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Identifying Imagoes: A Personality Exercise on Myth, Self, and Identity.

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Dunn, Dana S. – Teaching of Psychology, 1997

Identifies imagoes as idealized and personified self-concepts that we form in early or mid-adulthood. These characters dominate life stories and personal myths. Discusses a class exercise where students review the imagoes most frequently used in journal entries concerning individual myths and major life events. (MJP)

Descriptors: Higher Education, Imagery, Individual Development, Learning Activities

Taking a Course in Research Methods Improves Reasoning about Real-Life Events.

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VanderStoep, Scott W.; Shaughnessy, John J. – Teaching of Psychology, 1997

Presents the results of a study that tested students in a research methods and a developmental psychology class on methodological and statistical reasoning at the beginning and the end of the term. Reasoning scores of research methods students improved more than the scores of developmental psychology students. (MJP)

Descriptors: Course Content, Decision Making, Developmental Psychology, Educational Benefits