Chapter 2 Menu

Chapter 2 Overview

• Chapter outlines
  • Conventional chapter outline
  • Detailed Powerpoint outline
• Key issues
• Key terms
• Professor-oriented summary (Talking points, visuals, and some humor)

Lectures

• Lecture 2.1: Generating research ideas
  
• Lecture 2.2: The nature of scientific progress
  
• Lecture 2.3: Getting Ideas from existing research
• Powerpoint lecture/Chapter outline
• Bonus powerpoint lecture (password is the first nonhyphenated word on page 3 of the Instructor's Manual)
  

Chapter 2 section of the student website

Handouts

• Handout 2.1: 9 ways to tap your intuition
  
• Handout 2.2: 21 ways to get research ideas from published research
  
• Handout 2.3: 6 powerful strategies for generating research ideas
  
• Handout 2.4: Checklist to help students evaluate their hypotheses
  
• Web Appendix on theory and how theory can be used to generate reearch ideas
• Detailed Learning Objectives for Chapter 2
  
• Crossword puzzle
• Completed crossword puzzle (password is the first nonhyphenated word on page 3 of the Instructor's Manual)

Student Projects

• Generating hypotheses
• Student reports

Class Activities

• Exercise (with key) to help students understand what types of questions can lead to scientifically testable research hypotheses as well as how to refine research hypotheses.
• Activities involving theory
• Have students use a website that allows them to simulate performing experiments on social facilitation (social facilitation was discussed in Chapter 2 of Research design explained). Students get to select values of the independent variables, look at simulated data, and generate conclusions.
• Take advantage of role models
• Have students evaluate research hypotheses
• Discuss how science progresses
• Develop a psychology of humor
• To emphasize that not everything on the web is true and to stimulate some research ideas, show students the following link discussing the Internet rumor that Cambridge University scientists had discovered that scrambled words were as easy to read as unscrambled words.
• Library tour