Psychology

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 students see beyond research to big-picture concepts.

Often described as a challenging text that is 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 students master the basic concepts and principles of psychology with as little struggle as possible.

Weiten's themes provide unifying threads across chapters that help students to see the connections among different research areas in psychology. A dynamic, teaching-oriented illustration program further enhances these themes.

About the Author

Wayne Weiten has taught at the College of DuPage, Santa Clara University and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has received distinguished teaching awards from Division 2 of the American Psychological Association and the College of DuPage. A fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Midwestern Psychological Association, he helped chair the APA National Conference on Enhancing the Quality of Undergraduate Education in Psychology in 1991. Dr. Weiten also is a former president of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology and the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association. In 2006, one of the six national teaching awards given annually by the Society for the Teaching of Psychology was named in his honor. Dr. 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. A graduate of Bradley University, he received his Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Illinois, Chicago in 1981.