How the Brain Works – What Psychology Students Need to Know

    • And what’s on these pages?
    • Chapter 1. Introduction (and some puzzles)
    • Chapter 2. Where the brain comes from: evolution
    • Chapter 3. What are the bits of the brain and what do they do?
    • Chapter 4. How does a neuron work?
    • Chapter 5. The brain is a computer
    • Chapter 6. The brain is a biological organ, not a computer
    • Chapter 7. How it gets to work this way: development and learning
    • Chapter 8. Working better, working worse, working different
    • Chapter 9. Humans apart
    • _Chapter 10. Saving the planet
    • _Chapter 11. Conclusion (and answers to those puzzles)
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  • The Art of Connection

    The book is published by Sage. This book is designed to support you as you embark on the beginning of your psychology degree. It provides an accessible guide to how the brain’s structures and functions determine how the mind works, and how this fits into the bigger picture of our biology and evolution as a species. And other fun stuff. This website contains supporting material, references, expansions, and the jokes our editor wouldn’t let us include.

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    23rd Sep 2025
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  • Beyond the Obstacle

    The book is published by Sage. This book is designed to support you as you embark on the beginning of your psychology degree. It provides an accessible guide to how the brain’s structures and functions determine how the mind works, and how this fits into the bigger picture of our biology and evolution as a species. And other fun stuff. This website contains supporting material, references, expansions, and the jokes our editor wouldn’t let us include.

    fredthomas981

    23rd Sep 2025
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  • Growth Unlocked

    The book is published by Sage. This book is designed to support you as you embark on the beginning of your psychology degree. It provides an accessible guide to how the brain’s structures and functions determine how the mind works, and how this fits into the bigger picture of our biology and evolution as a species. And other fun stuff. This website contains supporting material, references, expansions, and the jokes our editor wouldn’t let us include.

    fredthomas981

    23rd Sep 2025
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  • Collaboration Magic

    The book is published by Sage. This book is designed to support you as you embark on the beginning of your psychology degree. It provides an accessible guide to how the brain’s structures and functions determine how the mind works, and how this fits into the bigger picture of our biology and evolution as a species. And other fun stuff. This website contains supporting material, references, expansions, and the jokes our editor wouldn’t let us include.

    fredthomas981

    23rd Sep 2025
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  • Teamwork Triumphs

    The book is published by Sage. This book is designed to support you as you embark on the beginning of your psychology degree. It provides an accessible guide to how the brain’s structures and functions determine how the mind works, and how this fits into the bigger picture of our biology and evolution as a species. And other fun stuff. This website contains supporting material, references, expansions, and the jokes our editor wouldn’t let us include.

    fredthomas981

    23rd Sep 2025
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  • Adaptive Advantage

    The book is published by Sage. This book is designed to support you as you embark on the beginning of your psychology degree. It provides an accessible guide to how the brain’s structures and functions determine how the mind works, and how this fits into the bigger picture of our biology and evolution as a species. And other fun stuff. This website contains supporting material, references, expansions, and the jokes our editor wouldn’t let us include.

    fredthomas981

    23rd Sep 2025
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  • Now out: A new book for beginning psychology undergraduates on how the brain works

    The book is published by Sage. This book is designed to support you as you embark on the beginning of your psychology degree. It provides an accessible guide to how the brain’s structures and functions determine how the mind works, and how this fits into the bigger picture of our biology and evolution as a species. And other fun stuff. This website contains supporting material, references, expansions, and the jokes our editor wouldn’t let us include.

    fredthomas981

    21st Apr 2023
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