Crash Course Psychology #2: Psychological Research

Students follow Crash Course Psychology episode 2 with questions about how psychologists investigate behavior. The worksheet covers research methods and includes a teacher answer key.
Grades
Grades 9–12
Pages
3
File type
Multiple File Types
Answer key
Included

Updated Feb 21, 2024

Subject
Social Studies, Psychology
Topic
Psychology, Research methods
Resource types
Worksheets
Answer key
Included

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Pair this worksheet with Psychological Research: Crash Course Psychology #2. Fourteen questions address research concepts from the episode, including scientific reasoning, case studies, naturalistic observation and surveys. A final question asks students which research topic interests them and why.

The download contains a two-page student worksheet and one-page teacher key in both editable Word and PDF formats. The final reflection is marked answers vary. Access the linked video separately and pause as needed for responses.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Define the hindsight bias and explain why intuition alone can be unreliable in psychological research.

  • Distinguish a scientific theory from a hypothesis and explain what it means to operationalize a research question.

  • Compare case studies, naturalistic observation, and surveys as methods for collecting behavioral data, including a limitation of each method.

Teaching tips

  • Play the linked Crash Course episode before or during the worksheet, pausing for the research-methods questions.

  • Use the teacher key for the episode-based responses and discuss the final research-interest reflection individually.

Skills covered

  • Research-methods vocabulary — students define hindsight bias, overconfidence, the scientific method, hypothesis, and operationalizing a question after watching the linked video.

  • Comparing research methods — students explain naturalistic observation, case studies, and surveys, including a stated limitation of each.

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Concepts & topics

Core concepts

  • Hindsight bias

  • Scientific method

  • Case study method

  • Naturalistic observation

  • Survey research

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