I want you to give some personal background about yourself to your group mates. Your name, of course, but also tell them some of your interests, goals that you want from this course, goals you want to pursue when you finally graduate. Who are you? Are you married? Do you have kids? Are you planning to become a professional psychologist? Share a picture of yourself with your group mates.

Finally, I want you to focus on a fun research methods task. At the end of the chapter 1 slides, there is a link to the movie Ghostbusters, which has a horrible study. For the final part of this first week discussion, I want you to discuss this film clip. What was wrong with the Ghostbusters ESP experiment and how could it be improved to meet scientific standards? Specifically, try to identify three things: the hypothesis, the independent variable (the variable the researcher manipulated), and the dependent variable (the variable the researcher measured): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn7-JZq0Yxs