Each supplement describes a class activity, discussion topic, or lecture idea that you can implement or assign. Many of the supplements include ready-made templates for handouts or overheads.
CHAPTER 1:
1.1
1.2
1.3
1.4
1.5
1.6
1.7
1.8
1.9
1.10
1.11
| Introduction to the Science of Psychology
RESEARCH FOCUS: Listening to Music While Studying
PUT IT IN WRITING: A Check on Research Terminology
CRITICAL THINKING EXERCISE: A Free Trip
CRITICAL THINKING EXERCISE: Advertising Claims
ACTIVITY: Debunking Astrology
ACTIVITY: Sociocultural Diversity
ACTIVITY: Who Are You?
ACTIVITY: Steps in Scientific Research
ACTIVITY: Applying Research Methods to "Psychic" Demonstrations
ACTIVITY: Exercises in Correlations and Experiments
ACTIVITY: Correlation and Causation
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CHAPTER 2:
2.1
2.2
2.3
2.4
2.5
2.6
2.7
2.8
2.9
2.10
2.11
| Biology and Behavior
RESEARCH FOCUS: Mapping the Mind’s Eye
PUT IT IN WRITING: Life Without Kinesthesia
PUT IT IN WRITING: Question Formation and Classroom Activity
CRITICAL THINKING EXERCISE: Is PMS a Hormonal Problem?
ACTIVITY: "Acting Out" the Structure and Function of Neurons
ACTIVITY: Mental Chronometry and Speed of Neural Transmission
ACTIVITY: The Chemistry of Psychology
ACTIVITY: Sex Differences in Brain Development
ACTIVITY: Do We Use Only Ten Percent of Our Brain?
ACTIVITY: Cerebral Lateralization in the Classroom
ACTIVITY: Quick Review of Neurotransmission
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CHAPTER 3:
3.1
3.2
3.3
3.4
3.5
3.6
3.7
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
| Sensation and Perception
RESEARCH FOCUS: A Case of Perception Without Awareness
PUT IT IN WRITING: Which sense would you give up?
CRITICAL THINKING EXERCISE: Can people perceive what
cannot be sensed?
ACTIVITY: Negative Afterimages, Opponent-Processing, and Sensation
ACTIVITY: The Pinna’s Role in Hearing
ACTIVITY: Distribution of Rods, Cones, and Color Vision in the Retina
ACTIVITY: Taste-Smell Interactions
ACTIVITY: Figure-Ground and Expectancy
ACTIVITY: Illusions
ACTIVITY: Active Processes in Perception
ACTIVITY: Top-Down Processing
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CHAPTER 4:
4.1
4.2
4.3
4.4
4.5
4.6
4.7
4.8
4.9
4.10
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Consciousness
RESEARCH FOCUS: Baseball and Jet Lag
PUT IT IN WRITING: Drug Effects
CRITICAL THINKING EXERCISE: Are Participants in a Stage
Hypnotist’s Act Really Hypnotized?
ACTIVITY: Human Circadian Rhythms and the Sleep-Wake Cycle
ACTIVITY: Sleep Apnea
ACTIVITY: Dream Analysis
ACTIVITY: Intending to Dream
ACTIVITY: The Barber Suggestibility Scale
ACTIVITY: Cocaine Babies
ACTIVITY: "Designer" Drug Gone Bad
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CHAPTER 5:
5.1
5.2
5.3
5.4
5.5
5.6
5.7
5.8
5.9
5.10
5.11
5.12
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Learning
RESEARCH FOCUS: I Don't Want My Music Television
PUT IT IN WRITING: Conditioning and the Circus
CRITICAL THINKING EXERCISE: Does Spanking Children Teach
Them Aggression?
ACTIVITY: Classical Conditioning and Human Behavior
ACITIVTY: Classical Conditioning: An All-Purpose Demonstration
ACTIVITY: Classical Conditioning: Assorted Demonstrations
ACTIVITY: Habituation
ACTIVITY: Paired Associates Learning
ACTIVITY: B. F. Skinner, Project Pigeon, and the Baby-Tender
ACTIVITY: A Demonstration of Shaping
ACTIVITY: Negative Reinforcement Versus Punishment
ACTIVITY: Learned Helplessness
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CHAPTER 6:
6.1
6.2
6.3
6.4
6.5
6.6
6.7
6.8
6.9
6.10
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Memory
RESEARCH FOCUS: What Happens to Memory With Age?
PUT IT IN WRITING: Context and State Dependence
CRITICAL THINKING EXERCISE: Can Jurors Recall Enough to
Produce a Just Verdict?
ACTIVITY: Levels of Processing
ACTIVITY: An All-Purpose Memory Demonstration
ACTIVITY: Short-Term Memory
ACTIVITY: Remembering an Absent Memory
ACTIVITY: Mnemonics
ACTIVITY: Study Hints
ACTIVITY: Study Dos and Dont’s
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CHAPTER 7:
7.1
7.2
7.3
7.4
7.5
7.6
7.7
7.8
7.9
7.10
7.11
7.12
7.13
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Thinking, Language, and Intelligence
RESEARCH FOCUS: Male and Female Brains and Language
PUT IT IN WRITING: What is Intelligence? What is Culture-Fair?
CRITICAL THINKING EXERCISE: Can non-humans communicate
with language?
ACTIVITY: Cognition: Schemas
ACTIVITY: The Representativeness Heuristic
ACTIVITY: Mental Sets
ACTIVITY: Functional Fixedness in Problem Solving
ACTIVITY: Surface Structure Versus Deep Structure
ACTIVITY: A Brief History of Nature Versus Nurture
in Intelligence
ACTIVITY: A Mock Intelligence Test
ACTIVITY: What is Culture Fair?
ACTIVITY: Making a New IQ Test
ACTIVITY: Savants
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CHAPTER 8:
8.1
8.2
8.3
8.4
8.5
8.6
8.7
8.8
8.9
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Motivation and Emotion
RESEARCH FOCUS: A Case of Impaired Emotional Recognition)
PUT IT IN WRITING: Evaluate Your Job
CRITICAL THINKING EXERCISE: Does Evolution Determine Choice
of Marriage Partner?
ACTIVITY: The Curiosity of Chili Pepper: Anatomy of a Motivation
ACTIVITY: Anorexia Nervosa
ACTIVITY: An In-Class Basketball Game to Show Achievement
Motivation
ACTIVITY: Women and Achievement Motivation
ACTIVITY: Cultural Influence on Emotional Expression
ACTIVITY: Lie Detection
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CHAPTER 9:
9.1
9.2
9.3
9.4
9.5
9.6
9.7
9.8
9.9
9.10
9.11
9.12
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Human Development
RESEARCH FOCUS: Is Family Resemblance Real?
PUT IT IN WRITING: An Exercise in Gender Stereotypes
CRITICAL THINKING EXERCISE: Can parenting style explain
variations in patterns of adolescent development?
ACTIVITY: Prenatal Development
ACTIVITY: Attachment
ACTIVITY: Motor Milestones
ACTIVITY: Playing Piaget
ACTIVITY: Erikson’s Psychosocial Stages of Development
ACTIVITY: Kohlberg’s Theory of Moral Development
ACTIVITY: Sexual and Gender Development
ACTIVITY: I’m Glad I’m a Boy! I’m Glad I’m a Girl!
ACTIVITY: Ageism
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CHAPTER 10:
10.1
10.2
10.3
10.4
10.5
10.6
10.7
10.8
10.9
10.10
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Health, Stress, and Coping
RESEARCH FOCUS: Imagery and Surgical Stress
PUT IT IN WRITING: Reducing Stress
CRITICAL THINKING EXERCISE: Can Physical or Psychological
Problems Be Predicted by Life Events Scales?
ACTIVITY: Hans Selye and the Concept of Stress
ACTIVITY: Revising the Social Readjustment Rating Scale
ACTIVITY: How Are You Reacting to Stress?
ACTIVITY: Autonomic Measures of Stress
ACTIVITY: The Type A Behavior Pattern
ACTIVITY: The Type A-B Personality Test
ACTIVITY: Cognitive Restructuring and Time Management
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CHAPTER 11:
11.1
11.2
11.3
11.4
11.5
11.6
11.7
11.8
11.9
11.10
11.11
11.12
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Personality
RESEARCH FOCUS: A Double-Blind Test of Astrology
PUT IT IN WRITING: Describe a Famous Person.
CRITICAL THINKING EXERCISE: Are Personality Tests Valid Tools
for Personnel Selection?
ACTIVITY: Sigmund Freud
ACTIVITY: Temperament and Personality
ACTIVITY: The Barnum Effect
ACTIVITY: The Locus of Control Test
ACTIVITY: The Pseudo-TAT
ACTIVITY: The Inkblot Test
ACTIVITY: The Draw-a-Person Test
ACTIVITY: A Freudian Version of Dr. Seuss
ACTIVITY: ‘Me Thinks Thou Doest Protest Too Much’
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CHAPTER 12:
12.1
12.2
12.3
12.4
12.5
12.6
12.7
12.8
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Psychological Disorders
RESEARCH FOCUS: Can Prenatal Malnutrition Cause Schizophrenia?
PUT IT IN WRITING: Statistical Infrequency
CRITICAL THINKING EXERCISE: Do Traits Determine Whether a
Person Who Attempts Suicide Once Will Attempt Suicide Again?
ACTIVITY:What Is Abnormal?
ACTIVITY: What Really Happened in Salem?
ACTIVITY: Name That Disorder
ACTIVITY: "Acting Out" Psychological Disorders
ACTIVITY: Generating Loose Associations
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CHAPTER 13:
13.1
13.2
13.3
13.4
13.5
13.6
13.7
13.8
13.9
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Treatment of Psychological Disorders
RESEARCH FOCUS: "Uppers" for "Hyper" Kids
PUT IT IN WRITING: You are the Therapist!
CRITICAL THINKING EXERCISE: Can Stimulating the Vagus Nerve
Cure Depression?
ACTIVITY: The Development of ECT
ACTIVITY: Psychosurgery
ACTIVITY: The Controversy Over Prozac
ACTIVITY: Case Studies: Be a Therapist
ACTIVITY: Role-Playing a Therapy Session
ACTIVITY: Choosing a Therapist
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CHAPTER 14:
14.1
14.2
14.3
14.4
14.5
14.6
14.7
14.8
14.9
14.10
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Social Psychology
RESEARCH FOCUS: Facial Shape and Attractiveness
PUT IT IN WRITING: Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Discrimination
CRITICAL THINKING EXERCISE: Is Ethnic Prejudice Too Ingrained
To Ever to Be Eliminated?
ACTIVITY: First Impressions
ACTIVITY: Stereotyping
ACTIVITY: Social and Cognitive Factors Influencing Rapists
ACTIVITY: Violation of Social Norms
ACTIVITY: Obedience to Authority
ACTIVITY: Solomon Asch’s Classic Experiment
ACTIVITY: Two Farmers, One Cow: A Decision-Making Exercise
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APPENDIX:
S.1
S.2
S.3
S.4
S.5
S.6
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Statistics in Psychological Research
ACTIVITY: Statistics
ACTIVITY: A Handy Statistical Reference
ACTIVITY: Quick and Simple Normal Distributions
ACTIVITY: Cognitive Individual Differences and a Normal Distribution
ACTIVITY: Why Measures of Variability Matter
ACTIVITY: Pretest Probability
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