Barriers to Critical Thinking: Being Human
By Therese Nemec
The learner will explore basic human limitations that create barriers to critical thinking including selective thinking, false memories, and perceptual limitations.
Barriers to Critical Thinking: People-Related Obstacles
The learner will identify barriers to critical thinking related to internal and external factors after viewing scenarios.
Barriers to Critical Thinking: Use of Language
Learners examine how language can interfere with clear communication. They select examples of ambiguity, assuring expressions, doublespeak euphemisms, jargon, emotive content, false implications, meaningless comparisons, and vagueness. In an interactive exercise, learners identify ways to overcome these barriers.
Conflict Resolution Styles
By robin rathsack
In this learning activity you'll read about Robert Maddux's conflict model and then apply what you've learned to an interactive exercise.
Decision Making Methods
In this learning activity you'll complete eight methods of making decisions by identifying advantages and disadvantages of each method.
Dr. Cecil's Psychology Series: Personality Disorder Softball
By Jeffrey McDonald
Learners review descriptions of 10 personality disorders and then test their knowledge in an interactive softball game.
Evaluate Your Stress Journal
By Kathy Lich
In this learning activity you'll evaluate your stress journals by responding to questions to identify potential stressors of their future careers and personal lives.
Group Performance
In this learning activity you'll discover three factors that affect group performance: group cohesiveness, communication structure, and individual roles.
Identifying Stress in Your Life
In this learning activity you'll apply knowledge about eustress to high and low stressors in your life.
Interactions With Customers
In this learning activity you'll examine the difference between two types of interactions with customers, encounters and relationships.
International Communication
In this learning activity you'll discover different communication styles from around the world.
Key Terms on Motivation
In this learning activity you'll match definitions of motivational terms with terms and concepts found in a puzzle.
Learning Styles
In this learning activity you'll discover different learning styles and apply their strategies to your personal learning style.
Memory Techniques
In this learning object you'll familiarize yourself with memory techniques and apply them to improve your memory.
Mini-Lecture: Transactional Analysis/Ego States
By Mary Fehrer-Williams
In this learning activity, you'll identify behaviors of the three ego states and practices their use.
Model of Memory
In this learning activity you'll apply chunking to memory formation and retrieval. You'll test your ability to memorize a series of numbers with and without the chunking method.
Monitoring Your Stress Level
In this learning activity you'll explore the benefits of journaling to evaluate levels of stress. You can personalize the design of your own journal and print it for immediate use.
Motivation Bike Theory
Learners see and hear how motivation on the job can be compared to the use of a bicycle. They then write an explanation of how this theory can be applied to a situation in their own workplace.
North American and East Asian Customs
By Virginia Kirsch
In this learning activity you'll discover different cultural traditions between East Asian people and North Americans.
Overcoming Barriers to Critical Thinking: Being Human
The learner will identify ways to overcome barriers to critical thinking and problem-solving including false memories, personal biases and prejudices, and physical and emotional hindrances.
Overcoming Barriers to Critical Thinking: People-Related Obstacles
The learner will identify techniques to use to overcome people-related barriers to critical thinking.
Problem Solving and Decision Making
In this learning activity you'll list three decisions and the methods you used when making your decisions. You'll also learn about decision making methods.
Protected Classes
In this activity, you'll identify what constitutes harassment and discrimination of a protected class member.
Self-Awareness Inventory
By Robert Mitchell
Identify your self-awareness score. In this learning activity, you'll answer 24 questions that attempt to measure three factors relating to self-awareness: introspection, public self-consciousness, and social anxiety.
Shaking Hands Around the World
Students read about the greeting customs of people in different parts of the world and take a short quiz.