Chapter 2 Overview

• Outline
• Key Terms
• Key Issues

Lectures

• Lecture 2.1: Generating research ideas
  
• Lecture 2.2: The nature of scientific progress
  
• Lecture 2.3: Getting Ideas from existing research
  

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
  

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