I co-lead the following modules on the University of Salford psychology program
First year:
Core Areas of Psychology (I lead the Cognitive Psychology component)
Intro to Quantitative Analysis
Second year:
Experimental Research in Cognitive Psychology
Classic Paradigms in Cognitive Psychology
These modules have been redesigned for an ongoing program restructure (from the 2024 cohort of students) and which has allowed us to try a lot of new and creative ways of teaching. I share some of the material and ideas that seem to have worked well below. Feel free to adapt the material for your own teaching.
This is a 2-hour seminar for first-year cognitive psychology. Students are introduced to two 'patients' and take turns to ask them to read words from a pre-prepared list. They are tasked to figure out how the patients' reading processes have been affected based on the errors that they make. The main activity takes about 20 - 30 minutes with the rest of the seminar covering content on reading.
It's quite popular with students, and my guess is because even though the topic is on reading, it also exposes students to a lot of other skills and content including working with clients/patients, figuring out double dissociations, using cognitive neuropsych to understand typical cognition, and theory building. It also involves a bit of role-play which adds an element of fun and unpredictability.
The attached zipped file contains the lesson-plan and the materials for the interview activity and slides I use for the 2-hour seminar.
The 1-hour weekly seminars for our intro to quantitative analysis are geared towards practicing data analysis. We switched to JASP and the content for the first year module include Chi-square, correlations and t-tests. My personal observation is that JASP is a lot more efficient for teaching as the interface is a lot less cluttered and the dynamic updating of results means a lot less backtracking - I've heard students asking "oh, is that it?" multiple times during sessions.
This was the content for the first year running the module and is still being tweaked and refined.