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Teaching About Puberty: Learning to Talk About Sensitive Topics.
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Charlesworth, John R., Jr.; Slate, John R. – Teaching of Psychology, 1986
Describes a small-group exercise that allows students to discuss affective and cognitive aspects of puberty. After reading textbook chapter on puberty, students wrote a group letter to a male or female child explaining changes child would encounter during puberty. Procedure increased student knowledge about puberty and made them feel more…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Educational Psychology, Higher Education, Instructional Improvement
Implicit Personality Theory in the Classroom: An Integrative Approach.
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Embree, Marlowe C. – Teaching of Psychology, 1986
Reports how 10 college students in a psychology of personality course increased their awareness of their own implicit theories of personality by completing an 18-item questionnaire dealing with various issues of personality. Instructor-supplied responses representing the perspectives of Freud, Skinner, Rogers, and Glasser were used to foster…
Descriptors: Discussion (Teaching Technique), Higher Education, Instructional Improvement, Learning Activities
Teaching Observational Methods: Time Sampling, Event Sampling, and Trait Rating Techniques.
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Zeren, Andrea S.; Makosky, Vivian Parker – Teaching of Psychology, 1986
Presents an in-class activity which uses videotaped television shows to teach time sampling, event sampling, and trait rating techniques. Students responded favorably to this activity, and many reported that it increased their understanding of the different observation techniques. (Author/JDH)
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Higher Education, Instructional Improvement, Interrater Reliability
Teaching Behavioral Self-Change: A Course Model.
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Dodd, David K. – Teaching of Psychology, 1986
Reveals the need for departments to offer course instruction in behavioral self-change. Describes a self-change course which offers students an opportunity to apply proven psychological principles to their own lives and thus meets the need for personal relevance of education. Provides suggestions for implementation of a self-change course.…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Higher Education, Individual Development, Instructional Improvement
PhysioPursuit: A Trivia-Type Game for the Classroom.
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Ackil, James E. – Teaching of Psychology, 1986
A classroom game, based on a trivia-type game format, to help students prepare for the cumulative final exam in a physiological psychology course is presented. Details of game construction and play are described. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Games, Higher Education, Instructional Improvement
Student Composed Case Study in Adolescent Psychology.
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McManus, John L. – Teaching of Psychology, 1986
Describes a variation of the case study method where adolescent psychology students composed hypothetical cases, proposed solutions to problems, and surveyed other groups regarding case dilemmas and adolescent issues. (Author/JDH)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Case Studies
Learning Activities for Understanding Aging.
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Fried, Stephen B. – Teaching of Psychology, 1988
Presents five learning activities which are designed to enable the student of psychology to better understand the aging and the aged. Activities are concerned with current demographic data, stereotyping, perceptions of personal aging, attitudes about age found in greeting cards, and an examination of popular culture's messages about the elderly.…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Course Content, Higher Education, Instructional Improvement