Concept charts for study and review to accompany Psychology : Themes and variations / [print]
Wayne Weiten.
- seventh edition. briefer version.
- Belmont, California : Thomson Wadsworth, [(c)2008.
- vii, 31 pages : charts ; 28 cm
The evolution of psychology The research enterprise in psychology The biological bases of behavior Sensation and perception Variations in consciousness Learning Human memory Cognition and intelligence Motivation and emotion Human development across the life span Personality theory, research and assessment Stress, coping, and health Psychological disorders Treatment of psychological disorders Social behavior.
The concept charts in this essential booklet will help you study more effectively, learn the concepts discussed in Wayne Weiten's text Psychology: Themes and Variations, Briefer Version, and do your very best in your psychology course! The Concept Charts correspond chapter by chapter to the textbook. Each two-page chart focuses on a single chapter and gives you a vivid visual overview of the key ideas in the chapter.
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 MissouriDERN LIFE (Thomson Wadsworth, 2006) and the creator of PSYKTREK: A MULTIMEDIA IndianaTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY.