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Psychology Themes and Variations: A South African Perspective, 4th Edition

Wayne Weiten, Dr Anathi Ntozini, Dr Tsholofelo Thomas, Sulaiyman Philander, Dr Bronwyne Coetzee, Dr Eleanor Adinall, Yemisi Oduntan, Dr Diana de Sousa, Prof. Haley Walker-Williams, Dr Caroll Hermann

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Psychology Themes and Variations: A South African Perspective 4th Edition by Wayne Weiten/Dr Anathi Ntozini/Dr Tsholofelo Thomas/Sulaiyman Philander/Dr Bronwyne Coetzee/Dr Eleanor Adinall/Yemisi Oduntan/Dr Diana de Sousa/Prof. Haley Walker-Williams/Dr Caroll Hermann

Overview

Loved by many students across South Africa, the new edition of Psychology Themes and Variations offers a superb thematic organisation together with practical applications and South African examples that assist in seeing beyond research to big-picture concepts. The text 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.

Wayne Weiten

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

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.

Dr Tsholofelo Thomas

University of Pretoria

Sulaiyman Philander

University of Pretoria

Dr Bronwyne Coetzee

University of Stellenbosch

Dr Eleanor Adinall

Sol Plaatje University

Yemisi Oduntan

IIE

Dr Diana de Sousa

South African College of Applied Psychology [SACAP]

Prof. Haley Walker-Williams

North West University

Dr Caroll Hermann

University of Zululand
  • This fourth and entirely revised edition offers a combination of the latest international research and advances in the field alongside more local examples, cases, research, and application to a South African context.
  • The reduced number of chapters offer a streamlined text that is comprehensive but clearly structured, paying special attention to inclusive and accessible language.
  • New material covers recent and relevant events and developments such as COVID-19, the Open Science Collaboration project on the reproducibility of psychological research, cross-cultural universality of basic emotions, gender differences in the Big Five traits, and the link between higher IQ and longevity.
  • Seven unifying themes provide threads of continuity across chapters and context for a discussion of enduring issues in psychology.
  • Key Learning Goals help to focus students’ attention on important ideas, while end-of-chapter reviews and summaries reinforce core concepts.
  • Concept Checks and Practice Tests provide students with opportunities for self-assessment and feedback to determine their understanding.
  • Two chapters address the relationship between culture and mental health, and its treatment in South Africa.
  • Concept Charts and Illustrated Overviews provide excellent tools to help summarise the chapter content in a visual and easily accessible way.
  • A Personal Application section near the end of every chapter offers insight into the practical side of psychology by focusing on a single issue, such as improving stress management, enhancing self-control and bolstering everyday memory.
  • Going beyond simply reviewing research, Critical Thinking Applications spotlight controversial issues to teach students critical thinking skills that they can use in their academic and personal lives.
  • Available with MindTap, a flexible online learning solution that provides students with all the tools they need to succeed, including an interactive eReader, engaging multimedia, practice questions, assessment materials, revision aids and analytics to help you track their progress.
  • A fully updated companion website is available to support your course, including chapter PowerPoint slides, test banks, an Instructor’s Manual, a Guide for Teaching Psychology Online, full Reference List and additional application chapters and reading material.
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)
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