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Malik, Sarah E.; Salomon, Ilyssa; Elsey, Taylor; Golding, Jonathan M.; Sheehan, Elizabeth A. – Teaching of Psychology, 2021
Students majoring in psychology are often required or encouraged to have hands-on experience in the field. One way to gain experience is through an independent research experience (IRE); however, little is known about what IREs actually entail. In an effort to learn about students' IREs, we recruited 117 undergraduates from a Research I university…
Descriptors: Psychology, Teaching Methods, Mentors, College Faculty
Rosa, Nicole M.; Bogart, Kathleen R.; Bonnett, Amy K.; Estill, Mariah C.; Colton, Cassandra E. – Teaching of Psychology, 2016
Historically, psychology education about disability focused narrowly on psychiatric and cognitive disabilities. Furthermore, disability tends to be viewed from the medical model, rather than the social model endorsed by disability scholars, which describes disability as primarily socially constructed. Course offerings for the psychology…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Psychology, Disabilities, Course Content
McCrae, Robert R. – Teaching of Psychology, 2011
Classic personality theories, although intriguing, are outdated. The five-factor model of personality traits reinvigorated personality research, and the resulting findings spurred a new generation of personality theories. These theories assign a central place to traits and acknowledge the crucial role of evolved biology in shaping human…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Personality, Personality Theories, Science Curriculum
Page, Melanie C.; Abramson, Charles I.; Jacobs-Lawson, Joy M. – Teaching of Psychology, 2004
In response to the need to offer undergraduates research experience, the National Science Foundation created the Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program. The number of psychology sites has fluctuated in the Division of Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences between 8 and 12 over the last several years. To increase the number of sites in…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Psychology, Grants, Models

Anderson, Dana; Rosenfeld, Paul – Teaching of Psychology, 1983
Requiring less planning time and aimed at educating all students and the public, this model emphasizes the conference's student recruiting function, de-emphasizes research papers by scheduling paper sessions for only about 20 percent of the total conference hours, and makes a featured speaker, presentations, dinner, and films the main conference…
Descriptors: Community Education, Conferences, Educational Change, Financial Support

Havens, Ronald A.; Dimond, Richard E. – Teaching of Psychology, 1978
Cites the lack of uniform teaching approaches of graduate programs in clinical psychology. Offers a model in which graduate training is designed from empirical data on employer needs and a unified theory of the field. (Author/AV)
Descriptors: Clinical Psychology, Educational Problems, Graduate Study, Higher Education

Barnes, Denise R. – Teaching of Psychology, 1985
A course for teaching an advanced undergraduate course on the psychology of adult development and aging is described and evaluated. Course goals, content, and format are discussed. Students generally viewed the course favorably. (RM)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Aging Education, Course Content, Course Descriptions

Kaczkowski, Henry – Teaching of Psychology, 1984
An experiential model of learning used in a graduate level psychology counseling course to help students develop group leadership skills is described. Students view a videotape depicting scenes that require an intervention. The scenes describe events leading to a choice point, and some kind of leader action is required. (RM)
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Course Descriptions, Experiential Learning, Graduate Study
Isbell, Linda M.; Tyler, James M. – Teaching of Psychology, 2003
Research on minimal groups demonstrates that arbitrarily creating 2 groups leads to the development of in-group favoritism. Experiments using the minimal groups paradigm show students how easily in-group biases can be created simply by categorizing others. This article describes an in-class activity that demonstrates the power of categorization.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Models, Classification, Bias