Social psychology (psychology)/Lectures/Relationships/Instructor notes

What was done in 2008

Removed animations
Replaced many proprietary images (there are still several to be worked on) and added many free culture images
Rationalised some slides (e.g., several are now hidden)
Kept the Social Exclusion video in
Adjusted master slides to aid visual clarity
Didn't read chapter – near 0 pre-knowledge – this was poor

Timing was better than 2007; approximately 30 in attendence
Tended to read “down into the slides” a bit too much; rather than look at audience
Skipped some slides back and forth; some re-ordering helpful; several slides skipped
Somewhat mellowish/tiredish/stayed low key; 6.5/10
The audio contains several additional comments
Beauty activities worked well – add some more
Add heat map of beauty marketing (available on web)
Breaking before social exclusion
Showing the social exclusion video at the start of Pt2
- It could be good to add a briefer summary slide of the consequences of social exclusion and to find /show relevant references (and effect sizes)
Add slide/reference to Gottman's studies - “thin slices” (did provide a useful summary)
Lienke's Law mentioned
Showed 4 relationship adds at the end; worked; maybe 3 enough though (e.g. leave out plane add)

Not all 2007 comments were addressed
Not all animations were removed – grrrr (mostly the remaining ones are towards the end).
If possible, reduce some image file sizes – the handout is almost 3MB

Several slides were skipped - see video
Took too long on initial material, so Social Exclusion was skipped
Also, video on social exclusion wasn't shown bec. no audio from laptop - need additional cord.
Basic structure of material is pretty good.
Add slide back in about Harlow's Monkeys.
Some proprietary images from the textbook used; replace these.
What is love? Some more romantic, widespread, definitions?
More activities (e.g., attractiveness) - these invariably worked nicely - build more of these.
Not all animations removed
Summary to be developed / relate to assessment items

Add some assessment items around slides only presented in the lecture (i.e., around attractiveness)
Need to generate assessment items for additional lecture content e.g., Hatfield's model

6 topics - 3 in each lecture half - overall, good scope and efficient - aiming to give 15-20 minute insight into each
Time was about right; finished a few minutes early and had time to indulge a bit with each section
At lecture break time, I showed the trailer for "An Inconvenient Truth" - could replace with trailer for Blue Eyes / Brown Eyes and Rwanda 3rd year videos.

(note that the trailer needed to be downloaded and buffered before the lecture started)

Use document projector to show / pupil / faces from Manwatching and the Manwatching cover