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: Can horoscopes predict personality?
Learning objectives: Students will think critically about pseudoscientific tests of personality and describe why often they appear to be accurate. In this activity, students are asked to read their “horoscope” provided in these slides: ToP_MINI_LESSON_HOROSCOPES and assess whether they believe…
Mini Lesson on Evaluating Measures and Validity
Mini Lesson on Evaluating Measures and Validity
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
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…
Mini Lesson on Validity
This mini lesson on validity discusses different types of validity, and provides activities for students to design a Likert scale, and generate alternative measures to assess the quality of relationships. This mini lesson may be used in a Research…
Mini Lesson on Quasi-Experimental Design
This mini lesson on quasi-experimental design is aimed to teach students how to identify the difference between experimental and quasi-experimental design. It also includes an activity to practice generating ways to control for confounds in an quasi-experimental design. This resource…
James Lange Theory of Emotion Learning Activity
Emotion Minilesson Here is an exercise that can help the class gain an understanding of the James Lange Theory of Emotion. It is also good for a research methods class that can help students understand how to utilize data…
Introduction to the DSM-5 and Diagnosis
This mini-lesson plan could be used in an Abnormal Psychology course. It would probably be most useful to use toward the beginning of the semester. An outline of learning objectives, the purpose of the class/activity, and a possible class…
