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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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Weiten (psychology, U. of Nevada, Las Vegas) introduces students to psychology in this textbook that aims to demonstrate the unity and diversity in the field and the process of research and its link to application, and emphasizes concepts and theories over facts, focusing on major issues, controversies, and questions across subfields. It focuses on how psychology is empirical, theoretically diverse, and evolves in a sociohistorical context, and how behavior is determined by multiple causes and shaped by cultural heritage, how heredity and environment influence behavior, and how people's experiences of the world are subjective. This edition has new features that address common misconceptions, new paradoxes at the beginning of chapters, reduced chapter lengths, new vignettes and studies, and new boxes on the contributions and ideas of major theorists and researchers. It has many other changes and additions within chapters, revised illustrations, and a new appendix on sustainability. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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