RE: deja vu and dreams

2003-03-31 Thread Harry Avis
My French is not as good as my Spanish so I tend to get them confused. However, I believe there is an actual term for the feeling that something that should be familiar is not - jamais vu. Harry Avis PhD Sierra College [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anything worth doing is worth doing at all From

Re: Question about the term "Manned"

2003-03-03 Thread Harry Avis
us into the 19th Century. Harry Avis PhD Sierra College [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anything worth doing is worth doing at all From: Todd Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences&q

Student question on vision

2003-02-27 Thread Harry Avis
blue eyed people usually have a light skin color and are more sensitive to ultraviolet, but this question specifically referred to eye color and sensitivity to light in the visual system. Any help for geezers having a senior moment? Harry Avis PhD Sierra College [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anything wort

Excuses for our own absences adn those of students

2003-02-19 Thread Harry Avis
ndmothers? In 36 years of teaching I have had only one grandpapa kick off. Harry Avis PhD Sierra College [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anything worth doing is worth doing at all _ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*.

Re: Student Questions

2003-01-31 Thread Harry Avis
ous disciplines for hippocampus and limbic system? Harry Avis PhD Sierra College [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anything worth doing is worth doing at all From: "Jean Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: &

Re: Student Question

2003-01-22 Thread Harry Avis
omeostatic mechanisms fail. Hypothermia itself also leads to somnolence. Actually not a bad way to go once you get past the shivering stage, apparently. Harry Avis PhD Sierra College [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anything worth doing is worth doing at all From: "Cheri Budzynski" <[EMA

Re: MBTI

2002-12-11 Thread Harry Avis
and little reliability, but we will still use it to counsel students or select military training recruits. Then its high level of variabilty, faulty assumptions based on questionable Jungian theory become a real problem. Harry Avis PhD Sierra College [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anything worth doing is w

RE: length of papers

2002-12-10 Thread Harry Avis
validity? Harry Avis PhD Sierra College [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anything worth doing is worth doing at all From: "Annette Taylor, Ph. D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Teaching in the Psyc

Re: MBTI validity

2002-12-10 Thread Harry Avis
sure that they really are a and that this distinction is meaningful. Which is precisely the meaning of validity. Harry Avis PhD Sierra College [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anything worth doing is worth doing at all From: Paul Brandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Teaching in t

Re: MBTI validity

2002-12-09 Thread Harry Avis
o succeeed. One should always be leery of statements like: Despite x I firmly believe.. Firm belief and observation lead to the conclusion that the Sun revolved around the earth. Harry Avis PhD Sierra College [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anything worth doing is worth doing at all From: He

Re: naive psychology

2002-12-08 Thread Harry Avis
years ago. MBTI has no more validity than astrology. Harry Avis PhD Sierra College [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anything worth doing is worth doing at all From: Herb Coleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "T

Re: Psychology in Popular Music (was Pink Floyd)

2002-12-08 Thread Harry Avis
Indeed, Old Alice was ten feet tall. A good example of schemas in long term memory. As time goes on ten feet tall becomes six feet tall. Harry Avis PhD Sierra College [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anything worth doing is worth doing at all From: "Paul Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Rep

Re: Psychology in Popular Music (was Pink Floyd)

2002-12-07 Thread Harry Avis
t in peace). These include an aspect of social consciousness the Pink Floyd also had. How to know you are getting old and its time to retire: I heard "A Whiter Shade of Pale" on Muzac at my local supermarket. I also heard "One Toke over the Line". Grading exams is a pain.

Re: RE: Re: Pink Floyd

2002-12-06 Thread Harry Avis
Psychedelic Furs for the more recent folks, Harry Avis PhD Sierra College [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anything worth doing is worth doing at all _ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy

Re: participation question

2002-12-04 Thread Harry Avis
e the grades. When she refused, he supported her. Good luck to your colleague. Does he/she have tenure? Sad to say, but it probably matters. Harry Avis PhD Sierra College [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anything worth doing is worth doing a

Re: participation question

2002-12-04 Thread Harry Avis
Harry Avis PhD Sierra College [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anything worth doing is worth doing at all From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: student's question

2002-12-04 Thread Harry Avis
of foolish questions simply because it is easier to give them the info than it is to rant and rave. However, I would never allow extra work such as suggested by Mike's student. Never Never Never. Harry Avis PhD Sierra College [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anything worth do

Re: Dr. Freud

2002-12-01 Thread Harry Avis
et of circumstances sure enhances the finances Of the followers of Doctor Sigmund Freud There are other verses but I forbear. Harry Avis PhD Sierra College [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*.

Quotes

2002-11-19 Thread Harry Avis
finds its spot it takes root and doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it. It is kind of like getting tenure, Harry Avis PhD Sierra College [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anything worth doing is worth doing at all _ Add photos

Re: tips digest: November 07, 2002

2002-11-09 Thread Harry Avis
. Is there room in the bucket for my head to soak as well? Harry Avis PhD Sierra College [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anything worth doing is worth doing at all _ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http

RE: URGENT:student military call

2002-11-07 Thread Harry Avis
, you will probably be elected department chair and maybe even college president by acclamation. Harry Avis PhD Sierra College [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anything worth doing is worth doing at all _ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail

RE: Welcome to University? Fw: Test???

2002-11-04 Thread Harry Avis
for me, perhaps not ideally and certainly no in every situation, but it works a majority of the time. I appreciate your comments. Harry Avis PhD Sierra College [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anything worth doing is worth doing at all _

Re: Welcome to University? Fw: Test???

2002-11-04 Thread Harry Avis
much as having to discriminate valid from invalid excuses. Harry Avis PhD Sierra College [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anything worth doing is worth doing at all _ Get faster connections -- switch to MSN Internet Access! http://resou

Re: Need help to find course material

2002-10-30 Thread Harry Avis
e was even breathier than Natural History of the Senses. Sorry, my Serzone hasn't kicked in yet, but things are looking better, the coffee pot is now finished perking. Harry Avis PhD Sierra College [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anything worth doing is wor

Re: Need help to find course material

2002-10-30 Thread Harry Avis
The author is the only person I have ever known who could make human factors research seem interesting :-}). Good book but I am not sure how relevant it is to the topic Harry Avis PhD Sierra College [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anything worth doing is worth doing at all

RE: tips digest: October 26, 2002

2002-10-28 Thread Harry Avis
Based on my experience in Mexico, I didn't think there were any Canadians left in Canada after October, so how could they take over the US. That strange whirring sound we hear in California around this time of year is the sound of Snow Birds flying South to Mexico Harry Avis PhD S

Re: (Fwd) Re: Gazzaniga's Intro text

2002-10-25 Thread Harry Avis
for my ideas, but the decision from inception to completion was out of my hands. Harry Avis PhD Sierra College [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anything worth doing is worth doing at all _ Broadband? Dial-up? Get reliable MSN Internet Access

Re: Rosalie Raynor

2002-10-14 Thread Harry Avis
Not to mention Little Miss Muffett who had a severe case of arachnophobia. No evidence it was ever treated with systematic desensitization or flooding so the prognosis is not good. Harry Avis PhD Sierra College [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anything worth doing is worth doing at all

The Butterfly and class noise

2002-09-23 Thread Harry Avis
oom school house of multiple grades. The students are throwing things and being disruptive. I have tried his technique and it works as well with college students as it does with kindergarten students in the movie. You have to watch the movie to discover the technique, however. Harry Avis

Re: Unmitigated gall collection

2002-09-18 Thread Harry Avis
x27;t ppossibly take the exam now. P.S. as I made clear in every possible way, there is no study guide. Harry Avis PhD Sierra College [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anything worth doing is worth doing at all _ Join the world’s largest e-mail s

RE: talkative student

2002-09-17 Thread Harry Avis
hey know I am not threatening them or >being cruel. Harry Avis PhD Sierra College [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anything worth doing is worth doing at all _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn

Re: tips digest: July 04, 2002

2002-07-09 Thread Harry Avis
lay a tape of a Tom and Jerry cartoon from the 50s as well as a cartoon of more recent vintage (I chose X men). The students do a time series analysis of "violence" which they must opeerationally define. One can compare such topics as intentionality, versimilitude, justifiability of violence etc.

Re: menu of assignments

2002-07-08 Thread Harry Avis
>Stephaie Olsen wrote: >I am in the process of revamping the way I teach an Introduction to >Psychology class at the community college level. I would like to try >offering my students a "menu of assignments" so they could pick and choose >from a variety of assignments. Is there anyone who has trie

Re: Help w/Faculty against quantifying evaluations

2002-06-13 Thread Harry Avis
> >My questions for you are: 1) What are my best arguments (including >examples, theories, etc.) to explain to people in different >disciplines the need for measurement/quantification in this case, and >2) don't the majority of universities score these forms (and give >averages and standard devi

Re: Random Thought: What Counts

2002-05-20 Thread Harry Avis
> >--- >You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Harry Avis PhD Sierra College Rocklin, CA 95677 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anything worth doing is worth doing at all. Unknown. If we live long enough, death come

Re: Question

2002-05-10 Thread Harry Avis
>required for your majors? We are currently surveying schools close to >us but would appreciate a more national landscape. Thank your very much, >Michael Lavin > Harry Avis PhD Sierra College Rocklin, CA 95677 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anything worth doing is worth doing at all. Unk

Re: Remote, retroactive intercessory prayer

2002-04-27 Thread Harry Avis
forward, I personally am not asking this question. My point is that Believing in a lvoing God only adds to burden. Harry Avis PhD Sierra College Rocklin, CA 95677 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anything worth doing is worth doing at all. Unknown. If we live long enough, death comes to us a

Re: Personality disorders and ADA

2002-04-26 Thread Harry Avis
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Commencement speakers

2002-04-25 Thread Harry Avis
ave a serious theme. Harry Avis PhD Sierra College Rocklin, CA 95677 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anything worth doing is worth doing at all. Unknown. If we live long enough, death comes to us all Unknown _ Send and receive Hotmail on

Re: mandatory commencement attendance?

2002-04-24 Thread Harry Avis
policy? >what are the pros and cons of attending with academic regalia? > Michael Sylvester,PhD > Daytona Beach,Florida > >--- Harry Avis PhD Sierra College Rocklin, CA 95677 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anything worth doing is worth doing at all. Unknown. If we live long enough, d

Re: John Nash

2002-04-24 Thread Harry Avis
untreated schizophrenia increases exponentially. The author of the article clearly blames the meds for his problems and implies that drugfree is the only way to be. I disagree. > >Harry Avis PhD Sierra College Rocklin, CA 95677 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anything worth doing is worth doing at all. Unkn

RE: won't print

2002-04-16 Thread Harry Avis
o late submissions--by insisting students meet their >obligations on time in class (or face clearly defined sanctions such as >grade reduction) we are simply treating them as responsible adults, not >children. > > Rick >-- > >Rick Adams Harry Avis PhD Sierra College Rocklin

Textbooks, illustrations and examples.

2002-04-15 Thread Harry Avis
reay old? Harry Avis PhD Sierra College Rocklin, CA 95677 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anything worth doing is worth doing at all. Unknown. If we live long enough, death comes to us all Unknown _ Send and receive Hotmail on your

Re: What's the record?

2002-04-15 Thread Harry Avis
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RE: Media and TV

2002-04-11 Thread Harry Avis
ical obligation to focus their attention on real >issues rather than distractions. > >-Don. > > Harry Avis PhD Sierra College Rocklin, CA 95677 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anything worth doing is worth doing at all. Unknown. If we live long enough, death comes to us all Unknown

Re: Student question

2002-04-11 Thread Harry Avis
Tarner wrote: > >> > >> > Flavor is a combination of taste and smell. Humans have 4 tastes >(bitter, sour, sweet and salty). If you have a cold and your nose is >stuffed then food does not taste as good. What we are actually saying is >that the flavor is not there. Al

Re: lowest score dilemma

2002-04-09 Thread Harry Avis
s this ok? > >Michael Sylvester,PhD >Daytona Beach,Florida > >--- > Harry Avis PhD Sierra College Rocklin, CA 95677 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anything worth doing is worth doing at all. Unknown. If we live long enough, death comes to us all Unknown __

Bribes vs Incentives

2002-04-07 Thread Harry Avis
intrinsically motivated (they were good at it and therefore continued) I wish all of us would remember the basic principles of our discipline. Harry Avis PhD Sierra College Rocklin, CA 95677 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anything worth doing is worth doing at all. Unknown. If we live long enough, death

Re: Grading Scales

2002-04-04 Thread Harry Avis
In addition to being psychometricallly questionable, the scale seems harsh. An 86 would be a "C". >>> > >-- >_______ >> >--- > Harry Avis PhD Sierra College Rocklin, CA 95677 email: [EM

Re: "Hate Instant Message"

2002-04-04 Thread Harry Avis
but finished the service. Afterward he asked the superintendent if he thought that the was likely to be repeated. The superintendent said: No, that guy has only one sane moment every five years?" > > >--- > Harry Avis PhD Sierra College Rocklin, CA 95677 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Reading Ability and Grades

2002-03-25 Thread Harry Avis
, business and philosophy. Harry Avis PhD Sierra College Rocklin, CA 95677 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Life is opinion - Marcus Aurelius There is nothing that is good or bad, but that thinking makes it so - Shakespeare _ Send and

Media and TV

2002-03-24 Thread Harry Avis
to see through tops worn bra less and the tight pants for men that I can no longer get into? Super baggie pants or peg 14 black slacks. F(** me heels or Doc Martins for women. Doc Martins are lascivious? Your mother wears Army boots to bed! Harry Avis PhD Sierra College Rocklin, CA 95677 email:

re Quotes

2002-03-19 Thread Harry Avis
sense (unless of course on is collecting data on the number of existing anecdotes. Data can be used to verify or contradict hypotheses. A collection of anecdotes is simply a collection of anecdotes. Harry Avis PhD Sierra College Rocklin, CA 95677 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Life is opinion - Marcus Aur

Another stats question

2002-03-10 Thread Harry Avis
honcho stats guy stated flatly that psychologists don't know how to use statistics, teach statistics or interpret stats. A couple of them still won't talk to us! Harry Avis PhD Sierra College Rocklin, CA 95677 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Life is opinion - Marcus Aurelius There is nothi

Figure Skating thanks

2002-03-09 Thread Harry Avis
along the information to my student. Harry Avis PhD Sierra College Rocklin, CA 95677 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Life is opinion - Marcus Aurelius There is nothing that is good or bad, but that thinking makes it so - Shakespeare

Tenure Track Position at Sierra College

2002-03-08 Thread Harry Avis
think) Application forms can be obtained from our Website and email applications are acceptable. Anyone who already applied for a similar position in the Fall is still in the pool. Our internet address is www.sierra.cc.ca.us Harry Avis PhD Sierra College Rocklin, CA 95677 email: [EMAIL PROT

Vestibular sense and skaters

2002-03-08 Thread Harry Avis
would be stronger in powering a turn with the reverse for lefties. I also told the class that I had a infallible source for all such arcane information and would bet the answer by Monday. So arcane information Tipsters, que pasa oder was macht? Harry Avis PhD Sierra College Rocklin, CA 95677 email

Re: Rats and color vision

2002-03-05 Thread Harry Avis
. Does anyone know if lab rats >have color vision? > >Rob > >Rob Weisskirch, MSW, Ph.D. >Human Development Program >Liberal Studies Institute, Building 15 >100 Campus Center >California State University, Monterey Bay >Seaside, CA 93955-8001 >(831) 582-5079 >[EMAI

Re: Evolutionary psychology

2002-03-05 Thread Harry Avis
your class and you have no obligation to even speak to those who hang around your office or your classroom who are not enrolled. Harry Avis PhD Sierra College Rocklin, CA 95677 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Life is opinion - Marcus Aurel

Re: hallucinations

2002-03-04 Thread Harry Avis
dislike the term hallucinogen, because these drugs produce perceptual distortions not true hallucinations. Harry Avis PhD Sierra College Rocklin, CA 95677 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Life is opinion - Marcus Aurelius There is nothing that is good or bad, but that thinking makes it so

Good Old Days _ was distributing lecture notes

2002-03-03 Thread Harry Avis
an before. The good old days weren't good, they are just old. Harry Avis PhD Sierra College Rocklin, CA 95677 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Life is opinion - Marcus Aurelius There is nothing that is good or bad, but that thinking makes

Re: distributing lecture notes

2002-02-26 Thread Harry Avis
ch unit. I can't be sure it improves student learning or grades, but it gives me some comfort in knowing that students have the text, my lectures, my power point presentation and the notes to study from. I do not reproduce photos, graphs etc. It is too difficult and usually doesnt reproduce

Sin, psychology and Philosophy

2002-02-20 Thread Harry Avis
be like in the late 1300s when the University of Salamanca had Arab, Jewish and Christian faculty debating philosophical issues. I suspect they would have sent anyone using the arguments on this thread back to undergraduate classes. No offense intended. I am just as guilty as anyone else. H

RE: Guess who is coming to dinner?

2002-02-19 Thread Harry Avis
different students and placed inside a card on my desk during finals. I didn't even open them until class was over and so I had no way of verifying who was the giver. If the Enron executives can get away with declining to testify, I will decline to state what happened to them. Harry Avis PhD S

RE: Guess who is coming to dinner?

2002-02-18 Thread Harry Avis
on again? Could it be that Michael is waving a red flag in front of us to see if anyone charges? Harry Avis PhD Sierra College Rocklin, CA 95677 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Life is opinion - Marcus Aurelius There is nothing that is good or bad, but that thinking makes it so - Shakespeare >

software for scoring tests

2002-02-16 Thread Harry Avis
have stats programs to do that. Is there any freeware or relatively inexpensive software that is sufficiently simple for my needs? Harry Avis PhD Sierra College Rocklin, CA 95677 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Life is opinion - Marcus Aurelius There is nothing that is good or bad, but that thinking

Re: info: St.Thomas Aquinas

2002-02-12 Thread Harry Avis
to demonstrate that free will did not exist, I would still not be able to accept the idea of an omniscient creator. Harry Avis PhD Sierra College Rocklin, CA 95677 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Life is opinion - Marcus Aurelius There is nothing that is good or bad, but that thinking makes it s

Re: info

2002-02-04 Thread Harry Avis
You are right, I don't believe it. You must teach at one of the following institutions A. A Jesuit Seminary B. A College in Switzerland C. A Engineering college in Germany D. A college that specializes teaching CPAs Harry Avis PhD Sierra College Rocklin, CA 95677 email: [EMAIL PROT

Re: Random Thought: Why Aren't You Retired?

2002-02-04 Thread Harry Avis
18 but I think a 30 year old would have even more energy for the job. The time to leave a party is when thay are still asking you to stay. The time to walk offstage is while the audience is still cheering The time to leave teaching is when they still say: who are we going to get to replace you?

RE: Hats and caps in class:cell phones & pagers

2002-01-30 Thread Harry Avis
6001 ph 507-389-6217 * >*http://www.mankato.msus.edu/dept/psych/welcome.html* > > > >--- >You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Harry Avis PhD Sierra College Rocklin, CA 95677 email: [EMAI

Re: Color Vision in Dogs

2002-01-24 Thread Harry Avis
Isn't wonderful to have TIPS! thanks for the websites. They will add a great deal to my sensation and perception lectures. THanks again Harry Avis PhD Sierra College Rocklin, CA 95677 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Life is opinion - Marcus Aurelius There is nothing that is good or bad, but

Re: and on the other hand...good students!

2001-12-13 Thread Harry Avis
and, maybe some of them are unmotivated students for whom an F would be an appropriate grade and perhaps even an incentive. I believe firmly that we owe our students an opportunity to succeed but also an opportunity to fail. Harry Avis PhD Sierra College Rocklin, CA 95677 email: [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Twas the night before grades due

2001-12-12 Thread Harry Avis
gt;<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Twas the night before grades due >Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 14:26:28 -0500 (EST) > > > >On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Harry Avis wrote: > > > I really need a

Twas the night before grades due

2001-12-12 Thread Harry Avis
I really need a break These are the times that try men's (and women's) soul For me, I'd like to jump in a hole A BDFC: the student speaks Farsi An ABBA from a student named Darci A DCCD from a student who tries A DFAD from a student who lies A DBCF: her first language is Bengali To justify my g

Re: dastardly deadlines and empty excuses

2001-12-11 Thread Harry Avis
wick Hall 115 >Phone:903-233-3312 >Fax: 903-233-3246 >Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Homepage: http://www.letu.edu/people/rodhetzel > > >--- >You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Harry Av

RE: student's loan

2001-12-07 Thread Harry Avis
As BB King wrote: "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me." At least you will never make that mistake again. I do agree with Tim Shearon, however, if you must, give it as a gift, but do not expect a return and do not tell anyone else. Consider it a mitzvah. Harr

Re: cumulative finals

2001-12-07 Thread Harry Avis
ore accommodating if I didn't, but I would be a real troublemaker, regardless, in any college in which the department chair or the dean told me how to teach my class, assign grades, or test students. Harry Avis PhD Sierra College Rocklin, CA 95677 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Life is opinion -

Re: Snitch and get bonus points

2001-12-02 Thread Harry Avis
Yes I know the difference between moral and mortal. What I described is a mortal sin to some. Come to think of it, it is also a moral sin Harry Avis PhD Sierra College Rocklin, CA 95677 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Life is opinion - Marcus Aurelius There is nothing that is good or bad, but that

Re: Snitch and get bonus points

2001-12-02 Thread Harry Avis
poor students cheat from them and you often have the ignorant cheating off the ignorant. The consistency of exams in my classes is so high that unless the same students conspire together for every exam, cheating rarely has a significant impact on the grade. Harry Avis PhD Sierra College Roc

Re: class participation

2001-11-29 Thread Harry Avis
No I don't. The problem I find is with non native speakers, the congenitally shy, those who have not yet learned the social role of being a college student. Class participation grades often go to the glib, the facile, and the extroverted. Of course, this is course level dependent. Harry

Re: alcoholism predisposition

2001-11-29 Thread Harry Avis
e are various concordance studies of males and females but these are subject to the usual qualifications. I am writing this off the top of my head. A MUCH better source would be NIDA. Harry Avis PhD Sierra College Rocklin, CA 95677 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Life is opinion - Marcus Aurelius The

RE: you're a geezer if you remember

2001-11-29 Thread Harry Avis
As I recall from a previous discussion Hank and I grew up in the same city, Camden, New Jersey. I can almost imagine his mother and mine at the wringer on top of the washer. My grandmother had a icebox within my memory. How aout jujubes, Turkish candy, and halvah (halveh?) Harry Avis PhD

Re: info: Mowrer

2001-11-29 Thread Harry Avis
ttle unusual about Mowrer? Harry Avis PhD Sierra College Rocklin, CA 95677 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Life is opinion - Marcus Aurelius There is nothing that is good or bad, but that thinking makes it so - Shakespeare >From: Michael Sylvester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: &q

Re: you're a geezer if you remember

2001-11-26 Thread Harry Avis
libly wrote in my auditory memory, each "chunka" was a half second, so the answer would depend on the number of places needed. Harry Avis PhD Sierra College Rocklin, CA 95677 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Life is opinion - Marcus Aurelius There is nothing that is good or bad, but that think

Re: you're a geezer if you remember

2001-11-26 Thread Harry Avis
test. Harry Avis PhD Sierra College Rocklin, CA 95677 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Life is opinion - Marcus Aurelius There is nothing that is good or bad, but that thinking makes it so - Shakespeare >From: "Richard Pisacreta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: "Teaching in

Re: Fwd: Tolman & Hull

2001-11-25 Thread Harry Avis
As I have been teaching my students, memory is reconstructed from bits and pieces of our past. Peter Carlton was my major professor who was as student of Spence. I misremembered the relationship between Spence and Hull. After a while the old dust bowl empiricists get mixed up. Harry Avis PhD

Re: Fwd: Tolman & Hull

2001-11-24 Thread Harry Avis
ience have pointed out some questions are never answered: the researchers simply go on to other questions. The zeitgeist changes when new techniques are developed (or more cynically, the gods of funding change their priorities). Harry Avis PhD Sierra College Rocklin, CA 95677 email: [EMAIL PROT

Re: Canadian:TARGET FIXATION

2001-11-20 Thread Harry Avis
rs as well, and we could always spot the tourist. So can panhandlers, obviously. Harry Avis PhD Sierra College Rocklin, CA 95677 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Life is opinion - Marcus Aurelius There is nothing that is good or bad, but that thinking makes it so - Shakespeare >From: Michael

Re: Any good biopsychology CD-ROMS?

2001-11-16 Thread Harry Avis
The Worth text by Kolb and Wishaw has a fabulous CD ROM Harry Avis PhD Sierra College Rocklin, CA 95677 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Life is opinion - Marcus Aurelius There is nothing that is good or bad, but that thinking makes it so - Shakespeare >From: "Cheri Budzynski" <

Re: adjuncting - one more question

2001-11-16 Thread Harry Avis
realized that it was not rewarding in such a vacuum. I have turned to writing textbooks and other scholarly material that gives me the satisfaction of staying aware of my field, Harry Avis PhD Sierra College Rocklin, CA 95677 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Life is opinion - Marcus Aurelius There is

Re: adjuncting - one more question

2001-11-15 Thread Harry Avis
I taught as an adjunct for 2 years while a postdoc and I now have a tenured position. What was your question? Harry Avis PhD Sierra College Rocklin, CA 95677 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Life is opinion - Marcus Aurelius There is nothing that is good or bad, but that thinking makes it so

Re: Student's question

2001-10-30 Thread Harry Avis
sodic memory?). Their lack of episodic memory is, however, great for oak trees. Harry Avis PhD Sierra College Rocklin, CA 95677 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Life is opinion - Marcus Aurelius There is nothing that is good or bad, but that thinking makes it so - Shakespeare >From: "Pat

RE: worldviews and educational models

2001-10-29 Thread Harry Avis
s, but it is the belief in the importance of the religious beliefs that is responsible for the anxiety. I think it is also valid to point out that OCD can take the form of excessive religiosity which is different than ordinary religious beliefs. Harry Avis PhD Sierra College Rocklin, CA 95677 email: [EMA

Re: Lifespan development

2001-10-29 Thread Harry Avis
You pay my airfare and lodging and I will be a volunteer in your classto demonstrate age appropriate memory impairment or CRS (Can't remeber Sh**)symdrome. I have been teaching for 34 years so I am an expert on CRS. :-{) (person with big mustache smiling) Harry Avis PhD Sierra College Ro

Re: Cognitive psych in the CIA

2001-10-29 Thread Harry Avis
It says someting about the CIA that seems related to our present situation that the book being referred to has no data later than 1986, What was the pub date anyway? Harry Avis PhD Sierra College Rocklin, CA 95677 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Life is opinion - Marcus Aurelius There is nothing

RE: working women

2001-10-24 Thread Harry Avis
neverly acknowledge this pubicly, but Mrs Colonel Smith could typically bite off a piece of hardened steel and spit out bullets. Harry Avis PhD Sierra College Rocklin, CA 95677 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Life is opinion - Marcus Aurelius There is nothing that is good or bad, but

Re: Hoisting petards Oedipus (etc)

2001-10-17 Thread Harry Avis
Hey folks, don't you all have anything better to do?. Maybe your colleges should consider raising your teaching load to mine (5 classes plus one overload) Just kidding, of course Harry Avis PhD Sierra College Rocklin, CA 95677 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Life is opinion - Marcus Aurelius