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Psychology: Themes and Variations - Hardcover

Weiten, Wayne; Halpern, Diane F.

 
9780534367145: Psychology: Themes and Variations

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About the Author

Wayne Weiten is a graduate of Bradley University and received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Chicago. He currently teaches at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he runs a seminar on teaching and mentors new instructors. He has received distinguished teaching awards from Division Two of APA and from the College of DuPage, where he taught until 1991. He is a Fellow of Divisions One and Two of APA. In 1991, he helped chair the APA National Conference on Enhancing the Quality of Undergraduate Education in Psychology and in 1996-1997 he served as President of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology. He served as President of the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association in 2012-2013. 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. He is the author of Psychology: Themes & Variations, Psychology Applied to Modern Life (with Dana Dunn and Elizabeth Yost Hammer) and PsykTrek: A Multimedia Introduction to Psychology.

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New edition of an introductory text that surveys psychology's broad range of content. Weiten (Santa Clara U.) presents 16 chapters that emphasize both research and application and cover topics including the evolution of psychology, the research enterprise, the biological bases of behavior, sensation and perception, variations in consciousness, lear

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