{"id":899,"date":"2020-07-15T17:45:22","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T17:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teachpsychscience.org\/?p=899"},"modified":"2020-07-15T17:46:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T17:46:17","slug":"investigating-claims-made-by-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teachpsychscience.org\/index.php\/investigating-claims-made-by-the-media\/899\/research-methods\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigating Claims Made by the Media"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery alignleft columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"804\" src=\"https:\/\/teachpsychscience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/DSW-Ch01-2-1024x804.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"901\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/teachpsychscience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/DSW-Ch01-2.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/teachpsychscience.org\/?attachment_id=901\" class=\"wp-image-901\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teachpsychscience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/DSW-Ch01-2-1024x804.png 1024w, https:\/\/teachpsychscience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/DSW-Ch01-2-300x235.png 300w, https:\/\/teachpsychscience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/DSW-Ch01-2-768x603.png 768w, https:\/\/teachpsychscience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/DSW-Ch01-2.png 1129w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This assignment helps students practice scientific literacy and literature searches. Students find a media posting that makes a psychology-related  scientific claim and a peer-reviewed research article that speaks to that claim. Students then write an essay evaluating the media claim based on the scientific conclusions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Please click <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/16VjvDalXw3IQyF9Gf_IJtLYGMEPwyJAb\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">her<\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/11_HTdf2CocJoVm5_LE8sAGpYi4_qcHnw\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\">e<\/a> for the file.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This assignment helps students practice scientific literacy and literature searches. Students find a media posting that makes a psychology-related scientific claim and a peer-reviewed research article that speaks to that claim. Students then write an essay evaluating the media claim based on the scientific conclusions. 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