PsykTrek 3.0: A Multimedia Introduction to Psychology

Weiten, Wayne

ISBN 10: 0495090352 ISBN 13: 9780495090359

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2007

Synopsis

The ideal way to prepare for exams in your introductory psychology course or for psychology GREs! Developed by textbook author Wayne Weiten, this interactive CD-ROM includes illustrations, simulations, animations, and video clips that help you commit psychological concepts to memory, along with over 150 concept checks with quizzing.

About this title

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 has taught at the College of DuPage and Santa Clara University, and 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. He is a Fellow of Divisions 1, 2, and 8 of the American Psychological Association and a Fellow of the Midwestern Psychological Association. In 1991, he helped chair the APA National Conference on Enhancing the Quality of Undergraduate Education in Psychology. He is a former President of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology and the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association. In 2006, one of the five national teaching awards given annually by the Society for the Teaching of Psychology was named in his honor. 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. He is also the author of PSYCHOLOGY: THEMES & VARIATIONS (Cengage, 2017, 10th Edition). Weiten created an educational CD-ROM titled PSYKTREK: A MULTIMEDIA INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY and co-authored a chapter on the Introductory Psychology course for THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF UNDERGRADUATE PSYCHOLOGY EDUCATION (Weiten & Houska, 2015).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0495090352
• ISBN 13: 9780495090359
• Binding: CD-ROM
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 2