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History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 11

Evaluate Psychological Claims

Psychology attracts popular myths and eye-catching headlines. Learners test common claims (the '10% of the brain' myth, matching teaching to 'learning styles', 'left-brained' and 'right-brained' personalities) against evidence, study the replication crisis and the reforms it prompted (preregistration, larger samples, open data), calculate and interpret effect sizes, and build a checklist for judging media reports of psychological studies.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 135 minutes
  • Evaluating claims check: 9 questions
  • Ways to answer: fill in the blanks, choose an answer, highlight a text, match pairs, type a number and put in order
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What learners will discover

  • Evaluate popular psychological claims against research evidence.
  • Explain the replication crisis, publication bias and questionable research practices, and the reforms that address them.
  • Calculate and interpret effect sizes and explain why sample size matters.
  • Apply a checklist to judge media reports of psychological research.

Lessons

  1. Popular myths 4 steps3 practiceabout 32 min
  2. Replication and research practices 4 steps3 practiceabout 34 min
  3. Effect size and sample size 5 steps3 practiceabout 34 min
  4. Judging media reports 4 steps3 practiceabout 35 min
  5. Evaluating claims check 9 questions at the end

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