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This is a lesson plan covering social cognition designed for a 75-minute Zoom class: Social Cognition Lesson Plan  During this class: Students will differentiate between perceptions based on a person’s physical appearance and those based on the descriptions of a person’s character (e.g., their likes, dislikes, etc.) and how both inform the process of impression formation. Students will explain how split-second… Read more »

This is a lesson plan covering social attribution designed for a 75-minute Zoom class: Social Attribution Lesson Plan  During this class: Students will differentiate between personal and situational attributions for their own behavior and that of others. Students will aggregate class data and compare to classic psychology data. Students will identify factors which are more likely to lead to one… Read more »