How does brain activity give rise to sleep, dreams, learning, memory, and language? Do drugs like cocaine and heroin tap into the same neurochemical systems that evolved for life's natural rewards? What are the powerful new tools of molecular biology that are revolutionizing neuroscience? This undergraduate textbook explores the relation between brain, mind, and behavior. It clears away the extraneous detail that so often impedes learning, and describes critical concepts step by step, in straightforward language. Rich illustrations and thought-provoking review questions further illuminate the relations between biological, behavioral, and mental phenomena. With writing that is focused and engaging, even the more challenging topics of neurotransmission and neuroplasticity become enjoyable to learn. While this textbook filters out non-critical details, it includes all key information, allowing readers to remain focused and enjoy the feeling of mastery that comes from a grounded understanding of a topic, from its fundamentals to its implications.
The book provides thirty cases from which to choose. Each of the cases is based on real situations-no armchaired situations exist. The cases are long enough to give adequate data for analysis but not so long so as to be cumbersome. The number and variety of cases, issues, types of operations, levels of sophistication, levels of management addressed, and so forth, assure that this book can be used at any level by any instructor who believes in and appreciates the value of case analysis as a teaching technique. Discussion Motivators are included in Appendix B. This component fills a market demand for increasing class interaction on topics which are difficult to cover in any other way. The book also contains numerous problems for practice, illustrations, and homework.
The Fourth Edition of Human Relations continues to use the Total Person approach to address relations in the workplace, taking a personal versus organizational approach to the seven major themes of effective human relations--communication, self-awareness, self-acceptance, motivation, trust, self-disclosure, and conflict management.Internet application exercises at the end of every chapter keep students in touch with the world outside the classroom and provide an opportunity to research important topics.
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