Chapter 2 Menu

Chapter 2 Overview

• Chapter outlines
  • Conventional chapter outline
  • Detailed Powerpoint outline
• Key issues
• Key terms
• Student-oriented summary
• 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
  

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
  
• Seven handouts about theory and how to use it in generating research ideas.
• Examples of published research that tested common sense assumptions.
• Examples of published research that involved replicating existing research.
• Crossword puzzle

Student Projects

• Generating hypotheses
• Student reports

Class Activities

• Use role models
• Evaluating research hypotheses
• Discuss how science progresses
• Activities involving theory
• Develop a psychology of humor
• Library tour