Psychology: Themes and Variations 11th Edition by Wayne Weiten, ISBN-13: 978-0357374825

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Psychology: Themes and Variations 11th Edition by Wayne Weiten, ISBN-13: 978-0357374825

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• Publisher: ‎ Cengage Learning; 11th edition (January 24, 2021)
• Language: ‎ English
• 752 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0357374827
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0357374825

Weiten’s PSYCHOLOGY: THEMES AND VARIATIONS, 11th Edition immerse you in the excitement of this fascinating field while helping you study and retain what you learn. Filled with practical ways that you can apply psychology to your everyday life, this bestselling textbook is an experience in learning that you’ll remember long after you complete your Introductory Psychology course. Critical Thinking Applications in every chapter give you specific strategies you can apply in all of your courses and in your personal life. Reality Checks, many of which may surprise you, address common misconceptions about psychology. Every chapter of this book offers tools — such as Concept Charts that provide colorful visual snapshots of key points — to help you focus on what’s important, showing you how to maximize your study time and course success.

A fusion of the full-length and briefer versions that preceded it, Weiten’s PSYCHOLOGY: THEMES AND VARIATIONS, 11th Edition combines a superb thematic organization with practical applications and examples that help readers see beyond research to big-picture concepts. Often described as challenging yet easy to learn from, the book surveys psychology’s broad range of content while illuminating the process of research and its relationship to application, showing both the unity and diversity of psychology’s subject matter and helping learners master the basic concepts and principles of psychology with as little struggle as possible. Weiten’s themes provide unifying threads across chapters that help readers to see the connections among different research areas in psychology. A dynamic illustration program further enhances these themes.

Table of Contents:

Dedication

About the Author

To the Instructor

Acknowledgments

Chapter Consultants

Reviewers

Brief Contents

Contents

To the Student

Chapter 1: The Evolution of Psychology

1.1: Psychology’s Early History

1.2: Psychology’s Modern History

1.3: Psychology Today: Vigorous and Diversified

1.4: Seven Unifying Themes

1.5: Personal Application

1.6: Critical Thinking Application

Concept Chart

Chapter 2: The Research Enterprise in Psychology

2.1: Looking for Laws: The Scientific Approach to Behavior

2.2: Looking for Causes: Experimental Research

2.3: Looking for Links: Descriptive/ Correlational Research

2.4: Looking for Flaws: Evaluating Research

2.5: Looking at Ethics: Do the Ends

2.6: Justify the Means?

2.7: Reflecting on the Chapter’s Themes

2.8: Personal Application

2.9: Critical Thinking Application

Concept Chart

Chapter 3: The Biological Bases of Behavior

3.1: Communication in the Nervous System

3.2: Organization of the Nervous System

3.3: The Brain and Behavior

3.4: Right Brain/Left Brain: Cerebral Specialization

3.5: The Endocrine System: Another Way to Communicate

3.6: Heredity and Behavior: Is It All in the Genes?

3.7: The Evolutionary Bases of Behavior

3.8: Reflecting on the Chapter’s Themes

3.9: Personal Application

3.10: Critical Thinking Application

Concept Chart

Chapter 4: Sensation and Perception

4.1: The Visual System: Essentials of Sight

4.2: The Visual System: Perceptual Processes

4.3: The Auditory System: Hearing

4.4: The Other Senses: Taste, Smell, and Touch

4.5: Reflecting on the Chapter’s Themes

4.6: Personal Application

4.7: Critical Thinking Application

Concept Chart

Chapter 5: Variations in Consciousness

5.1: On the Nature of Consciousness

5.2: Biological Rhythms and Sleep

5.3: The Sleep and Waking Cycle

5.4: The World of Dreams

5.5: Hypnosis: Altered Consciousness or Role Playing?

5.6: Meditation: Pursuing Higher Consciousness

5.7: Altering Consciousness with Drugs

5.8: Reflecting on the Chapter’s Themes

5.9: Personal Application

5.10: Critical Thinking Application

Concept Chart

Chapter 6: Learning

6.1: Classical Conditioning

6.2: Operant Conditioning

6.3: Changing Directions in the Study of Conditioning

6.4: Observational Learning

6.5: Reflecting on the Chapter’s Themes

6.6: Personal Application

6.7: Critical Thinking Application

Concept Chart

Chapter 7: Human Memory

7.1: Encoding: Getting Information into Memory

7.2: Storage: Maintaining Information in Memory

7.3: Retrieval: Getting Information out of Memory

7.4: Forgetting: When Memory Lapses

7.5: In Search of the Memory Trace: The Physiology of Memory

7.6: Different Types of Memory Systems

7.7: Reflecting on the Chapter’s Themes

7.8: Personal Application

7.9: Critical Thinking Application

Concept Chart

Chapter 8: Cognition and Intelligence

8.1: Language: Turning Thoughts into Words

8.2: Problem Solving: In Search of Solutions

8.3: Decision Making: Choices and Chances

8.4: Measuring Intelligence

8.5: Heredity and Environment as Determinants of Intelligence

8.6: New Directions in the Study of Intelligence

8.7: Reflecting on the Chapter’s Themes

8.8: Personal Application

8.9: Critical Thinking Application

Chapter 9: Motivation and Emotion

9.1: Motivational Theories

9.2: The Motivation of Hunger and Eating

9.3: Sexual Motivation and Behavior

9.4: The Achievement Motive

9.5: Elements of Emotional Experience

9.6: Theories of Emotion

9.7: Reflecting on the Chapter’s Themes

9.8: Personal Application

9.9: Critical Thinking Application

Concept Chart

Chapter 10: Human Development across the Life Span

10.1: Progress Before Birth: Prenatal Development

10.2: Motor, Social, and Language Development in Childhood

10.3: Personality, Cognitive, and Moral Development in Childhood

10.4: The Transition of Adolescence

10.5: The Expanse of Adulthood

10.6: Personal Application

10.7: Reflecting on the Chapter’s Themes

10.8: Critical Thinking Application

Concept Chart

Chapter 11: Personality

11.1: The Nature of Personality

11.2: Psychodynamic Perspectives

11.3: Behavioral Perspectives

11.4: Humanistic Perspectives

11.5: Biological Perspectives

11.6: Contemporary Empirical Approaches to Personality

11.7: Culture and Personality

11.8: Reflecting on the Chapter’s Themes

11.9: Personal Application

11.10: Critical Thinking Application

Concept Chart

Chapter 12: Social Behavior

12.1: Person Perception: Forming Impressions of Others

12.2: Attribution Processes: Explaining Behavior

12.3: Interpersonal Attraction: Liking and Loving

12.4: Attitudes: Making Social Judgments

12.5: Conformity and Obedience: Yielding to Others

12.6: Behavior in Groups: Joining with Others

12.7: Reflecting on the Chapter’s Themes

12.8: Personal Application

12.9: Critical Thinking Application

Concept Chart

Chapter 13: Stress, Coping, and Health

13.1: The Nature of Stress

13.2: Responding to Stress

13.3: Stress and Physical Health

13.4: Health-Impairing Behavior

13.5: Reactions to Illness

13.6: Reflecting on the Chapter’s Themes

13.7: Personal Application

13.8: Critical Thinking Application

Concept Chart

Chapter 14: Psychological Disorders

14.1: General Concepts

14.2: Anxiety Disorders, OCD, and PTSD

14.3: Dissociative Disorders

14.4: Depressive and Bipolar Disorders

14.5: Schizophrenic Disorders

14.6: Autism Spectrum Disorders

14.7: Personality Disorders

14.8: Eating Disorders

14.9: New Directions in the Study of Psychological Disorders

14.10: Reflecting on the Chapter’s Themes

14.11: Personal Application

14.12: Critical Thinking Application

Chapter 15: Treatment of Psychological Disorders

15.1: Elements of the Treatment Process

15.2: Insight Therapies

15.3: Behavior Therapies

15.4: Biomedical Therapies

15.5: Current Trends in Treatment

15.6: Institutional Treatment in Transition

15.7: Reflecting on the Chapter’s Themes

15.8: Personal Application

15.9: Critical Thinking Application

Concept Chart

Appendix A: Practice Tests, Answers to the Concept Checks, and Answers to Indentifying Independent a

Appendix B: Statistical Methods

Glossary

References

Name Index

Subject Index

Integrated Coverage Index

Wayne Weiten teaches psychology and mentors teaching assistants at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has received distinguished teaching awards from Division 2 of the American Psychological Association(APA) and from the College of DuPage, where he taught until 1991. He is a Fellow of Divisions 1 and 2 of the APA. In 1996–1997, Weiten served as president of the Society for Teaching Psychology. A trained social psychologist with a very strong quantitative background, his primary area of research is stress and health psychology. Weiten has also conducted research on a wide range of topics, including educational measurement, jury decision-making, attribution theory, stress, and cerebral specialization. He is the co-author of PSYCHOLOGY APPLIED TO MODERN LIFE (Thomson Wadsworth, 2006) and the creator of PSYKTREK: A MULTIMEDIA INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY.

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