Activities Handbook for the Teaching of Psychology, Volume 1

Here is an exciting collection of 88 activities for use by introductory psychology course instructors at the high school, community college, and undergraduate level. Thoroughly tested in the classroom by teachers, these classroom activities, demonstrations, and experiments (with minimal equipment needed!) are grouped in sections on methodology, sensory processes and perception, learning and conditioning, memory and cognition, developmental psychology, social psychology, personality, and miscellaneous activities.

A Note to Instructors

I. Methodology

1. Observation: A Standardized Experience
   —Nancy Felipe Russo
2. Accuracy of Observation
   —Paul J. Woods
3. Demonstrating Experimental Design Logic
4. Experimental Design: Varying Heart Rate
   —Samuel Cameron, Jack Christiano, and Bernard Mausner
5. Sampling and Probability
   —Louis Snellgrove
6. Hypothesis Testing
7. Hypothesis Testing—To "Coin" a Term
   —William J. Hunter
8. Randomization
   —David J. Stang
9. Experimenter Expectancy
   —Carolyn Stierhem
10. To Err Is Human, Especially in Measurement
    —William J. Hunter
11. Finding Meaning in the Method
    —Philip G. Zimbardo

II. Sensory Processes and Perception

12. Taste Preferences: Influence of Smell and Sight
    —Bernadette Fantino
13. Cutaneous Two-Point Thresholds
    —J. Russell Nazzaro
14. Olfaction: The Seven Basic Smells (More or Less)
    —Allan L. LaVoie
15. Blue-Blindness in the Central Fovea
    —William B. Cushman
16. Visual Accommodation: Double Vision With One Eye
    —W. E. Scoville
17. The Pulfrich Pendulum Effect: When To and Fro Is Roundabout
    —Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr.
18. Blind Spot in Vision
    —John J. Duda
19. Size—Weight Illusion: A Pound Is a Pound the World Around?
    —Clifford L. Fawl
20. Balance Sensitivity
    —P. S. Fernald and L. D. Fernald, Jr.
21. Delayed Auditory Feedback
    —Philip G. Zimbardo and James Newton
22. Adaptation to Displaced Vision
    —Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr.

III. Learning and Conditioning

23. Operant Conditioning: Role in Human Behavior
    —Edward Stork
24. Operant Conditioning Demonstration
    —Patricia Keith-Spiegel
25. Shaping by Successive Approximations
    —David Watson
26. Reinforcing Statements of Opinion
    —B. R. Hergenhahn
27. Recording and Self-Modification
28. Knowledge of Results
    —Louis Snellgrove
29. Color Bind: Interference on Attention
    —Ray Brumbaugh
30. Performance and Negative Transfer
    —T. L. Engle and Louis Snellgrove
31. Learning Curves
    —David Holmer

IV. Memory and Cognition

32. Memory and Forgetting
    —Michael Wertheimer
33. Reconstructive Nature of Human Memory
    —Richard A. Kasschau
34. Recall Versus Recognition
    —Marty Klein
35. Meaning Enhances Recall
    —James Jenkins
36. Context and Memory
    —Marty Klein
37. Meaningfulness and Memory
    —P. S. Fernald and L. D. Fernald, Jr.
38. Meaning and Memory: An Assignment to Be Forgotten
    —Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr.
39. Retroactive and Proactive Inhibition
    —John K. Bare
40. Transfer of Training: Star Track
    —Ray Brumbaugh
41. Problem Solving: Groups Versus Individuals
    —Wilbert J. McKeachie, Charlotte Doyle, and Mary Margaret Moffett
42. Problems of Set
    —Louis Snellgrove
43. The Zeigarnik Effect: Suffering to Serve the Psyche
    —Allan L. LaVoie
44. Concept Learning
    —Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr.
45. Language and Communication: Defining Language Can Leave You Speechless
    —William J. Hunter
46. Creativity
    —Allan L. LaVoie
47. Semantic (Category) Clustering
    —Allan L. LaVoie

V. Developmental Psychology

48. Object Permanence in Infancy: Out of Sight, Out of Mind?
    —Deborah L. Coates and Peter M. Vietze
49. Sensory Stimulation and Infant Development
    —Louis Snellgrove
50. Animal Observation: The Mama Rat Project
    —Barbara F. Nodine
51. Conservation Ability in Children
    —J. Russell Nazzaro
52. Maturation Versus Development
    —Richard A. Kasschau
53. The Life Cycle
    —Peggy Brick
54. Life Span Development
    —Freda G. Rebelsky
55. Age-Old Beliefs
    —Robert A. Goodale
56. The Stages of Death and Dying
    —Robert A. Goodale

VI. Social Psychology

57. Sex Role Stereotypes and Mental Health
58. Group Decisions and Stereotypes
    —Joel Goodman
59. Stereotyping
60. Stereotypes
    —T. L. Engle and Louis Snellgrove
61. Obedience to Authority
    —William J. Hunter
62. Public Opinion Polls and Cooperation With Authority
    —Louis Snellgrove
63. The Psychology of Humor
    —Robert A. Goodale
64. Sexism in the Classroom
    —David L. Cole
65. Attitude Change and Advertisements
    —Richard A. Kasschau
66. Cooperation and Competition
    —Louis Snellgrove
67. Experiment on Smiling
    —Joan W. Walls
68. Self-Concept and Group Interaction
    —R. A. Kasschau, L. W. Fordham, P. A. Stewart, H. G. McCombs, and M. W. Smith
69. Body Language in the Classroom: Here's What You Can Do
    —Timothy Coyne
70. Group Dynamics: Choosing a Color
    —James M. Johnson

VII. Personality

71. Personality Tests
    —Nancy Felipe Russo
72. Impressionability
    —Barry Singer
73. Cognitive Styles
    —Mary Margaret Moffett
74. Suggestibility and Susceptibility to Set
    —Michael Wertheimer
75. Defense Mechanisms
    —Jack J. Greider
76. Level of Aspiration
    —P. S. Fernald and L. D. Fernald, Jr.
77. Person Perception
    —Marcia E. Lasswell, Floyd L. Ruch, David S. Gorfein, and Neil Warren

VIII. Miscellaneous

78. Animal Behavior in the Natural Habitat
    —Marty Klein
79. Romeo, Juliet, and Conflict Resolution
    —Robert A. Goodale
80. To Sleep, Perchance to Dream
    —Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr.
81. Mental Illness
    —James M. Gardner
82. A General Model for Developing Classroom Creativity Exercises
    —Russell E. Walls
83. Reaction Time
84. Chain Reaction Time
    —Michael Wertheimer
85. Conduction of a Neuronal Impulse
    —Richard A. Kasschau
86. Human Emotions
    —Richard A. Kasschau
87. Flashing Faces
    —Linda Winchell
88. Ethograms
    —Marty Klein

Appendixes

1. Basic Statistical Methods
   —Charles M. Stoup
2. A Bibliography on Do-It-Yourself Laboratory and Classroom Apparatus
3. A Bibliography of Additional Activities, Ideas, and Demonstrations for Classroom Use
4. A Selected Bibliography of Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Teaching of Psychology

Contributors