Wednesday, August 27, 2008

August 27: Introduction to Research

Good Job Everyone! I hope you have developed an efficient system to handle reading the textbook, taking notes, making notecards, and more.

In-Class Activities:

1) Neuron Note...You read my responses to last class period's questions and wrote new questions.

2) You turned in your textbook website assignment. If you did not get it done, please do it ASAP. Late work will earn half points and I will not accept it once it becomes a habit.

3) We had a pop quiz on pages 1-30. You used your notes and notecards. If you were absent, make it up in class on Friday.

4) We tried to get into the mind set of psychologists use to understand behavior and mental processes by taking some notes on thinking critically.

5) We watched the Phil Zimbardo video segment "Understanding Research" to get our minds turned on to why psychologists do experiments and other types of research. It talked about placebo effect, double-blind studies, correlation is not necessarily causation, placebo effect, and more.

5) You got the Naturalistic Observation assignment. With a partner, you are to observe two or more people interacting for ~10 minutes and take notes. Once your notes are complete and before you talk to your partner, you write up a 1-page summary of your observation and then swap with your partner. After reading their response, you record the differences in your observations. You must complete this assignment before class on Friday.

Assignments:
1) Read chapter 1 pp. 31-42
2) Naturalistic Observation

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