Re: [tips] Teach both evolution and creationism say 54% of Britons | Science | The Guardian
will not discuss it here. Try Sunday >> school". >> >> On a related note, as a member of the privileged group "Project >> Steve", I have now received my (free!) t-shirt from the National >> Center for Science Education ( www.ncseweb.org ). >> >> It says on the front "Over 1000 scientists named Steve agree" >> and it then lists them in tiny letters (I'm between Steven D. >> Black and Stephen Blackmore). At the bottom it advises "Teach >> Evolution!" >> >> More names on the back. At the bottom it says "In memoriam >> Stephen Jay Gould 1941-2002". >> >> It's very cool. Tom, Dick (and Jane), Harry, and all the Michaels >> on this list, I'm sorry, but you can't have one. >> >> Project Steve at http://ncse.com/taking-action/project-steve >> >> Stephen >> --------- >> Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. >> Professor of Psychology, Emeritus >> Bishop's University >> e-mail: sbl...@ubishops.ca >> 2600 College St. >> Sherbrooke QC J1M 1Z7 >> Canada >> --- >> >> --- >> To make changes to your subscription contact: >> >> Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) >> > > Paul Brandon > 10 Crown Hill Lane > Mankato, MN 56001 > pkbra...@hickorytech.net > > > > > > --- > To make changes to your subscription contact: > > Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) > -- Rick Stevens Psychology Department University of Louisiana at Monroe stevens.r...@gmail.com SL - Evert Snook --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
Re: [tips] I Don't Like Mondays: Introducing the Facebook Global Happiness Index
Not that I personally remember when they were first popular, but here are some more 'Monday Songs': This is one of the most unusual #1 song stories ever. You see, "Stormy Monday Blues" was a #1 R&B hit in 1942 by jazz greats Earl "Fatha" Hines and Billy Eckstein. But the song "Stormy Monday" or "They Call It Stormy Monday," written by blues guitar legend T-Bone Walker and first recorded in 1947, is a much more famous and covered song, and has come to be known as "Stormy Monday Blues." While both are structurally blues compositions, they are not the same song at all. http://ezinearticles.com/?They-Call-Them-Both-Stormy-Monday&id=445018 RS On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Beth Benoit wrote: > I don't know what happened to the text part of this post, but it was > supposed to say that it was Karen Carpenter who sang, "Rainy days and > Mondays always get me down," and it was the Mamas and the Papas who sang, > "Monday, Monday." > > Hope this one goes through > Beth > > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Beth Benoit wrote: > >> Showing-My-Age Beth Benoit >> Granite State College >> Plymouth State University >> New Hampshire >> >> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Dr. Bob Wildblood wrote: >> >>> As part of his discourse on the "new" wave of research on the FGHI, Mike >>> Palij wrote: >>> >>> "Mondays aren't so hot either but the Boomtown Rats told us that years >>> ago." >>> >>> And the Mammas and the Pappas told us long before most people, if any >>> ever heard of the Boomtown Rats, "Rainy days and Mondays always get me >>> down." and also give a gloomy out look on "Monday, Monday." But only the >>> oldest of us probably remember that. >>> >>> Bob >>> >>> . >>> Robert W. Wildblood, PhD >>> Riverside Counseling Center and >>> Adjunct at Germanna CC, Fredericksburg, VA >>> drb...@rcn.com >>> . >>> The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head >>> than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with >>> equal velocity in a vacuum. >>> - Charles Caleb Colton, author and clergyman (1780-1832) >>> . >>> >>> Not thinking critically, I assumed that the "successful" prayers were >>> proof that God answers prayer while the failures were proof that there was >>> something wrong with me. >>> - Dan Barker, former preacher, musician (b. 1949) >>> . >>> >>> We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our >>> students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, >>> the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education >>> possible. >>> - Barack Obama, President of the United States of America >>> >>> >>> --- >>> To make changes to your subscription contact: >>> >>> Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) >>> >> >> --- >> To make changes to your subscription contact: >> >> Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) >> >> > --- > To make changes to your subscription contact: > > Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) > > -- Rick Stevens Psychology Department University of Louisiana at Monroe stevens.r...@gmail.com SL - Evert Snook --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
Re: [tips] grade worse than F?
There apparently has been a need for this for some time. Unfortunately, Milton didn't live to see the answer to his question. "Sir, I didn't deserve the grade you gave me on this test." "Do you know a lower one?" -- Milton Berle On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 6:59 AM, John Kulig wrote: > > I have served on academic dishonesty panels before, and have alot of > questions about how the FD (failure with dishonesty, for cheating) would be > implemented, esp since the chairperson assigns the grade, but for now wanted > to pass this on to tips ... > > > http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20090812/bc_sfu_cheating_090812/20090812?hub=BritishColumbia > > -- > John W. Kulig > Professor of Psychology > Plymouth State University > Plymouth NH 03264 > -- > > --- > To make changes to your subscription contact: > > Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) > -- Rick Stevens Psychology Department University of Louisiana at Monroe stevens.r...@gmail.com SL - Evert Snook --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
Re: [tips] How Homeopathy Harms
According to *Critical Thinking in Psychology*, by Ruscio, "... legal enforcement actions against General Nutrition Center (GNC) are so routine that the company appears to consider such actions simply a part of its operating expenses. General Nutrition Center has been censured by the FDA and the Federal Trade Commission roughly once each year over the past 30 years. In a 1994 FTC case, for example, GNC agreed to pay $2.4 million to settle false advertising charges involving 41 products." On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Paul Brandon wrote: > When you don't have to spend money on research or quality control > > On Jun 17, 2009, at 8:17 AM, tay...@sandiego.edu wrote: > > I heard about the lawsuits against Zicam years ago and wondered how they >> were able to stay in business all these years. This article says $12 >> million. So they MUST be making enough money to pay off the lawsuits and >> still make a good profit! It amazes me. >> >> Annette >> >> Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D. >> Professor of Psychology >> University of San Diego >> 5998 Alcala Park >> San Diego, CA 92110 >> 619-260-4006 >> tay...@sandiego.edu >> >> >> Original message >> >>> Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:32:02 -0400 >>> From: "Mike Palij" >>> Subject: [tips] How Homeopathy Harms >>> To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" < >>> tips@acsun.frostburg.edu> >>> Cc: "Mike Palij" >>> >>> Apropos the recent discussion on TiPS about alternative medicine >>> and giving people the "placebo that they desire", consider the following >>> article from the NY Times on the FDA's warning against the use of >>> the homeopathic cold treatment Zicam because of the number of cases >>> reporting the loss of the ability to smell (anosmia); see: >>> >>> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/health/policy/17nasal.html?hp >>> >>> For a skeptical history of homeopathy, see the following: >>> >>> http://www.skepdic.com/homeo.html >>> >>> One good thing that may come from the Zicam situation is that the >>> U.S. Congress may finally give the FDA the ability to force recalls >>> (removal from the market) of those nostrums that are often called >>> supplements but not drugs (removing them from the jurisdiction of >>> the FDA) though their selling point is that they have drug-like effects. >>> >>> -Mike Palij >>> New York University >>> m...@nyu.edu >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> --- >>> To make changes to your subscription contact: >>> >>> Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) >>> >> >> --- >> To make changes to your subscription contact: >> >> Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) >> > > Paul Brandon > 10 Crown Hill Lane > Mankato, MN 56001 > pkbra...@hickorytech.net > > > > > > --- > To make changes to your subscription contact: > > Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) > -- Rick Stevens Psychology Department University of Louisiana at Monroe stevens.r...@gmail.com SL - Evert Snook --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
Re: [tips] feral children was: Mental
Sometimes common, everyday logic does need to be abandoned, especially if a strong confirmation bias means failing to consider possible, if less likely, alternatives. I doubt that anyone was questioning the fact that the treatment that Genie received would make any normal child abnormal. However, if Genie was abnormal to start with treatment like that would make pre-existing problems difficult to diagnose. I don't see what is wrong with considering the possibility that she was abnormal to start with. In either case, she would have been damaged by the years of mistreatment. On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Joan Warmbold wrote: > We actually feel we should question if Genie's disabilities should be > attributed to her extensive deprivation and abuse?! OK, you have totally > lost me here. Why have we abandoned common, every day logic? Here's a > little girl chained to a toilet for 12 years with no exposure to language, > minimal social interaction as well as on-going abuse from her father and > we still feel that her disabilities can't be attributed to her deprivation > with certainly? Spare me please. Talk about ludicrous. Are you > considering the possibility that her disabilities preceded her being > chained to the toilet for 12 years? This extreme aversion to attributing > disorders totally to an extremely (REPEAT--EXTREMELY) abnormal first 12 > years is so pathetic considering what we have known about brain plasticity > in the early years. Our brain is sculptured and wired in our early years > and that goes for children raised in deprived environments as well as > those raised in enriched environments. > > BTW, I would highly recommend Earl Woods book, "How to Raise a Tiger," for > a classic example of the impact of an enriched early environment. Tiger's > precocious nature was clearly encouraged and nurtured from his first day > of life. > > Joan > jwarm...@oakton.edu > > > -- Rick Stevens Psychology Department University of Louisiana at Monroe stevens.r...@gmail.com SL - Evert Snook --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
Re: [tips] Vaccine wars
He's being accused of more than poor design. Confidential medical documents and interviews with witnesses have established that Andrew Wakefield manipulated patients’ data, which triggered fears that the MMR triple vaccine to protect against measles, mumps and rubella was linked to the condition. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article5683671.ece On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Joan Warmbold wrote: > I hope most of you have read the original study by Wakefield that > supported the notion that vaccines cause autism. It is very poorly > designed and based on a meager 12 subjects. And catch this, Wakefield > would have benefited tremendously financially if folks bought into this > as, surprise, surprise. We folks really need to make more of an effort to > write to our media outlets about various examples of poor science reported > as being valid. > > Joan > jwarm...@oakton.edu > > > Only one in four? > > Not bad! > > > > On May 28, 2009, at 8:31 AM, sbl...@ubishops.ca wrote: > > > >> New article in PLoS Biology (Public Library of Science, open-access as > >> its name indicates). > >> > >> Disturbing quote: "Despite overwhelming evidence that vaccines don't > >> cause autism, one in four Americans still think they do". > >> > >> Lots more quotable stuff there. > >> > >> Gross L (2009.) A Broken Trust: Lessons from the Vaccine-Autism Wars. > >> PLoS Biol 7(5): e1000114. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1000114 > >> > >> www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio. > >> 1000114 > >> > >> Stephen > > > > Paul Brandon > > Emeritus Professor of Psychology > > Minnesota State University, Mankato > > paul.bran...@mnsu.edu > > > > > > --- > > To make changes to your subscription contact: > > > > Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) > > > > > > > > --- > To make changes to your subscription contact: > > Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) > -- Rick Stevens Psychology Department University of Louisiana at Monroe stevens.r...@gmail.com SL - Evert Snook --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
Re: [tips] Relevance of science to psych work?
the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) >> > Subject: Re: [tips] Relevance of science to psych >> > work? >> > >> > >> > >> > I personally have no problem with psych students who >> > want to be clinicians not being interested in the >> > "science of psychology". >> > >> > >> > >> > I always find it funny that the science types are >> > sooo concerned that everyone should take science >> > very seriously. >> > >> > Are the authors EQUALLY concerned about the state >> > and training of the empirical psychologists' human >> > empathy and social interaction skills? I bet not. >> > >> > >> > >> > And if what the authors are saying is true, how >> > come there arnt oodles of positions available for >> > empirical psychologists? :) >> > >> > >> > >> > --Mike >> > >> > --- >> > To make changes to your subscription contact: >> > >> > Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) >> > >> > --- >> > To make changes to your subscription contact: >> > >> > Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) >> >> --- >> To make changes to your subscription contact: >> >> Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) >> > > --- > To make changes to your subscription contact: > > Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) > > -- Rick Stevens Psychology Department University of Louisiana at Monroe stevens.r...@gmail.com SL - Evert Snook --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
Re: [tips] Can you plagiarize your own work?
In #6 Stuart says that perhaps the previous description should be cited. However, if both were under review there is nothing yet to cite. If both get published then there will technically be a 'previous' but that would require waiting until one was published to do the final edit on the other one if you expect one to cite the other. Another way to look at this might be, if the same person wrote both passages no one was misappropriating someone's ideas. If we are asking the author to substantially change what was that person's best explanation of the literature, I would ask, "For what purpose?" The purpose of scientific writing is clear, concise communication. To substantially change your 'best effort' sounds like it would reduce the quality. Another practical issue is that the same people would likely read these highly related articles. Wouldn't it be more efficient to be able to skim the lit review of the second one that you came upon, having already (more or less) read it? Otherwise, you have to read the same information which has been rearranged and reduced in quality just to avoid some abstract definition of 'self-plagiarism'. So, I vote for the use of self-plagiarism. It's more efficient for the author, more efficient for the reader, and is not stealing the ideas of others. Rick Stevens On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Stuart McKelvie wrote: > > Dear Tipsters, > > I read the postings by Karl, Rick and Mike and a personal note from Chris. > > 1. I should have said that I wrote to the editors (not to the referees). > > 2. Editors were indeed interested in my observations and the one that had > sent the anonymous manuscript asked if one of the authors was "X". It was. > > 3. I agree that a distinction should be drawn between oral presentation and > formal written accounts in peer-reviewed journals. > > 4. From further correspondence with the editors, it seems likely that the > two manuscripts were constructed from a single data collection project and > that different portions of the project were separated out for separate > reports. In fact, I suspect that participants completed a number of tests > at the same time,and an (overlapping) selection were taken for each report. > That practice may not be unusual. > > 5. Chris wrote to me that if one is using the same methodology then perhaps > providing one clear succinct description is sufficient and that we can > excuse, even allow, duplication. > > 6. There may be a case for that, but I would say the previous description > should be cited. However, I insist that it is inappropriate to copy large > chunks of a narrative review of the literature. I had never seen wholesale > transcription like this. I agree with Karl that there may be a bit of a > dilemma if one has already a masterful review, but I cannot get my head > around the fact that such large segments appeared word-for-word without any > acknowledgment. > > Sincerely, > > Stuart > > > > ___ > > Stuart J. McKelvie, Ph.D., Phone: (819)822-9600, Extension 2402 > Department of Psychology, Fax: (819)822-9661 > Bishop's University, > 2600 College Street, > Sherbrooke (Borough of Lennoxville), > Québec J1M 1Z7, > Canada. > > E-mail: smcke...@ubishops.ca >or stuart.mckel...@ubishops.ca > > Bishop's University Psychology Department Web Page: > http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy > ___ > > > > --- > To make changes to your subscription contact: > > Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) -- Rick Stevens Psychology Department University of Louisiana at Monroe stevens.r...@gmail.com SL - Evert Snook --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
Re: [tips] Camtasia and SL
I've been using it less than a year but from what I hear the real growth in use is with education. Hundreds of schools have official presences there. Virtual classrooms and office hours are obvious uses for online classes. I haven't found a lot of psychology-oriented sites but there is a nice virtual hallucination room done by UC Davis. The Jungian Archetype site is well done, but oriented more towards literature than history of psychology. It could be considered a public, self-paced tutorial. Many people have language classes because you can talk with native speakers all over the world. People are starting to have conferences in this format. My only chat room experiences have been with other educators discussing how to use the format for education but you can still kill a lot of time there. On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Paul C Bernhardt wrote: > > Hi Rick, > > My wife and I participated in Second Life for a short while about 3 years > ago. We bailed on it when we found it to be a terrible time sink for us when > it was effectively an avatar based chat room. > > But, time has moved on and I hear a lot about virtual classrooms and other > uses that seem pretty powerful. We may research it more for such uses. > > -- > Paul Bernhardt > Frostburg State University > Frostburg, MD, USA > > > > -- Rick Stevens Psychology Department University of Louisiana at Monroe stevens.r...@gmail.com SL - Evert Snook --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
[tips] Camtasia and SL
Tim suggested that I tell a little more about Camtasia. I have used it to capture myself (and a small puppet) for short intros to just explain some minor points. You can save in various video formats. You can edit small clips together with transitions (fade to black or various effects to dress up the change). You can make title pages after making the clips and you can go in and add callouts. These are arrows or post-it notes with comments about the video. They fade in for a few seconds and then go away. What I have done the most of is voice-overs for PowerPoints. You can capture the PowerPoint window as you advance slides and talk as you go. I used to teach an online intro class so I took many of my regular class PowerPoints and did voice-overs making them a lot like a lecture. I didn't see any need for them to see my face so I didn't do the picture in picture. I was told that it added a lot to the file size, too. There are some quiz and survey functions that I never tried. There is a group on campus that gets together and self-educates on online class technology stuff. It was helpful at first to go through some of the basics with a group all figuring out the same things, but once I got through the process of producing a finished product I decided that it wasn't hard to use. While I'm on the topic of teaching technology I was wondering if any Tipsters had gone on to their Second Life. That's not joining the Choir Invisible but joining the world virtual of Second Life. I started setting up an illusion display when I thought that I'd still be teaching online. Since then I have moved to doing memory studies there. My first will be a poster at APS this summer. I'm going to start two more soon. I'm trying to force my grad research methods class to do some practice experiments that way. My avatar name is at the bottom of my signature. If any of you are closet avatars you can feel free to IM me and to drop by the ULM island. -- Rick Stevens Psychology Department University of Louisiana at Monroe stevens.r...@gmail.com SL - Evert Snook --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
Re: [tips] screencast software - preference?
There is a Picture-in-Picture video camera option in Camtasia. On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 6:29 AM, Michael Britt < michael.br...@thepsychfiles.com> wrote: > > It sounds like you're using a PC. I've used both Camtasia and Captivate > and they're both great. I suppose I lean toward Captivate on the PC. I'm > on a Mac and I think the best screen casting software is, hands down, a > program called ScreenFlow (although iShowU is a good program as well). I > used ScreenFlow in the most recent episode of my podcast. What I like about > ScreenFlow, and I you don't get this in Captivate, is the ability to record > yourself talking and put the video of yourself in a small corner of the > screencast. Check this out in my latest video episode ( > http://www.thepsychfiles.com/2009/01/13/episode-83-new-years-resolutions-to-lose-weight-why-so-hard-to-keep/ > or: > http://bit.ly/22W1eP) <http://bit.ly/22W1eP%29> > Being able to include a small video of yourself into the screencast will > allow you to put a face on yourself and, I think, give you a little better > personal connection to your students - especially important for online > courses. > > Does anyone know whether you can include video of yourself when using > Camtasia? > > Michael > > Michael Britt > mich...@thepsychfiles.com > www.thepsychfiles.com > > > > > > > On Jan 18, 2009, at 2:08 AM, Sally Walters wrote: > > > I teach a fully online intro psyc. I want to create some screencasts and > have been reading up on possible software - does anyone have any > recommendations? It doesn't have to be free. I'm particularly interested in > Camtasia versus Captivate. Initially I want to make one to teach beginner > APA style, and another to teach students how to use PsycINFO from our > library portal. > > Any recommendations or advice appreciated. > > thanks, > Sally > > Sally Walters, PhD > Dept. of Psychology > Capilano University > North Vancouver, BC > > --- > To make changes to your subscription contact: > > Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) > > > > --- > To make changes to your subscription contact: > > Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) > > -- Rick Stevens Psychology Department University of Louisiana at Monroe stevens.r...@gmail.com SL - Evert Snook --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
Re: [tips] Annette
I don't do a lot of video downloading but I think that the fact that this one is a Flash video makes it more difficult (impossible for me) to download. I'm guessing that a product like Snagit could do a video screen capture of it, but I haven't tried it. RS On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Shearon, Tim wrote: > > Beth- Do contact her. And I wouldn't assume that not posting to the list > was the same as not emailing/supporting Annette. ;) But the ways to save > this file that I know of didn't work as they aren't currently supporting the > file format. Perhaps contacting the page owner and requesting a copy for > educational purposes? > Tim > ___ > Timothy O. Shearon, PhD > Professor and Chair Department of Psychology > The College of Idaho > Caldwell, ID 83605 > email: tshea...@collegeofidaho.edu > > teaching: intro to neuropsychology; psychopharmacology; general; history > and systems > > "You can't teach an old dogma new tricks." Dorothy Parker > > > -- Rick Stevens Psychology Department University of Louisiana at Monroe stevens.r...@gmail.com SL - Evert Snook --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
Re: [tips] The Boy With The Incredible Brain
I recorded this show and show it sometimes in class. His '22,500' places of pi is billed as a memory event but I have wondered if he was not 'just' calculating as he went along. Chao Lu may still hold the record at 67,890 places. I found his meeting with Kim Peek to be interesting, too. RS On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Christopher D. Green wrote: > > See this film about a "savant" in England who can recite pi to 22,500 > places, do extraordinary math problems in his head, and learn new languages > in about a week. > http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4913196365903075662 > > He has Asperger's, but unlike most savants, he is quite high functioning > interpersonally. > > There is more information about him here: > http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2009/01/inside_the_mind_of_a.html > > Chris > -- > > Christopher D. Green > Department of Psychology > York University > Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 > Canada > > > > 416-736-2100 ex. 66164 > chri...@yorku.ca > http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ > > == > > --- > To make changes to your subscription contact: > > Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) > > -- Rick Stevens Psychology Department University of Louisiana at Monroe stevens.r...@gmail.com SL - Evert Snook --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
Re: [tips] Dr. Seuss
Personally, I don't think that I'd be too hard on The Doctor for using what I assume was, in 1937, a common iconic way of signaling that a character was from China. You can't expect a long text-based character exposition in a Seuss story. His sensibilities may not have changed right away. He drew war propoganda in 1941 and 1942. http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dspolitic/ Of course, these weren't aimed at kids. RS ps. I started on TIPS in 1993 or 1994. On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:41 PM, wrote: > > On the other hand, in a previous millenium, when I was reading to my > children, I found myself disturbed by racist elements in one of the > earliest Seuss efforts, the otherwise delightful "And to think that I saw > it on Mulberry Street". > > It was a long time ago (Wikipedia gives the original publication date as > 1937, although I read it much later than that), but I remember something > about a cartoon "Chinaman" with yellow skin and long pigtails. > > Fortunately, it looks as though Seuss's sensibilities changed along with > society in general as reflected in his later books. But it's still in > print. > > Stephen > - > Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. > Professor of Psychology, Emeritus > Bishop's University e-mail: sbl...@ubishops.ca > 2600 College St. > Sherbrooke QC J1M 1Z7 > Canada > > Subscribe to discussion list (TIPS) for the teaching of > psychology at http://flightline.highline.edu/sfrantz/tips/ > ------- > > --- > To make changes to your subscription contact: > > Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) > -- Rick Stevens Psychology Department University of Louisiana at Monroe stevens.r...@gmail.com SL - Evert Snook --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
Re: [tips] Second Life?
You might want to start with http://sleducation.wikispaces.com/ I'm doing some memory research in Second Life, now. Lots of universities are doing lots of things. There are many things that you might direct an online class to, like the virtual hallucination site, by UC Davis. There is a Freudbot, but I forget where. He really just spouts canned Freud info if you ask him the right keywords. I have been setting up a bunch of illusions. I just built a pretty functional Ames Room illusion. There is another place with different illusions that inspired me to put som up. I have a Tower of Hanoi game (illustrates subgoal problem solving) and a memory matching game (just entertainment). It would be a great place to hold online office hours and since it is an online class, a place where giving the occassional lecture would make sense. You can do voice or text chat. There is a little bit of a learning curve (learn to search for stuff, learn to teleport, IM vs. chat...) and you need more than the most minimal RAM and video card arrangement. Graphics on the motherboard will not be a good experience. You might find this Second Life Biology blog interesting http://www.slbiology.blogspot.com/ or The main educational organization in Second Life http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Membership/Member_Networking/ISTE_Second_Life.htm It's free to get an avatar and look around. If you want to see the ULM island let me know. It's still under construction. RS On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Michael Britt < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Interesting you should askI just finished an interview with Paul > Eastwick who is a grad student at Northwestern University. He Dr. Wendy > Gardner just published a very interesting article in the journal Social > Influence called, "Is it a game? Evidence for social influence in the > virtual world". While they conducted their research in There.com, the idea > behind the research was simple and yet quite interesting. They basically > replicated the foot-in-the-door and door-in-the-face techniques in this > virtual world. A much more interesting and unique use of a virtual world > than just holding classes in one. > My website has the audio interview and links to sources. > > Michael > > Michael Britt > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.thepsychfiles.com > > > > > > On Oct 7, 2008, at 10:11 AM, beth benoit wrote: > > > Does anyone use, or have any experience with a program called Second Life? > It's a virtual environment with some academic uses. The IT person just > emailed me to ask if I might want to use it for my online classes. It's > been mentioned in passing on TIPS a couple of times, but no one has given > any details about whether it's been useful. I'm not even knowledgeable > enough about it yet to understand quite how it works, but I'm looking into > it. > > Here's the address: > > secondlife.com > > Beth Benoit > Granite State College > New Hampshire > > --- > To make changes to your subscription contact: > > Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > > --- > To make changes to your subscription contact: > > Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > -- Rick Stevens Psychology Department University of Louisiana at Monroe [EMAIL PROTECTED] SL - Evert Snook --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [tips] Chalkboard vs powerpoint
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 8:12 AM, Gaft, Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From what I've seen the power point that many teachers use is the one > prepared by the textbook publisher. A few teachers might add some of there > own material but the thrust of the presentation is publisher directed. > I'm inclined to see powerpoint as diminution of the teachers unique role as > the integrator of the text thus reducing the need for highly skilled and > talented teachers. > > I never use the provided slides unless maybe it's the occasional graph or illustration from the chapter that I wanted to go over with the class. I use pictures to illustrate concepts but also to present my sense of humor. I think of it as being a little bit like Stephen Colbert's "The Word". It becomes my lecture notes for stuff not in the book, too. Just reading from the slides was a mistake I made when I first started. I think that as a tool, PowerPoint can provide a platform for diversity in teaching. It's just a matter of what you do with it. I have lately started using it to set up links to short (5-10 min) videos online. It can be very quick and handy and a reminder to show something at the right time in the lecture. OTOH, I miss drawing on the chalkboard. -- Rick Stevens Psychology Department University of Louisiana at Monroe [EMAIL PROTECTED] SL - Evert Snook --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
[tips] Introspection
I was wondering if anyone had a handy source for actual introspection protocols (or maybe some realistic fake examples). I can tell my students the categories that were assessed for an object but I find it hard to pick up the mouse and go, "They would have said ..." -- Rick Stevens Psychology Department University of Louisiana at Monroe [EMAIL PROTECTED] SL - Evert Snook --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [tips] Study shows how false memories rerun 7/7 film that never existed | Science | The Guardian
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 1:11 PM, David Epstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm still more than a bit skeptical about making the leap from > "memories of something awful seen on TV are frequently false" to > "memories of a childhood full of sexual abuse are frequently false." > > It's possible. But it's a heck of an extrapolation. > > Lost in a shopping mall, > David Epstein > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I don't think that is quite the correct leap to make. With the TV example is was just an error of memory. With the childhood example first there is the forgetting of years of sexual abuse. That seems unlikely. Then those memories are recovered years later, perhaps with the help of things like drugs, hypnosis, and many sessions of leading questions, things associated with memory distortion. I haven't kept up on this literature lately, but I didn't think that the accuracy of the recall of people who always recalled their childhood of sexual abuse was really in question. -- Rick Stevens Psychology Department University of Louisiana at Monroe [EMAIL PROTECTED] SL - Evert Snook --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [tips] Job posting
Yes. The benefit is that relocating here means that you are far enough north that you are already where people who are escaping the hurricanes escape to. On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 10:50 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > does the salary include a hurricane relocation benefits? > > - Original Message ----- > *From:* Rick Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > *To:* Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) > *Sent:* Tuesday, September 09, 2008 11:37 AM > *Subject:* [tips] Job posting > > > *The Department of Psychology at the University of Louisiana Monroe > invites applications for two tenure track positions at the rank of Assistant > Professor in a department offering masters and specialist degrees that > emphasize applied psychometrics, general experimental, and school psychology > orientations. * > > ** > > * The successful candidates will teach undergraduate/graduate > courses; provide quality academic advising to students, engage in > scholarship and other professional development, and provide service to the > department, university, and community. Earned doctorate in Psychology > desired (ABD considered), as are interest in and evidence of scholarly > productivity, and an ability to use computer technology to support teaching > and scholarship.* > > ** > > *The starting date for both positions is January 2009. Screening will > begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. Go to > http://www.ulm.edu/cgi-bin/hr-faculty.pl for complete application > information and job descriptions. > * > > > ** > > *Applicants should submit a letter of application, curriculum > vitae, unofficial transcripts of undergraduate and graduate work, and > contact information for three references (names, addresses, e-mail > addresses, and telephone numbers) are required. Send all necessary > information to:* > > * > * > > *Rick Stevens, Ph.D. > Department of Psychology > The University of Louisiana at Monroe > 700 University Avenue > Monroe, LA 71209* > > *Office Telephone: 318-342-1354 > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (electronic submissions accepted)* > > ** > -- > _Rick Stevens > _Psychology Department > _University of Louisiana at Monroe > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --- > To make changes to your subscription contact: > > Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > --- > To make changes to your subscription contact: > > Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > -- Rick Stevens Psychology Department University of Louisiana at Monroe [EMAIL PROTECTED] SL - Evert Snook --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
[tips] Job posting
The Department of Psychology at the University of Louisiana Monroe invites applications for two tenure track positions at the rank of Assistant Professor in a department offering masters and specialist degrees that emphasize applied psychometrics, general experimental, and school psychology orientations. The successful candidates will teach undergraduate/graduate courses; provide quality academic advising to students, engage in scholarship and other professional development, and provide service to the department, university, and community. Earned doctorate in Psychology desired (ABD considered), as are interest in and evidence of scholarly productivity, and an ability to use computer technology to support teaching and scholarship. The starting date for both positions is January 2009. Screening will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. Go to http://www.ulm.edu/cgi-bin/hr-faculty.pl for complete application information and job descriptions. Applicants should submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, unofficial transcripts of undergraduate and graduate work, and contact information for three references (names, addresses, e-mail addresses, and telephone numbers) are required. Send all necessary information to: Rick Stevens, Ph.D. Department of Psychology The University of Louisiana at Monroe 700 University Avenue Monroe, LA 71209 Office Telephone: 318-342-1354 E-mail: stevens @ulm.edu (electronic submissions accepted) -- _Rick Stevens _Psychology Department _University of Louisiana at Monroe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [tips] The Wrathful Dispersion controversy: A Canadian perspective
This is so good that I think the Discovery Institute should get to work on it. It could be like Spinal Tap. On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Christopher D. Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And I thought that "intelligent design" was too ridiculous to be satirized: > http://q-pheevr.livejournal.com/7.html > > Chris Green > York U. > Toronto > > --- > To make changes to your subscription contact: > > Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > -- Rick Stevens Psychology Department University of Louisiana at Monroe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
[tips] MindMentor, the first robot psychologist
http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=860&tag=nl.e539 In 2006, Hollander and Wijnberg did a test-run with 1600 clients from all over the world. Results showed that MindMentor was able to solve the problems for 47% in just one session, a score that any real life psychologist would be proud of.” (The best part is) It will cost €4.95 for one hour session (or about US$7.65 as of today). -- __ Dr. Rick Stevens __ Psychology Department __ University of Louisiana @ Monroe __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---To make changes to your subscription contact:Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
[tips] Zimbardo at the next TED conference
This was from a Wired story this morning: Stanford psychologist Philip Zimbardo will look at why people become evil by discussing his famous 1971 Stanford prison experiment, in which students playing "prison guards" in a simulation quickly became abusive toward their "prisoners." Zimbardo will discuss how the abuses perpetrated by the students in his study parallel what guards at the Abu Ghraib prison did to inmates in Iraq. http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/news/2008/02/ted_walkup For those not familiar with the TED site, you can find it at http://www.ted.com/index.php/ I downloaded the one recommended (here or on PsychTeach) that was presented by Vilayanur Ramachandran. There are presentations by Pinker, Shermer, Susan Savage-Rumbaugh, Jane Goodall, and Bono. It said that it starts on Wednesday and runs through Saturday so it's not clear when Zimbardo's talk will be online. If you are in a hurry and want to watch live, the tickets are only $6000. -- _Rick Stevens _Psychology Department _University of Louisiana at Monroe _Monroe, LA [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
[tips] Employment posting
We are now running this ad in the APA Monitor. --- Assistant professor (full-time, tenure-track) in psychology at The University of Louisiana, Monroe. Teaching, research, and program development responsibilities for undergraduate and graduate programs. Earned doctorate in psychology required. Salary depends on experience. Applications immediately accepted and reviewed until position is filled. January, 2008 appointment desired. Contact: Veronica Lewis, Ph.D., Psychology Department, ULM, Monroe, LA 71209, (318) 342-1332, [EMAIL PROTECTED]. ULM is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. The University of Louisiana at Monroe (ULM) is located in the northeastern portion of Louisiana and maintains both undergraduate and graduate programs in a variety of field areas for approximately 8,500 students. The Psychology Department at ULM is housed within the College of Education and Human Development and currently maintains 10 full-time faculty members. The university offers competitive salaries and encourages faculty scholarship. -- __ Dr. Rick Stevens __ Psychology Department __ University of Louisiana @ Monroe __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---To make changes to your subscription contact:Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [tips] brain mold
http://www.anatomical.com/search.asp?t=ss&ss=mold&x=0&y=0 On 9/26/07, Steve Rambach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does any one know where I can purchase a brain mold for jello? > Steve > > --- > -- Rick Stevens Psychology Department University of Louisiana at Monroe [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
Re: [tips] Hypothetical:Pavarotti
Before totally giving up on the idea of improving IQ by listening to music check out: Smart Music, An investigation into the cognitive effects of exposure to *fine * violin music. * by Brian Dade and Noem Ort, *REPRINTED FROM * ANNALS OF SCIENCE * VOL 16 NO 2, 1992 http://www.rainerlinz.net/rosenberg-archive/brainy.html The results section starts out: Based on the findings of previous research, we had expected to find a marked, if short term improvement in the Intelligence Quotient of the experimental subjects, coupled with a `levelling off' in mental activity of the control group. In fact, the responses were far more complex than we had imagined... As you are reading along, if you have any doubts about the significance of the study, skip down to the end and read footnote #10. -- Rick Stevens Psychology Department University of Louisiana at Monroe [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
[tips] Re: Interesting guest on the Colbert Report
If you go to the official show site you can watch the video of that segment (about 5 min) at your leisure. http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_colbert_report/index.jhtml On 6/15/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Tips Guys and Gals, An interesting guest with an interesting book to discuss on the report this evening. May be repeated tomorrow or Monday so keep your eyes peeled: Daniel Smith: Muses, Madmen and Prophets - Rethinking the history of auditory hallucinations As I enjoy discussing the business and complexities of defining what is "psychotic" and what is "mentally ill" with students, I am hoping to check this read out over the summer, maybe you do too. Hope everyone's summer's off to a good start. http://www.colbertnation.com/ Nancy Melucci Long Beach City College Long Beach CA -- See what's free at AOL.com <http://www.aol.com?ncid=AOLAOF0002000503>. --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english -- Rick Stevens Psychology Department University of Louisiana at Monroe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
[tips] Re: top psych research studies
I'd like to toss out a nomination for Ebbinghaus' 1885 monograph on memory. It lacks the status of a full-fledge experiment since he was his own subject but it was original and it stimulated a lot of subsequent research. On 3/17/07, Gerald Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am sure psychologists would have a hard time achieving consensus about such a list, but for me the keys were the idea of psych studies. Now, that means to me, research efforts or some basic, systematic inquiry adhering to fundamental scientific principles. That leaves out Freud in my view. Also, I know I am being picky perhaps, but there are folks outside of psychology who have done scientific work that can be influentialFreud for example would be a psychiatrist, not a psychologist, but again did no systematic study. Indeed, we refer to him in psych classes more to illustrate the pitfalls of sloppy thinking. Pavlov would turn over in his grave to be considered a psychologist, but yes, we might consider his work clearly relevant. Fechner's work would be influential, but there are others, such as Stevens who brought more order to psychophysics. Gary Gerald L. (Gary) Peterson, Ph.D. Professor, Psychology Saginaw Valley State University University Center, MI 48710 989-964-4491 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english -- Rick Stevens Psychology Department University of Louisiana at Monroe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
[tips] Those progressive Canadians
Once again, we Americans can look to the Great White North and aspire to their free and progressive social policies. OTTAWA (Reuters) - Immigrants wishing to live in the small Canadian town of Herouxville, Quebec, must not stone women to death in public, burn them alive or throw acid on them... http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070131/od_nm/stoning1_dc_1 I might wish to discuss this town's policies when I teach Theories of Learning and discuss Walden 2 and other Utopian plans. Do you Canadians use positive reinforcement to control your women? Perhaps it is negative reinforcement, you unshackle them from the radiator if they have behaved for a specified time period. -- __ Dr. Rick Stevens __ Psychology Department __ University of Louisiana @ Monroe __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
[tips] Re: Closing open access
"Public access equals government censorship"...? It sounds scary even though I'm not sure what it means. On 1/25/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070122/full/445347a.html Stephen - Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Department of Psychology Bishop's Universitye-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2600 College St. Sherbrooke QC J1M 0C8 Canada Dept web page at http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy TIPS discussion list for psychology teachers at http://faculty.frostburg.edu/psyc/southerly/tips/index.htm --- --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english -- Rick Stevens Psychology Department University of Louisiana at Monroe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
[tips] Re: Non-biological behavior?!! (was Re: what would Skinner say?)
When you engage in astral projection and leave your body, anything that you do outside your body would be non-biological behavior. The same would apply to those people (and animals) who are dead and talking to Sylvia Brown. On 1/19/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: tips@acsun.frostburg.edu Subject: RE: [tips] Re: Non-biological behavior?!! (was Re: what would Skinner say?) Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:21:35 -0600 > >On Jan 19, 2007, at 11:48 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>>> PAUL K. BRANDON wrote: > >>> Operant behavior IS biological in nature (Skinner always >considered >>> psychology to be the subfield of biology that studied the behavior > >>> of... >> So non-biologically based behavior is not operant behavior.I will >> have to think about that. >> >> Michael Sylvester,PhD >> Daytona Beach,Florida > >What on earth is non-biological, or 'non-biologically based' >behavior? >(Presuming, in this context, the topic is the behavior of >organisms. So, of course, the question relates to behavior other >than the behavior of metals, asteroids, air currants, planets, etc., > >etc.) >Peter > >Peter Harzem, B.Sc.(Lond.), Ph.D.(Wales) >Hudson Professor Emeritus >Department of Psychology >Auburn University >Auburn, AL 36849-5214 >USA >Phone: +334 844-6482 >Fax: +334 844-4447 >E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Personal E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Non-biological behavior is behavior that does not have a biological basis. Michael Sylvester,PhD Daytona Beach,Florida "When eyerybody thinks alike,nobody is thinking." --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english -- Rick Stevens Psychology Department University of Louisiana at Monroe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
[tips] Re: Television rots your brain AND your body
I believe that Plato had similar concerns about writing.On 10/24/06, Louis Schmier <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: It's interesting that the same thing was said about radio in 1926, that it was more sedentary promoting than reading a book and that it destroyed the very imagination that reading a book developed. Interesting. Make it a good day. --Louis-- Louis Schmier www.therandomthoughts.com Department of History www.newforums.com/L_Schmier.htm Valdosta State University Valdosta, Georgia 31698 /\ /\ /\ /\ (229-333-5947) /^\\/ \/ \ /\/\/\ \/\ / \ \__ \/ / \ /\/ \ \ /\ //\/\/ /\ \_ / /___\/\ \ \ \/ \ /\"If you want to climb mountains \ /\ _/ \ don't practice on mole hills" -/ \ --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english -- Rick StevensPsychology DepartmentUniversity of Louisiana at Monroe[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
[tips] Re: Shadow person?
It reminded me of some of the work of Persinger. He stimulated people's brains with a magnetic field and some reported a 'presence'. On 9/22/06, Robert Wildblood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One of my ex-clients saw this and thought it was interesting. http://www.arcamax.com/technology/s-115796-655307 Bob WildbloodLecturer in PsychologyIndiana University Kokomo2300 S Washington StPO Box 9003Kokomo, IN 46904-9003765-455-9483 [EMAIL PROTECTED]"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Benjamin Franklin, 1775"We are what we pretend to be, so we better be careful what we pretend to be."Kurt Vonnegut --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english -- Rick StevensPsychology DepartmentUniversity of Louisiana at Monroe[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
[tips] Re: Leipzig:Wundt/The Pope
Maybe if you use Photoshop and clean up the image you can read his tombstone.http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=10126795 On 9/17/06, Michael Sylvester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The birthplace of psychological science is also the place where the Pope commented on the violent roots of Islam.There must be something about that German city. I have been toying with the idea of going there to visit Wundt's grave.I wonder what is on his epitaph. Michael Sylvester,PhD Daytona Beach,Florida --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english -- Rick StevensPsychology DepartmentUniversity of Louisiana at Monroe[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
[tips] Re: what would you do...
Some teacher(s) here ask that the students interview someone who works in a profession that they might be interested in. I answer such questions once or twice a year. I don't believe that IRB is relevant to class exercises and assignments that have no chance of being published. On 9/14/06, DeVolder Carol L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear TIPSters, This morning, I received the following e-mail: Greetings!My name is ___. I am an undergraduate student majoring in psychology. I have a project that requires me to interview an experimental psychologist. I was browsing through the net and came across your profile and thought of writing to you. I won't be wasting much of your time, but I would be greatly obliged if you can kindly answer these five questions, as an experimental psychologist. How did you get started in psychology?Who was your most important mentor during the early part of your psychology career, and why?What are the current major trends in experimental research in psychology, and what should we look forward to learning more about in the coming decade?What two or three items are absolutely essential for every undergraduate student in psychology to know about experimental methods?What are the job opportunities available for a student looking forward to pursue his/her career in experimental or statistical psychology?Thank you heaps!_ . I'm not all that suspicious, and tend to be somewhat naiive, but I'm developing a cynical streak, so I answered with this: Hello, I would like to answer your questions, but cannot do so until you identify the institution you're affiliated with and whether you have IRB approval for your study. I'm sure you understand. Carol DeVolder The response I got was this: Hello,I'm studying in University of _ University College. My professor is okay with students interviewing an experimental psychologists through email. Please do reply. Thank you! I've left out the identifying names, but I'm now perplexed. I'm kind of a stickler for IRB approval, but wondering if my cynical streak is getting too big. Any comments? Carol Carol DeVolder, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology Chair, Department of Psychology St. Ambrose University Davenport, Iowa 52803 phone: 563-333-6482 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (By the way, I'm still planning on compiling the responses I got when I posted my plea for help under the subject line "My brain is fried..." Things just haven't slowed enough for me to do it yet, and once I thanked you all for replying but encouraged more replies, responses dropped off dramatically. But thanks again for coming through.) --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english -- Rick StevensPsychology DepartmentUniversity of Louisiana at Monroe[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
[tips] Employment Opportunity
The University of Louisiana at Monroe Psychology Department currently is seeking to employ a faculty member. Information concerning the position is provided below. We invite your application for this position. Should you have questions regarding the position or any responsibilities associated with it, please feel free to contact Dr. Lewis at the locations indicated below. POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT Assistant Professor (tenure track) position in Psychology DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES The successful candidate will hold teaching, research, and program development responsibilities in a psychology department offering masters and specialist degrees that emphasize applied psychometrics, general experimental, and school psychology orientations. QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS Earned doctorate in Psychology and interest in and evidence of scholarly productivity are required. Candidates with applied experiences (School/Counseling/Clinical), knowledge of multivariate designs and data analyses, and those with previous college teaching experience especially are encouraged to apply. SALARY Commensurate with experience APPLICATIONS Although applications will immediately be accepted, formal review of applications will begin on September 29, 2006 and will continue until the position is filled. January 2007 appointment is desirable. Interested candidates should submit a letter of application, current vita, and the names, telephone numbers, and email addresses of three individuals from whom you have already requested that letters of reference be sent to: Veronica E. Lewis, Ph.D. Psychology Department 319 Strauss Hall The University of Louisiana at Monroe Monroe, LA 71209 Inquiries regarding the position or application process may also be directed to Dr. Lewis at (318) 342-1332 or [EMAIL PROTECTED]. The University of Louisiana at Monroe is an AA/EEO Employer. -- __ Dr. Rick Stevens __ Psychology Department __ University of Louisiana @ Monroe __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
[tips] Re: Dogs eating grass
One possibility is that it is not the vomiting, it is the nausea. If the dog was already nauseous before eating the grass it would not form an aversion to eating grass. Don Allen wrote: This is a bit of a strange one, but please bear with me. Last night a neighbour came by as she was taking her dog for a walk. As we were talking I noticed that the dog was eating some grass on our lawn. When I pointed this out to her she said, "Oh no! Now he's going to get sick!". Sure enough, about a minute later the dog started to vomit. When I asked her how she knew that the dog would be sick she said, "Oh, he does that a couple of times a week". Now here's my question: Doesn't this behaviour stand in opposition to what we know about Taste Aversion Learning? Wouldn't Garcia (and others)'s work suggest that if an animal did it once they would be very unlikely to do it again? Is there something special about canine physiology that would explain this? TIA if you can shed any light on this. -Don. Don Allen Dept. of Psychology -- __ Dr. Rick Stevens __ Psychology Department __ University of Louisiana @ Monroe __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
[tips] Re: FW: Color Code
I can't believe that they let you be a department chair when you don't even know about this test. The Color Code Personality Test is the most accurate of all personality tests in existence. http://www.thecolorcode.com/ Larry Daily wrote: Message Hello all! I'm looking for a little help responding to the query below from one of my colleagues in the Business Department. My first reaction is that the test is not to be trusted - my search in PsycINFO turned up no hits for the Color Code Personality test and no hits for articles authored by Taylor Hartmann. I also don't see on the Web site any listing of tests of reliability or validity. Anyone out there know anything about this test? Thanks, Larry Larry Z. Daily Associate Professor of Psychology Psychology Department Chair Department of Psychology White Hall, Room 216 Shepherd University Shepherdstown, West Virginia 25443 Psychology phone: (304) 876-5297 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://webpages.shepherd.edu/LDAILY/index.html Adam's prize was open eyes His sentence was to see - The Dreamer - Tom Rush -Original Message- From: Gordon DeMeritt Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 11:52 AM To: Larry Daily Subject: Color Code Larry, If you have the time, take a look at the Color Code Personality Test at www.hartmancommunications.com and let me know what you think. As I said yesterday, I use it when discussing elements of diversity and as a discussion starter when teaching group techniques. It claims to have validity, reliability, and reproducibility. What do you think? Gordon --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english -- __ Dr. Rick Stevens __ Psychology Department __ University of Louisiana @ Monroe __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
[tips] Re: Movie
I've never set up the Bit Torrent software, but if you have you might try here: http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3502191/The_Tenth_Level This 1975 William Shatner made for TV movie was broadcast only a few times on CBS. Despite being based on actual events, it was considered too unrealisitic and disturbing. CBS shelved the movie and it was never released on video. This recording is a VHS copy that was recorded with DVD recorder so the quality will be poor. However, because it was never released on video you aren't likely to find this anywhere else or a better quality copy. David Hogberg wrote: I looked at several Google-recommended sites and found that it apparently isn't available at any of the usual sources either on DVD or VHS. Do any TiPS people have a version of it that can be copied or loaned, I wonder? D David K. Hogberg, PhD Professor of Psychology, Emeritus Albion College, Albion MI 49224 [EMAIL PROTECTED] home phone: 517/629-4834 >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/01/06 4:08 PM >>> Does anyone know where I can obtain a copy of "The Tenth Level" (movie based on the Milgram research)? Best Wishes. C. Eugene Walker, University of Oklahoma, [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english -- -- Rick Stevens -- Psychology Department -- University of Louisiana at Monroe -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
[tips] Re: Marriage as a cure for domestic violence
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And they're at it again, cause jumping from correlations. This time it seems to be that cannibis causes schizophrenia. See http://tinyurl.com/fbue5 Is it possible that a 'vulnerable person' who has not been diagnosed with schizophrenia is already having some symptoms and that these symptoms cause the person to be more likely to use cannabis? Schizophrenia is known for making people feel unhappy and cannabis is known for making people feel happy. Also, physiology isn't my strong point. Are there physiological reasons to think that cannabis use would cause a vulnerable person to succumb to schizophrenia when this person would not otherwise have had problems? Having a physiological mechanism might provide support for the interpretation that cannabis causes schizophrenia. -- -- Rick Stevens -- Psychology Department -- University of Louisiana at Monroe -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
[tips] Re: Intellectual Property
It's a moot point since I /would/ ask permission to use someone's slides. I just wouldn't go to the effort to confront someone using mine. I don't feel conflicted about calling students on plagiarism when they copy&paste from websites to create a paper. If I did borrow slide shows without permission or attribution I would feel conflicted. I also think that, rather than use that legal knowledge obtained from many seasons of Law and Order to play TV lawyer on the net, I would like to see some official loosening of the copyright standards. One such effort can be seen here http://eldred.cc/ at the Save Orphan Works site. This is from that site: *What are orphan works?* Orphan works are — broadly speaking — any copyrighted works where the rights holder is hard to find. Because the cost of finding the owner is so high, creators can't build on orphan works, even when they'd be willing to pay to use them. In many cases the works were abandoned because they no longer produced any income. In most cases, rights holders, once found, are delighted to have their work used. Rick Froman wrote: Of course as the copyright holder you have the right to freely distribute all of your material. However, if you were the one borrowing the slides as described on this thread, what would you say to your students who, in studying for a test using Google, came across the original slides with correct attribution and they wanted to know how what you have done is any different from what you taught them is plagiarism? I hope no one is mirroring anyone’s interactive plagiarism exercise without proper attribution. Rick Dr. Rick Froman Professor of Psychology John Brown University 2000 W. University Siloam Springs, AR 72761 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (479) 524-7295 http://www.jbu.edu/academics/sbs/faculty/rfroman.asp -------- *From:* Rick Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Monday, May 15, 2006 2:20 PM *To:* Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) *Subject:* [tips] Re: Intellectual Property Personally, if anyone wanted to use my slides I'd be happy to let them. I would prefer that they asked first, but, I'm for the giving away of psychology, lectures and all. I wouldn't confront anyone who appropriated my slides for educational use. -- __ Dr. Rick Stevens __ Psychology Department __ University of Louisiana @ Monroe __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english -- -- Rick Stevens -- Psychology Department -- University of Louisiana at Monroe -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
[tips] Re: Intellectual Property
Personally, if anyone wanted to use my slides I'd be happy to let them. I would prefer that they asked first, but, I'm for the giving away of psychology, lectures and all. I wouldn't confront anyone who appropriated my slides for educational use. -- __ Dr. Rick Stevens __ Psychology Department __ University of Louisiana @ Monroe __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
Re: Satanic abuse scandal
Pat Robertson had some similar things to say, but I suspect that neither Debbie Nathan nor Gloria Steinham were supporters of the 700 Club. BTW, I did look at Snopes for the second quote below and didn't find it. It is weirder than when he answers e-mail questions on the air (my favorite part). I guess that we can equate 'practicing witchcraft and killing their children' with the label 'Satanic Abuse'. *"NOW is saying that in order to be a woman, you've got to be a lesbian."--Pat Robertson, "The 700 Club," 12/3/97* *"The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians." -- Pat Robertson, fundraising letter, 1992* Paul Okami wrote: It's easy and safe to blame "fundamentalist Christians" for what happen in the USA, and consequently, elsewhere during the 1980s and early 1990s. However, as Debbie Nathan (a feminist) points out in her work, feminism was at least equally culpable for the entire sexual abuse and satanic abuse panics. If anyone recalls, Gloria Steinham was an ardent support of Bennett Braun (who lost his professional credentials for perpetuating, apparently for financial gain, the supposed connection between "satanic abuse" and "mpd" ) and she created a cover for Ms. Magazine which read in lurid colors, "Satanic Abuse: Believe it, it's Real!" Paul Okami - Original Message - From: "Michael Scoles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences" Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 12:07 PM Subject: Re: Satanic abuse scandal http://www.wm3.org/live/sp/document.php?type=3&document_Id=19 Michael T. Scoles, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology & Counseling University of Central Arkansas Conway, AR 72035 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/13/06 11:55 PM >>> Subject: From: "Allen Esterson" Interestingly, while I believe such scares in the States are fuelled by evangelistic Christian organizations, this is rarely the case in the more secular UK Jim G asks: What are "evangelistic Christian organizations" and what specific evidence do we have for this claim? --- --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- Rick Stevens -- Psychology Department -- University of Louisiana at Monroe -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Satanic abuse scandal
Annette Taylor, Ph. D. wrote: I'm not so sure of that, at least not directly. In fact, I am not aware of any largely popularized cases of actual 'satanic' abuse. Mostly it is just plain old sexual abuse. If you look at the most popularized cases in the US (McMartin and the other one in CA whose name is the abuser falls prey to a senior moment), and I have to admit I have not heard of any big ones recently, then I don't believe religion played a part. In the McMartin case, in spite of being the longest criminal case in history, there were no convictions of abuse of any type. While 'not guilty' is not the same as 'innocent', I thought that it was a case in which the main culprits were the overzealous interviewers who (inadvertantly) manipulated the testimony of young children. There were other cases which obtained convictions, many of which were overturned in the years to come. I've never heard of any verified cases of Satanic Ritual Abuse. For more detail one might want to check the Skeptic's Dictionary http://skepdic.com/satanrit.html -- __ Dr. Rick Stevens __ Psychology Department __ University of Louisiana @ Monroe __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: This guy never fails to amuse
I watch him when I get a chance and I highly recommend the part where he answers e-mail questions. I'm a page or two short of finishing Clancy's book "Abducted". In an attempt to make this conversation more psychology-related I would toss out the possibility that people who believe what Pat (and certainly not your personal religious leader) says and does (daily long-range faith healings) do so for the same reasons that people believe in alien abduction. They may have some similar personality characteristics, like an increased level of fantasy-proneness. But, they believe in explanations in spite of the fact that those explanations violate logic and the laws of physics. Whether you believe that Pat fixed some lady's broken ankle or that aliens levitated you out through the solid wall, it makes you feel like you are part of something bigger. Cognitive dissonance theory might suggest that when you give money to the faith healer you then believe even more stongly. Clancy (2005) said, "Their lives improved. They were less lonely, more hopeful about the future, felt they were better people. They chose abduction." Another quote, "Not surprisingly, once you "discover your place in the universe," you have a hard time being a skeptic." BTW, before I started watching Pat I used to watch Louisiana's own Jimmy Swaggart. I wondered why they were still sending $1.3 million a week in the mail, even after he was caught with a prostitute. I agree that Pat never fails to amuse, but Jimmy was a much more dynamic performer. Clancy, S.A. (2005) Abducted. Cambridge: Harvard University Press jim guinee wrote: <followers who await, hang on, and believe in every word he utters. Annette>> Good point, but curiously I've never met anyone who follows this man. I don't even know anyone who WATCHES him. How did he get to be so "popular," especially considering so many Christians and non-Christians wish he would shut up? Jim Guinee -- -- Rick Stevens -- Psychology Department -- University of Louisiana at Monroe -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ID ruling
jim guinee wrote: Apologists for the ID argument will no doubt cite (among others) Polkinghorne, theoretical physicist and colleague of Stephen Hawking, who writes: "In the early expansion of the universe, there has to been a close balance between the expansive energy (driving things apart) and the force of gravity (pulling things together). If expansion dominated then matter would fly apart too rapidly for condensation into galaxies and stars to take place.(The possibility of our existence) requires a balance between the effects of expansion and contraction which at a very early epoch in the universe's history (The Planck time) has to differ from equality by not more than 1 in 1060 . The numerate (mathematical) will marvel at such a degree of accuracy. For the non-numerate, I will borrow an illustration from Paul Davies of what that accuracy means. He points out that it is the same as aiming at a target an inch wide on the other side of the observable universe, twenty thousand million light years away, and hitting the mark." [One World (London: SPCK, 1986), p.57] I view with bemusement the phrase "colleague of Stephen Hawking". It's not even the logical fallacy of 'appeal to authority', it is 'appeal to someone who knew an authority'. When Polkinghorne says, "...it is the same as aiming at a target an inch wide..." it is anthropomorphizing a natural process, which is what ID proponents want to do. It would be interesting to know what Polkinghorne would think of that use. For obvious reasons, we have no way of knowing how many universes have existed which did not result in stars, planets, and life. I would relate this to a more down-to-earth low-probability event, winning the lottery. It is like saying that winning is such a low-probability event the winner could only have won by having an 'intelligently designed' lottery ticket. 'Low probability' is not the same as 'impossible to occur by chance'. I can't speak for Polkinghorne's intent, but I suspect that using his statement to support ID would be a minor example of what Rosenhouse was referring to in "Why Do Scientists Get So Angry When Dealing With ID Proponents?" http://www.csicop.org/intelligentdesignwatch/designers.html -- -- Rick Stevens -- Psychology Department -- University of Louisiana at Monroe -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Psychological Science Self-Esteem Paranoia (was :Rosenhan Revisited)
I recently picked up a /Scientific American Mind/ issue and I was going to suggest that if Scientific American devoted a whole separate publication track to psychology then we must be a science, in fact, we are special. But, then I wondered if it might mean that we are being segregated from the Real Science. The subtitle below /Scientific American Mind/ on the cover is also suggestive. It is /Thought * Ideas * Brain Science. /So, maybe thought and ideas (cognition) are not considered 'science' by /Scientific American. /This could be part of the vast right-wing (of science) conspiracy designed to convince the public that we are not worthy of federal scientific funding. The less they spend on psychology, the more there is left for the International Space Station (which sounds cool even if they don't do much science). We have ferreted out long hidden memories of abuse using little but drugs and hypnosis, we have shown in 2002 how useful profiling can be in cases like the east coast sniper pair, we have built up the self-esteems of uncounted youngsters, and on the internet you can fill out personality profiles which (with your credit card number) can scientifically match you with your perfect mate. What else do we need to do to get respect? Beth Benoit wrote: Trying to convince the other 5% that what we're doing is really science? ;-) Beth Benoit Granite State College Portsmouth NH - Original Message - *From:* Martin Bourgeois <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *To:* Teaching in the Psychological Sciences <mailto:tips@acsun.frostburg.edu> *Sent:* Saturday, December 17, 2005 1:18 PM *Subject:* RE: Rosenhan Revisited .So Beth, should we assume that you agree that "science is based on the body, on measurable matter?" If so, then what the heck are 95% of us doing? Marty --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- Rick Stevens -- Psychology Department -- University of Louisiana at Monroe -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: list-serves for Cognitive or Developmental psych?
This searchable list of 61,000+ listservs might be useful http://www.lsoft.com/lists/listref.html Stephen Black wrote: On 16 Dec 2005 at 12:05, Paul Norris wrote, after certain difficulties with the inappropriate behaviour of our list web page: > Could someone please tell me the addresses (and information on how to submit, if it's complicated) for list-serves for Cognitive psychology and for Developmental psychology? We have a job opening that we'd like to publicize. I'm not aware of any listserv dedicated either to cognitive psychology or to developmental psychology. There may be a few other lists specializing in certain sub-fields of psychology (behaviour modification, animal behaviour, history) which wouldn't be of help to you. Other than that, I can suggest PSYCHTEACHER http://list.kennesaw.edu/cgi-bin/web-admin?SUBED1=psychteacher&A=1 a large-circulation list with a membership that only partially overlaps with this one. (Some prefer it to TIPS because it's monitored to prevent all the off-topic and nonsense stuff that goes on on this list; others prefer TIPS because it allows it. Like me.) Stephen ___ Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Department of Psychology Bishop's University Lennoxville, QC J1M 1Z7 Canada Dept web page at http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy TIPS discussion list for psychology teachers at http://faculty.frostburg.edu/psyc/southerly/tips/index.htm ___ --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- Rick Stevens -- Psychology Department -- University of Louisiana at Monroe -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: More Puzzling illusions
I think that if you follow directions (pick a 2-digit number, add the digits, subtract from the original 2-digit number, then look up the number on the chart) you always get a multiple of 9. All of the multiples of 9 are the same symbol on each trial, but they change from trial to trial. It works every time for me. Or maybe I just send out stronger human-to-computer ESP signals... where did I put that foil hat? Shearon, Tim wrote: James I think I can. I did it 6 times. It was right only once and that was when I picked one of those really common numbers on these kind of things (e.g., 99, some numbers are more frequently picked). I think they call it chance loaded with data- same as cold reading- it seems like there should be 99 chances but there are significantly less than that, plus there are tendencies for us to pick some two digit numbers more often, plus we only remember the times it is correct. Have you read Michael Shermer or looked at the website http://www.skeptic.com/. These things are all over the place and they really do work- if you believe they do. :) Tim -Original Message- From: James K. Denson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 9:42 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences Subject: RE: More Puzzling illusions Since we are asking about things that puzzle us, can anyone help me explain this one? http://trunks.secondfoundation.org/files/psychic.swf JK Denson Kempsville High School Social Studies Department Chair AP Psychology/Psychology Teacher Boys Varsity Soccer Coach --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- Rick Stevens -- Psychology Department -- University of Louisiana at Monroe -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sensation and perception people take note
Wouldn't volume-induced hearing loss be fairly pitch-specific? I would think that popular music doesn't contain much in the extremely high segment of our frequency range. Paul Brandon wrote: At 8:56 PM -0500 11/29/05, Beth Benoit wrote: This was in today's NYTimes, about a store in Wales that uses a high-pitched tone, apparently only audible to younger people. It's so unpleasant that it gets them out of a store where they're not wanted. Of course, given the prevalence of headphone induced hearing loss among teenagers, I'm skeptical about how generally effective this would be. -- /The best argument against Intelligent Design is that people believe in it./ / / * PAUL K. BRANDON [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Psychology Department507-389-6217 * * 23 Armstrong Hall Minnesota State University, Mankato * *http://www.mnsu.edu/dept/psych/welcome.html* --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- Rick Stevens -- Psychology Department -- University of Louisiana at Monroe -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: student's question
Cancel that suggestion. I just put 'precognitive habituation' into Google and it is Daryl Bem that I found first. http://www.dbem.ws/Precognitive%20Habituation.pdf I haven't read the whole thing but it says that anyone with a computer and a stat program can reproduce it. I'll be a millionaire in no time. Rick Stevens wrote: Burns, Daniel wrote: Research suggests that subliminal perception does influence behavior (e.g., mere exposure effect and sublimal/masked priming effects), as well as emotion (e.g., mere exposure to stimuli increases one's mood). In fact, recent research out of Cornell suggests that stimuli presented in the future actually affect your behavior now (e.g., subliminal precognition). I think that we have a candidate for the James Randi million dollar prize. Send those people to Randi.org and have them sign up. -- __ Dr. Rick Stevens __ Psychology Department __ University of Louisiana @ Monroe __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: student's question
Burns, Daniel wrote: Research suggests that subliminal perception does influence behavior (e.g., mere exposure effect and sublimal/masked priming effects), as well as emotion (e.g., mere exposure to stimuli increases one's mood). In fact, recent research out of Cornell suggests that stimuli presented in the future actually affect your behavior now (e.g., subliminal precognition). I think that we have a candidate for the James Randi million dollar prize. Send those people to Randi.org and have them sign up. -- __ Dr. Rick Stevens __ Psychology Department __ University of Louisiana @ Monroe __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Does taking a survey on X lead to X behavior?
Maybe we could get a bunch of psychometricians together to go to Kansas and administer IQ tests. -- __ Dr. Rick Stevens __ Psychology Department __ University of Louisiana @ Monroe __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Accidental discoveries
I'm too lazy to look for it, but I was thinking that I had seen a reference to Garcia having had a taste aversion experience with licorice when he was a kid. It was not portrayed as important to his research, just a bit of trivia. Lavin, Michael wrote: Garcia's taste aversion came out of his research with the military using x-irradition and not an accident.The findings were not accidental "Sauce bearnaise phenomenon" was a term generated by Garcia and Revusky (1971). and had noting to do with Seligman. Mike Lavin -Original Message- From: Claudia Stanny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat 10/29/2005 5:13 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences Subject: RE: Accidental discoveries Actually, it might have been Martin Seligman, which is why this was sometimes called the "sauce bearnaise phenomenon" Claudia Stanny -Original Message- From: Don Allen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat 10/29/2005 10:18 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences Cc: Subject:Re: Accidental discoveries Garcia's taste aversion learning may be another. I heard that he got the idea after getting sick following a restaurant meal. -Don. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- Rick Stevens -- Psychology Department -- University of Louisiana at Monroe -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: classical conditioning of nausea
You might consider it "Embedded Conditioning". Since the usual temporal patterns represent very short time frames, this would be more appropriate. The smell of wood and vomit would exist simultaneously for some time and in these longer time frames conditioning does occur in spite of the lack of fitting neatly into the usual CS-US patterns. Rick Froman wrote: Warning: unpleasant topic (nausea) ahead My son and I were walking across the grass and we came to an area where some wood chips were covering the ground. My son says the smell of the wood chips makes him feel sick. I thought that was unusual because wood chips usually smell good. He said they use that kind of wood chips in the school to cover over vomit in the hallways when kids get sick. I would think in this case the UCS is the smell of vomit, the UCR is nausea resulting from smelling it, the CS is the smell of the wood chips and the CR is the nausea. However, I have some questions. First, it seems to be a case of simultaneous conditioning (which isn't usually effective) unless for some reason the wood chip smell arrives first and then later the smell of vomit (some kind of delay conditioning). Maybe it is the sight of the chips associated with the smell of the chips eventually predicting the unpleasant smell. Second, and I think we may have discussed something similar recently, is the smell of vomit actually a UCS or is it a CS predicting some more basic UCS. Third, isn't it backward for something produced by illness to make you ill? In fact, after vomiting don't you usually feel relief? Certainly, the physical result of illness could not be a reliable predictor of illness. If anything, it should produce an inhibitory response through backward conditioning. Finally, does the queasiness involved in reading this message have a connection to classical conditioning and could mental imagery enhance that response? Is there such a thing as olfactory imagery and could it enhance the queasiness involved in reading such a message? Rick Dr. Rick Froman Professor of Psychology John Brown University 2000 W. University Siloam Springs, AR 72761 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (479) 524-7295 http://www.jbu.edu/academics/sbs/faculty/rfroman.asp --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- __ Dr. Rick Stevens __ Psychology Department __ University of Louisiana @ Monroe __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Say it now or wait?
Paul Brandon wrote: How large must a class be to justify the assumption of normality? 100? 1000? I asked that in grad school and I got two answers from two professors, 500 and 1000. -- __ Dr. Rick Stevens __ Psychology Department __ University of Louisiana @ Monroe __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: updates on videos
Beth Benoit wrote: ... And while we're on the topic, anybody know any other updates for the videos that many of us use? There are journal articles at 5 years and 10 years past the video describing the progress of Harry, of the video "Harry: Behavioral Treatment of Self Abuse". -- -- Rick Stevens -- Psychology Department -- University of Louisiana at Monroe -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: forensic psychology
For a longish answer try an article on the Psi Chi website, What is Forensic Psychology? It's Not Silence of the Lambs! by Matthew T. Huss - Creighton University http://psichi.org/pubs/articles/article_58.asp Kris Vasquez wrote: Apologies for my ignorance, but what do forensic psychologists really do? Kris -Original Message- From: Scott Lilienfeld [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 1:35 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences Subject: Re: forensic psychology In my experience, one of the most important misconceptions to debunk for such students is that most forensic psychologists become criminal profilers (perhaps it's just my idiosyncratic sampling experience, but something like 80-90% of the undergraduates I meet who want to become "criminal psychologists" are actually interested in becoming FBI profilers). They don't, and the entire field of criminal profiling is shrouded in more than its share of scientific controversy (some research evidence, to be sure, but considerably more art than science at this point in time). Incidentally, I'd also encourage these students to look at the University of Arizona (and David's suggestions are also excellent ones). ..Scott ...Scott ...Scott Scott David Wasieleski wrote: I received my training at University of Alabama. The other traditionally strong programs in clinical forensic psychology are Florida State and Nebraska. John Jay in NYC is also a good program. Sam Houston State has a new program still awaiting APA accreditation, but that seems like an up-and-coming one as well. There are some master's level programs specifically in forensic psychology, but my understanding is that career options are limited without the doctorate, unless the student just wants to be a psychometrician or correctional counselor. As these are all clinical programs first, they should be psychology majors, although sociology or criminal justice are decent minors. David At 01:17 PM 9/7/2005, you wrote: This seems to be my day for questions I can’t answer. I have one student interested in forensic psychology and another interested in criminal psychology. Can you recommend any graduate programs in these areas (and also what undergraduate majors – if not plain old psychology) offer the best preparation? Thanks Linda Tollefsrud, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology University of Wisconsin - Barron County 1800 College Drive Rice Lake, WI 54868 (715) 234 8176 ext. 5417 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] David T. Wasieleski, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Psychology and Counseling Valdosta State University Valdosta, GA 31698 229-333-5620 http://chiron.valdosta.edu/dtwasieleski "The only thing that ever made sense in my life is the sound of my little girl laughing through the window on a summer night... Just the sound of my little girl laughing makes me happy just to be alive..." --Everclear "Song from an American Movie" --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- __ Dr. Rick Stevens __ Psychology Department __ University of Louisiana @ Monroe __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gulf states tipsters
I just got some more info.¨ I guess that my suggestion of toys was too late, at least for our local civic center group, I just heard that they have collected a bunch and are doing ok.¨ Other places may well still want toys.¨ This is from an e-mail about what is needed here: My school girl scout troop and my student council at Lee Junior High are collecting items badly needed at the area shelters and at the Civic Center. They need diapers, wipes, formula, baby food, and an wrapped cakes, cookies, fruit snacks, etc... They have also had a large request for ramen noodles. They are in need of shampoo, conditioner, and towels for bathing. If you would like to donate¨ anything, please let me know and I will get it and take it to the civic center. We know that there are so many in need. Everything is much appreciated! Thank you in advance. There have been several mentions of a need for food that doesn't need preparation, stuff that can be eaten out of the box or package would be handy. As to the college situation, Louisiana Tech (in Ruston, LA) is delaying their fall semester until Sept. 12th to allow students to come there.¨ They are a nice school, I think that they have around 12-15,000 students, and it is in a lovely small town with lots of pine trees.¨ It was said (a rumor) that if students had already paid tuition in some Louisiana school, other schools would be encouraged to sign them up and worry about the money later.¨ No mention was made of the books.¨ Many of the Tulane students have been taken in by a school in Georgia.¨ The chair here said that they just started today allowing students to enroll late here at ULM.¨ There are several schools in Louisiana and since the storm turned east others may be in good shape and willing to take in students, too. Kathy Morgan wrote: These suggestions about what to send folks down south (especially toys and things like that, that are unlikely to be thought of) are great! I have a different question--I have a friend whose daughter is a rising senior at LA State in NO.¨ She's already paid her tuition for the semester, and bought her books, etc.¨ All of which are now under water.¨ She has evacuated and is okay, but wants to figure out what to do about her schooling.¨ Does anyone know if any of the universities and colleges outside of NO are trying to accomodate these kids?¨ I asked our college admissions office and they said "no can do."¨ I wondered if any of the southern colleges and universities might be more accomodating. Thinking of y'all down there, and wishing you the best, --Kathy Morgan Wheaton College Norton, MA --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- __ Dr. Rick Stevens __ Psychology Department __ University of Louisiana @ Monroe __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gulf states tipsters
We are about 300 miles north of New Orleans, so we weren't even bothered by the storm.¨ However, we do have about 5000 refugees in the Monroe Civic Center.¨ One of the Psi Chi officers was out there and said that one problem was that the kids were going crazy (in a non-clinical sort of way).¨ A couple of them went out to help with the kids.¨ They also suggested that providing toys and activities for children was something that would be welcome that most people hadn't talked about yet.¨ Psi Chi and other groups on campus are collecting food, money, clothes, and all the normal stuff, too.¨ Many of the townspeople have houses full of friends and relatives that came here to escape the storm, so we may well have more than 5000 distributed around town.¨ Monroe and West Monroe have a (pre-storm) population of about 65,000.¨ If anyone wants to make donations I could find out about particular local agencies and their addresses.¨ I could also receive some stuff at school and get people to take it out to the Civic Center.¨ Annette Taylor, Ph. D. wrote: As soon as you all are back on your feet, please let the rest of us know what we can do to help you. I have an old dos-language computer, a P3 processor, I believe, I was looking to trash. It works perfectly well except it's slow and out of date on some capabilities but certainly can run windows and microsoft office with no problems. I wouldn't try to load SPSS on it.I can also donate some books. It's not much but I suspect some of you now have nothing. Maybe psychology clubs across the country can put together fund-raisers to raise cash for supplies for psych departments that have been affected. Feel free to ask for any help you may need. I feel confident in speaking for the rest of us who are safe in our homes, who have a thriving infrastructure, and who are watching the devastation as if it were someplace on another continent, that we will all help as much as we can. Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D. Department of Psychology University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 [EMAIL PROTECTED] This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- __ Dr. Rick Stevens __ Psychology Department __ University of Louisiana @ Monroe __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Old books
This is a post from Christopher Green, posted by way of me (Rick Stevens). Original Message Rick Stevens wrote: > I have seen references to a child-rearing book by Watson Watson & Rayner (1928). Psychological Care of Infant and Child. Norton. > and a self-help book (possibly the first) by Horney. Hmm. Possibly: Horney, Karen. Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Toward Self-Realization. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, Inc, 1950. or Horney, Karen. Self-Analysis. New York: W.W Norton and Company, Inc, 1942. -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 416-736-5115 ext. 66164 fax: 416-736-5814 http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ . -- -- Rick Stevens -- Psychology Department -- University of Louisiana at Monroe -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Old books
I have see references to a child-rearing book by Watson and a self-help book (possibly the first) by Horney. I've never see the titles mentioned. Does anyone know if they are available at all or even what the titles are so that one could check the online old book services? I did check the Classics in Psychology website but didn't see any likely candidates. -- __ Dr. Rick Stevens __ Psychology Department __ University of Louisiana @ Monroe __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Things you can do with a psychology degree
This thread has been very informative and it stimulated me to do some research of my own. I found this on the Princeston Review site. http://www.princetonreview.com/college/research/majors/funfacts.asp?majorID=234 === Fun Facts Sigmund Freud barely escaped persecution by the Nazis in his native Austria, fleeing to England just a few days before the Gestapo entered his home. Famous people who majored in Psychology Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, William James, and Jacques Lacan. === I was especially amused by the idea that barely escaping the Gestapo was a fun fact. Also, I hadn't realized that Freud majored in Psychology. I had been telling my students that he wasn't really a psychologist and that we didn't have to claim him. -- -- Rick Stevens -- Psychology Department -- University of Louisiana at Monroe -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: memory question
Annette Taylor, Ph. D. wrote: largely over-exagerated if it exists at all--there is a nice paper by Luria about a particular case study in which the man was basically nonfunctional because all the memories intruded on everything else he did. There is a whole (small) book by Luria, /The Mind of the Mnemonist/. I think that it is quite interesting. The subject had synesthesia and eidetic imagery would probably describe some of the things that he reported. And, while I hate to talk about (shudder) case studies on this list, Neisser's /Memory Observed/ has a couple that describe eidetic imagery. The latest edition of the book has a second author but I forget who it is. -- _ Rick Stevens _ Psychology Department _ University of Louisiana at Monroe _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A plea to post in plain text
Of course, the alternative is for the list to join the 21st century. ALL modern email clients read and create html messages very efficiently-and excluding html from the format simply means that we are using 1980s technology instead of modern tech. When I look at Leo's message where he replied to his own message I see a normal (no HTML) message at the top, but lots of code in the part that he replied to. I use Thunderbird for mail and I didn't see the code when he first sent the message. Assuming that 21st century technology has reached the Great White North, I wonder if there is something about the way that the digest function processes the message that makes even modern mail programs just see characters instead of translating the code. I've never really thought that the digest form sounded that appealing, but if someone didn't want to keep looking at messages as they dribble in perhaps it would work to set up a directory for TIPS and a filter that directs all TIPS messages to that directory. Then, you could just read them all at one time and avoid using the digest function. Others have made the same complaint in the past, so I went into my address book, went to the TIPS address, and chose 'properties'. I set it to 'prefers to receive plain text', but I don't really know if it helps people using the digest mode or not. -- _ Rick Stevens _ Psychology Department _ University of Louisiana at Monroe _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Make-up tests
Title: Re: Make-up tests Paul Brandon wrote: In a message dated 5/25/2005 1:08:11 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Beth Benoit Granite State College (our new name!) Portsmouth, New Hampshire Congratulations Beth. Now we can all take you for granite. Nancy Melucci Long Beach City College So is the new school song "Everybody must get stoned"? Wasn't that "Rainy Day Women" (Dylan) that had that as part of the lyrics? -- "No one in this world, so far as I know, has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people." -H. L. Mencken * PAUL K. BRANDON [EMAIL PROTECTED] * -- __ Dr. Rick Stevens __ Psychology Department __ University of Louisiana @ Monroe __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: attribution
Allen Esterson wrote: ... And, though of course it is possible, I have difficulty in imagining Einstein did so. Anybody for searching through "The World as I See It" and "Ideas and Opinions" to settle the issue? I thought not. An appropriate direction to take considering Einstein's use of 'thought experiments'. -- __ Dr. Rick Stevens __ Psychology Department __ University of Louisiana @ Monroe __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Job Opening
We have a late-season job opening. The University of Louisiana at Monroe announces a tenure track Assistant Professor position in Psychology to begin August of 2005. The successful candidate will hold teaching, research, and program development responsibilities in a psychology department offering masters and specialist degrees that emphasize applied Psychometrics, General Experimental and School Psychology orientations. Candidate qualifications include: earned doctorate in Psychology and interest in and evidence of scholarly productivity. Areas of specialization may include but are not limited to Health Psychology, Developmental Psychology and Research Methods. Previous college teaching experience is a plus. In addition to teaching, a major responsibility will be the supervision of graduate thesis projects. Women and minority candidates are encouraged to apply. Interested candidates should submit a letter of application, current vita and three letters of reference. The names, telephone numbers and email addresses of the individuals from whom you have requested that letters of reference be sent should be included in your submission packet. Submit application materials to: Jack A. Palmer, Ph.D., Psychology Department, 324, Strauss Hall, The University of Louisiana at Monroe, Monroe, LA 71209. Inquiries regarding the position or application process may also be directed to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Although applications will immediately be accepted, review of applications will begin on April 18, 2005 and will continue until the position is filled. ULM is an equal opportunity employer. -- __ Dr. Rick Stevens __ Psychology Department __ University of Louisiana @ Monroe __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Assistant Professor.doc Description: MS-Word document --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cognitive Daily
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder how Field Dependence and Field Independence might modulate this phenomenon (does anyone have access to the Embedded Figures test?). You can access the GEFT at http://www.mindgarden.com/products/gefts.htm -- __ Dr. Rick Stevens __ Psychology Department __ University of Louisiana @ Monroe __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: There is a Free Lunch After All
Karl L. Wuensch wrote: The student who wants a free extra credit lunch has simply to sign up for that high credit, four hour research participation opportunity, show up, decline to participate, and then assert her rights not to be penalized for suspending participation. I wonder what would happen if many of our students realized they can do this? I do the same thing. I have had a few ask if what they read means that they can get up and leave then and get credit. I tell them yes. I usually get a grin, but no one has ever just left. I feel like, if we ask them to be there at a certain time and they show up, they deserve credit. In theory (but unlikely), they could have read something in the informed consent that indicates that they are to do something that they would not want to do. They could also find it embarrassing to explain. But, I do think that it would be fair to only give them 1 credit for showing up, rather than 4, if it was a 4-hour study. -- _ Rick Stevens _ Psychology Department _ University of Louisiana at Monroe _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: E-Books: high cost of textbooks
Tim-- I would appreciate a specific reference to a tablet sized LCD with 1000 dpi resolution. I'm not sure that 1000 dpi would be needed to be a viable alternative. Laser printers with 300-600 dpi look very crisp. I think that commercial photo printers use 314 dpi. Still, I don't know of any displays with resolution that good, either. -- __ Dr. Rick Stevens (not the Rick that started this topic) __ Psychology Department __ University of Louisiana @ Monroe __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: disk quota/use of technology
Title: Message I think that your rationale should be, "I am not someone who only stores text files." My 512 meg flash drive is over half full with PowerPoints and such. I do the advertising flyers for a campus lecture series and soon I'll have another 50-100 megs in graphics for that. There are probably a lot of people who don't even need 100 megs, but I doubt that you will stand out in the crowd when you ask for more space. Nathalie Cote wrote: Sort of in the area of using technology in teaching psychology: At my college, faculty are encouraged to keep their computer files on a centralized server system rather than on their desktop hard drive, so that their files get backed up regularly. We were recently notified that we will be limited to 100 MB of server space. Individuals can ask for a higher limit if they can give a good rationale. Even after winnowing out old files and duplicates, I'm at 150 MB, so I'm going to request more space. Now I'm trying to reason out my justification. Part of it will include that I make extensive use of PowerPoint in teaching, and those files are often graphic-heavy space hogs. Given that publishers have started providing us with digital video clips, as I start incorporating those into my PowerPoint slides I can see that I am going to have some even bigger files to store. I don't want to have to carry around a library of CDs - it's much more efficient to keep everything at my fingertips on my faculty server. I assume that many TIPsters are heavy technology users. My question to you: What are the server space limits that you are subject to? How do you handle your files if you have limited hard drive or server space? Thanks for your help, Nathalie * Nathalie Cote', Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology Belmont Abbey College 100 Belmont - Mt. Holly Rd. Belmont, NC 28012 Tel 704-825-6754 Fax 704-825-6239 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- __ Dr. Rick Stevens __ Psychology Department __ University of Louisiana @ Monroe __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jeopardy PowerPoint revision
Some time back I sent out dozens of copies of a PowerPoint-based Jeopardy review. I've been using it for some time, just taking an old one and writing in new questions. However, after the computer that I use the most for class got upgraded to Office 2003 I found that the original, written with Office 97, had an occasional glitch. Also, while the combination of clicking some action buttons and rolling over others worked fine for me, it did seem to confuse some people. So, I have made a new version. All buttons are clicked on. The funny sounds that I used in the old one are gone, there is just a click when you return to the first screen (the one that looks like a Jeopardy board), and Alex saying something about the Daily Double when you hit that one. There are still two manual buttons that will play the theme and the time's up sound if you click them. I also put a code in the upper right of each question slide telling you which of the 7 categories it belongs with and what the dollar value is. That should make creating questions and grouping them in categories a little easier. I've gotten a lot of mileage out of the game, using it for a test review. So, should anyone wish to take a look, you can download it from here: http://www.ulm.edu/~stevens/review_page.htm It is a little under 600K. Questions and comments are welcome. -- _ Rick Stevens _ Psychology Department _ University of Louisiana at Monroe _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Koocher responds
On 4 Dec 2004, Allen Esterson wrote: It is unfortunate that Stephen used the term "false memory therapy", as of course no one advocates the use of techniques to facilitate the production of false memories per se. Perhaps someone should. If it is possible to implant false memories of trauma and make people feel worse, then perhaps it would be possible to implant false happy memories to make people feel better. -- __ Dr. Rick Stevens __ Psychology Department __ University of Louisiana @ Monroe __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: when things go wrong in the classroom
I would suggest using adjectives for a serial position demo. They are harder to recall than nouns. The recall is lower overall but more consistent and, for me, they have made a more obvious curve. However, I usually don't do it with classes of less than 25-30. -- __ Dr. Rick Stevens __ Psychology Department __ University of Louisiana @ Monroe __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: S&P question
As to Michael's question
Do they look darker or blacker?
The student's comments about hair might suggest a change that might not
be exactly like adding black to the current color, her blonde hair
looks brown.
Ken Steele wrote:
I have an explanation for the change for blacktop roads.
The rain washes away the dust and grit, leaving the blacktop exposed.
Ken
If my memory serves me, individual drops are visible on
blacktop when it first starts to rain, and they appear darker before
any washing action has had a chance to change the surface. I'm
thinking that it might have something to do with leveling the
reflective surface due to the surface tension of water and filling in
little bumps that diffuse light, or something like that.
Rick Stevens wrote:
We have talked some about color and one
student asked why, when stuff gets wet, it seems darker in color.
Examples such as her blonde hair after washing, clothes that get water
on them, and blacktop roads that seem blacker when wet were proposed.
Does anyone have an answer?
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S&P question
We have talked some about color and one student asked why, when stuff gets wet, it seems darker in color. Examples such as her blonde hair after washing, clothes that get water on them, and blacktop roads that seem blacker when wet were proposed. Does anyone have an answer? -- __ Dr. Rick Stevens __ Psychology Department __ University of Louisiana @ Monroe __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Departmental Vision Ideas
It's the calm, moderated, low-volume version of TIPS for those who can't stand all of the excitement found on this list. DeVolder Carol L wrote: What's the PsychTeach list? Carol -Original Message- From: Jeff Bartel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 3:00 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences Subject: Departmental Vision Ideas Sorry for the crosspost; those of you on the PsychTeach list have already seen this message. Steve wanted to post it to TIPS, but he's not subscribed. So I'm passing it along for him. Feel free to respond off-list, and I'll forward a summary to the list. Thanks, Jeff -Begin Forwarded Message- Greetings Colleagues, Our Department recently completed a 5-year review and one of the suggestions for thinking ahead to the next 5 years was to spend some time developing a vision statement. The main thrust of the suggestion was to "dream" or think of what would be an ideal psychology department within the coming years. I would greatly appreciate any suggestions that you have developed as a result of a similar process of "thinking ahead". Many thanks in advance for your thoughts, Steven J. Haase [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Steven J. Haase Assistant Professor of Psychology Shippensburg University 101 FSC Shippensburg, PA 17257 717-477-1160 717-477-4057 (fax) website: www.ship.edu/~sjhaas/ -End Forwarded Message- -- __ Dr. Rick Stevens __ Psychology Department __ University of Louisiana @ Monroe __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: public access to the TIPS archives
I kind of thought that anyone could subscribe, it's a mechanical process. I assumed that it's just that non-teachers get quickly bored with the lack of discussions about sex and crazies and move on. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for letting me know that even more of our correspondence is open to all. This only strengthen my original comment that I was surprised and disturbed to find that our discussions are open to public view. As a private listserve not open to public participation, why are our archives open? Any explanation? Anyone else concerned about this? Riki Koenigsberg --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- _ Rick Stevens _ Psychology Department _ University of Louisiana at Monroe _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Popular Songs about Psychology
Another good psych-related song is Tom Lehrer's "Oedipus Rex". Some lyrics from "Oedipus Rex", There once lived a man named Oedipus Rex. You may have heard about his odd complex. His name appears in Freud's index 'Cause he loved his mother. His rivals used to say quite a bit, That as a monarch he was most unfit. But still in all they had to admit That he loved his mother. Plus, a loose association to the songs suggested below, "How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away?", by Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks. Christopher D. Green wrote: Charles M. Huffman wrote: I Can’t Get Adjusted to the You Who Got Adjusted to Me This isn't quite the right category, but since this is an unmoderated list One of my old favorites is Robert Fripp's "I may not have enough of me but I've had enough of you" (he said, rapidly burning his three-posts-per day on old rock tunes). Regards, -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 416-736-5115 ext. 66164 fax: 416-736-5814 http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ . --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- __ Dr. Rick Stevens __ Psychology Department __ University of Louisiana @ Monroe __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Popular Songs about Mental Illness
A couple of my favorites are Madman Across the Water, by Elton John, and I Don't Like Mondays, by the Boomtown Rats. The former sounds schizophrenic and sad. The latter sounds kind of perky but is about a 16 year-old girl who shot up a grade school, injuring several students and killing a couple of adults. When asked why she said, "I don't like Mondays." This is from snopes.com... On 29 January 1979, 16-year-old Brenda Ann Spencer opened fire on children arriving at Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego from her house across the street, killing two men and wounding eight students and a police officer. Principal Burton Wragg was attempting to rescue children in the line of fire when he was shot and killed, and custodian Mike Suchar was slain attempting to aid Wragg. Spencer used a rifle her father had given her as a gift. As to what impelled her into this form of murderous madness, she told a reporter,''I don't like Mondays. This livens up the day.'' The "Mondays" comment was not the only eyebrow-raising declaration to issue from Spencer that day. According to a report written by the police negotiators who spoke with her during the six-hour standoff, she made such comments to them as ''There was no reason for it, and it was just a lot of fun''; ''It was just like shooting ducks in a pond''; and ''[the children ] looked like a herd of cows standing around, it was really easy pickings.'' Jeff Bartel wrote: on 7/16/2004 9:48 AM Marjorie S. Hardy said the following: I'm teaching Abnormal Psychology this fall and am looking to do something a little different this time. I've always been interested in the depiction of mental illness in the media. Instead of films this time (which can be long, expensive, and difficult to fit into classtime), I thought I would bring some popular and classical rock songs (maybe some country as well?) to class to introduce the different disorders. I often play music before my general psychology class, and I allow students to submit song ideas for extra credit. I compiled a list of songs that correspond to the chapters I cover, and they're available from this page: http://www.ship.edu/~jsbart/psy101/music.html Scroll down toward the bottom, and you'll find the songs relevant to the Psychological Disorders chapter. It's been a couple of semesters since I've updated the list, so you'll find that there aren't too many recent songs on it. In fact, the list started out as only being relevant songs that I owned, and about 3/4 of it remains that way. Given that my music collection hasn't been growing much recently, you'll find most of the songs date from the late '60s to mid '90s or so. Jeff -- __ Dr. Rick Stevens __ Psychology Department __ University of Louisiana @ Monroe __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You'll Laugh, You'll Cry... Cosmoeniopsychology Science
You'll laugh when you see how goofy this is. You'll cry when you think of the people being taken in, or at least shake your head and wonder about them. This site was pointed out by the James Randi web site. Randi - http://www.randi.org/ The text below comes from - http://www.galaxywave.com/ --- We reverse the symptoms of autism, autism spectrum disorder, Aspergers, ADD, ADHD, delayed development disorders and many learning disabilities. We have a proven program that returns normalcy to autistic children and adults. We have brought speech back to many who have not communicated since their vaccinations. Our autism reversal program produces immediate positive results in just days and weeks. The ADAM technology is implemented in two parts. One is the ADAM machine itself; the other is a computer (and the program in the computer) that is interfaced to the ADAM machine. The ADAM machine opens a dimensional rift allowing direct communication between the machine and the other dimension. Cosmoeniopsychology Science Dr. Nataliya Dobrova, Director of Parapsychology, Galaxy Wave Group, LLC We consider each person as a Complex Emotional-Bio-Energy-Information System. A Microcosm when combined reflects a Macrocosm – the Universe. All of a person's organs and systems have their own electro-magnetic rhythms. Disharmony in this rhythmic activity signifies disease. Disease and illness appears when the person cannot maintain the balance between harmonic and disharmonic fluctuations. -- __ Dr. Rick Stevens __ Psychology Department __ University of Louisiana @ Monroe __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
frequency range of voices
I have not been able to find a clear statement of the frequencies of various voices. I would like to know what the frequency range of men in normal conversation, women in conversation, and children's conversational voices might be. Also, I'd like to know the ranges of men and women when they are trained singers singing at the upper and lower ends of their frequency ranges. -- __ Dr. Rick Stevens __ Psychology Department __ University of Louisiana @ Monroe __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wagon-wheel illusion again
I think that Tom should go immediately out and try this again and have someone take some pictures. Intro books of the future will want to illustrate the discovery of the Allaway Phenomenon with a picture of a guy cranking a salad spinner with one hand while holding an electric toothbrush to his chin (although I think that holding it to the forehead would look cooler). If they want to save money they could use the picture again in the abnormal behavior section. David Hogberg wrote: Tom: Way to go! It's really pretty exciting to be able to nearly (electronically) look over your shoulder as you were doing this most convincing demo of the phenomenon. Anyone up for supporting a movement to call this The Allaway Phenomenon? DKH David K. Hogberg, PhD Professor of Psychology, Emeritus Albion College, Albion MI 49224 [EMAIL PROTECTED] home phone: 517/629-4834 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/19/04 17:01 PM >>> To all, but especially Stephen, Doug and David: I do believe I've got it! The demonstration experiment involved, in my case, a small kitchen device similar to a salad spinner, containing a rotating perforated plastic tub. When spun under a flourescent light, it showed a clear "wagon wheel effect" (i.e., the temporary appearance and reverse rotation of the perforations during deceleration). I took it outside, and there was no effect to be observed. The crucial test: with my only source being daylight, I applied to my skull a vibratory stimulus, in the form of the business end of an electric toothbrush (minus the brush part) pressed against my chin. Violets! There was the wagon wheel effect! Q.E.D. Let's hear it for empiricism. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- _ Rick Stevens _ Psychology Department _ University of Louisiana at Monroe _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Milgrams study & ethics
http://www.milgramreenactment.org/pages/section.xml?location=6 alexia elliott wrote: Hello All Can anyone recommend any useful sites for ethical issues associated with Milgram's (1963 or any interesting info would be much appreciated Alexia -- __ Dr. Rick Stevens __ Psychology Department __ University of Louisiana @ Monroe __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New Address
Bill Scott wrote: Puh-leeze, I'm a sometimes contributor but usually lurker here. As someone who believes that variety is intellectually stimulating, I enjoy reading Mr. Sylvester's jibes, ersatz questions, and racially motivated comments. ... I don't enjoy reading Sylvester's stuff, but I don't see why I should try to keep others from doing so, especially when it is so easy to set up a filter and send anything from his address to the trash (or any other folder you choose). With another line or two you can filter messages that are replies to his messages as long as his name or address was left at the top. I like Tips better this way. I would suggest that, instead of trying to make Tips what you want it to be, try customizing what you see of it on your end. -- _ Rick Stevens _ Psychology Department _ University of Louisiana at Monroe _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: new address
Thanks. Message filter adjusted. Michael Sylvester wrote: Please note my e-mailaddress change: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=""> --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- __ Dr. Rick Stevens __ Psychology Department __ University of Louisiana @ Monroe __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Elizabeth Loftus
Allen Esterson wrote: In his review in the Mail-on-Sunday Craig Brown wrote: “And on closer investigation by Slater, Loftus herself appears a little kooky, to put it mildly, often bursting into tears, slamming down the phone and taking her cause to such an extreme length that she has appeared as an expert witness for the defence in support of such obvious creeps and charlatans as the parent-murdering Menendez brothers and the serial killer Ted 'Son of Sam' Bundy. Just a minor point, here, 'Son of Sam' was Berkowitz, not Bundy. And, of course, it's a bit misleading to say that she was "... in support of such obvious creeps...". It's not like she was a character witness, she testified on issues of the validity of memories as evidence. -- __ Dr. Rick Stevens __ Psychology Department __ University of Louisiana @ Monroe __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Special Topic Classes
I'm doing a human factors class. Deb Briihl wrote: We are developing a special topics section for our students - a class that would be rotated through 6 or 7 faculty members. What special topic classes have you taught for your students that you have found to be successful? Deb Dr. Deborah S. Briihl Dept. of Psychology and Counseling Valdosta State University Valdosta, GA 31698 (229) 333-5994 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://chiron.valdosta.edu/dbriihl/ Well I know these voices must be my soul... Rhyme and Reason - DMB --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- __ Dr. Rick Stevens __ Psychology Department __ University of Louisiana @ Monroe __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need a reference
This could be related to Paivio's Dual Coding theory, although not exactly 'using more senses to accrue information'. I think that Paivio, A. (1969). Mental imagery in associative learning and memory. Psychological Review, 76, 241-263. would be a place to start. Perhaps looking at the stuff related to the Montesorri school approach would work, too. Kathleen Kleissler wrote: Does anyone have a reference for the concept that the more senses we use in accruing information, the better the retention and/or understanding of that information will be? I have been searching Psychinfo for the past half hour and I just can’t seem to find a source to support this. Is my lack of success due to that fact that I have failed to use the right set of terms to access this data, or the fact that this idea is a psych myth? Thanks for your help! Kathleen Kleissler Dept. of Psychology Kutztown University Kutztown, PA 19530 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 610-298-3313 --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- __ Dr. Rick Stevens __ Psychology Department __ University of Louisiana @ Monroe __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Our grad program
If you have students who are still looking for a grad program you might suggest they check us out. We are actively recruiting students. Our M.S. degree includes 3 concentrations, general experimental, school psych, and psychometrics. Students can also pursue a specialist in school psychology. http://www.ulm.edu/~chutto/Welcome.html -- __ Dr. Rick Stevens __ Psychology Department __ University of Louisiana @ Monroe __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: website request
I use the My Yahoo page and I get the Oddly Enough News >From Reuters and the Strange News from AP sent to the page. I'm not sure how to access them directly. Hey folks. Does anyone have any recommendations for websites that have humorous or uplifting news stories? I teach a large (60+) intro class and am trying to do something at the beginning of each class to grab their attention and personalize things a bit. News stories that are current and timely and that tie in some psychology concept would be great. For example, the other day someone sent me an article about a Mars Hills College student who undressed in the middle of a class when her professor told her that anyone who would disrobe would receive an A. Students thought this was funny and we tied in some psychology concepts related to authority and motivation. It was an entertaining start to the class. Anyone have any suggestions for website that have these kinds of stories? __ Roderick D. Hetzel, Ph.D. Department of Psychology LeTourneau University Post Office Box 7001 2100 South Mobberly Avenue Longview, Texas 75607-7001 Office: Education Center 218 Phone:903-233-3893 Fax: 903-233-3851 Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- __ Dr. Rick Stevens __ Psychology Department __ University of Louisiana @ Monroe __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Turing test result?
For more info you might check out this Turing Test page http://cogsci.ucsd.edu/~asaygin/tt/ttest.html Paul Smith wrote: The Turing Test was a thought experiment, suggested by Alan Turing as a criterion with which to answer the question "Can a computer be intelligent?" (or something similar, anyway). It's not an actual description of a single historical event with a specific computer. Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee -Original Message- From: Marie Helweg-Larsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 4:51 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences Subject: Turing test result? My students are reading Stanovich's How to Think Straight about Psychology. Stanovich describes the Turing proposal (end of Chp 3) and the basic test: Can a human communicating with a computer and communicating with a human being (in another room) tell who is the computer and who is the human? However, Stanovich never reveals the result of the Turing test. So did the test show that people could not reliably tell who the computer was and who the human was? On a related note, what is the current state of AI on this issue? Can humans in general be fooled into thinking computers are human? Marie -- _ Rick Stevens _ Psychology Department _ University of Louisiana at Monroe _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: in-college discussion group
I administer a small list related to a lecture series here. There are around 70 members. There isn't a lot of activity, it is used largely to notify members of upcoming events. It is set to allow only members and it notifies me of spam, which I have to delete manually. I set up a web page for the series http://www.ulm.edu/~stevens/nexus/ which has a link to the list's membership page. When people want to join or leave I first refer them to that address. When they sign up it sends a monthly reminder of their password and how to get off the list or set options. It's not too much trouble. Beth Benoit wrote: At a recent faculty meeting it was suggested that an online discussion group might be helpful to the faculty. I teach at a small college where all faculty members are adjunct. Since we're all adjunct, there's not much hanging around and none of us have offices. It's a state college with an emphasis on adult learners, with small, mostly night classes. Since the classes are held in a one-night-a-week forum (3 1/2 hours each), we usually get to know only the others who teach a class on the same night. Many meet each other only at the occasional "faculty forums" which most enjoy a lot, sharing suggestions and problems, but then not seeing each other again for months. I told them about TIPS and they thought a discussion group just for our college faculty would be great. So guess who volunteered to get it going... Any suggestions from anyone? (Bill, do you want to warn me to back out NOW?) Does anyone else have an active group just within the college? Beth Benoit University System of New Hampshire (soon to be "Granite State" when the House of Representatives approves) --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- _ Rick Stevens _ Psychology Department _ University of Louisiana at Monroe _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Position Announcement - University of Louisiana at Monroe
POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT Assistant Professor (tenure track) position in Psychology DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES The successful candidate will hold teaching, research, and program development responsibilities in a psychology department offering masters and specialist degrees that emphasize applied psychometrics, general experimental, and school psychology orientations. QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS Earned doctorate in Psychology and interest in and evidence of scholarly productivity are required. Candidates with applied experiences (School/Counseling/Clinical), knowledge of multivariate designs and data analyses, and those with previous college teaching experience especially are encouraged to apply. SALARY Commensurate with experience Applications will immediately be accepted and reviewed until the position is filled. Interested candidates should submit a letter of application, current vita, and the names, telephone numbers, and email addresses of three individuals from whom you have requested that letters of reference be sent to: Veronica E. Lewis, Ph.D. Psychology Department 319 Strauss Hall The University of Louisiana at Monroe Monroe, LA 71209 Inquiries regarding the position or application process may also be directed to Dr. Lewis at (318) 342-1332 or [EMAIL PROTECTED]. The University of Louisiana at Monroe is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. -- __ Dr. Rick Stevens __ Psychology Department __ University of Louisiana @ Monroe __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Run/Walk in the Rain
I believe that long ago I saw some net anecdote about engineering students holding rolls of paper towels on their heads and either running or walking through the rain. They then weighed the towels. David Campbell wrote: Here's one for the research methods class (though it lacks direct psyc'l relevance). Imagine you are headed to your car in a campus parking lot. It is raining and you don't have your rain gear. What would make you wetter--running or walking? How could you empirically test your reasoned answer? -- __ Dr. Rick Stevens __ Psychology Department __ University of Louisiana @ Monroe __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dreamweaver? GoLive? FrontPage?
Rumor has it that Front Page is not available for the new Mac system. I've been using Dreamweaver and I like it. I mostly use it on my desktop PCs but I have it installed on my G4 laptop. It seems to work the same on both platforms. David Epstein wrote: This summer, for the first time since 1997, I'm going to teach again. I'd like to have a Web page, as I did in 1997. The difference between now and 1997 is that I will no longer try to code all my html in WordPerfect 5.0 for DOS. So which software are you Tipsters using to maintain your Web pages? Is there anything I should seek or avoid? My preferred platform is Mac Os X. thanks, David Epstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- _ Rick Stevens _ Psychology Department _ University of Louisiana at Monroe _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Human Factors research help
In the 2002 edition he changed the name to "The Design of Everyday Things". Stephen Black wrote: On 4 Dec 2003, G. Marc Turner wrote: Okay, here's an end of the semester plea for assistance... I have a student who is very interested in human factors and usability that will be doing some research with me in the Spring. I'm currently looking for information to provide her to review during the break between Fall and Spring to learn more about research on human factors in general and its relation to psychology. Unfortunately, most of what I'm finding are guidelines and recommendations, with little empirical support provided. Don't know if this is what you're looking for (the standard disclaimer) but you might check out the website of the ineffable Donald Norman (he of the remarkable book "The psychology of everyday things"). For empirical support, you could browse his publication list in his curriculum vitae available there. For that matter, it would probably be useful to check the bibliographies in TPET and his more recent books, as I recall his discussions to be well-supported with references. The url is http://www.jnd.org/ A student could do worse than to study his accomplishments in the field of human factors and usability. Stephen ___ Stephen L. Black, Ph.D.tel: (819) 822-9600 ext 2470 Department of Psychology fax: (819) 822-9661 Bishop's University e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lennoxville, QC J1M 1Z7 Canada Dept web page at http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy TIPS discussion list for psychology teachers at http://faculty.frostburg.edu/psyc/southerly/tips/index.htm ___ --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- __ Dr. Rick Stevens __ Psychology Department __ University of Louisiana @ Monroe __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The old PowerPoint/chalkboard dichotomy
I don't exactly see it as a dichotomy. I use a media cart for PowerPoint and I park it where I can also use the chalkboard. I got a bit of interactivity out of PowerPoint while talking about the Tower of Hanoi problem. I used the primitive drawing abilities to draw the 3 pegs and the 5 disks, just rectangles in side view. When I get to it I go from presentation mode to edit mode. I then have the students call out what disks to move where and I can grab them with the mouse and scoot them over. I also like using the sounds. I have collected hundreds of wav files including South Park, Looney Toons, gunshots, animal sounds, and musical notes. A quick laugh from "respect my authority" wakes students up a little. In fact, humor in the illustrations, the sounds, the backgrounds (I never use a prepared slide design), and the text are big components of a presentation for me. I figure that if you are a boring person you will make boring PowerPoints. David Byrne has made a coffee table book with PowerPoint as art on DVD. I'm curious, but not curious enough to go for the $160+ price tag. -- __ Dr. Rick Stevens __ Psychology Department __ University of Louisiana @ Monroe __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Watson and advertising
I often mention in class about how Watson applied his expertise to advertising. However, I have never read anything that he wrote specifically about that. I was wondering if I was correct in assuming that by pairing a pleasant image with the product name and/or image, the product is supposed to become a CS for the US of the pretty woman, mountain scenery, or whatever. When faced with two brands of some product, the one that produces a slight positive emotional response should be the one chosen. More specifically, I was wondering how he handled the CS-US relationship in a print ad. On the surface, they are presented simultaneously. This is not an effective relationship. We don't see an image "all at once", so I suppose that if our attention was drawn first to the product (CS), then to the pleasant imagery (US) that would work. However, if there is an ad with an attractive young woman holding a beer can I notice the beer can second. So, did Watson address this directly? Someone asked in an earlier message about the coffee break. In Hothersall's _History of Psychology_, it states, "To increase the sales of Maxwell House coffee Watson devised the coffee break". It also says that his, "... manipulation of consumers' emotions were blatant. In an advertisement for the Scott Paper Company, Watson featured a photograph of a surgical team at work with the caption 'And the trouble began with harsh toilet tissue'." Another interesting comment is that he started the 'I'd walk a mile for a camel' slogan. Pairing your product with surgery and the term 'harsh toilet tissue' doesn't seem like a clear application of classical conditioning. It seems like a more complex, perhaps cognitive (behaviorists wince here) process of getting people to develop a fear of harsh toilet tissue, while 'realizing' that Scott tissue is not harsh. Avoiding the feared harsh tissue by buying Scott tissue would result in negative reinforcement. I can imagine that happening, but I also can imagine people developing a fear of Scott tissue. -- _ Rick Stevens _ Psychology Department _ University of Louisiana at Monroe _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
