STUDY GUIDE: For Wayne Weiten's Psychology, Themse and Variations Fifth Edition, Briefer Version

by Wayne Weiten

This guide includes a review of key ideas, people, and terms, along with fill-in-the-blank, short answer, and matching questions. Organized around the same learning objectives that are included in the Test Bank, it also features an end-of-chapter self-quiz made up of multiple-choice questions.

Paperback

First published April 4, 2003

About the author

Wayne Weiten is a graduate of Bradley University and received his Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Illinois, Chicago, in 1981. He currently teaches at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has received distinguished teaching awards from Division Two 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 American Psychological Association. 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. Wayne Weiten has conducted research on a wide range of topics, including educational measurement, jury decision making, attribution theory, stress, and cerebral specialization. His recent interests have included pressure as a form of stress and the technology of textbooks. He is also the co-author of Psychology Applied to Modern Life (Wadsworth, 2006) and the creator of an educational CD-ROM titled PsykTrek: A Multimedia Introduction to Psychology.

Reviews

[David · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read this for my Psychology 101 class. It occasionally refers to the evolutionary perspective- it's funny how the book admits that the evolutionary perspective is quite bleak when one tries to change his behavior.