Workshop:

Psi Beta (Psi Chi’s sister organization): A Springboard for Early Student Professionalism, Community Service, Academic Recognition, and Retention (Alberta Johnson and James Braun)

Workshop:

Annual STP Workshop: From Laboratory to Lecture Hall: Using Behavior Analysis to Improve Your Teaching (Bryan Saville)

Workshop:

Annual Introductory Psychology Forum: Spicing Up the Introductory Course for You and Your Students (Robert Hendersen, Sandra Goss Lucas, and Dana Dunn)

Workshop:

Beyond Teaching Tips: Using Psychology to Teach Introductory Psychology in High School and Undergraduate Classrooms (Amy Fineburg and Steven Chew)

Workshop:

Enhancing Your Enjoyment of Teaching and Life: Coping with the Slings and Arrows of Academe (Barry Perlman and Lee McCann)

Workshop:

Undergraduate Psychology Major Competencies: Start to Finish and Everything In-Between, 10:00 am–Noon (Pat Puccio)

Concurrent Sessions:

• Cognitive Apprenticeship, Hybrid Learning, and Large Class Instruction (John Mitterer)*
• Connecting with Students in Introductory Psychology (Saundra Ciccarelli)*
• Teaching the History of Psychology: Approaches, Projects, and Activities (Ludy Benjamin)*
• Gender Stereotypes around the World (Deborah Best)*

Welcoming Remarks

Featured Address:

Developing College Students' Critical Thinking Skills: It's Time to Move From "Can We?" to "Best Practices" (Diane Halpern)

Reception

Annual Dance: The NITOP Hop!

Join your companions and colleagues for an evening of relaxation at the Annual NITOP Dance, beginning at 8:30 pm on Monday, following the featured address and the reception for participants and their companions. Bob Floyd and Company will entertain with a wide variety of music. Join in the dancing or simply enjoy the show! Admission is free to all participants and their companions and families; there will be a cash bar and snacks will be provided.

Concurrent Sessions:

• Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Gen X'ers, and Milennials in the Classroom: When Generations Collide (Ellen Pastorino)*
• Teaching Writing: Exercises and Assessment Methods for Use across the Psychology Curriculum (Dana Dunn)*
• Giving Psychology Away: A Course in Human Performance Enhancement (Ronald E. Smith)*
• An Overview of fMRI Research on the Brain: A Lovely Picture, but . . . Where's the Beef? (Joel Shenker)*

Concurrent Sessions:

• Making Social Psychology Applicable to Students' Lives (James Olson)*
• Psychology According to Shakespeare, Van Gogh, the Bible, and Rush Limbaugh (Robert Johnson)*
• Teaching the History of Psychology: Approaches, Projects, and Activities (Ludy Benjamin)**
• Gender Stereotypes around the World (Deborah Best)**

Concurrent Sessions:

• Publishing in Teaching of Psychology: Inside Tips from Editors (Randy Smith, Jane Halonen, and Bill Buskist)*
• Pedagogical Innovations: Best Principles and Applications (David Daniel and Maureen McCarthy)*
• Web Logs and Abnormal Psychology (Larry Welkowitz)*
• Connecting with Students in Introductory Psychology (Sandra Ciccarelli)**

General Session:

The Powers and Perils of Intuition (David Myers)

Evening General Session:

What Determines Textbook Prices and Revisions? Some Answers from Publishers, Bookstores, and Authors (David Myers, Robert Baron, Sandi Kirshner, Jane Potter, and Peggy Falgien)

Concurrent Sessions:

• Teaching the Concept of Correlation in Introductory Psychology: Do Students Really “Get It”? (Michael Passer)*
• Making Social Psychology Applicable to Students' Lives (James Olson)**
• Teaching Writing: Exercises and Assessment Methods for Use across the Psychology Curriculum (Dana Dunn)**
• Positive Emotions and the Stress Process: New Directions in Coping (Susan Folkman)*

Concurrent Sessions:

• Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Gen X'ers, and Milennials in the Classroom: When Generations Collide (Ellen Pastorino)**
• Pedagogical Innovations: Best Principles and Applications (David Daniel and Maureen McCarthy)**
• Web Logs and Abnormal Psychology (Larry Welkowitz)**
• Publishing in Teaching of Psychology: Inside Tips from Editors (Randy Smith, Jane Halonen, and Bill Buskist)**

Concurrent Sessions:

• Roadblocks and Detours on the Road to Accurate Views of Self (David Dunning)*
• Why Study (or Teach) Psychology? (Karen Huffman)*
• Madness or Badness? Applying Forensic Psychology to Criminal Competencies and Insanity (Richard Rogers)*
• Positive Emotions and the Stress Process: New Directions in Coping (Susan Folkman)**

General Session:

The Cognitive Neuroscience of False and Implicit Memories (Daniel Schacter)

Evening General Session:

How Credible Is Your Cross-Cultural Psychology Course? (Dap Louw, Anet Louw, and Deborah Best)

Concurrent Sessions:

• Why Study (or Teach) Psychology? (Karen Huffman)**
• Giving Psychology Away: A Course in Human Performance Enhancement (Ronald E. Smith)**
• Cognitive Apprenticeship, Hybrid Learning, and Large Class Instruction (John Mitterer)**
• Psychology According to Shakespeare, Van Gogh, the Bible, and Rush Limbaugh (Robert Johnson)**

Concurrent Sessions:

• Roadblocks and Detours on the Road to Accurate Views of Self (David Dunning)**
• An Overview of fMRI Research on the Brain: A Lovely Picture, but . . . Where's the Beef? (Joel Shenker)**
• Madness or Badness? Applying Forensic Psychology to Criminal Competencies and Insanity (Richard Rogers)**
• Teaching the Concept of Correlation in Introductory Psychology: Do Students Really “Get It”? (Michael Passer)**

Closing Session:

Helping Students Appreciate the Value of Psychology: Reflections on Thirty-Five Years of Exporting Our Field (Robert Baron)