[tips] reply to bill and new student Q
I completely miss the point of your response and will not be able to respond again until tomorrow. And drat! I had ANOTHER student question to post: Is it common or rare or even possible that eye color changes across the life span? I am merely suggesting that Hake makes a good point. Given that we have a background in the areas of the many factors that make for good educational practice why are we not the driving force in that are of research and literature? If you examine the literature on outcomes assessment it is dominated by the hard sciences. Yet, there can be no denial based on my own published research and the literature reviews therein, that we, as a discipline of psychology are doing a horrible job of disabusing students of the psychobabble they come into our courses with. We are perfectly happy to fill students up with the facts as we see them, and never pay any attention as to whether or not they have taken the false preconceptions and replaced them with correct conceptions. We pay no attention to pedagogies and teaching techniques that could benefit our discipline in the public eye, by doing so. And I guess for that matter maybe we should have better behaved pets and children 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, 21 Oct 2009 15:14:18 -0400 From: William Scott wsc...@wooster.edu Subject: Re: [tips] Reclaiming TIPS To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@acsun.frostburg.edu tay...@sandiego.edu 10/21/09 3:04 PM ... things like student learning outcomes, how best to effect assessments, and [why] are psychologists NOT at the forefront of this work? And psychologists should have well behaved dogs and children, too! Bill Scott --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
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I can answer the eye color question somewhat--eye color does change as one ages. Eyes tend to become less intense in their color (everything fades or shrivels as you age...). It isn't likely that one will change from brown eyes to blue eyes or vice versa (I know of no such event). However, I also find it interesting that the new product to make lashes grow (Latisse, which was originally developed to treat glaucoma) causes deposit of pigment and can actually make one's blue eyes brown, permanently. Carol Carol DeVolder, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology Chair, Department of Psychology St. Ambrose University Davenport, Iowa 52803 phone: 563-333-6482 e-mail: devoldercar...@sau.edu -Original Message- From: tay...@sandiego.edu [mailto:tay...@sandiego.edu] Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 3:17 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] reply to bill and new student Q I completely miss the point of your response and will not be able to respond again until tomorrow. And drat! I had ANOTHER student question to post: Is it common or rare or even possible that eye color changes across the life span? I am merely suggesting that Hake makes a good point. Given that we have a background in the areas of the many factors that make for good educational practice why are we not the driving force in that are of research and literature? If you examine the literature on outcomes assessment it is dominated by the hard sciences. Yet, there can be no denial based on my own published research and the literature reviews therein, that we, as a discipline of psychology are doing a horrible job of disabusing students of the psychobabble they come into our courses with. We are perfectly happy to fill students up with the facts as we see them, and never pay any attention as to whether or not they have taken the false preconceptions and replaced them with correct conceptions. We pay no attention to pedagogies and teaching techniques that could benefit our discipline in the public eye, by doing so. And I guess for that matter maybe we should have better behaved pets and children 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, 21 Oct 2009 15:14:18 -0400 From: William Scott wsc...@wooster.edu Subject: Re: [tips] Reclaiming TIPS To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@acsun.frostburg.edu tay...@sandiego.edu 10/21/09 3:04 PM ... things like student learning outcomes, how best to effect assessments, and [why] are psychologists NOT at the forefront of this work? And psychologists should have well behaved dogs and children, too! Bill Scott --- 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)
Re: [tips] reply to bill and new student Q
And drat! I had ANOTHER student question to post: Is it common or rare or even possible that eye color changes across the life span? Yes, the color can. You see this most often in very young infants, however, as we age the lens of our eye does yellow, so that could be causing some color change as well. -- Deb Dr. Deborah S. Briihl Dept. of Psychology and Counseling Valdosta State University 229-333-5994 dbri...@valdosta.edu --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
Re: [tips] reply to bill and new student Q
One of your questions was: (2) Is there a purpose to having different eye and hair color? Most of the world's population has dark hair and brown eyes, so one could start by looking at the distribution of non-dark hair and eyes. Blonde and red hair both occur historically at northern/western european geographies and they also co-occur with pale skin. So they may confer some of the same advantages in terms of vit D production at northern climates, or they could be characteristics that don't have an adaptive function but just genetically got swept along with the pale skin. Without a lot of north-south movement and intermixing, it is easy to see how they variants could be maintained in the population. Whether it is advantageous to have hair and eye colour different to the majority in one's own population is a different question, but sexual selection could drive the maintenance of minority variants if so. Sally Walters - Original Message - From: tay...@sandiego.edu To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@acsun.frostburg.edu Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 1:16 PM Subject: [tips] reply to bill and new student Q I completely miss the point of your response and will not be able to respond again until tomorrow. And drat! I had ANOTHER student question to post: Is it common or rare or even possible that eye color changes across the life span? I am merely suggesting that Hake makes a good point. Given that we have a background in the areas of the many factors that make for good educational practice why are we not the driving force in that are of research and literature? If you examine the literature on outcomes assessment it is dominated by the hard sciences. Yet, there can be no denial based on my own published research and the literature reviews therein, that we, as a discipline of psychology are doing a horrible job of disabusing students of the psychobabble they come into our courses with. We are perfectly happy to fill students up with the facts as we see them, and never pay any attention as to whether or not they have taken the false preconceptions and replaced them with correct conceptions. We pay no attention to pedagogies and teaching techniques that could benefit our discipline in the public eye, by doing so. And I guess for that matter maybe we should have better behaved pets and children 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, 21 Oct 2009 15:14:18 -0400 From: William Scott wsc...@wooster.edu Subject: Re: [tips] Reclaiming TIPS To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@acsun.frostburg.edu tay...@sandiego.edu 10/21/09 3:04 PM ... things like student learning outcomes, how best to effect assessments, and [why] are psychologists NOT at the forefront of this work? And psychologists should have well behaved dogs and children, too! Bill Scott --- 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)
RE: [tips] reply to bill and new student Q
No...sigh...my lashes are short and my eyes are green. Carol Carol L. DeVolder, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology Chair, Department of Psychology St. Ambrose University 518 West Locust Street Davenport, Iowa 52803 Phone: 563-333-6482 e-mail: devoldercar...@sau.edu web: http://web.sau.edu/psychology/psychfaculty/cdevolder.htm The contents of this message are confidential and may not be shared with anyone without permission of the sender. -Original Message- From: Mark A. Casteel [mailto:ma...@psu.edu] Sent: Wed 10/21/2009 5:06 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Cc: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] reply to bill and new student Q Carol - I just have to ask. Does your knowledge that the use of Latisse can makes ones blue eyes brown come from personal experience? :) Mark At 04:24 PM 10/21/2009, DeVolder Carol L wrote: I can answer the eye color question somewhat--eye color does change as one ages. Eyes tend to become less intense in their color (everything fades or shrivels as you age...). It isn't likely that one will change from brown eyes to blue eyes or vice versa (I know of no such event). However, I also find it interesting that the new product to make lashes grow (Latisse, which was originally developed to treat glaucoma) causes deposit of pigment and can actually make one's blue eyes brown, permanently. Carol Carol DeVolder, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology Chair, Department of Psychology St. Ambrose University Davenport, Iowa 52803 phone: 563-333-6482 e-mail: devoldercar...@sau.edu -Original Message- From: tay...@sandiego.edu [mailto:tay...@sandiego.edu] Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 3:17 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] reply to bill and new student Q I completely miss the point of your response and will not be able to respond again until tomorrow. And drat! I had ANOTHER student question to post: Is it common or rare or even possible that eye color changes across the life span? I am merely suggesting that Hake makes a good point. Given that we have a background in the areas of the many factors that make for good educational practice why are we not the driving force in that are of research and literature? If you examine the literature on outcomes assessment it is dominated by the hard sciences. Yet, there can be no denial based on my own published research and the literature reviews therein, that we, as a discipline of psychology are doing a horrible job of disabusing students of the psychobabble they come into our courses with. We are perfectly happy to fill students up with the facts as we see them, and never pay any attention as to whether or not they have taken the false preconceptions and replaced them with correct conceptions. We pay no attention to pedagogies and teaching techniques that could benefit our discipline in the public eye, by doing so. And I guess for that matter maybe we should have better behaved pets and children 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, 21 Oct 2009 15:14:18 -0400 From: William Scott wsc...@wooster.edu Subject: Re: [tips] Reclaiming TIPS To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@acsun.frostburg.edu tay...@sandiego.edu 10/21/09 3:04 PM ... things like student learning outcomes, how best to effect assessments, and [why] are psychologists NOT at the forefront of this work? And psychologists should have well behaved dogs and children, too! Bill Scott --- 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) * Mark A. Casteel, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology Penn State York 1031 Edgecomb Ave. York, PA 17403 (717) 771-4028 * --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)winmail.dat
