PKU question
Tipsters: I'm not often stumped by student questions (at least not that I admit), but a student in my lifespan development class posed an interesting question...when a baby is born with PKU can the mother breastfeed, or does mother's milk contain phenylalanines? Anyone out there know the answer, off the top of your head? Shirley Hensch -- Shirley Hensch, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Psychology University of Wisconsin - Marshfield/Wood County mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Re: PKU question
Title: Re: PKU question Since PKU diets require lowering the amount of protein in a baby's diet, a PKU baby can be partially breastfed (emphasis on "partially") - that is, just enough to give the baby the minimal protein it needs for growth. The baby is supplemented with a special low phenylalinine formula. The baby's blood levels are checked weekly and the mother given directives about how many times per day she may breastfeed the baby, dependent on that week's blood levels. Actually, the same is true for formula-fed babies. The baby is given an optimum balance of formula vs. low phenylalinine formula. The key is that weekly blood level test. For a first-hand report of breastfeeding a PKU baby, here's an interesting website from La Leche League (a group devoted to encouraging breastfeeding): http://www.lalecheleague.org/NB/NBSepOct98p153.html Beth Benoit University of Massachusetts Lowell HEAR ME>> http://www.pagoo.com/signature/bbenoit3 -- From: shensch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PKU question Date: Wed, Sep 27, 2000, 7:15 AM Tipsters: I'm not often stumped by student questions (at least not that I admit), but a student in my lifespan development class posed an interesting question...when a baby is born with PKU can the mother breastfeed, or does mother's milk contain phenylalanines? Anyone out there know the answer, off the top of your head? Shirley Hensch -- Shirley Hensch, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Psychology University of Wisconsin - Marshfield/Wood County mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Re: Please help us.
Greetings Tipsters, We are four undergraduate students who are conducting a research experiment on free word recall with different types of music. Can any of you help us with the following topics: 1. Operational definition of positive and negative words. 2. Examples of positive and negative word lists. 3. Are there any past studies regarding the relationship between free recall of positive and negative words in correlation with different types of music? We would really appreciate any insight that you can provide for us. Thank you, Nick Mavetz, Mary Short, Amy Ward, and Matt Wheeler
Fanny and Vagina
Fanny is a woman's name and was immortalised by Jane Austen in Mansfield Park. However it is certainly not common. A quick poll of the staffroom got "I don't think anyone would use that name it's got connotations." However the abbreviation of Richard to Dick is quite common in UK and US and "dick" is a slang expression in the UK for a penis. I thought this was the case in the US as well in which case Stephen, you will be able to answer your own question. Of course I may be wrong. Of course it is off topic, but there may be something here for attitudes. Some Richard's do not like to be known as Dick and some classes certainly titter when that abbreviation is used. Yet others do not and the parents must have chosen that name either in ignorance or something else. I might use it as a passing example in the same way that I would use the idea of a male teacher wearing a dress and a student coming into college in a swimming costume and nothing else - compared with the former in a pantomime and the latter on a beach. Cheers David -- David L Gent South Birmingham College Cole Bank Road Hall Green Birmingham B28 8ES UK Telephone: +44 (0)121 694 5030 Facsimile: +44 (0)121 694 5007 Electronic Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Twin studies
The intro. text I use has a table of average correlations for IQ scores for siblings, DZ twins, MZ twins, the latter raised together and apart, etc. Does anyone know of a source for similar compilation of correlational data for any other trait? Thanks, Joanne Gallivan, Professor of Psychology University College of Cape Breton Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, B1P 6L2 902-563-1217 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What's in a name? The case of Fanny
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, David Gent wrote: > Fanny is a woman's name and was immortalised by Jane Austen in Mansfield > Park. However it is certainly not common. A quick poll of the > staffroom got "I don't think anyone would use that name it's got > connotations." If Fanny is now avoided because of its vulgar connotation in Britain, then the relative popularity of Fanny as a given name in Britain should be much less than in the U.S. One would have to compare them on an equal basis, say frequency of names per 100 births. Of course, the popularity of the name in Britain and the US may differ for other reasons as well. However, if the frequency of Fanny is actually higher in Britain, this would be convincing counter-evidence that its vulgar meaning is not a concern. I tried to get some statistics on this on the web, and got nowhere (although I seem to recall once having a U.S. government site with this information). The best I could do was find a Quebec government site, but what they posted there was confusing and seemed rather unlikely. Of course, I never trust _anything_ from the Quebec government. > > However the abbreviation of Richard to Dick is quite common in UK and US > and "dick" is a slang expression in the UK for a penis. I thought this > was the case in the US as well in which case Stephen, you will be able > to answer your own question. Of course I may be wrong. > Good point. Dick has the same vulgar meaning here, but it doesn't seen to stop people from using it as a nickname, even for US presidents. And "John" has other undesirable connotations, but I believe it's popular nonetheless. > Of course it is off topic, but there may be something here > for attitudes. Some Richard's do not like to be known as > Dick and some classes certainly titter when that abbreviation > is used. Yet others do not and the parents must have chosen > that name either in ignorance or something else. I might use > it as a passing example in the same way that I would use the > idea of a male teacher wearing a dress and a student coming > into college in a swimming costume and nothing else - > compared with the former in a pantomime and the latter on a > beach. ...or that what is considered acceptable is a function of the situation. In passing, I can't help but notice more British-American differences in your paragraph. Over here, we get all dressed up in a suit when we go to swim rather than put on a costume. And I doubt that most people understand your reference to a pantomime. Being privileged, I know what a panto is, but I doubt the teeming American millions do. -Stephen Stephen Black, Ph.D. tel: (819) 822-9600 ext 2470 Department of Psychology fax: (819) 822-9661 Bishop's Universitye-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lennoxville, QC J1M 1Z7 Canada Department web page at http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy Check out TIPS listserv for teachers of psychology at: http://www.frostburg.edu/dept/psyc/southerly/tips/
Re: Please help us.
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greetings Tipsters, > > We are four undergraduate students who are conducting a research experiment > on free word recall with different types of music. Can any of you help us > with the following topics: > > 1. Operational definition of positive and negative words. Unless I am missing something here about something i have never heard about this is an oddly phrased question. It seems to me that this is a good lesson about operational definitions because I can come up with several operational definitions, but I am not sure what you want to study! For example, the positive words could be words that have a pleasant sound, lots of sibilants (s's and c's); and the negative words could be words that have an unpleasant sound, lots of guturalslike hard g's and k's. Or maybe we want them to be rated on a semantic differential scale by an independent panel of judges. > > 2. Examples of positive and negative word lists. So the examples would be tied to the specific operational defintions you select! and to the ways in the which the words are assessed. > > 3. Are there any past studies regarding the relationship between free > recall of positive and negative words in correlation with different types > of music? Do a psychinfo search to answer this question--I'd try word types and music as keywords as a point of departure. > > We would really appreciate any insight that you can provide for us. > > Thank you, You're welcome, although I had not much help here. annette taylor > > Nick Mavetz, Mary Short, Amy Ward, and Matt Wheeler > > > Annette Taylor, Ph. D. Department of PsychologyE-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of San Diego Voice: (619) 260-4006 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 "Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get." -- W. L. Bryan
Re: Twin studies
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Joanne Gallivan wrote: > The intro. text I use has a table of average correlations for IQ > scores for siblings, DZ twins, MZ twins, the latter raised together > and apart, etc. Does anyone know of a source for similar > compilation of correlational data for any other trait? > Ransacking my files, in no particular order (not even alphabetic): Plomin, R. et al (1994). The genetic basis of complex human behaviors. Science, 264, 1733-- McGue, M., & Bouchard, T. (1998). Genetic and environmental influences on human behavioral differences. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 21, 1-24 Bouchard, T. et al (1990). Sources of human psychological differences: the Minnesota study of twins reared apart. Science, 250, 223-- Bouchard, T. (1994). Genes, environment, and personality. Science, 264, 1700-- Plomin, R. (1994). The Emanuel Miller Memorial Lecture 1993: Genetic research and identification of environmental influences. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 35, 817-834 Tellegen, A. et al (1988) Personality similarity in twins reared apart and together. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 54, 1031-1039 -Stephen Stephen Black, Ph.D. tel: (819) 822-9600 ext 2470 Department of Psychology fax: (819) 822-9661 Bishop's Universitye-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lennoxville, QC J1M 1Z7 Canada Department web page at http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy Check out TIPS listserv for teachers of psychology at: http://www.frostburg.edu/dept/psyc/southerly/tips/
Changing connotations [was Fanny & Vagina]
David Gent writes: > >Fanny is a woman's name and was immortalised by Jane Austen in Mansfield >Park. However it is certainly not common. A quick poll of the >staffroom got "I don't think anyone would use that name it's got >connotations." > The contemporary connotation might be fairly recent. Jane Austin uses expressions that now have quite different meanings that I'm sure she would never have intended. For example, she frequently depicts proper young gentlemen telling proper but exhausted young ladies that they "look quite fagged." >However the abbreviation of Richard to Dick is quite common in UK and US >and "dick" is a slang expression in the UK for a penis. I thought this >was the case in the US as well in which case Stephen, you will be able >to answer your own question. Of course I may be wrong. > People might just get beyond these nicknames. My husband's grandmother was named Apollonia but was known as Fanny (and with the last name, Stanny, this must have been trying without the vulgar connotations). Perhaps she had her revenge: She named her son Richard but called him Dick. Time to get back to teaching . . . :-) Claudia Claudia J. Stanny, Ph.D.e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of PsychologyPhone: (850) 474 - 3163 University of West Florida FAX:(850) 857 - 6060 Pensacola, FL 32514 - 5751 Web:http://www.uwf.edu/psych/stanny.html
Re: Please help us.
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "TIPS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 10:31 AM Subject: Re: Please help us. > Greetings Tipsters, > > We are four undergraduate students who are conducting a research experiment > on free word recall with different types of music. Can any of you help us > with the following topics: > > 1. Operational definition of positive and negative words. An operational definition of positive and negative words is to chose a list of word that may be negative or positive and define their relative negativeness or positive by using an Osgood scale of good 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 bad relative to a standardization group. By using the lowest scoring words for positive and the highest scoring words for negative you can now start your research. I would prefer 30 words for each catagory. This may not be practical in your research design. Make sure you do this only with people who know one language. Words will generate different meaning across languages. An example is Cat for Americans vrs Spanish speaking people. Any word can be discribed by thousand of dichotyom relationships. Different cultures view events differently and can not translated equally. Ron Blue http://turn.to/ai > > 2. Examples of positive and negative word lists. > > 3. Are there any past studies regarding the relationship between free > recall of positive and negative words in correlation with different types > of music? > > We would really appreciate any insight that you can provide for us. > > Thank you, > > Nick Mavetz, Mary Short, Amy Ward, and Matt Wheeler > > >
Fw: CVNet - The Grawemeyer Award in Psychology
- Original Message - From: "Zijiang He" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 11:07 AM Subject: CVNet - The Grawemeyer Award in Psychology > > The University of Louisville is pleased to announce the continuation of the > Grawemeyer Award, an annual award established through the generosity of the late > H. Charles Grawemeyer. The purpose of this award is to acknowledge and > disseminate outstanding ideas in the science of Psychology. Criteria for > determining the winning idea include originality, creativity, scientific merit, > and breadth of potential impact on the field of Psychology. The Grawemeyer > Award includes a cash prize of $200,000 paid in five annual installments of > $40,000. The first competition for the Grawemeyer Award in Psychology was > conducted last year; the winner will be announced shortly after Thanksgiving. > More than 150 nominations were submitted from all over the world, spanning all > areas of the science of Psychology. > > Nominations for this year's competition must be received by October 15, 2000. > Letters of nomination should identify the specific idea being nominated, the > author(s) of the idea, and why the idea merits the award. Please provide > complete bibliographic references for the idea if possible. The current mailing > address, telephone and fax numbers, and email addresses for the nominee(s) > should be included. Nominations should be addressed to: Carolyn B. Mervis, > Ph.D., Director, Psychology Grawemeyer Committee, Department of Psychological > and Brain Sciences, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292. For more > information, please contact the Department at (502) 852-6775 or send email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > = > > Zijiang J. He, Ph.D. > Associate Professor > Dept. Psychological and Brain Sciences > University of Louisville > Louisville, KY 40292 > USA > > Phone: 502-852-6779 > Fax:502-852-8904 > >
Re: Please help us.
Am I missing something here? Are we being asked to do students' assignments?? What's the operational definition of TIPS? > We are four undergraduate students who are conducting a research experiment > on free word recall with different types of music. Can any of you help us > with the following topics: > > 1. Operational definition of positive and negative words. etc.. Beth Benoit University of Massachusetts Lowell
