Week 1: The What, Why, and How's of Studying Learning

Week 1: The What, Why, and How's of Studying Learning


• Readings: Read Chapter 1 of the Powell et al. textbook.

• Sniffy Reading: Load the Sniffy cd-rom onto your hard drive. Read through chapter 1 of the Sniffy manual. It is short and will give background information on this software program. You may play around a little with the software if you like or wait for our first Sniffy exercise next week.

• Class Activities:

1. Virtual Tour the web site of the American Psychological Association (APA) at http://www.apa.org. You will find this site useful for reference information, links and many other things. Compare the guidelines on the use of animals in research http://www.apa.org/science/anguide.html to the guidelines for the use of humans http://www.apa.org/ethics/code.html.

2. Set up an address book for the class. Even though the class emails are all listed on the course site, occasionally the site goes down and it is handy to have at the minimum my email address, but you may want the emails of others in the class as well.

• On-line Conference Assignment:

Conference 1. Introduce yourself in the "Introductions" thread of our class conference, our "virtual classroom". Please give us more than your name. Include things about yourself such as your profession, hobbies, interest in psychology, and any other information that can help us get to know you. Please post your introduction by Sunday, midnight. I will leave the thread open after the due date so that everyone can go back and read other postings and respond to classmates.



• Quiz #1:

Quiz 1 will consist of 25 multiple choice questions. The quiz will cover chapter 1 of the textbook as well as some questions relating specifically to the Sniffy manual and software. You may look answers up to the questions in your book and manual. You will have five days to work on this quiz. The quiz will open on Wednesday and remain open until Sunday. You may open the quiz as many times as you like, but may only take it (submit it) once so be sure to only click the Submit button at the end of the exam when you are ready to turn in your quiz.