Teaching Resources for Chapter 1

• Overview of Chapter 1


• Outline
• Key Issues
• Key Terms
• Student-oriented summary
 
• 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
  
  
• Lecture outlines from other sources 
• Suzi Shapiro's lecture comparing science to other ways of knowing.
• Suzi Shapiro's lecture on conducting ethical research
• 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
• Helping students understand internal, external, and construct validity
• Developing a "Research Methods Script"
• Having students rebut common objections to scientific psychology

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