Lab Exercises with Quizzes
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This is a web site for students, teachers, and others interested in the causes and consequences of prejudice. The website has many resources regarding stereotyping and prejudice. A few experiments are applicable when discussing stereotypes as relevant to Chapter 10.
Follow-up exercise: Ask students to perform the implicit association test and ask them to discuss their results.
Where does expertise come from? Try this demonstration to find out.
This is the home page for free educational tools useful in Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience classes. It includes free access to materials for students, educators, and researchers in cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience.
Follow-up exercise: For chapter 10, you may wish to pick the Implicit Dot Clearing experiment and run it in class. This experiment can be used to demonstrate network approaches: spreading activation. Once a concept is activated, its subsequent processing is facilitated.
Thinker is an excellent resource intended to assist students with their mastery and appreciation for the field of cognitive psychology.
Follow-up exercise: Ask students to run the Basic Model Demonstration in order to understand the organization of concepts in the mind. Ask them how this explains the phenomenon of priming.