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Friday, January 31, 2014
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
New ToPIX Content: 1/9/2014
This update
includes additions to the Grading Rubrics, Therapy Video, and Statistics in the
Classroom pages.
Joanne Zinger graciously made a peer evaluation form she has used for
student presentations available via the PSYCHTEACHER listserv (12/23/13). See
the Grading Rubrics page for this form, as well as the original article from which it was adapted (i.e.,
Mitchell & Bakewell, 1995).
Kate Wolfe provided a link to a PBS Newshour video “What DSM-5 Means for
Diagnosing Mental Health Patients.” This short video and nearly 40 other videos
from Psychiatry.org’s video series could be useful for Introductory Psychology
and Abnormal Psychology (via the STP Facebook Group, 1/7/14) Therapy Video page.
Leigh Harrell Williams shared The Journal of
Statistics Education and CAUSEweb.org statistics resources (via the STP Facebook Group, 1/8/14).
Check out the Statistics in the Classroom page for a treasure trove of activities, stories, and data sets.
Thanks again to Joanne, Kate, and Leigh for their contributions to ToPIX!
If you have found
that ToPIX has helped your teaching, please consider contributing! You are
welcome to update the wiki yourself or just send me an email with
suggestions: (TOPIX@TeachPsych.org).
Thursday, December 26, 2013
New for 2014: The ToPIX SOAR Library
Posted on behalf of Carrie Lloyd,
ToPIX Assistant Editor
ToPIX SOAR Library (Student Online
Academic Research Library)
New to ToPIX is the SOAR Library
(Student Online Academic Research Library) -- a page where college students can
post their own empirical research studies.
I have taught undergraduate research
classes for several years and am now teaching a graduate-level research course,
and although students get experience conducting their own studies with our
student population, it obviously limits them by only having access to one
'type' of participant. Most instructors are, undoubtedly, in this same dilemma.
Even with extremely well-conducted research and written products, our students
are limited in their chance to get published. My hope is that with this tool,
students will be able to increase their ‘N’, and have access to a more
representative sample. With this more representative sample, their conclusions
will be more generalizable, and thus can increase their chances of getting
their work published. On this ToPIX page, students can solicit others to be
subjects in their own primary studies.
We also hope that instructors will
help promote this site by referring their students to this page as
participants. Instructors can give extra credit for participation in addition
to requiring students to post their study. Either way, this is a great
experience for all the students involved. (What student doesn’t need more
research experience??)
Please see the new ToPIX page for more
details and instructions on how to get your students’ research posted. SOAR
inclusion criteria can be found here.
Thank you!
~Dr. Carrie A. Lloyd
New ToPIX Content: 12/26/13
This update
includes additions to the Development in the Classroom, Gender & Sexuality
in the Classroom, Development Video, Statistics Video, Perception Video, I/O
Video, Careers Video, Psychological Disorders in the News, Psychology Humor
pages.
Will you be
teaching Lawrence
Kohlberg’s stages of moral development? If so, check out the Development in the
Classroom page. Michael
Britt posted a link to an episode of the The Psych Files podcast with a
number of effective mnemonics to help students memorize the order
and key ideas in each of Kohlberg's Stages.
A tip of the
hat goes to Christie Cathey (via STP
Facebook Group 11/19/13) for reminding us of the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory. Assignment
ideas, instructor resources, and an online version of the ASI available were
posted here on ToPIX. Visit the Gender & Sexuality in the Classroom page for more.
Big thanks go
to Michael Britt for the following
posts to video pages. First, if you need some mnemonic imagery to memorize
Freud’s stages of psychosexual development, check out the Development Video
page.
Two new videos for Statistics and Research Methods instructors were posted to
the Statistics Video page.
See the videos on experiments and factorial design. If you are teaching depth
perception in Intro or Sensation & Perception, check out the Perception
video page for a 12 minute podcast. Lastly, Michael shared an podcast that could be used
in Intro, I/O Psych, or an Intro to the Psych Major course. The podcast helps dispel
myths about what I/O psychologists do. Check it out on the I/O Videos page.
Continuing with the career theme is Kit Nast’s post to the Career Videos page.
There you will find interviews with people of various occupations: Case Manager,
Clinical Psychologist, School Psychologist, and University Professor. You may
even see some familiar faces!
Jessica Hartnett posted links to an NPR story on the problems
faced by dishonorably discharged veterans when they attempt to seek health care
(including mental health care) following dishonorable discharge from the
military. Read more on the Psychological
Disorders in the News page.
And the last update of 2013 is a new page, Psychology Humor.
If you are looking for a repository of psychology memes and humor, bookmark
this link to a Pinterest Board. Some of the cartoons, memes, and the like could be great for presentations. Hat tip to Carol Furchner via the STP Facebook Group.
Thanks again to Michael, Christie, Kit, Jessica, and Carol for their contributions to
ToPIX!
If you have found
that ToPIX has helped your teaching, please consider contributing! You are
welcome to update the wiki yourself or just send me an email with
suggestions: (TOPIX@TeachPsych.org).
Thursday, November 28, 2013
New ToPIX Content: 11/28/13
This update includes additions to the I/O Psychology in the News, Neuroscience Video, Development Video, Therapy Video, and Gender & Sexuality pages.
Jessica Hartnett posted links to the news story on
the Miami Dolphins' Richie Incognito and his harassment of fellow player
Jonathan Martin. Coverage of the story touches on workplace harassment and
culture. Read more on the I/O Psychology in the News page.
Check out
the Neuroscience Video page for a podcast on
H.M.'s Brain and the History of Memory (courtesy of Erica Kleinknecht O'Shea
via the STP Facebook Group 11/25/13), and video “How Memory Works” (courtesy of
Alicia Briganti Causey via the STP Facebook Group 11/25/13).
If you are
teaching Developmental Psychology, see the Development Video page for Howard Gardner’s
talk, “The App Generation: Identity, Intimacy, and Imagination in the Digital
Era” (Courtesy of Rena Blackwood via the STP Facebook Group 11/20/13).
See the
Therapy Video page for a TED Talk on the
nature of abnormality, "Strange answers to the psychopath test"
(Courtesy of KitKat Harper via the STP Facebook Group 10/31/13).
Roger
Bingham’s video “The Sexual Brain” was posted to the Gender & Sexuality
Video page (Courtesy of Ami
Rezec Wegenek via the STP Facebook Group 10/23/13).
Thanks
again to Jessica, Erica, Alicia, Rena, KitKat,
and Ami for their contributions to ToPIX!
If you have found
that ToPIX has helped your teaching, please consider contributing! You are
welcome to update the wiki yourself or just send me an email with
suggestions: (TOPIX@TeachPsych.org).
Thursday, October 17, 2013
New ToPIX Content: 10/17/13
New ToPIX Content: 10/17/13
This update includes additions to the Grading Rubrics page,
Human Factors in the News, Psychological Disorders Video, Social Video, and
Cognitive Video pages.
Bill Altman posted a Human Development
Portfolio Rubric from Nicole Kras to the Grading Rubrics page. Check out the
page here
or go directly to the rubric here.
Jessica
Hartnett posted a link to an NPR story about human factors issues as they
relate to subway map preferences in Boston. Read more on the Human Factors in the News page.
Doug Maynard
posted a link to the “This American Life” radio show, Episode
507: Confessions. Excerpts of the show could be used for topics spanning the
areas of Psychological Disorders (obsessive-compulsive disorder), Social Psychology (social influence), or Cognition (as it relates to confirmation bias).
Thanks
again to Bill, Jessica, and Doug for their contributions to ToPIX!
If
you have found ToPIX useful, please consider contributing your suggestions for
content! You are welcome to update the wiki yourself or simply shoot me
an email: (TOPIX@TeachPsych.org).
Thursday, September 19, 2013
New ToPIX Content: 9/19/13
This update
includes additions to the Song List, Cognition in the Classroom, Learning in
the Classroom, Neuroscience in the Classroom, Operant Conditioning in the
Classroom, Perception in the Classroom, Social in the Classroom, Classical
Conditioning Demos, Taste Demos, Vision Demos, Learning Video, Neuroscience
Video, and Statistics Video pages.
Remember the
Electric Slide? Julie Carpenter takes us back to 1989 with her contribution to
the Song List. Use the Electric Slide for a Neuroscience unit. Check out the
YouTube video and lyrics here.
Demonstrations
of the serial position curve, schemas, and priming were posted to the Cognition
in the Classroom page.
A classical conditioning demo was posted to the Learning in the Classroom page.
Both page updates were courtesy of Joseph Swope via the PSYCHTEACHER listserv.
A link to the G2C Brain, the BrainView app, an
action potential animation, and the speed of neural impulse demonstration were
all posted to the Neuroscience in the Classroom page.
A big thanks goes out to Jaclyn Spivey and Martha Boenau (via the STP Facebook
Group), and Joseph Swope (via the PSYCHTEACHER listserv).
Operant conditioning can be discussed after a
demonstration of a token economy. Ideas for a demonstration are courtesy of
Joseph Swope (via the PSYCHTEACHER listserv) and available here.
Joseph Swope also
provided an echo location demonstration for the Perception in the classroom
page,
and his conformity demonstration was posted to the Social in the Classroom page.
Thanks again, Joseph!
Jeff Stowell posted a classic demonstration of Classical
Conditioning to the Classical Conditioning demos page.
Cookie Monster
learns a lesson from Tom Hiddleston in a YouTube video that was posted to the
Learning Video page.
Thanks again, Jeff!
A TED Talk on
chemical reactions and neural impulses was posted to the Neuroscience Video
page.
This find is courtesy of Steve Jones via the STP Facebook Group.
Lastly, Andy
Field explains the Central Limit Theorem through an example that includes a
population of 100,000 zombies and a discussion of how many blows to the head
will kill a zombie. Check out the Statistics video page if this approach may resonate with your students. A hat tip goes to Jessica
Hartnett for this video (via the STP Facebook Group).
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