Teaching Resources for Chapter 1

• Overview of Chapter 1


• Outline
• Key Issues
• Key Terms
• Professor-oriented summary (Talking points, visuals, and some humor)
• Visual of internal, external, and construct validity
• Powerpoint lecture/Chapter outline
 
• Detailed Lecture Outlines from the authors 
• Scientific psychology versus other ways of knowing
• In defense of scientific psychology
• The value of scientific reasoning in everyday situations
• Ethics
• The importance of research
  
• Powerpoint lecture/Chapter outline
• Three bonus powerpoint lectures (password is the first nonhyphenated word on page 3 of the Instructor's Manual)
• Lecture outlines from other sources 
  • An astronomer's introduction to science lecture.
   
• Chapter 1 section of the student website 

• Handouts 
  • Detailed Learning Objectives for Chapter 1
  • A crossword puzzle
  • Completed crossword puzzle (password is the first nonhyphenated word on page 3 of the Instructor's Manual)

  Activities

• Guidelines and resources for introducing students to the issue of research ethics
• A fun demonstration of (a) how the correct answer is not always the intuitive one and of (b) how the empirical approach can get us the correct answer.
• Contrast science with nonscientific and pseudoscientific approaches
• Have students read and discuss the following two articles that discuss bias in popular reports of published research (link to reference and handouts to help students understand the articles)
• Help students understand internal, external, and construct validity
• Two quick exercises to help students understand the value of testability (falsifiability).
• Short exercise to help students understand what objectivity means.
• Have students develop a "Research Methods Script"
• Walk students through a 10-slide, interactive presentation on what science is (courtesy of our publisher)
• Have students rebut common objections to scientific psychology
• Develop students' library literacy
• Use this Web Appendix to stress the fact that the research class allows students to refine and demonstrate marketable skills. Alternatively, you could have students find graduate school applications, employment ads, and articles that illustrate the importance of research to getting into graduate school, being a clinical psychologist, or getting a job.
• Use this Web Appendix to review objectivity and the three validities (internal, external, and construct validity) in the context of critiquing qualitative research.

  Notes and Reminders:

1. Student web pages are accessible from http://www.studyRDE.com
2. IM has information about how to download additional PowerPoint® lectures.
3. URL for text's publisher site is http://psychology.wadsworth.com/RDE5e/
4. URL for a guide on how to write psychology papers is http://www.writingforpsychology.com
5. You can e-mail the authors at either mitchell@clarion.edu or jolley@clarion.edu