Psychology: Themes and Variations
Language: English
Pages: 565
ISBN: 1305498208
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
PSYCHOLOGY: THEMES AND VARIATIONS, 10th Edition, is a fusion of the full-length and briefer versions that preceded it. The text continues to offer a superb thematic organization together with practical applications and examples that help students see beyond research to big-picture concepts. Often described as a challenging book that is easy to learn from, the book surveys psychology's broad range of content with three aims: to illuminate the process of research and its relationship to application, to show both the unity and diversity of psychology's subject matter, and to help 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 -- including new color-coded Concept Charts -- further enhances these themes.
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substances that was adaptive in an era of hunting and gathering, when dietary fat was a scarce source of important calories. However, in our modern world, where dietary fat is typically available in abundance, this taste preference leads many people to consume too much fat, resulting in obesity, heart disease, and other health problems. Thus, the preference for fatty foods has become a liability for human survival. Organisms’ environments often undergo changes so that adaptations that were once
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of psychology. Indeed, it was in North America that Wundt’s new science grew by leaps and bounds. Between 1883 and 1893, some 23 new psychological research labs sprang up in the United States and Canada, at the schools shown in Figure 1.1 (Benjamin, 2000). Many of the labs were started by Wundt’s students, or by his students’ students. G. Stanley Hall (1846–1924), who studied briefly with Wundt, was a particularly important contributor to the rapid growth of psychology in America. Toward the end
years. Today it is virtually impossible for anyone to stay abreast of the new research in all specialties. Specialization is also necessary because specific skills and training are required to do research in some areas. Psychometrics 3.8% Figure 1.7 Personality 3.0% Major research areas in contemporary psychology. Most research psy- Developmental 18.3% Cognitive 6.7% Experimental 8.2% chologists specialize in one of the nine broad areas described here. The figures in the pie chart reflect
any inferences based on the data. Such conclusions are supposed to follow in the next section. Instead, it simply Articles on memory (N = 149,402) Figure 2.22 Combining topics in a PsycINFO search. A computerized literature search can be a highly efficient way to locate the specific research that you need. For example, if you had set out in June 2010 to find all the psychological literature on marijuana and memory using PsycINFO, you would have obtained the results summarized here. At that
