Psychology Themes and Variations: A South African Perspective
Cengage Learning EMEA (Verlag)
9781473780323 (ISBN)
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. Dr Anathi Ntozini is a counselling psychologist and obtained an MSocSci (Counselling Psychology) degree from the University of Fort Hare in 2012. She worked at this university as a University Psychologist before moving to the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences where she lectured Psychology and Sociology to undergraduate and post-graduate students, as well as supervising post-graduate research in Psychology. Dr Ntozini also worked in private practice for about three years, providing psychotherapy for mainly adolescents and adults, and in 2016 as the Psychology Clinic Manager for the Transnet Phelophepa Health train. In 2017, she obtained her PhD in Psychology from the University of Fort Hare, and returned to academia in May 2019, joining the University of Pretoria where she is currently Programme Manager for Undergraduate Modules in the Psychology Department. University of Pretoria University of Pretoria University of Stellenbosch Sol Plaatje University IIE South African College of Applied Psychology [SACAP] North West University University of Zululand
1. The Evolution of Psychology
2. Research Methods in Psychology
3. The Biological Bases of Behaviour
4. Sensation and Perception
5. Variations in Consciousness
6. Learning
7. Human Memory
8. Cognition and Intelligence
9. Motivation and Emotion
10. Human Development Across the Life Span
11. Personality
12. Social Behaviour
13. Stress, Coping and Health
14. Psychological Disorders
15. Treatment of Psychological Disorders
16. Culture and Mental Health
17. Complementary Alternative Treatment of Mental Illnesses
Appendix A: Answers to Concept Checks
Appendix B: Statistical Methods*
(available online)
| Erscheinungsdatum | 30.05.2022 |
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| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 218 x 32 mm |
| Gewicht | 1800 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781473780323 / 9781473780323 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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