try experience as a programmer.)
Best wishes to you all,
Charlotte Manly
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Charlotte F. Manly, Ph.D. Psychological & Brain Sciences
Assistant Professor 317 Life Sciences Bldg
ph: (502) 852-8162
Title: Re: Interactive Neuroanatomy
CD-ROM?
I am re-sending this because it didn't go through the first
time.
Ed,
I don't know that one, but I wanted a CD-ROM with neuroanatomy
for my graduate course in cognitive neuroscience. I also wanted
it to be affordable for students
My own opinion: I do not think you can teach theory-building. I consider myself part
theorist, and I teach statistics (with a little research design thrown in) to graduate
students, but I simply cannot imagine how you would teach theory-development. For one
thing, what counts as a good theory
Hi Beth (and others),
Slippery indeed. If it looks like a duck, and it walks like a duck...
A couple of things your daughter might want to note (and which I notice from his web
site). One: He is not a physician. He isboard-certified, but in clinical chemistry
and toxicology. It is appropria
At 11:07 AM -0600 12/2/02, Paul Brandon wrote:
>
>2. We can rely on natural contingencies -- those inherent in the behavior itself and
>not requiring someone's planned intervention. Again, there are two categories:
> a. Making attending reinforcing in its own right
> (lecture
Hi Marty,
I don't know of any research, but I also use take-home exams with my graduate stats
class. One reason for doing so is that it reduces text anxiety. Students also report
(some of them, anyway) that the test itself becomes a learning experience (esp. since
there is no time limit).
My
At 2:12 PM -0500 11/20/02, Nathalie Cote wrote:
>
>I intend to switch when I get the chance to review some alternatives. In
>particular, I'd like to find a textbook that focuses on the higher-order
>cognitive functions. I'd like to hear more about the text by Mayer that
>Christopher mentioned. And
Hi Annette,
This modified Bonferroni method is for planned comparisons, and it is a good one
(still). For posthoc comparisons you need to correct for all possible comparisons of
that type (e.g. all possible pairwise comparisons). In that case the Tukey or Ryan
(REGWQ) is better. Both are ava
Our university has a policy on this because we are located not far from Fort Knox. I
don't know what the policy is but we are expected to be accommodating. This kind of
information can easily be verified; I am sure the military is accustomed to providing
official documentation. And if this is
I believe there is a Harvard faces database (possible used for computer science).
Also try Mike Tarr's web page at brown (http://www.cog.brown.edu); he has a lot of
stimulus resources for objects and as I recall faces are among them.
Charlotte
>One of my research groups wants to use photos of
Title: Re: late assignment policies
Hi Rod,
I make no exceptions, or at least that's what I tell the
students. Each homework is worth 1-2% of the total grade, and if
it's a zero, it's a zero. Not the end of the world. But on
one occasion that I can think of I did relent and accept a homework
I have not tried this late policy with my undergraduates, but I use it with my
(first-year) graduate class to good effect. There are two different kinds of homework
assignments, and they're allowed to turn in one of each kind up to a week late. My
only additional requirement is that the late o
Title: Re: Gazzaniga's intro text
I agree. Gazzaniga would want to know. And while
we're on the topic of pictures, I'll mention that our department
dropped the use of a particular text based on the nature of its biased
coverage of race in the context of IQ and cognitive & social
development, an
Hi Traci,
I don't know definitively, but I think recent claims have been made that a computer
has passed the test. Maybe it was in connection with a computer, Grace, that
registered at an academic convention.
Alternatively, the program ELISA (?) which acted like a psychotherapist is reported
Title: Re: what on earth do we teach students mayor in
psycho
I'd like just to throw out a related question to you all who
teach undergrad methods, or courses with labs, or whatever. Do
you ever have students just go out and start experimenting, before
they've learned about proper experimental c
Yes, the planum temporale of the superior temporal lobe is normally larger on the
left. (It is specialized for language; basically where Wernicke's area is.) However,
I don't know if it is also larger on the left for those who are right-lateralized for
language (as some hereditary left-hander
Baby beauty contests. Not that I know where you'd find them, but doesn't the age and
gender of the child need to be given? And the photos are probably the property of the
contest sponsor. I don't know if there would still be a disproportionate gender
representation.
The alternative is to cr
>That is interesting, Charlotte. Having never had the opportunity to
>grow up in -- or even visit -- Hawaii, I would have never known of that
>culture clash.
>
>Thinking about it, I am sure there are other cases where the same clash
>would occur. I am equally sure that I would be unlikely to an
My personal feeling, Don, based on informal observation.
Charlotte
>Aloha Charlotte,
>
>I can certainly appreciate that there are cultural differences which must be
>taken into account when moving to a new locale. I would concur that if the
>mainstream culture establishes a rule about "saving fa
Actually, the original post at the bottom of this message reminded me very much of
home. (I grew up in Hawaii.) I would imagine that these instructions are intended in
part for mainlanders who move to Hawaii (or perhaps HCC, is that Honolulu or Hawaii?,
Community College only hires locally).
Completely off the top of my head: Since it sounds like you've got pretty good
classroom dynamics, but a soft voice and a big class, how about using a whistle, like
in camp? Blow the whistle when it gets too noisy or one person is addressing the
class but can't be heard. Just a thought
Charl
I don't know, but there is a Stroop effect for numbers as well as colors. In the number case the task is to identify the number of digits in a line (NOT the digit). Sample incongruent stimuli are:
111
22
It would not be hard for the student to create incongruent and congruent stimuli (in a
Title: Re: Questions about "Adult
Learners"
Perhaps it's time for universities to stop bundling all their
services and provide a pay-as-you-go option. Obviously this deal
of combining a bunch of students into one class and then expecting
them to do work is a one-size-fits-none deal. A sample
Title: Re: halluncinations and
flashbacks
Rod,
I can provide some general pointers but not specific
results.
You might look at the work on Steve Kosslyn on visual imagery
(not hallucination, however). There is some debate about how to
interpret the results and how far they go, but as I recall
Would this fall under general misconduct in research? I know of some web sites with
training materials, but not much about the problems. Examples:
http://www.nhgri.nih.gov/About_NHGRI/Dir/Ethics/Seminars_and_courses/index.html
http://onlineethics.org/index.html
However, it seems to me there w
My apologies to the list. I meant to send that last message off-list.
Charlotte
Charlotte F. Manly, Ph.D.Psychological & Brain Sciences
Assistant Professor 317 Life Sciences Bldg
ph: (502) 852-8162
I'd also be interested in Herb Simon's book. But again, if I chose only one, it would be Hebb.
Charlotte
Models of My Life by Herbert A. Simon (softback)
While these books vary considerably from classics to pop psychology of the 60s, you can be the judge of their value.
Thank you for helping
Now that we're on felines I have to interject. And object. Why assume animals'
response to African Americans (or other darker-skinned folk) will be spontaneously
negative?
I was at a cat show a couple of weeks ago talking with a breeder who was showing a
couple of gorgeous Siamese kittens.
Title: Re: Ethical behavior
I'm beginning to think the did-I-miss-anything is a rhetorical
question. I had a grad student (from another department) who
arrived in the fourth week of a 14-week term saying he was going to
add the class, and asked if he had missed anything. I told him
there was an
Yes. Survey research is usually classified as exempt (meaning it doesn't need to go
to an IRB committee), but that does mean that an IRB official needs to review it and
make sure it meets the standards for exempt research.
Also there are now routine requirements for how survey research is cond
There is such a test, and it is legitimate. It is used when you have the same sample
in which (in your example), height, shoe size, and IQ have all been measured, and you
want to know whether the relationship between height and IQ is the same as that
between shoe size and IQ.
The fact that ne
>Hi
>
>On Tue, 21 May 2002, Louis_Schmier wrote:
>> > >We have to get down to first
>> > >principles or definitions. And there is the subjective and qualifying
>> > >rub. There is no detachment and objectivity.
>> >
>> > Why not?
>>
>> Because we're not robots? And it is a delusion to think tha
Not bad. It is a crater, however. The cues:
- lighting is consistent in the crater view but not the hill view
- land slopes gently downward away from the edge of the crater, which makes sense (for
certain kinds of volcanic craters); the opposite pattern for a hill is unusual
- greater detail i
Like Rick, I have a late option for some of my classes (small graduate-level ones).
Students are allowed to turn in one assignment (except the first or last) up to a week
late without penalty; subsequent late assignments get zeroes. I don't require a
reason, and this policy doesn't include se
Hmm. Is that why they didn't use to have blue M&M's?
Charlotte
>I would have to agree with Mike.
>
>Taste itself is a multi-sensorial experience, depending also on the
>visual system. I remember when we covered this in Intro and was telling
>my classes that if they wanted to eat less or lose w
Rod,
There is another issue which your colleague did not raise but which is important here
and may be important elsewhere. That issue is what constitutes voluntary consent.
Here, a professor may not solicit his or her students in class to participate as
research subjects (although it's okay
e) better late than never
f) an opportunity to learn about the value of planning
g) this class isn't high on their priority list
h) they need to pick the right free paper off the web
i) they need more structure in order to start earlier
Seriously, why not structure the assignment so they have to
Just a comment. There are two issues here. One is, do test scores predict
performance for the subset of students admitted? The other is, do test scores predict
which students should be admitted? You don't have further data on the students
screened out, which affects your ability to test the
Thank you all for your thoughts on the advantages and disadvantages of distributing
lecture notes. I thought I would let you know how it turned out. This is for a
graduate class in statistics, which I am developing and teaching for the first time.
I made lecture notes available roughly an ho
>While purchasing a cup of coffee this morning, I came across one of my students from
>our Senior Seminar (History of Psyc) class. She wanted to talk about the class.
>In this class, she tends to sit silently while others do the work of reviewing and
>discussing the assigned material (along wit
>This question is a little off-topic with respect to most undergraduate
>teaching, but I know there are several savvy statisticians on this list who
>might have an answer to this question:
>
>Does SPSS have a mechanism by which I can verify the accuracy of a large
>SPSS data file by creating two i
TIPSters,
Do any of you distribute your lecture notes to students (in advance)? I am going to
experiment with doing so for my graduate stats class. I will email them the notes to
print out, so they'll also be able to add space for their own notes. At the end of
the week I'll get feedback to
At 12:18 PM -0600 2/25/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Thus far it does not appear that genetic material can give us any clues
>as to language specificity.
Why would it? Language is learned after people are born. And infants can
discriminate phonemes not in their to-be-native language, until abo
At 2:00 PM -0600 2/20/02, Rod Hetzel wrote:
>On another note, has anyone heard about the lawsuits that some are
>suggesting be filed against fast-food companies for "making" people
>obsese and unhealthy? My health psychology class discussed this the
>other day. Anyone here have any thoughts on t
At 8:01 AM -0500 1/30/02, Louis_Schmier wrote:
> And finally, let's talk about wound and wonder. On to the "great
>motivator," at least what so many of us in and outside of education call
>the great motivator: the grade. Ah, the grade. If I asked if the grade
>was motivation and motivati
>On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Charlotte Manly wrote:
>
>> Louis,
>>
>> Interesting. I didn't realize you spent so much time on community
>> building. (There's probably a big literature on forming effective
>> groups too.) But one question: where is it all
Louis,
Interesting. I didn't realize you spent so much time on community building. (There's
probably a big literature on forming effective groups too.) But one question: where
is it all leading? What can you do in a class that has these communities that you
can't do using the more usual ap
I'll add one more thing. Keep your portfolio balanced at the risk level you chose.
If your stock/bond mix was 60/40 and the stock market rose a lot, move some of that
into bonds to rebalance, otherwise your portfolio will be riskier than you planned.
Conversely if the stock market tanks, reb
explanation
because as I recall, people do sometimes spontaneously recover from depression even
without any treatment.
Charlotte
>At 2:31 PM -0500 1/2/02, Charlotte Manly wrote:
>>In other words, it really _is_ all in their heads. ;) Seriously, though,
>>one of the nice th
In other words, it really _is_ all in their heads. ;) Seriously, though, one of the
nice things about brain imaging methods is they provide somewhat more tangible
evidence of things at the psychological level. But ya gotta wonder... If the study's
authors didn't expect to find brain correla
The most unusual grading method I have experienced was as a student. The class was
Artificial Intelligence. We had one required text and two supplementary books
although no readings were ever specifically assigned. At the end of the course, the
professor announced that he would give everyone
I'd certainly like to see the details of this study. It's not clear whether people
should be asked not to drink coffee, or just not to deviate from their normal levels
of intake. When I was at NIH, one postdoc (an M.D.) routinely asked his subjects not
to drink coffee before scanning. I didn
Does a student who would get a B unless her late _extra credit_ assignment is accepted
really deserve an A?
Nonetheless, I can sympathize. A similar thing happened to me this semester. As I
was handing out the final, I reminded students that their last regular assignment was
due. A student
Title: Re: Guide to SPSS
You might check out Marija Norusis, SPSS 10.0 Guide to Data
Analysis. It includes some discussion of stats as well as use of
SPSS. However, it may be a little too advanced for an
undergraduate course.
Charlotte
Does anyone have suggestions regarding a
guide to using S
The septal nuclei are still there. In rats, yes, stimulation to that area was
preferred over food or water. In humans its function is not well understood although
it is classified as part of the limbic system. Given the likely importance of
networks of areas, it would be simplistic to call i
Hello TIPSters,
I will be reviving a course on problem-solving & inference that hasn't been taught
here in many years. Enrollment might be 80-120. Any suggestions on texts or other
sources you've found useful?
Thanks in advance.
Charlotte
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students wrt the current terrorism situation:
http://complicity.english.louisville.edu/peace/
Not very psych-oriented but possibly a source for discussion materials.
Charlotte
At 1:31 PM -0600 12/6/01, Hatcher, Joe
;off the end of the semester is only one of degree.
>
>Charlotte Manly wrote:
>
>> I've been told that if I get unanimous agreement to a change, I'm covered. How big
>is your class? Mine unanimously wanted to move the final up a few days and they were
>abl
>At 11:28 AM -0500 12/5/01, Michael Sylvester wrote:
>>Please help! Some of my students want to take the final exam on the last
>>day of class,but the memo from the Dean states to follow the final
>>exam schedule.The gradient seems to be fluctuating.
>>I am going to flip a coin in class.Heads I go
Yes! I learned to program on that thing. It was $99 as I recall but my parents
bought it. The keyboard it came with was really weird, sort of like a cheap
calculator but you could upgrade to the "chiclet" keyboard for about $20. And you
didn't really have to type much because if you pressed
Maryanne,
There was a flurry of such work in about 1992 in a variety of journals, including
psych ones, mostly looking at gender differences in productivity. They would include
raw figures. Also you might look in the literature on the sociology of science, which
I believe tends to look at th
In general, I am in favor of open book exams, particularly for mature adults. So far
my courses have only been grad-level stats, but I routinely use open-book exams.
However, I must admit that students need to have the material well-enough organized in
their heads so they don't spend much tim
The UMichigan site recommended by Chuck Huff accords with my (admittedly limited)
experience. I teach grad-level stats, and I expect students to work hard. I've
noticed that work per se does not raise objections, but that students become upset if
they work hard AND the expected results do not
>Charlotte Manly wrote: (in response to my query...)
>
>> If that scale is well-constructed, it _is_ an interval scale
>> (or awfully close to one). Measurement issues are beyond my
>> area of expertise, but as I understand it, if you only label
>> the endpoints, s
>Stephen Black wrote:
>
>> I also side with Jim Clark on this one. This is a debate that
>> split experimental psychology some years ago (Can you say "John
>> Gaito"?). The opinion I arrived at was that levels of measurement
>> is one of those topics that we like to torture students with but
>> ha
>Hi
>
>On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Payam Heidary wrote:
>> This week I lectured on various levels of measurement
>> i.e., ordinal, nominal, interval, ratio, etc. in
>> research and I found that some students have a hard
>> time understanding these concepts. DO anyone of you
>> have a good strategy or meth
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