PsycTrek

Wayne Weiten (Autor)

CD-ROM (Software)

1997 | 4th Revised edition
Brooks/Cole (Hersteller)
978-0-534-34286-9 (ISBN)

Infos

This (Win/Mac) multimedia CD-ROM complements Weiten's "Psychology: Themes & Variations", Fourth Edition, providing an interactive way to teach and learn psychology. Weiten wrote the script and supervised the myriad details in production, so that PsycTrek conveys his vision. PsychTrek enables instructors to bring psychology topics to life in the classroom and allows students to further explore topics on their own computers.

Inhalt

Part I Interactive learning modules: History and methods; psychology's timeline; the experimental method; statistics - central tendency and variability; statistics - correlation; how to do library research; biological bases of behaviour; the neuron and the neural impulse; synaptic transmission; looking inside the brain - research methods; the hindbrain and the midbrain; the forebrain - subcortical structures; the cerebral cortex; right brain/left brain; sensation and perception; light and the eye; the retina; vision and the brain; perception of colour Gestalt psychology; depth perception; visual illusions; the sense of hearing; consciousness; biological rhythms; sleep; abused drugs and their effects; drugs and synaptic transmission; learning; overview of classical conditioning; basic processes in classical conditioning; overview of operant conditioning; schedules of reinforcement; reinforcement and punishment; avoidance and escape learning; memory and thought; memory encoding; memory storage; physiology of memory; problem solving; testing and intelligence; types of psychological tests; key concepts in testing; understanding IQ scores; heredity, environment, and intelligence; motivation and emotion; hunger; achievement motivation; elements of emotion; theories of emotion; human development; prenatal development; Erikson's theory of personality development; Piaget's theory of cognitive development; Kohlberg's theory of moral development; personality theory; Freudian theory; behavioural theory; humanistic theory; biological theory; abnormal behaviour and therapy; anxiety disorder; mood disorders; schizophrenic disorders; insight therapies; behavioural and biomedical therapies; social psychology; attribution processes; theories of love; attitude change; prejudice. Part II PsycTrek simulations: experimenting with the Stroop Test; hemispheric specialization: the Poggendorff illusion; shaping in operant conditioning; memory processes; problem solving - the hobbits and orcs problem; measuring creativity - the remote associates test. Part III: Interactive study guide: the evolution of psychology; the research enterprise in psychology; the biological bases of behaviour; sensation and perception; variations in consciousness; learning through conditioning; human memory; language and thought; intelligence and psychological testing; motivation and emotion; human development across the life span; personality - theory, research, and assessment; stress, coping, and health; psychological disorders; psychotherapy; social behaviour.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.12.1997
• Zusatzinfo: glossary
• Verlagsort: CA
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
• ISBN-10: 0-534-34286-8 / 0534342868
• ISBN-13: 978-0-534-34286-9 / 9780534342869
• Zustand: Neuware