I have been noticing a decrease in attendance for this week. On Tuesday there were only about 200 people of the 250 present. The Packers winning the Super Bowl and possibly the fact that every in-class assignment has been on Thursday could be to blame for people brushing class off. On Tuesday, most of the class period was spent tying book knowledge to real life. By making the material important to their own lives, students are more likely to listen. Using the same examples over and over again (as I have witnessed in other classes) gets boring. Thursday was a very interesting change of pace. Dr. Gurung came to class to set up the documentary and announced to the class that he wasn’t going to stay for the whole thing. I was a little shocked by this and spent the rest of class watching the students to see what the impact was. I’m not sure if anyone left before the documentary was over, but there were people coming and going for the bathroom. I didn’t notice a lot of texting. I am curious if the people who were up and moving had already saw the documentary or were just bored and thought they could. For the most part, the class was paying attention, they laughed at the funny parts and were disgusted by the gross parts. While grading the assignment, I noticed a lot of my students are not really getting experiment versus correlation. Maybe a rapid-fire type review at the beginning of class would be helpful. Give very basic information regarding a study of anything and ask correlation or experiment. I remember this material being the second hardest thing to master in Intro Psych, right behind the neuron.