I said, deploring a news article on the dangers of pot for
teenage brains from a report which failed to mention that the
research was on rats:
> Why they did it is obvious. Studies demonstrating the dangers of
> cannabis for teenagers are sexy; such studies for rats, not so
> much. If
sbl...@ubishops.ca wrote:
>
> I never heard a rat called a "teenager" before this
> study, Canadian or not.
>
>
A teenage rat would be extremely elderly!
> Why they did it is obvious. Studies demonstrating the dangers of
> cannabis for teenagers are sexy; such studies for rats, not so
> muc
I said:
Read this news report. Then answer a simple question: who
> were the subjects of this alarming study?
> -
> Cannabis Damages Young Brains More Than Originally
> Thought, Study Finds
On 24 Dec 2009 at 13:47, Gerald Peterson wrote:
> Is the objection to the
Some folks around this time of year start to wonder about what brand
of champagne they should get for New Year's Eve, whether they should
get something cheap like American sparkling wine (e.g., Korbel, which
technically is not a champagne), a French champagne that that is moderate
in price (for ex
Dennis Brutus ,South African poet and philosopher has passed away.Brutus was an
activist against apartheid and was jailed in the same prison where Mandela was
incarcerated. Good job,dude. We salute you. Gone but not forgotten,
I wished though that Joseph Wolpe (a South African) had used his syste
I know of Martin Bolt.His instructional exercises came in a blue box with
learning objectives for each chapter,and suggested readings.This came about the
same time there was a text from another author which consisted of modules.The
Bolt blue box also contained scales of personality such as dete
I believe that the first presentation of schedules of reinforcement
(and the serendipitous nature of their discovery) was presented in
the B of O (The behavior of organisms: An experimental analysis. New
York: Appleton-Century, 1938. ), but I doubt that that had much
public impact.
For tha
Britt, Michael wrote:
>
>
>1. The Technique of Correlation is developed 1890
>
I thought the Pearson r wasn't published until the first years of the
20th century. What publication did you have in mind? And if you're going
to include the correlation coefficient, why not the t-test (Gossett, a
Annette,
Thanks for your great list of commonly held beliefs. I've actually
addressed a number of them in separate episodes - Interviewed Ken
Steele on the "Mozart Effect" in episodes 59 and 61, addressed the
lack of support for subliminal perception in episode 75, and
interviewed Daniel
I like your list and could probably add but this will already overwhelm folks
who don't realize what they do know about psychology. Maybe I would add Donald
Norman's books on using everyday things as a good example of how much cognitive
psychologists have contributed to everyday life.
What I wo
You are not the one who should be kicked off the list. The continuously
insulting jackass should be. But we keep replying to his insults and taking the
bait. What ever happened to extinction?
Annette
Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
University of San Diego
5998 Alcala Park
I'm putting together notes for an upcoming episode which I've decided
would be on the idea of showing listeners that while they might first
associate psychology with Freud and Pavlov, they really know (or at
least are somewhat familiar with) more studies/concepts from our field
than they re
This braying j**kass has no idea what he is talking about. Doesn't know a damn
thing about Bolt. Just making more insulting noise.
So kick me off the list for saying it. It's the truth.
Nancy Melucci
Long Beach City College
Martin Bolt is a good example of the Eurocentric consensus in psyc
Dear Michael,
This good man died of cancer at an early age. Have some mercy.
Jim Matiya
Florida Gulf Coast University
jmat...@fgcu.edu
From: msylves...@copper.net
To: tips@acsun.frostburg.edu
Subject: [tips] Martin Bolt
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:23:23 -0500
Martin
I'll have to do more reading about Pedigree. I believe he may have developed
the family tree method of behavior genetic analysis.
Scott
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