This lesson plan focuses on experiential learning about implicit memory. It was originally developed for a First Year Seminar about Memory – but would also work well for Intro Psych, Cognitive Psych, and Learning and Memory courses. Here is…
Content Acquisition Podcast (CAP) on Decision Making
This Content Acquisition Podcast (CAP) on decision making examines the Expected Utility Theory and Prospect Theory. It provides examples of how individuals may make decisions that violate the Expected Utility Theory from Kahneman and Tversky (1979). This CAP may be…
Heuristics lesson plan
Vanaman Lesson Plan Slides for mini-less Heuristics mini lesson
Cognitive Biases lesson plan
This lesson is designed to enable students to define different types of biases and identify examples of them in journalism, pseudoscience, and their daily lives. The lesson is also intended to help students articulate the importance of avoiding biases…
Short-Term Memory/Clustering
Infusing lessons with data: Mini-lesson on Short-Term Memory/Clustering The following lesson could be incorporated in either and Intro to Psychology class or Cognitive Psychology class where the topic revolves around memory. Students will be shown a table of 25…
Intelligence testing — lesson plan
Here is the lesson plan for a double period Lesson plan for Intelligence and IQ Testing Here is the powerpoint that I have used for the Smarties and DumDums mini-lesson Activity_SmartiesnDumDums_short adapted from Lewandowski (2003). Lewandowski, G. W., Jr. (2003, March).…
