Psychological Research Methods and Statistics

Understanding Psychology Book is what is used to guide this pacing.

For this lesson, you will begin with the experiment offered at the beginning of the book and recruit someone to help you. Otherwise, you can use another memory experiment if you would like. This helps you to focus in on the point of the chapter and makes it more fun than just the focus of content that happens at the beginging of Psychology.

Chapter 2 will be covered in 4 days.

There are many types of ways to do this. 

Warm Up Options: Day 1 warm up is asking if there was a time that they felt they were so sure of something and yet they were wrong. Day 2 warm up is to ask the students if a study was done and the results were groundbreaking, but the study mistreated those who participated, did the results make up for the treatment of the people. Day 3 warm up ask students if they think paying people to participate in medical studies, like taking medicine or using creams, is ethical. Day 4 warm up ask students what their main takeaways for the chapter are.

Option 1: Each "lesson" will be done in a days time. The Why do you do what you do can be used for Warm Ups and Exit Tickets or deeper conversation items. The students will take notes, especially over the vocabulary words. They will answer the questions at the end of the lesson under LESSON REVIEW, as well as the Analyzing Primary Sources, Analyzing the Case Study section at the bottom of the page in the book, and the Critical Thinking and Reading Checks throughout the chapter.

Option 2: Day 1, divide the class into 6 groups, each group gets assigned a number 1-3, the number assigned correlates to the lesson they will be studying over the course of 2 days. They will become "Experts" over this content and present on the 3rd day. The other students will take Cornell notes over what they learn. The fourth day is spent writing comparing their own definition of psychology that they wrote on day 1 and if that definition changed after learning what they have learned so far in chapter 1. 

Day 4 is a quick teacher test based on the questions at the end of both chapters.

Chapter 1 on page 23, Questions 1-12

Chapter 2 on page 47, Questions 1-11