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Flanagan, Michael F.; Ralston, David A. – Teaching of Psychology, 1983
In this team teaching effort, the psychology teachers planned the course together, prepared the exams together, and most important, when one instructor was lecturing, the other attended the class acting as an observer-participant. (RM)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Higher Education, Psychology, Team Teaching

Beins, Barney – Teaching of Psychology, 1983
Under faculty supervision, a college student enrolled in a "Sensation and Perception" course constructed a light box, which generated some surprising and interesting color effects. (RM)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Higher Education, Independent Study, Psychology

Weiss, Charles S. – Teaching of Psychology, 1980
Describes an animal laboratory course using male Siamese fighting fish which is inexpensive, compact, and permits students to conduct a wide variety of behavioral investigations. (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Course Descriptions, Higher Education, Psychology

France, Kenneth – Teaching of Psychology, 1984
The best way to teach psychology majors interviewing skills is through supervised practice. How one teacher used graduates of his interviewing techniques course as peer trainers in subsequent courses is described. (RM)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Higher Education, Interviews, Peer Teaching

Yoder, Janice D. – Teaching of Psychology, 1983
The course described here uses an underlying, concrete theme--that of situation-centered explanations of human behavior--to connect several topics in social psychology, thereby enhancing the coherence of the course. Course design and evaluation are discussed. According to students, it was a favorable experience. (RM)
Descriptors: Behavior, Course Descriptions, Course Evaluation, Higher Education

Gibb, Gerald D. – Teaching of Psychology, 1983
One lemon, an assortment of other fruits and vegetables, a tennis ball, and a Galvanic Skin Response meter are needed to implement this approach to teaching about classical conditioning in introductory psychology courses. (RM)
Descriptors: Classical Conditioning, Course Descriptions, Higher Education, Introductory Courses

Anderson, Wayne – Teaching of Psychology, 1981
Examines a psychology course intended to teach graduate students how to develop and run groups for training in helping skills, human relations, assertion training, weight reduction, and anxiety management. (DB)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Educational Objectives, Group Instruction, Higher Education

Dillon, Kathleen M. Hynek; Goodman, Sara – Teaching of Psychology, 1980
Describes classroom learning activities for a college level psychology course on aging and explains how these and other activities can be used to interest students in a career in services for the aged. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Educational Gerontology, Higher Education, Learning Activities

Wagner, Carl; Struzynski, Anthony – Teaching of Psychology, 1979
Affirms the possibility of interdisciplinary psychology/religion courses in which both remain fully autonomous. Describes a course on inquiry into religious experience showing one way in which this possibility can be actualized. (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Higher Education, Inquiry, Interdisciplinary Approach

Handelsman, Mitchell M. – Teaching of Psychology, 1985
Described is an exercise that will help college-level psychology students learn abstract and relational thinking skills. The exercise will provide students with a new way to handle compare-and-contrast questions. (RM)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Comparative Analysis, Concept Formation, Course Descriptions

Cole, David L. – Teaching of Psychology, 1983
To learn about the history of psychology, college students presented past research papers in psychology as if they were the original author, and the audience was confined, in raising questions, to their understanding of the prevailing state of knowledge and social outlook at the time of the paper's original publication. (RM)
Descriptors: Conferences, Course Descriptions, Higher Education, History

Stenmark, David E.; And Others – Teaching of Psychology, 1981
Describes courses designed to prepare undergraduate students for employment in substance abuse agencies. The courses include a general survey, skills acquisition, and practicum placement. (KC)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Drug Abuse, Employment Opportunities, Higher Education

Nissim-Sabat, Denis – Teaching of Psychology, 1980
Describes a college level history of psychology course designed to use art and music as a means of aiding students in recognizing the relationship between their present research and service interests and psychology's past. The course approached history in a less abstract fashion and stressed the interrelationship between the development of…
Descriptors: Art, Course Descriptions, Educational Objectives, Educational Practices

White, Geoffry D. – Teaching of Psychology, 1977
A course option in abnormal psychology involves students in interviewing and observing the activities of individuals in the off-campus community who are concerned with some aspect of abnormal psychology. The technique generates student interest in the field when they interview people about topics such as drug abuse, transsexualism, and abuse of…
Descriptors: Behavior, Course Descriptions, Higher Education, Interviews

Mueller, Susan C. – Teaching of Psychology, 1985
A method is described for incorporating student papers based on published biographies or autobiographies into an upper-division undergraduate personality theory course. Students are required to submit a term paper analyzing their selected target person, using concepts from a variety of theories presented in the course. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Biographies, Course Descriptions, Higher Education