[tips] erratum: : the best not dest

2009-01-06 Thread Msylvester
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[tips] Intro texts/the dest and worse

2009-01-06 Thread Msylvester
IMHO The best: Allen and Santrock/the definitive intro text and cross-cultural imports(.Allen is African-American) Rodney Plotnick The worse: Lahey Myers My favorite Experimental procedure texts are Claude Bernard (Experimental Medici

Re: [tips] Lie to Me

2009-01-06 Thread Msylvester
isn't this a blies song by Johnny Laing? Michael Sylvester,PhD Daytona Beach,Florida --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)

Re: [tips] Lie to Me

2009-01-06 Thread taylor
I wasn't horribly impressed with the youtube promo clip attached to his website :( If you look at his products he's pitching and go to: http://www.mettonline.com/ where there are some pretty outrageous claims made, to wit: It’s a scientific fact… Did you know that people can’t totally conceal th

Re: [tips] Extinction

2009-01-06 Thread Paul Brandon
Yes -- almost as effective as a bullet in the head. But since the side effects of punishment include conditioned emotional effects and avoidance behaviors, I'm not sure what the point is. Punishment would be the best available intervention only within a limited range of life threatening situa

RE: [tips] Lie to Me

2009-01-06 Thread Jim Matiya
I was wondering the same. Jim Matiya Florida Gulf Coast University jmat...@fgcu.edu Contributor, for Karen Huffman's Psychology in Action, Video Guest Lecturettes John Wiley and Sons. Using David Myers' texts for AP Psychology? Go to http://bcs.worthpublishers.com/cppsych/ High School Ps

[tips] Lie to Me

2009-01-06 Thread Frantz, Sue
For those who get TV's Fox channel... I've been watching the ads for the new show "Lie to Me" beginning January 21st and wondering if it was based on Paul Ekman's work. It is. http://www.paulekman.com/ -- Sue Frantz Highline Community College Ps

Re: [tips] Extinction

2009-01-06 Thread Michael Smith
Yes. But what I was interested in is the stopping of behavior. If we ignore any side effects including physical maiming if appropriate for the punishment and we don't care about the individual, which is more effective.   So. more from a theoretical perspective. What would eliminate a behavior most

Re: [tips] using "Outliers" in the classroom

2009-01-06 Thread Gerald Peterson
Is this an "effect"--or rather an association? Also, stat. significance simply means that it is not likely chance, not that it absolutely could not be due to chance. Gary Gerald L. (Gary) Peterson, Ph.D. Professor, Psychology Saginaw Valley State University University Center, MI 48710 989-96

[tips] Top Science Issues as reported to NYT's

2009-01-06 Thread Joan Warmbold
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/31/top-questions-for-obama-science-team/ FYI Joan jwarm...@oakton.edu --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)

Re: [tips] using "Outliers" in the classroom

2009-01-06 Thread Beth Benoit
Annette,Interesting! Gladwell was talking about Canadian hockey teams though. I suspect that Malcolm is right, and there is an effect across the board, but perhaps not as robust as he suggests except in specific teams. More to ponder Beth Benoit Granite State College New Hampshire On Tue, J

RE: [tips] using "Outliers" in the classroom

2009-01-06 Thread taylor
I must have nothing else to do today because I decided to print out all the NHL rosters. Here is what I found: 205/682 players are listed with birth dates in JanFebMar. A chi-square analysis suggests this is significant at less than .01 and hence could not have occurred by chance. Of course,

Re: [tips] New Years Resolutions, the Schools of Psychology and online concept mapping

2009-01-06 Thread Joan Warmbold
That is an amazing resource Michael and I will certainly use it in my classes when we cover schools of thoughts. Thanks much. Joan jwarm...@oakton.edu > I've been putting together my next episode in which I connect the most > popular new year's resolution - losing weight - with the different > s

[tips] Cross-cultural scientific screw-up, big-time

2009-01-06 Thread sblack
The respected German science journal Max Planck Forschung wanted a cover illustration for its special issue on China, and selected some elegant Chinese calligraphy of what they thought was a classical poem. You can admire it at: http://shanghaiist.com/attachments/shang_sandhaus/chinese-poem_983

Re: [tips] Extinction

2009-01-06 Thread Paul Brandon
But then we must deal with punishment's side effects. It's still not optimal. The best alternative when available is the reinforcement of alternative (and incompatible where possible) behavior. This reallocates reinforcement (which we assume is occurring as a consequence of the behavior we're t

[tips] Cross-cultural/wife beating

2009-01-06 Thread Msylvester
In South Korea,it is expected that husbands beat their wives to strenghthen their relationship. Michael Sylvester,PhD Daytona Beach,Florida --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)

Re: [tips] using "Outliers" in the classroom

2009-01-06 Thread Jim Clark
Hi If you google "birthdate sports success" quite a few studies come up, including more recent one's in hockey and a number for other sports. I did not look at them all, but there were interesting variations ... for example, I seem to remember something for soccer in UK where age cut-offs occu

RE: [tips] using "Outliers" in the classroom

2009-01-06 Thread Dennis Goff
Similar results have been found for US soccer players in the Olympic Development Program. The effect might only hold for male athletes though. I remember seeing a similar result for professional players in Europe. I am working from home today and don't have access to the references. I think that

Re: [tips] using "Outliers" in the classroom

2009-01-06 Thread Beth Benoit
What a perfect follow-up study, Jim. Interesting thought that older players (January - June birthdates) continue to play minor hockey till a later age than do the younger players (July - December birthdates) who tend to drop out of the sport. Hmmm...do you think this is a good subject pool though

Re: [tips] New Years Resolutions, the Schools of Psychology and online concept mapping

2009-01-06 Thread Michael Britt
I had my notes for the various schools and how each might explain the difficulty of losing weight in a Word doc. Creating the map itself from my notes was very easy. You create it completely online. I think there's a free trial you can get set up for. It's definitely worth trying out.

Re: [tips] New Years Resolutions, the Schools of Psychology and online concept mapping

2009-01-06 Thread Jonathan Mueller
Very cool map! How easy was it to create? Did you create it online, or did you create it offline and upload it? Lot of potential if it is easy to use. Jon === Jon Mueller Professor of Psychology North Central College 30 N. Brainard St. Naperville, IL 60540 voice: (630)-637-532

[tips] New Years Resolutions, the Schools of Psychology and online concept mapping

2009-01-06 Thread Michael Britt
I've been putting together my next episode in which I connect the most popular new year's resolution - losing weight - with the different schools in psychology. I decided to use a pretty neat online concept mapping tool called MeadMap. Yes - it's made by the Mead people - the ones who mak