Teaching Resources for Chapter 1

• Overview of Chapter 1


• Outline
• Key Issues
• Key Terms
• Student-oriented summary
• Professor-oriented summary (Talking points, visuals, and some humor)
• Visual of internal, external, and construct validity
• Powerpoint lecture/Chapter outline
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• Detailed Lecture Outlines from the authors 
• Scientific psychology versus other ways of knowing
• In defense of scientific psychology
• The value of scientific reasoning in everyday situations
• Ethics
• The importance of research
  
• Powerpoint lecture/Chapter outline
  
• Lecture outlines from other sources 
  • An astronomer's introduction to science lecture.
   
• Activities
• Guidelines and resources for introducing students to the issue of research ethics
• Contrasting science with nonscientific and pseudoscientific approaches
  (includes a variety of activities, including five that involve videos, as well as some useful web links)
• Helping students understand internal, external, and construct validity
• Developing a "Research Methods Script"
• Having students rebut common objections to scientific psychology
• Develop students' library literacy
• A crossword puzzle
• Discuss the fact that the research class allows students to refine and demonstrate marketable skills.

 Reminder: Adopters can obtain PowerPoint® lectures and student web pages by e-mailing the authors.