[tips] Fwd: BBC E-mail: Amputees 'regain sense of touch'

I hadn't yet seen this, but it may be old news by now. DKH --BeginMessage--- David Hogberg saw this story on the BBC News website and thought you should see it. ** Message ** fwd to TIPS ** Amputees 'regain sense of touch' ** Scientists restore a sense of touch to two patients with

[tips] Perception Goggles

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[tips] Re Freud - what is a theory

Annette wrote, Just a small point in this discussion. Even we, as good scientists, fall into the trap of calling Freud's (and Piaget's for that matter, and a whole host of others) theories, theories when in fact, if they cannot be falsified they cannot be legitimately called theories. As such I

Re:[tips] Freud, my friend

Tipsfolk, I have to say I like discussing Freud in the variety of developmental courses I teach. Freudian ideas have become so imbued in our culture that I often find that students can't get away from Freudian ideas. They bestow all kinds of conscious/unconscious attributions to children as

Re:[tips] Freud, my friend

At 11:33 AM -0600 11/27/07, Rob Weisskirch wrote: In addition, theories are theories. But a theory is not just an hypothesis (the mistake that the Creationists make). A theory is a conceptual structure that unites a set of observations (facts). Freud's system would be a scientific theory if and

Re:[tips] Freud, my friend-2

At 11:33 AM -0600 11/27/07, Rob Weisskirch wrote: In fact, I would posit that any religion is also a theory. It is a belief system until it is falsified. There's a good set of letters to the editor in today's NYT addressing just this issue:

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I got a chuckle out of it is a belief system until it is falsified. I'm not even sure how to parse that. It'd still be a belief system, it would just be a *wrong* belief system. Anyway. One of the things that struck me about the NY Times article is that Davies commits what I consider to be

[tips] Daisy the goose video

Hi tipsters-- Last spring, Beth Benoit shared a wonderful video on daisy the goose. When I tried to play the file today, I was unable to. Is there a tipster that can help me out and e-mail me copy so I can show the video in class Thursday? Thanks, Julie Osland -- Dr. Julie A. Osland,

RE: [tips] Daisy the goose video

Several of us recently spent some uneventful time trying to come up with Daisy the Goose. Alas, she seems to have disappeared into the lakes of Minnesota. There was a snip on YouTube, not very good quality, but I just looked for it and even that's gone. It seems that the TV station that aired it

RE: [tips] Daisy the goose video

I don't know what the original covered, but here's a story of Daisy the Goose: http://www.azcentral.com/12news/news/articles/sillygoose0511-CR.html -- Sue Frantz Highline Community College PsychologyDes Moines, WA 206.878.3710 x3404[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [tips] Daisy the goose video

That's the one! You are a better googler than I am! Thanks!! Beth Benoit From: FRANTZ, SUE [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 8:40 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] Daisy the goose video I don't know what the original covered,

RE: [tips] Daisy the goose video

Glad that's it! If you'd like the story in avi format, it's available at the link below until 7pm PT, Wednesday. Note though that the video quality at the beginning is poor, but clears up at 18 seconds, about the time they start showing Daisy, and the audio is off the video a second or two.