Consciousness and Behavior, Fourth Edition - Softcover

Wallace, Benjamin; Fisher, Leslie E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1577662962 ISBN 13: 9781577662969

Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc, 2003

Synopsis

Now available from Waveland Press, this leading text presents an enlightened departure from the traditional study of psychology and behavior. Wallace and Fisher view consciousness as "the processing of information at various levels of awareness": wakefulness (unaltered state of awareness); differentiated waking states (altered states of awareness, e.g., drug-induced); and sleep. People can easily compare experiences that occur during their wakeful level of consciousness. However, when consciousness shifts to one of the other levels, communication may break down. Each person may experience these levels of consciousness in a different way, making it difficult for researchers to develop adequate scientific procedures for assessing and describing levels of consciousness. In this fascinating study, the authors survey general theories of consciousness and provide an overview of physiology and the associated research technology in the study of consciousness. The topics covered include controversial yet popular areas of psychology that are typically neglected or given little if any attention in traditional course offerings. Readers are not required to have prerequisite knowledge of psychology to benefit from the insights presented in this timely, versatile text.

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From the Publisher

Titles of related interest from Waveland Press: Bock, Rethinking Psychological Anthropology: Continuity and Change in the Study of Human Action, Second Edition (ISBN 9781577660552) and de Munck, Culture, Self, and Meaning (ISBN 9781577661375).

From the Back Cover

What is the role of sexual fantasies in daydream activity? What are the latest findings in the controversial area of parapsychology? How do drugs like marijuana, cocaine, and alcohol alter a person's consciousness? This book presents the most thorough and most current overview of the phenomena surrounding the realm of the psychology of consciousness available today.

Though comprehensive in nature, the book is accessible, enjoyable, and requires little prerequisite knowledge of psychology. Its neutral approach explores both sides of such controversial issues as the influence of consciousness-altering drugs, hypnosis, biofeedback, meditation, the physiology and psychology of sleep and dreams, sensory deprivation, and parapsychology. Psychologists, counselors, and educators.

Edition details

• Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1577662962
• ISBN 13: 9781577662969
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 304