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Myth: Children Raised in Similar Ways Have Similar Personalities
Exploring this claim provides an opportunity to discuss issues involving nature and nurture in developmental and personality psychology.
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Myth: People With Mental Illness Are More Prone to Violence
Instructors should be prepared to listen for —and challenge — belief perseverance, and can use this myth to highlight how automatic and difficult belief perseverance can be to overcome.
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EAMMi2: The Last Teaching Data Set Any Instructor Will Ever Need
Jon Grahe is a professor of psychology at Pacific Lutheran University. With help from an APS Teaching Fund Small Grant, I worked with a team of 35 colleagues to administer the project Emerging Adulthood Measured at Multiple Institutions 2: The Next Generation (EAMMi2). The EAMMi2 was designed to benefit science through the generation of survey data to answer important research questions related to emerging adulthood — such as identifying psychometric properties common to emerging adulthood; examining the relationship between disability identity and well-being; and probing the relationships between political events, stress, and health.
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Myth: We Only Use 10% of Our Brains
This will prepare students to understand how all parts of the brain contribute to behavior.
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Helping with a Police Chase
Student Handouts for the Eyewitness Testimony Unit of Reinventing Introductory Psychology. Video Questionnaire from Video Memory Test from Video
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Myth: Eyewitness Testimony is the Best Kind of Evidence
Activities in this unit reveal how eyewitness testimony is subject to unconscious memory distortions and biases even among the most confident of witnesses.
