Re: [tips] Interesting Graphs And Graphing
I hear prettier pictures won't make psychology a science…. LOL! Paul On Aug 9, 2012, at 8:38 AM, Michael Palij wrote: Seems to me that it might be useful in representing some things in psychology. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=19597 or send a blank email to leave-19597-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re:[tips] The Dark Life of Killer Kittys
I have been the proud owner of many killer kittys. I hated when they brought me baby bunnies or hummingbirds; I didn't mind the rats--one cat brought home not just the rat but the entire oversized trap the critter was squashed in. In the end, the predators, however, all become prey. Every single one of them simply failed to come home one morning. A couple only lasted a few months; most lasted many years but when the got old and could not outrun predators that was that. Everywhere I have lived for the past 25 years has had coyotes close by enough to be regularly spotted by neighbors or even myself on rare occasions. So when neighborhood cats show up on LOST CAT posters I feel like calling the owners and reminding them about the coyotes. The predators become prey and that's how it is. Traumatized me tremendously, nevertheless, when they failed to return, and for this reason my current babies are pure house cats. Anyone want to see some baby pictures? haha Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D. Professor, Psychological Sciences University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 tay...@sandiego.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=19598 or send a blank email to leave-19598-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
RE: [tips] Pop Psych books that could be useful for research seminar class
In a senior psychology capstone seminar last year at Williams College we critiqued the following pop psychology: The Science of Good and Evil by Simon Baron-Cohen Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell The Upside of Irrationality by Dan Ariely the movie Memento The best quality discussion and critiques elicited from the students came in the sections for Outliers and Science of Good and Evil (although of course the students indicated that the Memento discussions were their favorite :) Carin Carin Perilloux Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Psychology Union College 807 Union Street Schenectady, NY 12308 car...@gmail.com http://www.carinp.com -Original Message- From: Rick Froman [mailto:rfro...@jbu.edu] Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 10:07 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] Pop Psych books that could be useful for research seminar class I have been in a faculty workshop this week that included a discussion of Academically Adrift. Although the book itself is not likely on the beach reading lists of many parents of college-bound students this summer, I am sure that it is having a major impact in informing how the media presents the issues (I think journalists are either reading it or synopses of it). One of the workshop presentations included an appeal to take the criticisms of academe in the book seriously and see what we can take from it (although, seriously, it doesn't seem to be targeting our type of institution). Another presenter offered a critique of the statistical methods used (including a discussion of Type I and Type II errors and the meaning of statistical significance). It just reminded me of the extent to which a statistical education should allow for the understanding of stat, research and testing concepts (the book includes a lot on the reliability and validity of the CLA as a measure of critical thinking) in books intended to inform the public about important issues. For another example, in the same workshop, Gladwell's concept of 10,000 hours of practice for expertise was raised in the context of the question, how can students spend so many years in school (well over 10,000 hours) learning and then be so much less than experts at it in college? To me, the obvious answer was that they don't have 10,000 hours of practice in studying as they need to do it to succeed in college. Their experience and training has only been in how to succeed at the primary and secondary levels (at which most of them are truly experts). What I would like to do in my upper level stat/research class this semester is provide a list of books from which students could choose one to critique by applying their accumulated knowledge of statistics, research methods (and possibly Psych Testing concepts) to the analysis in the book. So I am looking for non-fiction books of the type written so prolifically by Malcolm Gladwell, et al. Note that I am not looking for text books or other ancillary materials that are entirely accurate or excellent in their handling of statistical issues. The only requirement is that they be popular books that have the capacity to shape the direction of the cultural conversation in many important areas that my students could use to test their ability to critique for statistical and methodological rigor. Thank you for any ideas you can pass along. I will compile a list of suggestions and post it back to the list. Rick Dr. Rick Froman, Chair Division of Humanities and Social Sciences John Brown University Siloam Springs, AR 72761 rfro...@jbu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: carin.perill...@williams.edu. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=483964.2b0f0d574f11ef79d49eb45f1255c46cn= Tl=tipso=19599 or send a blank email to leave-19599-483964.2b0f0d574f11ef79d49eb45f1255c...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=19601 or send a blank email to leave-19601-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] Stats software in grad school..
Agree ... it involves lots of separate instruction. This is one reason why we developed separate class for computer use as companion to our research methods class. Students take Stats, after or with a required Sci Foundation class that reviews major methods supposedly covered in Intro Psych. Then they take Experimental Psych along with the Computer class. We had emphasized SAS, but are now giving them SPSS. ALL of these should be stressing apa format also. After this sequence, they may then take lab classes (requiring all of above) where they work further on class activities/projects involving research design, stats, and apa write-up specific to areas. Sounds good ? but, still, it is the special student who becomes really well versed in SPSS, and goes on to do indep research with faculty. Such folks should be able to handle and learn more in grad programIF they can get in any these days ha. Anyway, just one effort to deal with covering stats programs. G.L. (Gary) Peterson,Ph.D Psychology@SVSU On Aug 8, 2012, at 11:23 PM, Paul C Bernhardt pcbernha...@frostburg.edu wrote: This is my opinion, also. Using SPSS, or any other program, with all our undergraduates is generally not a good idea. The reason that I feel that way is that I have plenty to do to teach them how to understand concepts and context. I'm also usually teaching them how to write in APA style. So, if I add to that a statistics package, I have to teach them how to use that package. That is a lot of time spent trying to metaphorically teach the student how to start and put into first gear a high performance race car when all they really need to know is how to drive a regular road car with a manual transmission and then write an accurate description of that process. I don't want to teach fewer research/statistical concepts and less about writing just to teach about software that does what they learn from their book how to do by hand. If the student is outstanding enough to be going to a Ph.D. or Masters with thesis program, the student is clever enough to learn SPSS in the instruction they get in graduate school. I know that we did special instruction in its use because that was my TA position for two semesters, teaching how to use SPSS and BMDP. Paul On Aug 8, 2012, at 9:13 PM, Michael Scoles wrote: When I was in graduate school, folks from the clinical wing would suck it up and come visit with us rat runners with the following question (stated in different ways). I've got the printout from BMDP from my dissertation data. Do any of you people down here know what it means. I resist using SPSS to teach statistics until the most advanced graduate courses. If they can perform simple computations on a calculator, and more complex ones with the help of Excel, they might have a chance of understanding what those SPSS outputs mean. Michael T. Scoles, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology Counseling University of Central Arkansas Conway, AR 72035 501-450-5418 Marc Carter marc.car...@bakeru.edu 6/6/2012 12:35 PM Hi, All -- A little unscientific poll for you. We consider our program to be a grad-school-prep program, and have been doing pretty heavy instruction in SPSS, thinking that when the students get to grad school that's the package they're most likely to encounter. That was certainly my experience a few years ago, but I'm wondering if we're thinking right, today. Should we move to a different stats package, or is SPSS still pretty common. Since IBM bought it it's gone through some changes and seemed headed much more toward business applications, but this last year they seemed to realize that schools were a large part of their clientele, and have made pricing a little more reasonable (although still hideously expensive). Here the departments that want that package buy it (IT decided to cut its budget by pushing things off onto departments), and so I want to do right by my students, but have to think thrifty. So, the poll: for those of you who work in departments that have grad programs, what stats software packages are available to your students? Thanks! m -- Marc Carter, PhD Associate Professor of Psychology Chair, Department of Behavioral and Health Sciences College of Arts Sciences Baker University -- The information contained in this e-mail and any attachments thereto (e-mail) is sent by Baker University (BU) and is intended to be confidential and for the use of only the individual or entity named above. The information may be protected by federal and state privacy and disclosures acts or other legal rules. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that retention, dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error please immediately
Re: [tips] Interesting Graphs And Graphing
But in classes where the average grade is silver? Lol. Yes, vey interesting. G.L. (Gary) Peterson,Ph.D Psychology@SVSU On Aug 9, 2012, at 10:17 AM, Michael Palij m...@nyu.edu wrote: On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 06:00:55 -0700, Paul C Bernhardt wrote: I hear prettier pictures won't make psychology a science…. LOL! Well, maybe, maybe not. Though it might be useful in other ways. The clearest analogy to the Olympics medals by country is grades by student. If one translates medals into grade components, then one can get a picture of where everyone in a class stands relative to each other. Just a thought. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu On Aug 9, 2012, at 8:38 AM, Michael Palij wrote: Seems to me that it might be useful in representing some things in psychology. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: peter...@svsu.edu. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13445.e3edca0f6e68bfb76eaf26a8eb6dd94bn=Tl=tipso=19600 or send a blank email to leave-19600-13445.e3edca0f6e68bfb76eaf26a8eb6dd...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=19603 or send a blank email to leave-19603-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] Pop Psych books that could be useful for research seminar class
I thought that going back to the original sources might be part of the purpose of such an exercise. I sometimes suggest the 'Abducted' book to try to lure students into the memory and critical thinking areas. BTW, the author is an actual psychologist. From the Amazon page, Susan A. Clancy, PhD is a cognitive psychologist and is currently working as Associate Professor in Consumer Behaviour at INCAE as well as being a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Harvard University. I think she was a grad student when she wrote the book, though. Rick Stevens Psychology Department University of Louisiana at Monroe stevens.r...@gmail.com OSGrid - Evert Snicks On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Stuart McKelvie smcke...@ubishops.cawrote: Dear Tipsters, ** ** I know I am not answering the question posed, but I wonder why we might not prefer to critique a book from a real academic psychologist in a senior seminar. For example, Skinner’s “About Behaviorism” or Hebb’s “Essay on Mind” are titles that pop up for me. ** ** My problem with critiquing a popular psychology book such as Gladwell’s is that you would have to go back to the original sources to see if he handled them correctly. So, for me, why not just deal with primary sources from the start? ** ** Of course, if the seminar is about popularizing psychology, I could see critiquing a popular psychology book. ** ** Sincerely, ** ** Stuart ** ** ** ** ___ *F**loreat** **L**abore*** ** ** * ** *** ***Recti cultus pectora roborant* ** *Stuart J. McKelvie, Ph.D*., *Phone*: 819 822 9600 x 2402 Department of Psychology, *Fax*: 819 822 9661 Bishop's University, 2600 rue College, Sherbrooke, Québec J1M 1Z7, Canada. E-mail: stuart.mckel...@ubishops.ca (or smcke...@ubishops.ca) ** ** Bishop's University Psychology Department Web Page:* * http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy ** ** *F**loreat** **L**abore* ** ** ** ** ___ ** ** ** ** ** ** --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: stevens.r...@gmail.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13526.d532f8e870faf8a0d8f6433b7952f38dn=Tl=tipso=19606 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-19606-13526.d532f8e870faf8a0d8f6433b7952f...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=19607 or send a blank email to leave-19607-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.eduimage001.jpgimage003.jpgimage002.jpg
Re: [tips] One Way Stress Affects Men's Perceptions
Mike P: Stress is not reality.There is no such thing as stress on the planet as is. michael - Original Message - From: Michael Palij m...@nyu.edu To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu Cc: Michael Palij m...@nyu.edu Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 11:53 AM Subject: [tips] One Way Stress Affects Men's Perceptions Stress cam affect people in a variety of ways and some new research suggests that it affects men's perception in a particular way. This research has been picked up by the popular media and here is one popular summary of the research; see: http://healthland.time.com/2012/08/09/why-stressed-out-men-prefer-heavier-women/ And here is a link to the original research which was published in PLoS One: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0042593 I await a replication of the research but using women participants instead of men. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: msylves...@copper.net. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13424.eb17e1c03643c971ab35c22d86587541n=Tl=tipso=19609 or send a blank email to leave-19609-13424.eb17e1c03643c971ab35c22d86587...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=19614 or send a blank email to leave-19614-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] Interesting Graphs And Graphing
Hi One of the things I wondered about this graph was the strengths of these approaches to ones that simply assigned weights to medals. For example, assigning scores to gold, silver, and bronze, of 4, 2, and 1 would generate a single numerical score for every country, assuming that 2 bronze = 1 silver and 2 silver = 1 gold. Would be possible to get psychological (or perhaps other ... $$?) values for weights. And then there is the issue of different weightings by events? Does a medal in synchronized swimming = a medal in 100 meter track event? Take care Jim James M. Clark Professor of Psychology and Chair 204-786-9757 204-774-4134 Fax j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca Michael Palij m...@nyu.edu 09-Aug-12 7:38 AM The NY Times has an interesting graph the displays the number and kinds of medals each country in the Olympics in a graph with countries with the greatest number of medals on top and the least at the bottom; see: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/08/07/sports/olympics/the-best-and-worst-countries-in-the-medal-count.html?nl=todaysheadlinesemc=thab1_20120809 This is apparently known as a Hasse diagram and more information about it can be gotten here: http://tartarus.org/simon/2008-olympics-hasse/ The Hasse diagram was generated using a software package called Graphviz and more info about the package can be obtained here: http://www.graphviz.org/ Seems to me that it might be useful in representing some things in psychology. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13251.645f86b5cec4da0a56ffea7a891720c9n=Tl=tipso=19596 or send a blank email to leave-19596-13251.645f86b5cec4da0a56ffea7a89172...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=19615 or send a blank email to leave-19615-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
