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9781557985378

Activities Handbook for Teaching Psychology

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  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-02-01
  • Publisher: AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION

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Summary

APA's fourth and latest volume of activities for teaching psychology contains a wide range of enjoyable and instructive exercises that emphasize active learning. Each of the 80-plus exercises is described in a cookbook format that allows the instructor to quickly see the concept underlying the activity, materials needed (if any), and class time required.

Contributed by psychology teachers nationwide, the activities are appropriate for introductory courses at the college or high-school level, yet many are also applicable to more advanced classes. Both beginning and more experienced teachers will appreciate the variety of teaching approaches, which include demonstrations, experiments, discussions, and simulations. The activities are grouped by topic and cover critical thinking, research methods and statistics, biopsychology and animal behavior, sensation and perception, learning, memory, cognition, emotion, development, human diversity, social psychology, personality, and psychological disorders.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
List of Reviewers
xiii
I GENERAL SKILLS AND CRITICAL THINKING 1(50)
Learning to Use the Contemporary Library: A Laboratory Exercise
3(6)
Charles I. Abramson
Donald P. French
Steven M. Locy
Keeping in Touch With Your Students by ``Carding'' Them
9(2)
Margaret A. Lloyd
The Costs and Benefits of Critical Thinking
11(7)
Randall E. Osborne
Judy Laws
Ken Weadick
Parsimonious Explanations of Apparent Mind Reading
18(4)
James W. Kalat
The Use of Urban Legends to Improve Critical Thinking
22(3)
Alva Hughes
Research Methods and Critical Thinking: Explaining ``Psychic'' Phenomena
25(3)
Sandra S. Goss
Douglas A. Bernstein
Reading, Writing, and Thinking Before Each Class
28(2)
William J. Lammers
Letters Home: Writing for Understanding in Introductory Psychology
30(3)
Kenneth D. Keith
The Use of Correspondence in the Classroom
33(4)
Charles I. Abramson
Douglas A. Harshey
Applying Psychology to Issues in Society
37(2)
William J. Lammers
Academic Challenge: A Review Activity
39(4)
Margie Cole
Betsy Fuqua
Lisa Kopacz
Kathleen Self
David Weiss
Have I Heard That Name Before? A Survey of Historical Figures in Psychology
43(4)
Charles L. Brewer
Stephen F. Davis
Read All About It! Wundt Opens Psychology Lab: A Newspaper Assignment for History of Psychology
47(4)
William H. M. Bryant
Lady T. Benjamin, Jr.
II RESEARCH METHODS AND STATISTICS 51(44)
Counting Fidgets: Teaching the Complexity of Naturalistic Observation
53(4)
Bernard C. Beins
Discovering the Relationship Between Operational Definitions and Interobserver Reliability
57(7)
Angela H. Becker
A Classroom Demonstration of Galileo's Distinction Between Objective and Subjective Reality
64(2)
Ann N. Elliott
A Tasty Sample(r): Teaching About Sampling Using M&M's
66(3)
Randolph A. Smith
Using Jelly Beans to Teach Some Concepts in Research Methodology
69(5)
Hank Rothgerber
Eric Anthony Day
The Effects of Gender on the Number of Shoes Owned: Gathering Data for Statistical and Methodological Demonstrations
74(3)
Steven E. Stern
Probability Distributions With Real Social Judgment Data
77(3)
Jane A. Jegerski
Pets and Prediction: Understanding Suppressor Variables
80(5)
Kristin K. Woolley
Survey Construction and Analysis
85(3)
Howard F. Gallup
Checking a Test's Reliability and Validity
88(7)
Harold Takooshian
III BIOPSYCHOLOGY AND ANIMAL BEHAVIOR 95(28)
Observing Neural Networking in vivo
97(6)
Douglas L. Chute
Philip Schatz
The Ultimate Portable Brain Model
103(6)
Susan J. Shapiro
Circadian Rhythms in Body Temperature
109(4)
Michael J. Renner
Flight Distance in Small Birds
113(5)
Michael J. Renner
Petscope: Pet Stores and the Study of Animal Behavior
118(5)
Charles I. Abramson
Jeanine M. Huss
Kristy Wallisch
Delissa Payne
IV SENSATION AND PERCEPTION 123(38)
Distribution of Rods, Cones, and Color Vision in the Retina
125(2)
Charles T. Blair-Broeker
Douglas A. Bernstein
Stereopsis: Learning by Doodling
127(5)
Paul H. Schulman
The Signal detection Game: An Exercise for Generating an ROC Curve
132(10)
Thomas W. Pierce
Decreased Visual Perception During Saccadic Eye Movements
142(2)
James W. Kalat
Truncated-Pryamid Illusion: The Logic of Perception
144(4)
Clifford L. Fawl
How Blue Are You?: The World of Taste Variations
148(6)
Margaret Davidson
The Interaction of Taste and Smell to Create Flavor
154(3)
Bernard C. Beins
Testing Sense of Smell With Scratch and Sniff
157(4)
Steve Charlton
V LEARNING 161(26)
Classical Conditioning: An All-Purpose Demonstration Using a Toy Watergun
163(3)
Joel I. Shenker
Planarians in the Classroom: Habituation and Instrumental Conditioning
166(6)
Charles I. Abramson
Deborah E. Kirkpatrick
Nathan Bollinger
Rihaneh Odde
Shannon Lambert
Operant Conditioning in the Classroom: An Inexpensive Home-Built Skinner Box
172(4)
Kenneth D. Keith
Shaping Behavior Through Operant Conditioning
176(5)
Peter S. Fernald
L. Dodge Fernald
Using Psychological Perspectives to Change Habits
181(2)
Rob McEnterffer
Applying the Principles of Learning and Memory to Students' Lives
183(4)
Allyson J. Weseley
VI MEMORY 187(22)
Information Processing Capacity: A Visual Demonstration of the Magical Number Seven
189(5)
Fairfid M. Caudle
Do You See What I See?: Examining Eyewitness Testimony
194(6)
Steve Charlton
Memory for Monopoly Properties
200(2)
Dina M. Wieczynski
Kenneth A. Blick
Effects of Unconscious Memory on Subjective Judgments: A Classroom Demonstration
202(5)
Benton H. Pierce
Constructive Memory/Schemas: The Rumor Chain
207(2)
Douglas A. Bernstein
Sandra S. Goss
VII COGNITION AND EMOTION 209(24)
An Experimental Demonstration of Place Schema
211(5)
Mark G. Hartlaub
Functional Fixedness in Problem Solving
216(2)
Douglas A. Bernstein
Sandra S. Goss
Reorganization and Productive Thinking
218(7)
Michael Wertheimer
Set and Information Processing
225(3)
Michael Wertheimer
The Facial Feedback Hypothesis: Are Emotions Really Related to the Faces We Make?
228(5)
Charles Schallhorn
Jeff Lunde
VIII DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY 233(20)
Bringing Genetic Screening Home
235(5)
Richard Ely
Virtual Pregnancy: The Project That Delivers
240(4)
Shalynn Ford
The Ends and Means of Raising Children: A Parent Interview Activity
244(9)
Frank M. Bernt
IX HUMAN DIVERSITY AND PSYCHOLOGY 253(56)
Teaching About Prejudice and Discrimination in the Introductory Psychology Course
255(9)
Joseph I. Lamas
The Contact Hypothesis: Interviewing Across Cultures
264(4)
Pat A. Bradway
Sarah Atchley
The Importance of Cross-Cultural Sensitivity in Psychology
268(3)
Lani C. Fujitsubo
Making Research Come Alive: Exploring the Effects of Culture and Confounds
271(5)
Richard Ely
Carter Yeager
Prejudice and the Loss of Individuality: An Experiential Exercise
276(5)
George L. Moutsiakis
Exploring the Concept of Sexual Orientation Through Small-Group Discussion
281(4)
Mark G. Hartlaub
Gender Bias in Leader Selection
285(4)
Michelle R. Hebl
Gender Stereotypes and Methodology: What's the Connection?
289(6)
Eugenia M. Valentine
Issues in the Psychology of Women: Explorations Through Art
295(7)
Fairfid M. Caudle
Gender Stereotyping in Commercials
302(5)
Margaret A. Lloyd
History of Women in Psychology: A Time Line
307(2)
Bernice S. Strauss
X SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY AND PERSONALITY 309(58)
The Nature of Groups: An Exercise for Classroom Discussion
311(4)
Robert P. Agans
Application of Attribution Theory to the Social Issue of Homelessness
315(6)
Susan H. Franzblau
Romantic Relationships: Studying Theories of Personal Relationship Development
321(5)
Elizabeth L. Paul
Measuring Attitudes Toward Public Assistance
326(6)
Peter S. Fernald
L. Dodge Fernald
Personal Space Invasion
332(4)
Robert Sommer
The Marlboro Cowboy Versus the Surgeon General: Who Is Winning the War on Smoking?
336(7)
Tami Eggleston
Frederick X. Gibbons
Tom Sawyer: The Fence and Social Psychology
343(3)
Alan Feldman
Rebecca Lafleur
Aggression on Television
346(4)
Margaret A. Lloyd
Using Negotiation and Mediation to Resolve Disputes
350(5)
Elizabeth V. Swenson
The Insanity Trial of Hamlet: A Teaching Activity
355(4)
Elizabeth V. Swenson
Expressing Your Identity
359(3)
Jane S. Halonen
Interpreting the Self Through Literature: Psychology and the Novels of Wallace Stegner
362(5)
Dana S. Dunn
XI PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS AND TREATMENTS 367(36)
Addiction Simulation Exercise: Ice Cube Addiction
369(5)
Todd C. Campbell
The Role of Prior Information in Dream Analysis
374(5)
Douglas A. Bernstein
For Love or Money
379(5)
Jane S. Halonen
Diagnosis of Psychological Disorders: A Group Therapy Simulation
384(9)
John R. Rudisill
Empathy: The Cornerstone of Counseling
393(4)
Peter S. Fernald
L. Dodge Fernald
The Doctor Is In: How to Treat Psychological Disorders
397(6)
Allyson J. Weseley
Chuck Schira
Index 403

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