and behaviour (6th edn.). London: Hodder Education.

Northedge, A., Thomas, J., Lane, A., and Peasgood, A. (1997) The Sciences Good Study Guide. Milton Keynes: The Open University.

Redman, P. (2001) Good Essay Writing: A Social Sciences Guide (2nd edn.). Milton Keynes/London: The Open University/Sage.

Background

Carter, R. (1998) Mapping the mind. London: Phoenix.

Damasio, A. (1994) Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain. London: Vintage Books.

James, W. (1890) The Principles of Psychology: Volume One. Mineola, NY: Dover.

Pinker, S. (1997) How the Mind Works. London: Penguin.

Ramachandran, V.S., and Blacksee, S. (1998) Phantoms in the Brain: Human Nature and the Architecture of the Mind. London: Harper Perennial.

Research Methods

Banister, P., Burman, E., Parker, I., Taylor, M., and Tindall, C. (1994) Qualitative Methods in Psychology: A Research Guide. Maidenhead: Open University Press.

Clegg, F. (1990) Simple Statistics: A Course Book for the Social Sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Harris, P. (2002) Designing and reporting Experiments in Psychology (2nd edn.). Buckingham: Open University Press.

Parker, I. (2005)Qualitative Psychology: Introducing Radical Research. Maidenhead: Open University Press.

Specific Topics

Identity

Erikson, E. (1965) Children and society (2nd edn.). London: Penguin.

Stevens, R. (2008) Erik H. Erikson: Explorer of Identity and the Life Cycle. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Social Constructionism

Burr, V. (1995)An Introduction to Social Constructionism. London: Routledge.

Burr, V. (2003)Social Constructionism (2nd edn.). Hove: Routledge.

Behaviourism

Baum, W. M. (2004)Understanding Behaviorism: Behavior, Culture, and Evolution (2nd end). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

Toates, F. (2009)Burrhus F. Skinner: The Shaping of Behaviour. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Biology/Evolutionary Psychology

Dawkins, R. (1991) The Blind Watchmaker. London: Penguin Group.

Greenfield, S. (2000) The private life of the brain. London: Penguin.

Pinker, S. (2002) The Blank Slate. London: Book Club Associates.

Rose, S. (2006)The 21st Century Brain: Explaining, Mending and Manipulating the Mind. London: Vintage.

Toates, F. (2006)Biological Psychology: An Integrative Approach (2nd edn). Harlow: Pearson Education.

Positive Psychology

Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1992) Flow: The Psychology of Happiness. London: Rider Books.

Language

Pinker, S. (1994) The language instinct: the new science of language and mind. London: Penguin.

Consciousness

Blackmore, S. (2003) Consciousness: an introduction. Abingdon: Hodder and Stoughton.

Carter, R. (2002) Consciousness. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

Velmans, M. (2000) Understanding Consciousness. London: Routledge.

ED209

Beard, R.M. (1969) An Outline of Piaget’s Developmental Psychology for Students and Teachers. London/Henley: Routledge/Kegan Paul.

Crain, W. (2000) Theories of Development: Concepts and Applications (4th edn). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

Donaldson, M. (1978) Children’s minds. London: Fontana.

Holmes, J. (1993) John Bowlby and attachment theory. Hove: Brunner-Routledge.

SD226

Bear, M. F., Connors, B. W., and Paradiso, M. A. (2006) Neuroscience: Exploring the brain (3rd edn.). Baltimore, MD: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.

Crossman, A. R., and Neary, D. (2000) Neuroanatomy: an illustrated colour text (2nd edn.). London: Churchill Livingstone.

Diamond, M. C., Scheibel, A. B., and Elson, L. M. (1985) The human brain coloring book. New York, NY: Harper Collins.

Pinel, J. P. J., and Edwards, M. (1998) A colorful introduction to the anatomy of the human brain: a brain and psychology coloring book. Needham Heights, MD: Allyn and Bacon.

Ramachandran, V. S., and Blacksee, S. (1998) Phantoms in the Brain: Human Nature and the Architecture of the Mind. London: Harper Perennial.

Toates, F. (2006) Biological Psychology: An Integrative Approach (2nd edn). Harlow: Pearson Education.

Sachs, O. (1987) The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. New York, NY: Harper & Row.

DD303

Andrade, J. (ed) (2001) Working memory in perspective. Hove: Psychology Press.

Damasio, A. (1994) Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain. London: Vintage Books.

Eysenck, M. (2001) Principles of Cognitive Psychology (2nd edn.). Hove: Psychology Press.

Harris, P. (2002) Designing and reporting Experiments in Psychology (2nd edn.). Buckingham: Open University Press.

Murphy, G. L. (2004) The Big Book of Concepts. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Ramachandran, V. S., and Blacksee, S. (1998) Phantoms in the Brain: Human Nature and the Architecture of the Mind. London: Harper Perennial.

Styles, E. A. (1997) The Psychology of Attention. Hove: Psychology Press.

DD307

Hepburn, A. (2003) An Introduction to Critical Social Psychology. London: Sage.

Kelly, G. A. (1963, 1955) A Theory of Personality: The Psychology of Personal Constructs. London: Norton.

Langdridge, D. (2007) Phenomenological Psychology: Theory, Research and Method. Harlow: Pearson Education.

Parker, I. (2005)Qualitative Psychology: Introducing Radical Research. Maidenhead: Open University Press.

Stainton-Rogers, W. (2003) Social Psychology: Experimental and Critical Approaches. Maidenhead: Open University Press.

Stevens, R. (2008)Sigmund Freud: Examining the Essence of his Contribution. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.