Hi everyone,
Check out what's new in ToPIX here on the STP blog:
http://teachpsych.blogspot.com/2012/06/new-topix-content-672012.html
Also, here's something new for us to work on: A ToPIX Song List.
What songs do you use to illustrate psychological concepts? Let's put our heads
together and ge
Gee, what kiljoys...they want us to stick to a stated method and not change as
results come in?! How un-Bem like! There goes our precognitive powers lol!
G.L. (Gary) Peterson,Ph.D
Psychology@SVSU
On Jun 7, 2012, at 8:06 PM, Beth Benoit wrote:
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...just as we were beginning to get some street cred (or thought we were?)
comes this article from The Globe and Mail with the headline:
Psychologists use murky research methods, survey finds
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/health/psychologists-use-murky-research-methods-sur
I confess, I have never been as eager to despise Malcolm Gladwell as many other
behavioral scientists were. Yes, he overblew and misinterpreted some results,
but he seemed to occupy an important niche in the complex ecology by which
difficult, nuanced scientific findings get translated to the wi
On 2012-06-07, at 10:24 AM, Michael Palij wrote:
> | Munsterberg had been a vocal critic of child study in numerous
> |public addresses in the mid-1890s, adding his voice to other
> |colleagues who were critical (a) of the questionnaire (“syllabus”)
> |method of data collection (see Baldwin, 1898
Interesting point that Miguel makes. On the assumption that he is correct, that
the desire to tell a story implicates telling a 'clear and easily
understandable story', I wonder if psychology differs from the physical
sciences on this point, and if telling about the 'glitches' is necessary if
t
I appreciate your point about Bem's advice about writing papers, but my sense
is that the notion of 'telling a story' in scientific papers predates Bem by
decades and has been implicitly promoted in our best journals. It seems to me
that legions of scientists have been trained to write researc
Hi
Part of the problem with Bem's advice to "tell a story" (i.e., "make up a
story"?) when writing papers is that one can never be sure what is fact and
what is just for the sake of the story. Here, for example, the "tell a story"
model makes me skeptical that Bem was as unsympathetic to paran
On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 06:20:34 -0700, Christopher Green wrote:
>On 2012-06-07, at 8:14 AM, Michael Palij wrote:
>> Back to the original point, it is amusing to see courses in physiological
>> psychology and/or "physiological pedagogics" being offered in the early
>> bulletins of the School of Pedagog
On 2012-06-07, at 8:14 AM, Michael Palij wrote:
> Back to the original point, it is amusing to see courses in physiological
> psychology and/or "physiological pedagogics" being offered in the early
> bulletins of the School of Pedagogy because one has to wonder what
> possible interest would these
A couple of interesting articles have come my way and both espouse different
attitudes of requiring teachers (pre-college) to know "neuroscience". One
source is Education Week that argues that teachers should know neuroscience
and can be accessed here:
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2012/06/06/
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