Most video clips of Harry Harlow show him
puffing away.
Did he conduct those monkey experiments while
smoking and is there reason to believe that could have affected
some
experimental results?
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
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The problem with psychology being such a large field and with me,
getting older, is that it is really hard to keep up with every nit
picky detail of what is "right". So I learned this week that brains
develop well into the late teens, and are not mostly finished by
puberty, and at least for
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>the word, "planet". My paperback dictionary, obviously way out of date,
says that a planet is any heavenly body that revolves around the sun.
>
Like I tell my students, general dictionaries are lousy sources for
te
You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
It's never too late to learn.
Chris
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"Absence makes the heart grow fonder" and its counterpart (which for
the life of me I can't recall).
"Out of sight, out of mind."
Another con
See the 1941 Psych Rev. symposium in which they watered down a clear
(but false) "bold conjecture" into near-nothingness.
http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/FrustAgg/
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Christopher D. Green
Department of Psychology
York University
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I've been asked to forward the following message to Tips members:
On behalf of myself and Gordon Gallup of Albany, I write to invite
you to join the new (and first-ever) regional society for
evolutionary psychologists: The NorthEastern Evolutionary Psychology Society
(NEEPS).
(a sister organizat
karen block wrote:
Say Blaine, annette put us onto this video about amonth ago. It is so
fun. I am figuring out the technology to show it the first day in
class, hoping it will select out those students with no sense os humor
or rhythm, for that matter. Reaction from the stat gurus has been
Rick Froman wrote:
I believe that the Pluto story is actually a better example of paragraph 2 than of paragraph 1 in Marc's post. I don't think it is a good example at all of how scientists expect change in our conclusions as data accumulates. No new data accumulated to make this change.
On the
Annette wrote...
Many of the links had really questionnable information, such as
suggesting that smoking pot at age 18 predicts a diagnosis of
schizophrenia in one's 30's! I am not an expert but have read in many
diverse sources that schizophrenia is generally diagnosed quite a bit
earlier
I will be abandoning my post (no pun intended) as I get hunkered down.
Will return to posting on Thursday.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
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On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, DeVolder Carol L went:
Attached is an exercise I use in class. Some students get the top
half, others get the bottom half. Once they make their ratings, I
plot the agreement on the board (by item number) using a show of
hands for each scale point. They then get togeth
4:55 a.m. 79 degrees. I had opened the door and stepped out into the
darkness.
I thought I was hitting a wall someone had built during the night. The quiet
air was
awash with water. Maybe we're beginning to feel the first subtle effects of
Ernesto. I
drew strength and energy to st
Our campus is considering moving from a 15-week (not including finals) semester
to a 14-week semester to bring it more in line with the length of semesters at
many similar schools. Do any TIPSters know of any evidence on the impact of
semester length on student learning or other effects on stude
Keith Stanovich in his _How to Think Straight About Psychology_ has a
number of them. Some that come to mind are
he who hesitates... andlook before you leap
too many cooks ... andtwo heads are better
birds of a feather... andopposites attract
There's also a list of common mi
Forgot to mention that most Education majors are
familiar with Vygotsky, because his methods are much more descriptive of what
our schools consider "education" than Piaget. I try to point out that
Piaget might describe why a child learns something, but Vygotsky guides the "how
to."
I al
A couple of years ago, I had a student who was Russian. She perked up
immediately when she heard me discuss Vygotsky. Apparently, all Russian
students know him and are required to read his works. She was happy she
wouldn't have to actually read any more of his actual works though. I
gues
Riki, thanks so much. Mike
Michael J. Lavin, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
St. Bonaventure University
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