Discussion: Reading Response Prompts [WIP]
- Due May 24, 2013 by 9:59pm
- Points 7
- Submitting a discussion post
For each assignment you will see this key explaining if the assignment is required or optional based on your credit track. To read more about the three options read Course Credit Options. This is a moderated discussion. If you haven't already, please read the Reading Response posting guidelines.
This assignment is:
Option 1: credit |
Required: 1 initial post and responses to at least 2 other students' posts. |
Option 2: badge | Required: 1 initial post / Recommended: respond to 1-2 other students' posts. |
Option 3: audit |
Recommended: 1 initial post and respond to one other students' post. |
The following prompts can be used for your reading response in this module. You do not need to answer all of these; choose the one that you find most compelling, or if you desire, write your own.
- Can you think of a time when you used your intuition to analyze an outcome, only to be surprised later to find that your explanation was completely incorrect? Did this surprise help you understand how intuition may sometimes lead us astray?
- Describe the scientific method in a way that someone who knows nothing about science could understand it.
- Consider a behavior that you find to be important and think about its potential causes at different levels of explanation. How do you think psychologists would study this behavior?