"One reason I give them is students need to be able to show their
knowledge and ability on multiple choice tests to get into graduate or
professional programs and to get licenses for most professions. Our
students have to write papers and essays in all our courses but get
almost no practice
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Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 08:41:41 EDT
One reason I give them is students need to be able to show their
knowledge and ability
While surfing the Afro networks,I came across a piece that purport to
have evidence that Pavlov was not the first to discover classical
conditioning.It was a black scientist.I will be digging further on
this and post the skinny on the black scientist.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
Was thye Bourne and Ekstrand intro text the first to use cartoons in
the chapters?
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
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On 6 May 2006 at 21:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
While surfing the Afro networks,I came across a piece that purport to
have evidence that Pavlov was not the first to discover classical
conditioning.It was a black scientist.I will be digging further on
this and post the skinny on the black
And I thought EB Twitmeyer was the first:
http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~duchan/new_history/hist19c/subpages/twitmyer.html
Cheers,
Karl W.
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On 6 May 2006 at 21:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
While surfing the Afro networks,I came across a piece that purport to
have evidence that Pavlov was not the first to discover classical
conditioning.It was a black scientist.I will be digging further on
this and post the skinny on the
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I note that contrary to what is stated, Pavlov neither used a bell in his famous experiment nor won the Nobel Prize for it.
Actually, it turns out that Pavlov did use a bell sometimes. There was
an article about it some years ago:
Thomas, R. K. (1997). Correcting
Thank you, Chris.
I use a pnemonic in class when talking about discrimination conditioning. I
point out that the classic Pavlovian paradigm actually depends upon a
discrimination between the events of bell and no bell. I then point out
that Pavlov won the no bell prize, usually getting the
Isn't Twitmeyer going to receive _some_ recognition as, at least, being early
in the list of discoverers? I don't rememebr the exact year, but wasn't it
ca. 1904? And, perhaps aphocryphally, didn't Wm. James have something to do
with his failure to be credited? DKH
David K. Hogberg, PhD
May I retract all of which I said in my last two posts? I suspect that I have
learned to read to end of a thread before offering comment. Mea culpa.D
David K. Hogberg, PhD
Professor of Psychology, Emeritus
Albion College, Albion MI 49224
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Sure. But I'm doing some intriguing research that shows that students
prepare quite differently for MC tests compared to essay--giving
significantly more time to essays. Now, it's interesting that this time
difference is not true for my summer students who are transfers and so
simply are better
I said:
I note that contrary to what is stated, Pavlov neither used a bell
in his famous experiment nor won the Nobel Prize for it.
Chris Green replied:
Actually, it turns out that Pavlov did use a bell sometimes. There was
an article about it some years ago:
Nope. Roger Thomas'
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