How a few people can sway the rest of the world to their cause
Overview placeholder Goal Studnets read the update of Alan Baddeley on his theory of working memory from 2004. This article is generally amazing, because it contents potentially all answers to any IB memory related question. Structure Students read the article at home and answer these questions: What was the original model proposed in 1974? What is central executive? How does it differ from Atkinson and Shiffrin model? What are some of the proofs that phonological loop exists as a theoretical concept.
Attachments EEG.docx (1339 ko) MRI.docx (1289 ko) PET.docx (432 ko) comparing-table.docx (10 ko) post-mortem.docx (673 ko) techniques-description.docx (33 ko) Each table covers one method for investigating the brain. You need to: Understand what the method involves Interpret data from the method to understand how it works and what it tells us Identify methodological and ethical issues with using it Comparing:
List of presentations and sources for students to work on for the cognitive topic Title Sources False memories Loftus, E. F., & Pickrell, J. E. (1995). The formation of false memories. Psychiatric Annals, 25(12), 720–725. https://blogs.brown.edu/recoveredmemory/files/2015/05/Loftus_Pickrell_PA_95.pdf Eyewitness memory Loftus, E. F., & Palmer, J. C. (1974). Reconstruction of automobile destruction: An example of the interaction between language and memory. Journal of verbal learning and verbal behavior, 13(5), 585-589.
Overview placeholder Goal Structure Discussion With the use of the article in attachments, try and answer the questions below: What are some fundamentals elements of Piaget and Vygotsky’s theories? What is the process of equilibrium and how it relates to teaching? What is internalisation? Why do kids speak to themselves? Why is language important? What are major differences between tehir theories? How can we use Piatget theory in a class?
Each groups of students presents a story of one cult. How it started, what it did and how it achieved its status. Goal Learn closer about social identity theory, groupthink, social influence and other elements of social psychology Structure Cults: Aum Shinrikyo People’s temple [Scientology]() Rajneeshpuram Documentaries: Wild wild country (Rajneeshpuram) Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (scientology) Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (peoples temple) Scientology and the Aftermath (scientology) A (Aum Shinrikyo) https://www.
Students study and later present simple posters to demonstrate how our cognitions are affected by technologies. Goal Structure Separate students into several groups (3-4) Assign each group a topic from the topics below and printed files. Each group should study the content thoroughly and extend their investigation on the internet. Groups prepare simple presentation (10 mins max) and a poster (A3 in Canvas, Powerpoint etc.) to be hung in the classrooms.
How to read and evaluate psychological research
Going through dating websites to see what men and women want.
This activity is a good introduction to a scientific inquiry as well as discussion in the psychology vs parapsychology introduction. The Forer effect refers to the tendency of people to rate sets of statements as highly accurate for them personally even though the statements could apply to many people. Goal Show students the importance of specific vs vague statements, demonstrate why horoscopes and psychics work and why people tend to believe in these seemingly random encounters.
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Goal Structure Students are asked to read the NBC news report Discussion Are news themselves to blame? What are scientists doing to promote this? What are ethical considerations that should have been taken care of? Cna you think of other misinterpretation of research?
Students are given a filled in IRB which they go over thoroughly and then they are given a bad IRB and asked to “fix it”. Goal Structure Schedule Discussion Followup Attachments ethics-mock-IRB-bad.pdf (121 ko) ethics-mock-IRB-empty.pdf (143 ko) ethics-mock-IRB-good.pdf (166 ko)
Overview placeholder Goal Task Your spaceship has just crashed on the moon. You were scheduled to rendezvous with a mother ship 200 miles away on the lighted surface of the moon, but the rough landing has ruined your ship and destroyed all the equipment on board except for the 15 items listed below. Your crew’s survival depends on reaching the mother ship, so you must choose the most critical items available for the 200-mile trip.
Biology Awakenings Lucy Movie about what happens when we use more than 10 percent of out brainpower. Moon Movie about morality of cloning and isolation Gattaca Movie about genetic predetermination Johny Mnemonic? Cognitive Memento Eternal Sunshine Total Recall Equilibrium Society without emotions. Social Fight Club Master Mobie about scientology/cults Abnormal Movies about mental disorders Fight club Donnie Darko Schizophrenia development
Select a TV show to watch about 15 minutes of. It should be something fairly interesting, even funny. Ask students, what might be some interesting topics to investigate and to look for and then run a structured/natural observation. Goal Practicing observation Structure Have
How psychological knowledge is constructed and how it is constructed wrong
Do smarties come in all the colours?
Examples of sampling procedures and how they can give us biased results
This activity let’s students to pick a pseudoscientific or “junk” science topic, present to the class what it is and why it is junk science. Goal Distinguish between real sciences and pseudo sciences. Be clear that “unreal” things are not necessarily not scientific - what makes atoms more believable than ghosts to a general public without an electron microscope? Neither can be touched, neither can be seen. List of topics Animal magnetism Graphology Fortune telling Rorschach test Neurolinguistic programming MBTI test Ouija board Telepathy Faith healing Telekinesis Čištění 12.
Evaluation and assessment of attachment
Students read tongue twisters in pairs and then we test who is better in the pair using parametric and non parametric t-test. Goal The goal is to see randomness in repeating the task even in one setting. To learn t-test in excel, R or python. Studnets also learn the limitatios of some tests - having test with 3 right answers will not give enough variation ot assess what you want to assess.
Synesthesia is not an unknown or entirely uncommon thing, but still. If an artist claims she sells paintings of what she hears, you’d better be certain before you buy it and start boasting to your friends. Goal Design an experiment to prove synesthesia in an artist who claims so. Try approach it from different levels of anlaysis - bio vs cognitive. Practicing good hypothesis formulation. How to create hypothesis from theory.
Short introduction to preexisting ideas about psychology
Definition of what is science and what is not
Are zodiac personality types correct