Teaching and Learning with Technology
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Wadsworth is committed to providing the best technology resources for teaching and learning psychology. Click on the links below to learn more. |
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| INSTRUCTOR TOOLS | LEARNING AND BEHAVIOR | |
| INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY | SENSATION AND PERCEPTION | |
| DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY | RESEARCH METHODS | |
| ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY | SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY | |
| BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY | ADDITIONAL ITEMS | |
| COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY | ||
| INSTRUCTOR TOOLS |
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PsychologyNow (formerly PsychStudy) is a Web-based, intelligent study
system that saves time for students and instructors by providing a complete
package of diagnostic quizzes, a personalized study plan, integrated multimedia
elements, learning modules, and an instructor grade book. The PsychologyNow
system is composed of three powerful assessment components in three easy
steps. Step 1: The Pre-Test uses diagnostic quiz questions to give students
an initial assessment. Step 2: A personalized Study Plan is provided based
on the automatically graded Pre-Test. The Study Plan features linked media
elements of the most essential concepts to master. Step 3: After working
through their study plan, students complete a Post-Test, to assess their
mastery of chapter material. |
Available FREE to your
students when you adopt select Wadsworth texts. VMentor is text-specific
one-to-one online tutoring help with a subject area expert who has a copy
of the text you are using in class. vMentor features two-way audio, an interactive
whiteboard for displaying presentation materials, and instant messaging.
With vMentor, students interact with the tutor and other students using
standard Windows? or Macintosh? microphones and speakers. Inside the vMentor
virtual classroom, icons indicate who is in the class and who is speaking,
sending a message, or using the whiteboard. To ask a question, students
simply click on the "hand" icon. For more information on vMentor
(including hours the virtual classroom is open), contact your Thomson representative. Click here for Demo |
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Launch your lectures with riveting footage from CNN, the world's leading
24-hour global news television network. CNN Today Videos allow you to
integrate the newsgathering and programming power of CNN into the classroom
to show students the relevance of course topics to their everyday lives.
Organized by topics covered in a typical course, these videos are divided
into short, 2-5 minute segments-perfect for introducing key concepts.
Available for Introductory Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Abnormal
Psychology, Bilogical Psychology, Applied Psychology, and Educational
Psychology. |
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The latest online learning tool from Thomson Learning is designed to
help your students grasp even the most complex topics in psychology. Instructors
using WebTutorTM have access to premium online content and
powerful customization, class management, and communication tools. |
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This one-stop lecture and class preparation tool makes it easy for you
to assemble, edit, publish, and present custom lectures for your course,
using Microsoft PowerPoint. The Multimedia Manager lets you bring together
text-specific lecture outlines and art from the text book, along with
video and animations from the Web or your own materials-culminating in
a powerful, personalized, media-enhanced presentation. The CD-ROM also
contains a full Instructor's Manual, Test Bank, and other instructor resources. |
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New 2.0 Version. Now includes a print handbook with critical thinking
questions and a description for each video. This 2-CD set features over
100 clips that cover every major area of psychology. The set features
a broad range of material, such as simulations and demonstrations of contemporary
experiments, cutting edge researchers, classic footage of prominent psychologists,
and selections from our CNN® Today Videos. Video coverage includes
footage of the brain, of psychological disorders, of road rage therapy,
and more. |
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| INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY |
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Wayne Weiten's incredible Psyk.trekTM 2.0 goes far beyond
the limits of a simple "study guide on disk." In its intuitive
landscape, your students will learn what it's like to experiment and observe
as they participate in the CD-ROM's 62 learning modules. Students receive
a thorough introduction to all of the topics addressed in the introductory
psychology course! |
PsychNow! 2.0 offers fundamental content using a consistent "Explore
- Lesson - Apply" structure designed to get students to interact
with the material. 39 modules cover every major topic area in the introductory
course. This CD-ROM includes colorful graphics, animation, and video clips,
that bring abstract concepts to life. New to the 2.0 version are these
additional features: 8 Online Labs, improved navigation and module interaction,
fully updated quizzing, new innovative quizzing games, and homework assignments
in each module. |
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Version 2.0 - Updated and expanded with your students in mind! PowerStudy 2.0 is a complete, interactive study guide for Plotnik's INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY, Seventh Edition. When students use PowerStudy, they jump into engaging and colorful presentations for each module in the Plotnik's text. Version 2.0 of this CD-ROM includes 3 new "Super Modules"--self-paced, step-by-step multimedia presentations with animations and narration. ("Super Modules" are now available for modules 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 12, 22, and 23 in Plotnik's text. "Super Modules" 2, 22, and 23 are new.) Version 2.0 also offers upgraded study materials, including (for each module in the text) interactive content, outlines, individual glossaries, key terms, critical-thinking questions, quizzes, summary tests, and 10 new Web links. |
This one-stop lecture and class preparation tool makes it easy for you
to assemble, edit, publish, and present custom lectures for your course,
using Microsoft PowerPoint. The Multimedia Manager lets you bring together
text-specific lecture outlines and art from the text book, along with
video and animations from the Web or your own materials-culminating in
a powerful, personalized, media-enhanced presentation. The CD-ROM also
contains a full Instructor's Manual, Test Bank, and other instructor resources. |
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Observing Children and Adolescents: The Video |
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Developed as a fully interactive guide to the major concepts and theories
covered in child and adolescent development courses, this student CD-ROM
is structured around three primary Learning Modules: Physical Development,
Cognition, Language, and Learning, and Personality, Social-Emotional,
and Moral Development. Features narrated concept overviews, video, animations,
applications, games, quizzes, theorist biographies, and links to the Internet. |
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Observing Children and Adolescents is a 180 minute program designed to
further and deepen student understanding of the major developmental milestones
from prenatal development through adolescence. The program focuses on
concrete, observable behavior and covers not only major developmental
theories, but how these theories are exhibited in everyday behavior. Available
on Instructor VHS with Instructor's Manual/Test Bank, and student CD-ROM
with Workbook. |
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Lifespan: A Multimedia Introduction to Human Development |
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A comprehensive, fully interactive CD-ROM focused on the major developmental
changes from the very beginnings of life to dying, death, and bereavement,
Lifespan explores physical development, cognition, language, learning,
personality, emotional, social, and moral development through narrated
concept overviews, instruction art, videos, animations, games, quizzes,
tests, and links to the Internet. |
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This one-stop lecture and class preparation tool makes it easy for you
to assemble, edit, publish, and present custom lectures for your course,
using Microsoft PowerPoint. The Multimedia Manager lets you bring together
text-specific lecture outlines and art from the text book, along with
video and animations from the Web or your own materials-culminating in
a powerful, personalized, media-enhanced presentation. The CD-ROM also
contains a full Instructor's Manual, Test Bank, and other instructor resources. |
| ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY |
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Abnormal PsychologyNow is a Web-based, intelligent study system that
saves time for students and instructors by providing a complete package
of diagnostic quizzes, and a personalized study plan. There are Integrated
Learning Modules with client videos and associated questions, which the
results can flow to the gradebook. In addition, to support your teaching
and help students master concepts deemed as most difficult, Abnormal PsychologyNow
includes 5- to 15- minute Video Concept Reviews featuring award-winning
teacher Mark Durand in his own classroom. Microsoft(r) PowerPoint(r) outlines
guide the discussion. |
This one-stop lecture and
class preparation tool makes it easy for you to assemble, edit, publish,
and present custom lectures for your course, using Microsoft PowerPoint.
The Multimedia Manager lets you bring together text-specific lecture outlines
and art from the text book, along with video and animations from the Web
or your own materials-culminating in a powerful, personalized, media-enhanced
presentation. The CD-ROM also contains a full Instructor's Manual, Test
Bank, and other instructor resources. Click Here for Info |
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Abnormal Psychology: Inside Out Video series | |
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This interactive student CD-ROM features videos of real clients talking
candidly about what it is like to live with a psychological disorder.
Includes hands-on practice in applying DSM-IV-TR criteria, new clips on
Autism, ADHD, and cutting edge treatments using Virtual Reality and Rapid
Exposure Therapy. Available with selected Abnormal Psychology books. |
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The 277 minutes of video include segments on clinically focused diagnostic interviews of real clients with both common and less common disorders. Skillful DSM-IV-TX-R diagnostic interviews elicit all of the characteristics of the given disorder. In addition there are segments that feature cutting-edge researchers and their treatment methods. Available in 4 Volumes on VHS, and now available on one DVD. |
| BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY |
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Free with every new student copy of B.L. Garrett's Brain and Behavior,
Josephine Wilson's Biological Foudnations of Human Behavior, and Kalat's
Biolgical Psychology 8th edition, this student CD-ROM features animations,
video cips,and interactive exercises, providing a multimedia introduction
to the basics of biological psychology. |
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This one-stop lecture and class preparation tool makes it easy for you
to assemble, edit, publish, and present custom lectures for your course,
using Microsoft PowerPoint. The Multimedia Manager lets you bring together
text-specific lecture outlines and art from the text book, along with
video and animations from the Web or your own materials-culminating in
a powerful, personalized, media-enhanced presentation. The CD-ROM also
contains a full Instructor's Manual, Test Bank, and other instructor resources. |
| COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY |
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CogLab uses the power of the Web to teach concepts using important classic
and current experiments that demonstrate how the mind works. Nothing is
more powerful for students than seeing the effects of these experiments
themselves! |
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| LEARNING AND BEHAVIOR |
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Sniffy the Virtual Rat, is a fun, interactive software program that gives
undergraduate students a virtual laboratory experience. New 2.0 version
adds ability to teach Sniffy to do tricks, a "pause" feature,
a new "movement ratio", and more. |
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| SENSATION AND PERCEPTION |
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Goldstein Media Edition CD-ROM |
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Everything you wanted plus more on one CD-ROM. Over 100 simulations and Animations, and 15 new experiments and demonstrations that plot data. |
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| RESEARCH METHODS |
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15 Demonstrations and experiments in perception that allow rich data collection. Includes a student manual. |
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Stats and Research Methods Workshops - Stats and Research courses are fun and easy to understand with these online workshops! |
Version 2.0 
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Social Psychology Videos |
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| A robust video program based on customer requests, the videos show recreated experiments, actual experiments, archival footage such as the Stanford prison study as compared to the latest Abu Ghraib prison scandal and illustrate basic principles such as cognitive dissonance, self presentation in a job interview, bystander apathy, and comparing love styles. Recreations of experiments such as "lost in the shopping mall study by Elizabeth Loftus" relates experimental results to eyewitness memory used in court cases. Featured researchers include Claude Steele, Craig Anderson, Vicki Helgeson, Stanley Milgram, Greg Herek, Jeanne Tsai, Mahzarin Banaji among others. For Summer 2005 release. |
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New! Social Psychology book and media package now available! |
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What's Your IQ? - Have you ever wondered about your Intelligence Quotient? Your emotional IQ? If you’re fitted to your career choice? How you function in relationships? Your personality type? Well, here’s your chance to find out! |
Online Experiments and Studies - Take part in online experiments and studies around the world! There are literally thousands of psychological experiments and studies being currently conducted on the Internet, so get involved! |
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