Engage students with current research

Engage students with current research in psychology at a level appropriate to their understanding.

Prospective Memory? Human Factors? Combine current research with increased exposure to additional interesting terms and topics. 

Sign up to receive a free e-mail update with the table of contents of psychology journals as they are published.  For example, from Sage publications, you can see a long list of psychology journals by viewing here http://online.sagepub.com/browse/by/discipline including:

• Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
• Psychological Science in the Public Interest
• Current Directions in Psychological Science
• Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
• Health Psychology

Titles alone give students an increased understanding of content areas and help them realize how psychology continues to evolve. Abstracts are free on-line providing slightly more in-depth information on articles of interest.

From Current Directions in Psychological Science:
Motivational Salience and the Amygdala http://cdp.sagepub.com/content/21/1/54.abstract provides evidence of more recent research and current understanding of the role of the amygdala as being attentive to what is salient, beyond the domains of fear and aggression.  A short read of this one clarifies the meaning of prospective memory http://cdp.sagepub.com/content/21/4/215.abstract

Even better news, searching the Teaching High School Psychology archives https://www.psychologicalscience.org/teaching/learn_more.cfm originally posted by Kent in 2009 is specific to high school teachers, and still provides access to Current Directions in Psychological Science.

-- Posted for Nancy (by Steve)