RE: APA and religious colleges

2001-11-28 Thread Rick Froman
I think if you are looking for morality in an organization, you need to pull out your lamp and join Diogenes. You are about as likely to be successful. Persons may have a moral sense that motivates their behavior but organizational structures respond to other forces. Saying, "if the APA thinks" ma

Re: website for poster presentations?

2001-11-28 Thread Ronald C. Blue
You can get a free one at http://home.talkcity.com Ron - Original Message - From: "Hatcher, Joe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 4:15 PM Subject: website for poster presentations? > Hi Folks, > My R

RE: geezers and calculators

2001-11-28 Thread Cone, Al
> -Original Message- > From: Dennis Goff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 1:45 PM > To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences > Subject: RE: geezers and calculators > > > I have been hiding my age. > > My first computer was an Osborne. I bought it the

Re: geezers and calculators

2001-11-28 Thread Douglas A Peterson
I don't think I qualify as a geezer because I have very little meaningful memory of life before handheld calculators (the first one I owned came from my grandfather who got it free when he opened a new bank account - he actually opened three new accounts so all of the grand kids would have a calcu

RE: geezers and calculators

2001-11-28 Thread Rod Hetzel
> Oh yeah, and I still have and use an Apple IIe at home for > the item analysis program I wrote years ago. And I drive a > 1974 TR6, have a 1971 Kenwood stereo system in my office, and > listen to a late 60s vintage Teac reel-to-reel at home > sometimes. I still listen to 70s music...does

Re: geezers and calculators

2001-11-28 Thread Tim Gaines
At 7:42 PM + 11/28/01, Richard Pisacreta wrote: >Talking about calculators, some of us had the first PCs. The Atari >(separate computer, 5.5 inch disk drive, and printer- you provided >the tv as a monitor)and the Apple systems cost about $1,000 and had >all of 64K of memory. After you loade

website for poster presentations?

2001-11-28 Thread Hatcher, Joe
Hi Folks, My Research Design and Statistics class will be presenting their research on posters next week, and I promised them a website. Thought I had one bookmarked but can't find it, and an archive search isn't working. Can anybody help? Off-list is fine. Joe Hatcher Ripon College Ri

Re: great film for class use

2001-11-28 Thread Michael Sylvester
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Richard Pisacreta wrote: > > I recently saw this 27 minute film called "Redefining Liberation" produced > by NOW. It explores how the media tries to teach young women to associate > starvation, cigarettes, casual sex, and alcohol use with being liberated. > You can proba

Re: info: Mowrer

2001-11-28 Thread David Hogberg
Yes, he spoke of hope, fear, relief, and disappointment as "outcomes" of learned or to-be-learned bits of behavior. D. Hogberg, Albion College >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/28/01 16:04 PM >>> did Mowrer postulate a "hope" variable in explaining some aspect of learning? and if he did,could he also

position opening - developmental psych

2001-11-28 Thread Barrie Bondurant
Assistant Professor – Lyon College invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in developmental psychology (infant/child/adolescent), to begin in January 2002 or August 2002. Teaching duties may include courses in learning and cognition, developmental psychology, educatio

great film for class use

2001-11-28 Thread Richard Pisacreta
I recently saw this 27 minute film called "Redefining Liberation" produced by NOW. It explores how the media tries to teach young women to associate starvation, cigarettes, casual sex, and alcohol use with being liberated. You can probably get a free copy by contacting your local chapter of NO

info: Mowrer

2001-11-28 Thread Michael Sylvester
did Mowrer postulate a "hope" variable in explaining some aspect of learning? and if he did,could he also be labelled as a limited cognitive theorist? Michael Sylvester,PhD Daytona Beach,Florida --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank ema

RE: you're a geezer if you remember

2001-11-28 Thread Richard Pisacreta
Hey, when I was a kid, we had a toaster (with cotton braided wire)where you put two slices of bread on it and pulled these metal grids up to hold the bread against the heating coils. When it started to burn, you turned the bread around to toast the second side. They used to put orange or lemon

RE: geezers and calculators

2001-11-28 Thread Paul Brandon
At 2:57 PM -0500 11/28/01, Louis_Schmier wrote: >Dennis, wrote your dissertation on a computer? Heck, aside from having to >use an electric typewriter and measure footnotes at the bottom of the page >by hand ruler, I had to get a special dispensation from the Chancellor at >UNC to be allowed to m

RE: geezers and calculators

2001-11-28 Thread Robert Herdegen
At 02:57 PM 11/28/2001 -0500, you wrote: >Dennis, wrote your dissertation on a computer? Heck, aside from having to >use an electric typewriter and measure footnotes at the bottom of the page >by hand ruler, I had to get a special dispensation from the Chancellor at >UNC to be allowed to make copi

RE: geezers and calculators

2001-11-28 Thread Louis_Schmier
Dennis, wrote your dissertation on a computer? Heck, aside from having to use an electric typewriter and measure footnotes at the bottom of the page by hand ruler, I had to get a special dispensation from the Chancellor at UNC to be allowed to make copies of my dissertation using that new-fangled

RE: geezers and calculators

2001-11-28 Thread Dennis Goff
I have been hiding my age. My first computer was an Osborne. I bought it the day that company declared bankruptcy and got a great deal on it - $1900. It had 48K memory, an 8088 processor, two 5 1/4 inch floppy drives, and a built in 3 inch monitor. Of course I made some special modifications too.

Re: geezers and calculators

2001-11-28 Thread Richard Pisacreta
Talking about calculators, some of us had the first PCs. The Atari (separate computer, 5.5 inch disk drive, and printer- you provided the tv as a monitor)and the Apple systems cost about $1,000 and had all of 64K of memory. After you loaded in the word processing program, you barely could typ

RE: APA and religious colleges

2001-11-28 Thread Gary Klatsky
What bothers me is that the APA will take a position but then back down with the slightest provocation. The controversy regarding the meta-analysis on sexual abuse comes to mind. If the APA thinks they have made the correct, moral decision then they should stand by it and be forced to change. Le

APA and religious colleges

2001-11-28 Thread Paul Brandon
The two principles that the APA seems to be balancing are political expediency and political correctness -- nothing new here. The key to me is: "Because the association is acting on the government's behalf, Mr. Hansen noted that in denying accreditation to an institution for following its religi

RE: APA and religious colleges

2001-11-28 Thread G. Marc Turner
At 09:42 AM 11/28/2001 -0500, you wrote: >It's nice to see that the APA is once again standing up for its principles It's even better to see that APA has decided not to discriminate against institutions because of a religious affiliation. After all, if you don't like the rules of the religious

Re: Fwd: Tolman & Hull

2001-11-28 Thread Mike Scoles
"John W. Kulig" wrote: > I use the > Hull-Tolman issue in the History of Psych to highlight the difference between > Description and Explanation. > These examples generally underwhelm my History > of Psych class! When I discuss the semantics and syntax of a theory, H x (D + K) vs. H x D X K rea

Re: APA and religious colleges

2001-11-28 Thread Linda Woolf
Mike Scoles wrote: > > Yes. Can you say, "Integrity?" I thought you could. > > Gary Klatsky wrote: > > > It's nice to see that the APA is once again standing up for its principles > > > > It is always easy to take pot shots at an individual or group. It is much more difficult to come up wi

Re: geezers and calculators

2001-11-28 Thread Tim Gaines
At 3:59 PM -0600 11/27/01, Joel S Freund wrote: >I must confess. When I took my first position (here at the University of >Arkansas), I purchased a used Monroe (mechanical calculator) to take with >me for personal use. The Monroe was smaller and lighter than the Fridens I >had been used to, but it

Re: APA and religious colleges

2001-11-28 Thread Mike Scoles
Yes. Can you say, "Integrity?" I thought you could. Gary Klatsky wrote: > It's nice to see that the APA is once again standing up for its principles > > > *Chronicle of Higher Education* Monday, November 19 > > "Psychology Accreditor Drops Proposal That Worried Religious Colleges" > By BETH Mc

Re: Fwd: Tolman & Hull

2001-11-28 Thread John W. Kulig
Mike Scoles wrote: > The differences really don't seem to make a difference. For example, who cares if > anticipation of future goals are represented as expectancies/valences or fractional > anticipatory goal responses? It is the Skinnerians, (or "radical behaviorists" > with only a little kn

RE: APA and religious colleges

2001-11-28 Thread Gary Klatsky
It's nice to see that the APA is once again standing up for its principles Gary J. Klatsky, Ph.D. Department of Psychology[EMAIL PROTECTED] Oswego State University of NY http://www.oswego.edu/~klatsky Oswego, NY 13126Voice: (315) 312 3474 -O

Family/Marital Couseling Psychology

2001-11-28 Thread Jeff Ricker
I have a relative who wants to specialize in Family/Marital Couseling Psychology. He is now a junior at the University of Illinois--UC, majoring in psychology; and he is beginning to think about graduate schools. I am not knowledgeable about this area but I'm certain that there are many TIPSters