Thinking Like a Psychologist: Research Methods and the Replication Crisis: Social Studies Unit 1, Grade 11 (Letters & Devotion)

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Thinking Like a Psychologist: Research Methods and the Replication Crisis is Unit 1 of Psychology: Mind, Brain, and Behavior (Part 1) (Grade 11), the Letters & Devotion Social Studies course, complete in one printable PDF: 8 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 79 pages.

• Operational definitions of abstract psychological constructs
• Experimental, correlational, and case study research designs and their tradeoffs
• The distinction between correlation and causation, and third-variable/confound reasoning
• The relationship between statistical significance and effect size
• The replication crisis and the methodological features that predict replicability (using the Open Science Collaboration 2015 project as the anchor case)
• The link between research ethics (informed consent, debriefing, coercion) and data validity in classic psychological studies
• Warrant judgments and methodological critique applied to unfamiliar research write-ups
• The generalized standard for evaluating trustworthiness of any claim about mind or behavior

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

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