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Direct linkStrelan, Peter – Teaching of Psychology, 2018
This article presents an innovative technique for teaching the principles of experimental design in a way that is entertaining and engaging for students. Following a lecture on experimental design, students participate in an experiment in which the teacher uses a funny segment from a movie to test the influence of implicit social norms. Randomly…
Descriptors: Research Design, Research Methodology, Teaching Methods, Instructional Innovation
O'Dell, Cynthia D.; Hoyert, Mark Sudlow – Teaching of Psychology, 2002
We describe a perceptual experiment that we have successfully used in Research Methods classes. Students attempt to identify a series of simple cookie cutter shapes using only the fingers and hands (haptic perception). Students read archival studies that have used this procedure, identify confounds, generate and test alternate hypotheses, and…
Descriptors: Experiments, Tactual Perception, Identification, Research Design
Peer reviewedRittle, Robert H. – Teaching of Psychology, 1990
Discusses a research design course in which undergraduates were taught to program microcomputers for the control of experimental tasks. Describes the teaching approach for the three-hour course unit, along with the experimental tasks that were performed. Reports that students ranked the programing of experimental tasks as important as other…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Computer Uses in Education, Curriculum Development, Database Management Systems
