This CD ROM contains dozens of highly interactive activities designed to help students learn about psychological research and to improve their critical thinking. These activities enable students to work hands on with descriptive, correlational, and experimental research (using observation, surveys, case studies, and experiments) to help them hone the critical thinking mindset required for psychological research. Activities are complete with animations, video, fresh illustrations, and self-assessment instruments that draw students into the discipline and introductory course. In addition to the coverage of core research concepts, it also offers a handful of more extensive, research activities for use as classroom projects or lab assignments.