This lesson plan covers several sources of control problems in research and is designed for a Research Methods course. Attached is the detailed schedule and break down of activities for a class period (1 hours and 40 minutes). Materials…
Mini Lesson: Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs in the Workplace
This mini-lesson focuses on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, a theory that can be used to understand employee motivation and its effect in the workplace. This mini-lesson can be incorporated into a larger lesson plan on motivation in the workplace,…
Mini lesson: Moral decision-making
Learning objectives: Students will think critically about the philosophical foundations of moral psychology by discussing how their intuitions change from scenario to scenario or differ from individual to individual. In this lesson, students will see an example of how…
Mini Lesson on Variables
This is a mini lesson on independent and dependent variables. It includes an activity involving extroversion and the number of Facebook friends for students to practice identifying variables, discuss the validity, reliability, and confounds of the study. This resource…
Mini Lesson on Variables – Extroversion and FB Friendship Scatter Plot
Mini Lesson on Variables – Extroversion and FB Friendship Scatter Plot
Clinical Interviewing and Diagnosis of Mental Disorders Lesson Plan
Attached is a lesson plan that can be utilized to introduce students to the concept of a clinical interview, and to illustrate to them how a clinical interview assessing for Major Depressive Disorder would be conducted. In addition to the…
Leadership and gender stereotypes
In a highly diverse workforce, it is important for students to understand how stereotypes can influence our workplace interactions, practices and policies. This short classroom activity can be used to get students to think about how gender stereotypes can…
Ice-breakers and other ideas for first-day of classes
It is great to have ice-breakers on the first day of class – I like this game of Human Bingo where everyone goes around the class looking for people who fit the boxes on their card. Once one or two…
Lesson Plan: Emotional and Social Development
This lesson plan was designed to be adjustable- it can be used for a 3-hour class period or edited for a 75 min class period. LessonPlanEmotionalSocialDev Here is the associated mini-lesson MiniLesson-Attachment
Gender Development – Lesson Plan
Gender Development and the DSM Students read before class Martin, C., & Ruble, D. N. (2010). Patterns of gender development. Annual Review of Psychology, 61, 353-381. http://news.byu.edu/news/disney-princesses-not-brave-enough Broad Objective Students will improve their critical thinking skills by evaluating developmental…
