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Courses guide learners in evaluating evidence, using critical thinking, developing arguments, strengthening verbal and written expression, and applying general principles to new contexts. 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In all of my courses I guide students in the evaluation of evidence, critical thinking, argument development, verbal and written expression, and the application of general principles to novel settings. These competencies will equip students for a broad range of demands in future academic and occupational settings. Of course, I also expect my students to attain a high level of scholarship in specific content areas, especially in graduate courses in which course content is directly relevant to students’ careers. To promote the development of general thinking and learning skills, as well as facilitate an understanding of course content, all of my courses are structured around three common themes: an emphasis on psychological research, the development of writing skills and the generation of enthusiasm for scientific inquiry.\nUsing research literature\nExposure to research literature is an integral part of my course plans, in part because comprehension of course material is enhanced by an understanding of the methods used to discover that information. Moreover, an emphasis on the discovery of knowledge fosters an appreciation of research design and methodology, and more generally, of the importance of critical evaluation.  These skills make students thoughtful consumers of scientific ideas presented in both academic and popular media sources. As I indicate in my research statement, I have investigated this issue in a collaborative research project on science learning in undergraduate students. To familiarize students with research, my lectures always cover the methodology by which principles are discovered. I also introduce research by including primary sources in the required course reading material, and organizing occasional in-class activities around one or two such sources. For instance, in my undergraduate Cognitive Development course, we spend one class period reading, summarizing and critiquing an empirical article published in Nature on numerical understanding in human infants. Similarly, in my undergraduate Memory and Testimony in Children class, I introduce students to the scientific controversy over the relation between stress and memory by assigning half of the students an empirical paper suggesting a positive relation between stress and memory, and assigning the other half an article suggesting a negative association. During the next class period, students are organized into small groups and asked to explain their assigned articles to each other, analyze differences in methodology and results, explain the discrepancies between the two investigations, and come up with a feasible model of the relation between stress and memory. These sorts of activities not only provide students with exposure to the empirical literature in developmental and cognitive psychology, but promote the development of skills in critical thinking and argument development. Finally, I also provide first-hand research experience through frequent in-class demonstrations and assignments outside the classroom. Indeed, in my course Memory and Testimony in Children, almost every class period includes one or two simple “memory experiments” exploring topics in classical and modern models of memory.\nUsing writing assignments\nWriting proficiency is a critical component of a university education, and all of my courses (even my  Child Psychology class, which has well over 400 students) involve writing assignments and a variety of examination question types. In Child Psychology, I typically assign two to four brief “application papers,” in response to a question related to the course material (e.g., after reading a section in the text about premature infants, indicate what you might tell a close cousin who had a baby two months prematurely about her child’s chances for normal development). 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