THE CONCLUSIONS THAT CAN BE DRAWN FROM PENNEBAKER’S RESEARCH CAN BE...

3. The conclusions that can be drawn from Pennebaker’s research can be applied to our own lives by following a simple set of guidelines: find a quiet place to write, pick one topic to write about, dedicate a few minutes each day to writing, and don’t worry about proper grammar/spelling.

II. Chapter Features

 Psychological Inquiry: Miserable but Helpful?  Intersection: Personality and Social Psychology: Does Sociability Lead to Happiness or Is It the Other Way Around?  Psychological Inquiry: Experimentation in a Natural Setting  Critical Controversy: Is It Ethical to Use Deception in Research?

III. Connections

Assignable Through

Assignable Within the

Instructor Resources

Connect

Chapter

Apply Your Knowledge:

Psychology’s

Lecture/Discussion

Suggestions:

#5, #6

Scientific



Skepticism

Method



Operational

LO 2.1:

Definitions

Explain the

scientific

PowerPoints

method.

Critical Thinking Question:

#1

Handout: 2.1

Types of

Psychological Inquiry:

Psychological

Suggestions:

Miserable But Helpful?



Correlations

Research



Words That Are

Intersection: Personality

and Social Psychology:

LO 2.2:

Alike?



WebQuest—

Describe the

Does Sociability Lead to

three types of

Happiness or Is It the

Understand

research that

Other Way Around?

Experiments in

are used in

Psychology



Types of Variables

Apply Your Knowledge:

psychology

#3

and common

and Types of

research

Groups

settings.

Critical Thinking Questions:

#3, #4

Polling Question: 2.3

Handout: 2.2

Samples and



Populations and

Settings

Samples



Naturalistic

LO 2.3:

Explain

Observation

samples and

#2

Handout: 2.3

Analyzing and

Interpreting

Experimentation in a



Measures of Central

Data

Natural Setting

Tendency



Significantly

LO 2.4:

Distinguish

Significant!

between

descriptive

statistics and

inferential

Handout: 2.4

statistics.

Conducting

Critical Controversy: Is It

Ethical to Use Deception



Ethics

in Research?



Ethics on the Web

LO 2.5:

Describe some

challenges

that involve

ethics.

Polling Questions: 2.1, 2.2

Handout: 2.5

Thinking

Critically

#4

Suggestion:



Media and

About

Research

LO 2.6: Explain

the need to

think critically

about

psychological

research.

The Scientific

Method and

#1, #2



The Power of the

Health and

Wellness

Written Word

LO 2.7:

Describe

studies on

#1

health and

wellness and

their findings.

IV. Teaching the Chapter

LO 2.1: Explain the scientific method.

Lecture Outline Experience Psychology: The Psychology of the Jinx  Miami Marlin’s Pitcher Chris Capuano  Superstitions and magical thinking lead to inaccurate casual explanations  Scientific method I. Psychology’s Scientific Method A. A Scientific Approach & The Five Steps in the Scientific Method