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Peer reviewedAllen, Natividad M. – Teaching of Psychology, 1979
Describes "mini-lab" as one of the requirements for a university undergraduate course in child psychology. Students observe and record the activities of children in a child care center. (KC)
Descriptors: Child Psychology, College Instruction, Field Experience Programs, Higher Education
Peer reviewedOsberg, Timothy M. – Teaching of Psychology, 1992
Describes a classroom demonstration that simulates a verbal encounter with a person experiencing symptoms of schizophrenia. Suggests that the instructor deliver an unannounced monologue that illustrates the disordered thought and speech of a person with schizophrenia. Discusses student evaluation of the demonstration. Concludes that students in…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Demonstrations (Educational), Higher Education, Introductory Courses
Peer reviewedKerber, Kenneth W. – Teaching of Psychology, 1983
A general laboratory course should include projects that familiarize college students with the variety of methods available to the researcher. Described are four research projects that address questions about human behavior by means of experimental, observational, survey, and archival research methods. (RM)
Descriptors: Archives, Behavior, Higher Education, Laboratory Experiments
Peer reviewedBarber, Nigel – Teaching of Psychology, 1994
Reports on the use of participant modeling in a study of 56 college-level students to reduce fear of laboratory rats. Discovers that even mild exposure reduced fear significantly. Finds that women were more fearful initially but that their fear reduction was equal to that of men. (CFR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Experimental Psychology, Females
