{"id":22691,"date":"2016-02-02T14:16:04","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T20:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/?p=22691"},"modified":"2016-02-02T14:16:04","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T20:16:04","slug":"social-psychology-students-learn-how-to-teach-an-old-dog-new-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/02\/social-psychology-students-learn-how-to-teach-an-old-dog-new-tricks\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Psychology Students Learn How to Teach an Old Dog New Tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1 intro\"><span class=\"s1\">Students in Dr. Laurie Desiderato&rsquo;s social psychology class (PSY 3367) ended the fall semester with a unique exercise involving a demonstration of effective group problem solving. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Students in groups interacted to solve a novel problem, analyzed the task characteristics and appropriate strategies, and evaluated their processes. Groups had to evaluate a subject &ndash; the instructor&rsquo;s dog &ndash; and determine what tricks the subject might already know, what it might be capable of learning, and how to teach a new trick &ndash; in this case, how to jump through a hoop.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students in Dr. Laurie Desiderato&rsquo;s social psychology class (PSY 3367) ended the fall semester with a unique exercise involving a demonstration of effective group problem solving. Students in groups interacted to solve a novel problem, analyzed the task characteristics and appropriate strategies, and evaluated their processes. Groups had to evaluate a subject &ndash; the instructor&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[686,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-galleries","category-top-story","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22705,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22691\/revisions\/22705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}