Below are demonstrations developed and tested in an introductory psychology class. Please feel free to use these materials in your own classes. This project was led by Honour's student Amanda Macintyre and you can find the results of testing these in classrooms here: URL coming soon
Demonstrations
1.Statistics. Random sampling. Instructions Slides
Random sampling of Starbursts.
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2.Neural communication. Synaptic transmission. Instructions Slides
Students participate in large scale walk through of synaptic transmission using props to represent various key elements
3.Brain development. Neural plasticity over development. Instructions Slides
Re-creation of Blakemore’s Director Study (Blakemore, 2012)
4.Sensation and perception. Confirmation bias. Instructions Slides
Confirmation bias through online dating in the same format as The Hannah Study (Darley & Gross, 1983).
5.Learning. Classical conditioning. Instructions Slides
Conditioning students to associate ringing of a bell with dancing bunny at the back of the class
6.Learning. Operant conditioning. Instructions Slides
Shaping a volunteer to do the chicken dance using reinforcement
7.Memory. Elaborative memory. Instructions Slides
Memory Palace (Legge et al., 2012) exercise.
8.Memory. Memory fallacies. Instructions Slides
Staged theft and use of criminal lineup to identify criminal, however, culprit is not included in the lineup.
9.Problem solving. Mental set. Instructions Slides
Students presented with Limbo stick but not presented with rules to see if they change strategies or follow general rules as the stick moves lower
10.Problem solving. Functional fixedness. Instructions Slides
Three groups of volunteers attempt to solve the Candle Problem (Fleck & Weisberg, 2004)
Polling questions
Coming soon.