Study Resources for your Nature & Nurture Test

With your test on our Nature-Nurture Unit coming up on Monday, you'll want to devote some time this weekend to reviewing that material. There will be a guided study session on Sunday, October 27 from 5-7 PM, and you are welcome to join us for that. In addition, you might find the following resources, some of which we viewed in class, helpful:

• Video overview of Twin Studies (3 min)
• Video: The Jim Twins - Describes the work of Thomas Bouchard, who studied identical twins separated at birth.
• Video Crash Course: Natural Selection - Though more animal biology-related, this video reviews the basic principle that applies in Evolutionary Psych as well.
• Video Crash Course: Heredity - NOTE: Heredity not the same thing as "heritabiliy," but this is still a helpful overview of genes, chromosomes, DNA, etc.
• Heritability Explained - more web articles & quiz questions to test your understanding of the concept.
• Video Crash Course: Epigenetics - biological overview of how epigenetics works
• Video: Epigenetics: Why Do Identical Twins Not Always Look the Same? - NOVA Science NOW

And, of course, you'll want to be able to demonstrate mastery of this unit's vocab. Quizlet flashcards are embedded below for your convenience. Or, you can visit the set page for more review options. 

Study Tools for Your Neuroscience Test

It's hard to believe, but your Neuro test is TOMORROW already! I apologize for not getting this posted earlier in the day. I could describe all the things that prevented me from doing so, but I'm guessing you'd rather just get to studying, so here goes.

Some helpful tools for reviewing tonight (in addition to the printed Study Guide you got in class:

• This "Nervous System Crash Course" video (brief overview of neurons & organization of the system)
• The Chemical Synapse video (reviews synaptic transmission)
• This Neuroscience Practice Test (45 Multiple-Choice Questions & Answers)
• Quizlet Flashcards & Study Tools (embedded below)

Study Session is tonight from 5-7 PM! Hope to see you there. If not, good luck with your studies! I'll try to field questions with my Twitter account @Welle_APPsych after hours tonight, but I will be working on some of my own homework, so I can't guarantee instant responses.

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Mouse Party Assignment

Poor, addicted mouse...

For Monday, you will be completing an interactive demo on neural transmission and drugs, the Mouse Party demo. Of course, no extra credit for self-experimentation. If you lost your worksheet, here's a link to print a new one.

Link for PsychSim 5

You will need to use this link to access the PsychSim 5 Modules. When you arrive at the menu screen, click "Neural Messages."

If for some reason the graphics don't work for you, you can always try using the older version, PsychSim 4.0.

Study Resources for Your History & Methods Test

Whew! That unit flew by...and now students are preparing for their test on History/Approaches & Research Methods, which will happen on Monday, Sept. 30th. If you like, you are welcome to join us on Sunday, Sept. 29th at 5 PM, for organized review.

In addition, I've compiled some online study tools for you below.

• An online multiple choice quiz on Schools of Psychology.
• An online multiple choice quiz on Research Methods. 
• A 5-minute video reviewing Correlational Methods & Stats
• A video on experimental methods.
• A review of basic psych statistics (descriptive & inferential)
• A video review of the difference between random assignment & random selection.

Flashcard sets (2) for this unit are also embedded below! :) Happy studying!

Basic Psychological Statistics

Before you left class today, you should have received this practice worksheet that requires you to apply some statistics knowledge to hypothetical quiz scores. Your textbook does cover these topics, and many people have encountered them before in other classes, so I'm hoping for many of you this is a simply a matter of review.

However, because some of you might feel lost or in need of additional help, I'm embedding below a video that I made for last year's students regarding this topic. Be warned, I was cutting it close when I recorded this and you'll hear the bell ringing toward the end. However, it should clear up confusion regarding the various descriptive and inferential statistics you'll need to be familiar with for this unit.

Additionally, if you feel you want more practice matching correlational coefficients with scatterplots, here's the link to the website we used in class today.

Having troubles playing the video? If the player above doesn't work, try here.