To facilitate this process, students will critique and discuss published research, participate in laboratory simulations of social cognition experiments, and hone scientific writing skills. Material from these lectures should be useful in writing critiques, laboratory reports, and discussion. For some helpful methodology definitions, click here Lecture, seminar, and lab all are fair game for the final examination, which combines a multiple choice and essay format. The multiple choice items obviously change each term, but some recent exams from 1998 and 1995 may give you ideas about the type of questions asked. The text provides a sound theoretical background to each topic as well as a summary of relevant research, and should be integrated into the critiques and discussion.
Articles are on reserve at the library.
Writing weekly critiques on the empirical articles should hone critical thinking skills. Written critiques simultaneously should enhance the quality of the discussion, by encouraging critical thinking about readings prior to class. Each student will be assigned randomly to write a 1 page comment for one of the two articles. Of course, all students are expected to read all papers. Please place critiques in the envelope outside my door by Tuesday at 3 pm.