If you’ve ever wondered what goes on in a typical psychology class, well, here ar e 4 class activities I do almost every semester that are my “sure fire hits†– they engage the students in the learning process while helping them really grasp what a key term in psychology means. So you’ll learn about how students memorize each other’s names in a matter of minutes (mnemonics), as well as how they use a piano to shape a fellow student’s behavior (reinforcement and shaping), how they deal with solving unsolvable anagrams (learned helplessness), and how their memories of a car crash are easily manipulated by the way they are asked to recall the experience (unreliability of eyewitness testimony). Sure fire class demonstrations.
Resources for this Episode
- Here’s a brief video that shows students how they can memorize words (and names) quickly:
Ep 277: How to Remember Names - Here’s a video of two cars getting into an accident that you can use to show how easy it is to manipulate people’s eyewitness testimony:
