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Direct linkR. Eric Landrum; Leslie D. Cramblet Alvarez; K. Nicole Jones; Laura Burton – Teaching of Psychology, 2024
Background: Graduate admissions in psychology continue to be a popular and competitive venture, with the demand for new graduate student opportunities exceeding the annual supply. Objective: Our present work was a partial replication and extension of Appleby and Appleby (2006). We added closed- and open-ended questions regarding social media to…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Admissions Officers, Admissions Counseling, College Applicants
Bensley, D. Alan; Lilienfeld, Scott O. – Teaching of Psychology, 2015
Studies of psychological misconceptions have often used tests with methodological shortcomings, unknown psychometric properties, and ad hoc methods for identifying misconceptions, creating problems for estimating frequencies of specific misconceptions. To address these problems, we developed a new test, the Test of Psychological Knowledge and…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Psychological Patterns, Psychometrics, Attitude Measures
Jorgensen, Terrence D.; Marek, Pam – Teaching of Psychology, 2013
To determine the effectiveness of 20- to 30-min workshops on recognition of errors in American Psychological Association-style writing, 58 introductory psychology students attended one of the three workshops (on grammar, mechanics, or references) and completed error recognition tests (pretest, initial posttest, and three follow-up tests). As a…
Descriptors: Workshops, Program Effectiveness, Error Patterns, Writing (Composition)
Costanzo, Mark A. – Teaching of Psychology, 2013
Teachers can incorporate topics in forensic psychology into lower level courses to increase student interest and to show how psychological processes influence outcomes in high-stakes applied contexts. One such topic is eyewitness identification, which teachers can use to show how stress affects memory and how memories can become distorted during…
Descriptors: Criminals, Justice, Criminal Law, Law Enforcement
Schwarzmueller, April – Teaching of Psychology, 2011
This article details a multi-modal active learning experience to help students understand elements of social categorization. Each student in a group dynamics course observed two groups in conflict and identified examples of in-group bias, double-standard thinking, out-group homogeneity bias, law of small numbers, group attribution error, ultimate…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Active Learning, Group Dynamics, Classification
Steuer, Faye B.; Ham, K. Whitfield, II – Teaching of Psychology, 2008
Sales figures and recollections of psychologists indicate textbooks play a central role in psychology students' education, yet instructors typically must select texts under time pressure and with incomplete information. Although selection aids are available, none adequately address the accuracy of texts. We describe a technique for sampling…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Psychology, Textbook Content, Textbook Selection
