Category Archives: Blog Prompts

Week 4 Blog Prompts

Here are the options for this week's blog prompt:
  1. Assess the reliability of parenting advice on the internet. You will find a website or news story offering parenting advice (include a link to the site in your post) and critique the advice it gives based on the information in Chapter 3 and lecture this week. You may not be able to judge the truth of all pieces of advice, so be sure to point out what looks like good advice, what looks like bad advice, and what is undetermined. Make sure to tie your assessments back to information in the ...

Week 3 Blog Prompts

Here are the options for this week's blog post: Option 1 For this week's discussion, I want you to design a research study about a topic you find interesting in psychology. You can choose any topic you would like as long as you relate it to something from our textbook. In your post make sure to do the following:
  • List your research question
  • State your hypothesis (what you think the outcome would be and why)
  • Decide which methodology you would use (i.e., survey, observation, etc.) and explain your choice
  • Describe your procedure (what you would have participants do, how you would recruit participants)
Make your ...

Week 2 Blog Prompts

There are two options for this week's blog prompt:

  1. The major schools of psychological theory were introduced in class this week. Typically students feel drawn to some theories more than others. Based on what you've learned so far (as well as any other knowledge of these theories), select the theory you think is best. In your post, make a case for why this theory is superior to the others. I also want you to select the theory you think is worse than the others and explain why. For this assignment, you must choose only 1 theory to be best ...

Introductory Blog Prompt

Here is the prompt for Week 2: For the first blog entry, I want you to explain:
  • Why you chose to take this class
  • Which 3 topics from the syllabus look the most interesting to you (and why)
  • Which 3 topics from the syllabus look the least interesting to you (and why)
  • What one question you want to be able to answer by the time this class is over
I look forward to seeing what you think! Note: For those of you not in the class, I have attached the syllabus so you can see what all the fuss is about  PSY101C_fa14_macfarlane