Psychology: Themes and Variations - Hardcover

Weiten, Wayne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 111135474X ISBN 13: 9781111354749

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc, 2012

Synopsis

Weiten's PSYCHOLOGY: THEMES AND VARIATIONS, Ninth Edition maintains this book's strengths while addressing market changes with new learning objectives, a complete updating, and a fresh new design. The text continues to provide a unique survey of psychology that meets three goals: to demonstrate the unity and diversity of psychology's subject matter, to illuminate the research process and its link to application, and to make the material challenging and thought-provoking yet easy to learn. Weiten accomplishes the successful balance of scientific rigor and a student-friendly approach through the integration of seven unifying themes, an unparalleled didactic art program, real-life examples, and a streamlined set of learning aids that help students see beyond research to big-picture concepts. Major topics typically covered in today's courses are included, such as evolutionary psychology, neuropsychology, biological psychology, positive psychology, applied psychology, careers, and multiculturalism and diversity.

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Review:

1. Psychology: An Evolution. 2. Research Methods. 3. Biology of Behavior. 4. Sensory Systems and Perception. 5. States of Consciousness. 6. Conditioning and Learning. 7. Key Processes in Memory. 8. Cognition and Language. 9. Human Intelligence. 10. Theories of Motives and Emotions. 11. Development: A Life Span View. 12. Personality Theories. 13. Social Psychology. 14. Health Psychology. 15. Abnormal Behavior. 16. Treatment for Abnormal Behavior. Appendix A: Concept Check Answers. Appendix B: Psychology and Statistics. Appendix C: Psychology and Sustainability. Appendix D: Psychology: Industrial/Organizational. Appendix E: Psychology: Careers.

About the Author:

Wayne Weiten is a graduate of Bradley University and received his Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Illinois, Chicago in 1981. He has taught at the College of DuPage and Santa Clara University, and currently teaches at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has received distinguished teaching awards from Division Two of the American Psychological Association (APA) and from the College of DuPage. He is a Fellow of Divisions 1, 2, and 8 of the American Psychological Association and a Fellow of the Midwestern Psychological Association. In 1991, he helped chair the APA National Conference on Enhancing the Quality of Undergraduate Education in Psychology. He is a former President of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology and the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association. In 2006, one of the five national teaching awards given annually by the Society for the Teaching of Psychology was named in his honor. Weiten has conducted research on a wide range of topics, including educational measurement, jury decision-making, attribution theory, pressure as a form of stress, and the technology of textbooks. He is also the author of PSYCHOLOGY: THEMES & VARIATIONS (Cengage, 2017, 10th Edition). Weiten created an educational CD-ROM titled PSYKTREK: A MULTIMEDIA INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY and co-authored a chapter on the Introductory Psychology course for THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF UNDERGRADUATE PSYCHOLOGY EDUCATION (Weiten & Houska, 2015).

About this edition

• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 111135474X
• ISBN 13: 9781111354749
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 960