Here is an exciting collection of 88 activities for use by introductory psychology course instructors at the high school, community college, and undergraduate level. Thoroughly tested in the classroom by teachers, these classroom activities, demonstrations, and experiments (with minimal equipment needed!) are grouped in sections on methodology, sensory processes and perception, learning and conditioning, memory and cognition, developmental psychology, social psychology, personality, and miscellaneous activities.
A Note to Instructors
I. Methodology
- Observation: A Standardized Experience
—Nancy Felipe Russo - Accuracy of Observation
—Paul J. Woods - Demonstrating Experimental Design Logic
- Experimental Design: Varying Heart Rate
—Samuel Cameron, Jack Christiano, and Bernard Mausner - Sampling and Probability
—Louis Snellgrove - Hypothesis Testing
- Hypothesis Testing—To "Coin" a Term
—William J. Hunter - Randomization
—David J. Stang - Experimenter Expectancy
—Carolyn Stierhem - To Err Is Human, Especially in Measurement
—William J. Hunter - Finding Meaning in the Method
—Philip G. Zimbardo
II. Sensory Processes and Perception
- Taste Preferences: Influence of Smell and Sight
—Bernadette Fantino - Cutaneous Two-Point Thresholds
—J. Russell Nazzaro - Olfaction: The Seven Basic Smells (More or Less)
—Allan L. LaVoie - Blue-Blindness in the Central Fovea
—William B. Cushman - Visual Accommodation: Double Vision With One Eye
—W. E. Scoville - The Pulfrich Pendulum Effect: When To and Fro Is Roundabout
—Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr. - Blind Spot in Vision
—John J. Duda - Size—Weight Illusion: A Pound Is a Pound the World Around?
—Clifford L. Fawl - Balance Sensitivity
—P. S. Fernald and L. D. Fernald, Jr. - Delayed Auditory Feedback
—Philip G. Zimbardo and James Newton - Adaptation to Displaced Vision
—Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr.
III. Learning and Conditioning
- Operant Conditioning: Role in Human Behavior
—Edward Stork - Operant Conditioning Demonstration
—Patricia Keith-Spiegel - Shaping by Successive Approximations
—David Watson - Reinforcing Statements of Opinion
—B. R. Hergenhahn - Recording and Self-Modification
- Knowledge of Results
—Louis Snellgrove - Color Bind: Interference on Attention
—Ray Brumbaugh - Performance and Negative Transfer
—T. L. Engle and Louis Snellgrove - Learning Curves
—David Holmer
IV. Memory and Cognition
- Memory and Forgetting
—Michael Wertheimer - Reconstructive Nature of Human Memory
—Richard A. Kasschau - Recall Versus Recognition
—Marty Klein - Meaning Enhances Recall
—James Jenkins - Context and Memory
—Marty Klein - Meaningfulness and Memory
—P. S. Fernald and L. D. Fernald, Jr. - Meaning and Memory: An Assignment to Be Forgotten
—Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr. - Retroactive and Proactive Inhibition
—John K. Bare - Transfer of Training: Star Track
—Ray Brumbaugh - Problem Solving: Groups Versus Individuals
—Wilbert J. McKeachie, Charlotte Doyle, and Mary Margaret Moffett - Problems of Set
—Louis Snellgrove - The Zeigarnik Effect: Suffering to Serve the Psyche
—Allan L. LaVoie - Concept Learning
—Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr. - Language and Communication: Defining Language Can Leave You Speechless
—William J. Hunter - Creativity
—Allan L. LaVoie - Semantic (Category) Clustering
—Allan L. LaVoie
V. Developmental Psychology
- Object Permanence in Infancy: Out of Sight, Out of Mind?
—Deborah L. Coates and Peter M. Vietze - Sensory Stimulation and Infant Development
—Louis Snellgrove - Animal Observation: The Mama Rat Project
—Barbara F. Nodine - Conservation Ability in Children
—J. Russell Nazzaro - Maturation Versus Development
—Richard A. Kasschau - The Life Cycle
—Peggy Brick - Life Span Development
—Freda G. Rebelsky - Age-Old Beliefs
—Robert A. Goodale - The Stages of Death and Dying
—Robert A. Goodale
VI. Social Psychology
- Sex Role Stereotypes and Mental Health
- Group Decisions and Stereotypes
—Joel Goodman - Stereotyping
- Stereotypes
—T. L. Engle and Louis Snellgrove - Obedience to Authority
—William J. Hunter - Public Opinion Polls and Cooperation With Authority
—Louis Snellgrove - The Psychology of Humor
—Robert A. Goodale - Sexism in the Classroom
—David L. Cole - Attitude Change and Advertisements
—Richard A. Kasschau - Cooperation and Competition
—Louis Snellgrove - Experiment on Smiling
—Joan W. Walls - Self-Concept and Group Interaction
—R. A. Kasschau, L. W. Fordham, P. A. Stewart, H. G. McCombs, and M. W. Smith - Body Language in the Classroom: Here's What You Can Do
—Timothy Coyne - Group Dynamics: Choosing a Color
—James M. Johnson
VII. Personality
- Personality Tests
—Nancy Felipe Russo - Impressionability
—Barry Singer - Cognitive Styles
—Mary Margaret Moffett - Suggestibility and Susceptibility to Set
—Michael Wertheimer - Defense Mechanisms
—Jack J. Greider - Level of Aspiration
—P. S. Fernald and L. D. Fernald, Jr. - Person Perception
—Marcia E. Lasswell, Floyd L. Ruch, David S. Gorfein, and Neil Warren
VIII. Miscellaneous
- Animal Behavior in the Natural Habitat
—Marty Klein - Romeo, Juliet, and Conflict Resolution
—Robert A. Goodale - To Sleep, Perchance to Dream
—Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr. - Mental Illness
—James M. Gardner - A General Model for Developing Classroom Creativity Exercises
—Russell E. Walls - Reaction Time
- Chain Reaction Time
—Michael Wertheimer - Conduction of a Neuronal Impulse
—Richard A. Kasschau - Human Emotions
—Richard A. Kasschau - Flashing Faces
—Linda Winchell - Ethograms
—Marty Klein
Appendixes
- Basic Statistical Methods
—Charles M. Stoup - A Bibliography on Do-It-Yourself Laboratory and Classroom Apparatus
- A Bibliography of Additional Activities, Ideas, and Demonstrations for Classroom Use
- A Selected Bibliography of Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Teaching of Psychology
Contributors
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