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STUDENT SUPPLEMENTS

You can further reinforce your learning by making use of a variety of supplements that are designed to enhance the Lefton learning experience. These supplements are available from Allyn and Bacon.

Keeping Pace Plus. Written by Andy Ryan, a police psychologist, who teaches at the University of South Carolina, Keeping Pace Plus is an active reading study guide. Now in its seventh edition, this carefully structured study guide helps you participate actively in learning about psychology. It contains book-specific exercises, learning objectives, review sections, and a language enrichment section for students who need help with vocabulary. With page-referenced reviews, Keeping Pace Plus guarantees a total learning experience for anyone who uses it.

Practice Test Booklet. If you want extra help preparing for exams (and who doesn’t?), this booklet provides sample tests, so that you can practice what you’ve learned using a simulated classroom quiz. The booklet also includes answers and page references to the text.

Mind Matters CD-ROM. Mind Matters features units on history, methods, biopsychology, learning, memory, sensation, and perception. Each unit includes self-contained modules that cover core psychological concepts through a combination of text, graphics, humor, activities, and extensive assessment.

Allyn and Bacon Interactive Website. The purchase of this new book provides you with a direct connection to Peregrine Publisher’s Psychology Place, which offers Lefton users a variety of exercises to enhance the total learning experience. The Psychology Place includes practice tests, learning objectives, chapter summaries, video, audio, and links to psychologically relevant Internet sites, as well as a wealth of activities and simulations. It provides access to an abundance of timely and highly interesting material, which will be updated and added to continually.

Allyn and Bacon PSYCH-ED!: Core Concepts in Psychology Interactive CD-ROM. This interactive CD-ROM covers 14 core psychology topics. Through a central Resource Center, you can access the following features:

Guided Tour, a brief tutorial
Topic Exploration, the heart of the program, is designed to enhance your understanding of the 14 core concepts. Each topic includes a Video Focus, which offers related video features with critical thinking questions; a Guided Review, which offers summaries, definitions, and animations to enhance your understanding of psychology’s major themes and concepts; Try It! Activities, which engage you in hands-on activities to let you experience psychology yourself; and Test Your Knowledge, multiple-choice questions with feedback on right and wrong answers.
The Library provides another rich resource of reference materials. It contains indexes of figures, videos, and key terms, and it allows you to browse these at will. The Library also contains a special section on improving study skills.

2000 Internet Guide. Updated to reflect the most current URLs related to the study of psychology. This easy-to-read guide helps point you in the right direction when looking at the tremendous array of information on the Internet as it relates to psychology.

Evaluating Psychological Information: Sharpening Your Critical Thinking Skills, Third Edition. Developed by James Bell, this workbook focuses on helping you to evaluate psychological research systematically and to improve your critical thinking skills.

Tools of Critical Thinking. This critical thinking text by David A. Levy provides tools and skills for approaching all forms of problem solving, particularly in psychology.

Psychologically Speaking: A Self-Assessment. Craig Poulenez Donovan and Peter C. Rosato have prepared a workbook of enjoyable self-assessment exercises paralleling the chapters in the text.