Prior constructivist-inspired abnormal psychology assignments (mock client interviews, famous-person diagnoses, novels, historical figures, song lyrics) were reported favourably by students¶

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q1 i? The review reports that students in prior constructivist-inspired abnormal psychology activities overwhelmingly reported that the activities helped their learning and were enjoyable. → Rahman 2014

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Rahman 2014¶

Rahman, R. O. & Zeglin, R. J. (2014). Holy psychopathology Batman: The pedagogical use of comic books in the teaching of abnormal psychology. Psychology Teaching Review, 20(1). https://www.bps.org.uk/journals/psychology-teaching-review

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Narrative literature review attributing this to Tomcho et al. (2006), Johnson (2004), Chrisler (1990), Perkins (1991) and Potkay (1982); the review reports students "overw helmingly reported feeling" the group-interview activity helped prepare them for the final exam and was enjoyable. Design details of the cited studies are not given here.

"C hrisler (1990), P erkins (1991), and P otkay (1982) each found sim ilar results by asking students to provide a diagnoses for m ain characters from novels, historical figures, and popular song lyrics respectively."

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