Today in class we started covering material for chapter 1, Critical Thinking in Psychology. This chapter first explains the limits of intuition and common sense and then discusses the role that scientific method and statistics play in Psychology.
Our opening activity demonstrated an activity from the text that you can read about on page 16. The class responses matched what is described in the text. We also did a demonstration similar to the anagram activity described on page 18. If you missed, you might learn something from trying this activity from the New York Times, and reading the explanation given.
It wasn't all just fun and activities last class though. I did give students a new outline for chapter one that we used to begin our class notes, and the powerpoint we began in class can be found on the "Research Methods" page on the class website.
The most important things that you should make sure you know from this class: Overconfidence, Hindsight Bias, Confirmation Bias, and Operational Definitions.
Finally, some practical information-- the online quiz option for homework is no longer available on the textbook companion website. If you wish to complete the online quizzes for a homework grade, you need to log-in to Blackboard and the quizzes are located in "Class Content". As always, the chapter assignment can be found in Google Classroom, or you may complete notes to turn in for the grade.
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