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.
Table of Contents
A Note to Instructors
I. Methodology
Observation: A Standardized Experience
—Nancy Felipe Russo
Accuracy of Observation
—Paul J. Woods
Demonstrating Experimental Design Logic
Experimental Design: Varying Heart Rate
—Samuel Cameron, Jack Christiano, and Bernard Mausner
Sampling and Probability
—Louis Snellgrove
Hypothesis Testing
Hypothesis Testing—To "Coin" a Term
—William J. Hunter
Randomization
—David J. Stang
Experimenter Expectancy
—Carolyn Stierhem
To Err Is Human, Especially in Measurement
—William J. Hunter
Finding Meaning in the Method
—Philip G. Zimbardo
II. Sensory Processes and Perception
Taste Preferences: Influence of Smell and Sight
—Bernadette Fantino
Cutaneous Two-Point Thresholds
—J. Russell Nazzaro
Olfaction: The Seven Basic Smells (More or Less)
—Allan L. LaVoie
Blue-Blindness in the Central Fovea
—William B. Cushman
Visual Accommodation: Double Vision With One Eye
—W. E. Scoville
The Pulfrich Pendulum Effect: When To and Fro Is Roundabout
—Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr.
Blind Spot in Vision
—John J. Duda
Size—Weight Illusion: A Pound Is a Pound the World Around?
—Clifford L. Fawl
Balance Sensitivity
—P. S. Fernald and L. D. Fernald, Jr.
Delayed Auditory Feedback
—Philip G. Zimbardo and James Newton
Adaptation to Displaced Vision
—Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr.
III. Learning and Conditioning
Operant Conditioning: Role in Human Behavior
—Edward Stork
This second volume contains almost 90 activities for your use on the subjects of methodology, learning and memory, sensory processes and perception, developmental psychology, personality, use of computers, and statistical concepts.
This book contains a wide range of enjoyable and instructive exercises that emphasize active learning. Each of the 80+ exercises is described in a cookbook format that allows the instructor to quickly see the concept underlying the activity, materials needed, and class time required.
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