PsykTrek 3.0: A Multimedia Introduction to Psychology

by Wayne Weiten

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.

2 pages, CD-ROM

First published November 13, 1997

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 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, where he taught until 1991. He is a Fellow of Divisions 1 and 2 of the American Psychological Association. In 1991, he helped chair the APA National Conference on Enhancing the Quality of Undergraduate Education in Psychology and in 1996-1997 he served as President of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology. Wayne Weiten has conducted research on a wide range of topics, including educational measurement, jury decision making, attribution theory, stress, and cerebral specialization. His recent interests have included pressure as a form of stress and the technology of textbooks. He is also the co-author of Psychology Applied to Modern Life (Wadsworth, 2006) and the creator of an educational CD-ROM titled PsykTrek: A Multimedia Introduction to Psychology.