| Product Name: |
Mind Matters |
| Level: |
Year 7 - 12 |
| Platform: |
Macintosh® / PC - Windows® |
| Supplied Information: |
Mind Matters is a brief, non-interactive review of a sub-set of the content of Introductory Psychology. |
| Possible Use: |
This product is suitable for Year 7 - 12 courses for use by students without supervision. |
| Developer/s: |
James L. Hilton and Charles W. Perdue |
| Review: |
This CD consist of five modules covering the areas of History and Methods, Biopsychology, Sensation, Perception and Learning & Memory. Within each section or module there is an Introduction, three sub-sections of interest and, finally, there is a mutliple choice Quick Quiz. Each module also has a module-specific Glossary where clicking on a word from the list provided gets you a brief text definition.
The whole thing is mainly text driven and is very low level in coverage and difficulty.The only interactive parts are the Quizzes. The latter, however, hardly give much help if you are wrong; you can then choose to go to the next question anyway, or get a block of text covering the area examined.
One can choose which textbook (from the six covered by the CD) you want page references for to cover content relevant to each module. Hardly an advanced interactive feature.
Really, this is a very low-level implementation of very low-level information. The essential question to ask when evaluating a CD such as this one for possible class adoption is whether or not it adds anything over and above that provided by a decent textbook. This CD does not pass this simple test, and I cannot see it being of great value as a supplement to other material. |
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Roderick Ashton, Department of Psychology, University of Queensland 8/10/99 |
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| Supplier: |
Pearson Education Australia
Unit 4, Level 2
14 Aquatic Drive
Frenchs Forest
NSW 2086 |
|
susannah.bowen@pearsoned.com.au |
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http://www.pearsoned.com.au/ |
| Date Record Last Modified: |
9/11/99 |
