I said:
Robert Herdegen asked about what kind of error bar is to be
prefered,
and
Dunlap, W. and May, J. (1988), Judging statistical significance by
inspection of standard error bars. Bulletin of the Psychonomic
Society, 27, 67-68.
Two corrections I discovered a microsecond after hitting
Actually, it isn't censorship. What's happening is a spam filter
is catching words such as sex and incest and rejecting the messages as
spam instead of valid content. The trick is to exclude lists such as TIPS
from your filter completely (it can be done by running the spam controls)
as
In response to queries from Allen Esterson:
Beth wrote:
So I recommend that Stephen Black tell the library to keep the
order for Slater's book. I think it's going to be an interesting read
and not the piece of trash we've been led to expect.
Hey, Beth, I don't recall anyone saying Slater's
A student has conducted 2 memory experiments and she would like to
compare performance across the two (at least roughly).The problem
is that 1 of them was a 2-alternative forced choice test and the
other is 3-alternative forced choice test (both were judgments of
relative recency). Chance
Patrick:
A student has conducted 2 memory experiments and she
would like to
compare performance across the two (at least
roughly). The problem
is that 1 of them was a 2-alternative forced choice
test and the
other is 3-alternative forced choice test (both were judgments
of
relative
If each of the group scores were converted to z-scores, wouldn't the z-score
mean for each group (by definition) be equal to zero? So you would end-up
comparing two zero scores (with a standard deviation of 1.00 for each group).
Does your student want to know whether participants performed
Not knowing exactly what judgment the participants
made but assuming that the 2 choice experiment was (recent vs. non-recent) and
the three choice was (recent, something in the middle or don't know, and
non-recent) you could use variations on Signal Detection Theory - the computation
for
Tipsters:
The following paragraph is what I tell students about the practical
considerations of applying one-tail tests. Other than my own personal
impressions (and some experience with journal editors!) I have no concrete
basis for passing on this bias to students. I thought I would bounce
Doug has the procedure correct- subject select
which of the (2 or 3) choices were studied most recently. The manipulation
of interest was the materials studies- words, sounds, or pictures. I
thought of signal detection but think it is beyond what she can
do.I just re-read Ch. 2 of Green
TIPsters,
I am curious to hear your opinions about the place of Piaget in a History
and Systems course. My immediate reason for asking is because of a
(relatively friendly) argument with my department chair. I have been
teaching History and Systems for years, and I do not include Piaget. My
If you would want to be able even to report a finding that is contrary
to your expectations, then you must use a two-tailed test. Since we
almost always want to be able to report a significant effect that is
contrary to our expectations we almost always want to use a two-tailed
test. Abelson
Signal Detection Theory is the way to go. See any standard treatment,
such as T. D. Wickens, Elementary Signal Detection Theory, Oxford, 2002.
don
Donald McBurney
Peterson, Douglas wrote:
Not knowing
exactly what judgment the participants
made but assuming that the
This isn't a story that I have heard before - is this part true? If so -
does anyone have the details?
Julie then goes on to tell Slater:
You know, if my father made one mistake, it was in the words he chose.
People hear the word 'control' and they think fascist...He was a pacifist.
He was a
Jim and TIPsters,
It seems that what you teach is a History of Experimental Psychology
rather than a History of Psychology. In a real HS course, it seems that
you would be as likely to cover Freud and Piaget as Watson/Skinner and
kin. Your approach seems curiously narrow given what psychology has
I ran into this question a couple of years ago. After hunting down as
many resources as I could, I found no answer. The difficult part about
answering this question is a measurement issue. To ask how many people
are gay presents the question of what you mean by being gay. Does that
mean
One of the best concepts I have found useful is the concept of family
lifecycle--the author I'm familiar with is Celia Falikov--although there
are probably others.
Rob
Rob Weisskirch, MSW, Ph.D.
Human Development Program
Department of Liberal Studies, Building 15
100 Campus Center
California
I think it's very hard to tell how appropriate it would be to include or
exclude Piaget without knowing a lot more about your course. Is there a
thread of nativism vs. learning? If I were teaching such a course, I would
certainly include that as one of the major themes. I think that it is one of
I concur with Paul here. If I cover nativism-empiricism (and I do) and explore ideas of development in a general sense, then I do mention Piaget. If I would cover the fields of psych--then I would probably not be able to cover every field, but Developmental would certainly be a possibility. I
I include Piaget, for reasons similar to those stated by your dept chair.
Jim Dougan wrote:
TIPsters,
I am curious to hear your opinions about the place of Piaget in a
History and Systems course. My immediate reason for asking is because
of a (relatively friendly) argument with my department
I don't teach about Piaget because I just run out of time. I also tend to
focus on people that contributed to psychology that other courses are not
likely to mention and/or are important for starting that particular
movement. For example, I cover over Hall and Baldwin as beginning
At 1:27 PM -0500 3/24/04, Deb Briihl wrote:
This isn't a story that I have heard before - is this part true? If
so - does anyone have the details?
Julie then goes on to tell Slater:
You know, if my father made one mistake, it was in the words he chose.
People hear the word 'control' and they
Jim Dougan wrote:
I am curious to hear your opinions about the place of Piaget in a History
and Systems course.
Like others have said, it depends on the rest of your course. Certainly
I can conceive of a history of psych course that does not include
Piaget. Indeed, I have probably taught such
Steve:
If each of the group scores were converted to
z-scores, wouldn't the z-score mean for each group (by definition) be equal to
zero? So you would end-up comparing two zero scores (with a standard deviation
of 1.00 for each group).
Good point. My
brains a bit fried from paper
A while back, I requested information regarding biographies on prominent
black psychologists. Unfortunately, I didn't get any responses. I did some
searching and I found a new book edited by Andrew Winston "Defining difference:
Race and racism in the history of psychology." For anyone
I think it would be a fun questionfor a graduate level class. At the undergrad level, I think it would be good as a conversation starter at the beginning when issues of scientific theory and epistemology and challenges to psych as a science might be dealt with. It would seem to require some
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You can also find more APA
At 01:28 PM 3/24/2004 -0500, you wrote:
Jim and TIPsters,
It seems that what you teach is a History of Experimental Psychology
rather than a History of Psychology. In a real HS course, it seems that
you would be as likely to cover Freud and Piaget as Watson/Skinner and
kin. Your approach seems
At 02:47 PM 3/24/2004 -0500, you wrote:
Because of Piaget's relatively late uptake by American psychologists
(referred to in another message as mainstream psychologists -- Piaget
was well-known much earlier in places that were not so dominated by
behaviorism as the US was)
Oh no! Where is
And now for something completely different... well, not completely. I like
to start (or sometimes end) history of psychology courses with a passage
from the preface to the 2nd edition of Daniel Robinson's _Intellectual
History of Psychology_ which says, in effect, that all the major
Sorry, Beth, Im still not convinced!
First let me say that I was not precise enough in my question (as I
realised after I posted my message, but by then Id already posted two
messages, and I didnt want to use up my third for the day correcting
it!).
I asked:
Beth, you quote Slaters writing,
In Jim's defense, Hergenhahn is, I believe, the most widely used book on
HS (certainly among the leading books), and gives rather short shrift
to Piaget. So anyone who uses Hergenhahn probably does also. (I don't
even assign the chapter in which he appears.)
Don
Donald McBurney
One issue that has not been addressed in this thread is what the department course
syllabus states about coverage for the course. Some dept. syllabi are specific enough
to demand coverage for certain topics. (I know, few of us ever consult our department
syllabi, but they are there for a
Jim Dougan wrote:
At 02:47 PM 3/24/2004 -0500, you wrote:
Because of Piaget's relatively late uptake by American
psychologists (referred to in another message as mainstream
psychologists -- Piaget was well-known much earlier in places that
were not so dominated by behaviorism as the US was)
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Riki,
John Gottman's books are credible (supported by mountains of data)
and also extremely readable.
Cheers,
Traci
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Jim,
Being Swiss and having studied Psychology not far from Geneva, I could only encourage
you to include Piaget in a mainstream course! This for several reasons:
first, Piaget has been a central figure in controversies linked to the nature of
intelligence (nature vs nurture) and learning just
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