Psychology

Weiten (psychology, U. of Nevada, Las Vegas) introduces students to psychology in this textbook that aims to demonstrate the unity and diversity in the field and the process of research and its link to application, and emphasizes concepts and theories over facts, focusing on major issues, controversies, and questions across subfields. It focuses on how psychology is empirical, theoretically diverse, and evolves in a sociohistorical context, and how behavior is determined by multiple causes and shaped by cultural heritage, how heredity and environment influence behavior, and how people's experiences of the world are subjective. This edition has new features that address common misconceptions, new paradoxes at the beginning of chapters, reduced chapter lengths, new vignettes and studies, and new boxes on the contributions and ideas of major theorists and researchers. It has many other changes and additions within chapters, revised illustrations, and a new appendix on sustainability. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)