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Best Practices in the Applied Psychology Classroom
This project was supported by the APS Fund for Teaching and Public Understanding of Psychological Science, which invites applications for nonrenewable grants of up to $5,000 to launch new, educational projects in psychological science. Proposals are due March 1 and October 1. Psychological science teachers from the high school level to the university level met in April 2015 at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach to trade educational tips and best practices with one another.
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Teaching Ethics to Undergraduate Psychology Students
This project was supported by the APS Fund for Teaching and Public Understanding of Psychological Science, which invites applications for nonrenewable grants of up to $5,000 to launch new, educational projects in psychological science. Proposals are due March 1 and October 1. Ana Ruiz and Judith Warchal of Alvernia University received a grant from the APS Fund for Teaching and Public Understanding of Psychological Science to create a resource for incorporating ethics into the undergraduate psychology curriculum.
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Psych Majors Hash(tag) It Out on Twitter
Republican Presidential candidate Jeb Bush recently criticized psychology majors with an offhand remark during a South Carolina town hall series: “Hey, that psych major deal, that philosophy major thing, that's great, it's important to have liberal arts … but realize, you're going to be working at Chick-fil-A." Bush has been trying to capture the interest of college voters during his campaign, and while this may not have been the exact response he anticipated, college students are definitely paying attention. Here is just a glimpse of the meaningful work being completed by psychology majors: View more #ThisPsychMajor tweets.
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Brains of Congenitally Deaf Reveal Plasticity of Auditory Cortex
Neuroimaging involving people born deaf shows the pliability in the brain area that processes auditory information.
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Lessons From the Second Biennial Atlantic Coast Teaching of Psychology Conference
This project was supported by the APS Fund for Teaching and Public Understanding of Psychological Science, which invites applications for nonrenewable grants of up to $5,000 to launch new, educational projects in psychological science. Proposals are due March 1 and October 1. In September 2013, the second biennial Atlantic Coast Teaching of Psychology Conference (ACToP) was held in Red Bank, New Jersey. Coordinated by Natalie J. Ciarocco and Lisa M.
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Confidence Spills Over Across Unrelated Decisions
Research on metacognition, or “thinking about thinking,” has explored important puzzles about how humans monitor and control their thoughts. One of these puzzles is why people’s beliefs don’t match with reality -- such as why, for example, people are often overconfident in their performance on perceptual or memory tasks. New research by Dobromir Rahnev (Georgia Institute of Technology) and his colleagues has identified one possible reason for poor metacognition.
