Describes innovative methods for teaching projective assessment in a one semester graduate level clinical psychology course. The course fosters competence in the basics of administration, scoring, and in-depth interpretation of at least one test. (RM)

The three computer-assisted instruction packages met the goals set for them. They fit the course objective of giving students more experience dealing with the experimental method; they added a new dimension to the learning resources available to students; and they integrated computer and written work. (RM)

Described is an exercise involving the measurement of temperature in a peripheral tissue, brown adipose, that is readily accessible in the laboratory rat. (RM)

A psychology course in which students are required to apply learned principles to their interpersonal experiences is the instructors answer to the need to make psychological principles and methods generally available for a wider impact on human existence. (JH)

This introductory psychology course consisting of 16 contemporary films available at each student's convenience; readings; discussion sessions; and laboratory experience, assisted by upper-division psychology students, is an attempt to minimize some of the problems of the usual introductory lecture course. (JH)

The author describes the development and organization of a psychology course on extrasensory perception. (DE)

Describes an undergraduate course which focuses on the effects of the mass media on the viewing public. The course is intended to increase awareness of the media so that students may respond to it more intelligently. Course topics, source materials, and class formats are discussed. (GEA)

Described is an exercise that will help college-level psychology students learn abstract and relational thinking skills. The exercise will provide students with a new way to handle compare-and-contrast questions. (RM)

To learn about the history of psychology, college students presented past research papers in psychology as if they were the original author, and the audience was confined, in raising questions, to their understanding of the prevailing state of knowledge and social outlook at the time of the paper's original publication. (RM)

Students critiqued research contained in the book "Rival Hypotheses" (Huck and Sandler, 1979), which contains studies dealing with knowledge claims of practical importance, e.g., the evidence that saccharine causes cancer. (RM)

Discusses problems encountered in using the Matarazzo Checklist to rate students' interviewing skills with psychiatric patients. (RM)

Fourth-grade gifted students are shown to be capable of developing a researchable problem in psychology, gathering data and reporting results. As a result of the experimental course, several students expressed interest in becoming psychologists. Also, the number of science fair projects based on psychological research increased the next year. (RM)

Describes courses designed to prepare undergraduate students for employment in substance abuse agencies. The courses include a general survey, skills acquisition, and practicum placement. (KC)

Discusses how biofeedback is being incorporated into the psychology curricula of undergraduate liberal arts colleges. Two hundred colleges were surveyed. Included is a discussion of biofeedback instrumentation and descriptions of a course, a field experience, and a workshop. Also examinded is a biofeedback innovation in a research-treatment…

Describes and evaluates a college level psychology of aging course which actively involved students in projects that integrated personal experience with cognitive learning. Intellectual mastery is a sufficient goal in many college courses. However, in courses on aging, additional objectives, such as emotional growth and attitude change, must be…