Synopses & Reviews
Written by Dennis Coon. Provides additional opportunities for practice and self-testing. Features include an emphasis on active learning, chapter overviews, and a number of reinforcements of the SQ4R method, including recite and review major terms/concepts; relate matching items, and check your memory true-false items. The guide also includes final survey fill-in-the-blank questions and a mastery test, featuring multiple choice questions and answers. In addition, the Study Guide includes a Language Development Guide that clarifies idioms, special phrases, cultural and historical allusions, and difficult vocabulary. All terms and phrases are page-referenced to the text and include concise definitions.
Synopsis
Written by Dennis Coon for seamless integration with the text, this study guide is structured around the (survey, question, read, recite, relate, and review) active learning system. It offers many opportunities for practice, self-testing, and review. Features include a "Chapter Overview," "Recite and Review" (fill-in-the-blank), "Connections" (matching), "Check Your Memory" (true/false), "Final Survey and Review" (fill-in-the-blank), and a "Mastery Test (multiple choice) for each chapter of the book. Available at a discount when packaged with the text. Contact your Wadsworth Cengage Learning representative for more information.
About the Author
Dennis Coon is a publishing phenomenon and one of the best-selling authors in the field of psychology. His innovative instructional methods and student-focused style make his works perennial favorites among instructors and students alike. To date, more than two million students have learned psychology with a Coon text as their guide. Coon graduated with a BA in psychology from the University of California, Riverside, and earned his PhD in social psychology from the University of Arizona. He is also co-author, with John O. Mitterer, of PSYCHOLOGY: MODULES FOR ACTIVE LEARNING, ELEVENTH EDITION (Wadsworth, 2009) and PSYCHOLOGY: A JOURNEY, THIRD EDITION (Wadsworth, 2008).