On Dec 30, 2006, at 1:26 PM, Dan Koren wrote:
Hope this is helpful
Yes, it is very helpful.
One thing I still am wondering about is the time that has passed
since the article was published. I seem to recall that, within the
last few years, APA has relaxed their copyright restrictions for
Hi all,
What are the rules for placing on-line one's own (co-authored)
articles published in APA journals? I know that I've seen people do
this on their own on-line web sites, and I think I've heard the rules
before, but I can't seem to find them after a very brief search. I
was hoping I
On Dec 29, 2006, at 6:41 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I ... noticed that you have your own online text book that you use.
Tell me/us more about doing that. Why would you/me/anyone want to
go to that much trouble versus the advantages of doing so.
Well, I can speak only to why I am trying t
On Dec 29, 2006, at 3:30 PM, Shearon, Tim wrote:
Richard- Mine says, "Dr Shearon is highly intelligent and a great
teacher. He should not be allowed around undergraduates!".
I have no teaching awards on my wall (because I've never received
one) and the nicest student comment I ever heard w
On Dec 19, 2006, at 2:37 PM, Joan Warmbold wrote:
Are we trying to be amusing here?
I don't know about you, but I was being ironic, which is not
necessarily the same as funny.
So how does this necessarily imply that they will "advance all
the way through the lower-division course work be
Hi all!
OK, so now the conversation has shifted to the dimension of
"admissions criteria" and the claim has become: "courses offered at
schools with more rigorous admissions criteria are more demanding
academically than the (supposedly) same courses offered at schools
with less rigorous a
I was dismayed, but not surprised, by the ad hominem
characterizations of community colleges in recent posts. To take two
examples:
Ken Steele wrote:
"All public universities and community colleges [in North Carolina]
are interconnected through a set of "articulation" agreements. The
OFF
On Dec 8, 2006, at 10:09 AM, Annette Taylor, Ph. D. wrote:
I was telling students in class that SSRIs are effective for
treating both anxiety and depressive disorders. A student who was
paying attention wanted to know how the same drug can work to help
a disorder that seems to be based on
On Nov 29, 2006, at 11:31 AM, Beth Benoit wrote:
I, too, am a little tired of students dictating the guidelines for
what they are "comfortable" reading. Learning isn't always
comfortable. When confronted with this scenario, I've used that
very sentence, though in my heart, I was thinking
On Nov 1, 2006, at 12:51 PM, Douglas Wallen wrote:For 2nd year students I would recommend Goldstein's Cognitive Psychologytext. It is more approachable for beginning students than most. Do many colleges/universities teach cognitive psychology at the lower-division? I'm wondering how I would find in
On 10/24/06, David Epstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What I find interesting about this topic is that people who choose notto have TV sets often speak as if they cannot control their behaviorin the presence of a TV set. It's as if the only two choices areexcess and abstinence. My TV set nags when
Hi all,A member of the psychology faculty at Arizona State University-Tempe asked me to post the following job announcement to TIPS subscribers.Best,Jeff-Lecturers in Psychology. Arizona State University, Tempe Campus, Department of Psychology (http://www.asu.edu/clas/psych) has 2 non-t
On Sep 1, 2006, at 8:30 AM, Jeffry Ricker wrote:Miguel & Annette,Has the shipment from Afghanistan arrived yet? You know, my contacts are beginning to get very nervous and they're capable of anything!! My late partner learned that one the hard way!!!Oh no! I see that I'm guil
On Sep 1, 2006, at 12:40 AM, Miguel Roig wrote:And, of course, I responded in kind by sending my private reply to the list.That's what happens when you do e-mail at 3:50 am without having had mymorning coffee. Sorry about the wasted bandwidth.Miguel & Annette,Has the shipment from Afghanistan arriv
On Aug 25, 2006, at 4:25 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:"They" apparently had decided that we no longer had 48 chromosomes. We had 46, and that's what we had to learn from now on. She seemed quite put out about it. Daniel Kevles (1985 ) has an excellent discussion of this episode in the history of gen
On Jun 24, 2006, at 5:34 AM, Mike Palij wrote:On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:25:32 -0700, Annette Taylor, Ph. D. Well, now, wait a minute boys...isn't it true that not everythingthat seems like a 'duh' finding ends up as we expect. True. But we were commenting on the news summary of the research. I suspect
On Jun 23, 2006, at 10:53 AM, Mike Palij wrote:I was just wondering about this the other dayhttp://www.webmd.com/content/article/123/115123.htmThis report needs to be filed under, "News From the Science of 'Duh!'"Feelin' mighty cynical today,Jeff
On May 26, 2006, at 2:40 PM, Mike Palij wrote:Well, at this point in time I'm not willing to equate"not-Freudian=Fechnarian", at least until someone providessome evidence that Fechner actually used the metaphor Exactly. As Dr. Someone stated the other day:"I think the quote is potentially importan
On May 26, 2006, at 11:11 AM, Michael Palij wrote:Yes, the quote above starts a paragraph about 1/3 of pagedown on page 171 of Hall's book, but in the context of Hall'spresentation of Fechner, it seems like a minor point (theword iceberg isn't included in book's index). However, there may be reaso
On May 26, 2006, at 12:47 PM, Christopher D. Green wrote:Michael Palij wrote: To muddy the waters a little further, there is at leastone publication that claims that the iceberg metaphor comesfrom Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776¨€‘1841). Yes, someone mentioned this before. I searched "herbart icebe
On May 26, 2006, at 3:46 AM, Allen Esterson wrote:I re-checked the letters to Fliess, checking every reference to theunconscious in the index, and there is no iceberg analogy.Yes, I went through the Freud-Fliess letters (Masson, 1985) page by page last night: there is no mention of the iceberg meta
On May 25, 2006, at 4:47 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:No problem. I'll request it through our friendly interlibrary loan service. All it takes is patience. It's hard to be patient when so much is at stake!! I now know how Eisenhower felt on June 6, 1944!I would have requested it through our interl
Hi all,It appears that I'm the only one who thought it important, but yesterday I pointed out that, in 1912, G. S. Hall made the following statement:"To Fechner the soul was not unlike an iceberg which is eight-ninths under the water's surface or threshold out in a denser and darker medium..." (p.
On May 24, 2006, at 6:42 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Neverthless, I don't think I would consider the Herbart version as you'vedescribed it as a true iceberg analogy. Just because it involves icefloating isn't enough. It has to be clear that it is intended toillustrate that, like an iceberg, the unc
On May 24, 2006, at 1:49 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:I've requested a copy of the first edition of volume 2 of Elemente to see what old Fechner actually said on p, 521. It will be in German, of course, which I don't understand, but I think I will be able to recognize "eisberg" if it appears anywhe
Now, it is very interesting that, in an edited book titled, "Metaphors in the History of Psychology" (Leary, 1990), not one of the eleven chapters connected Freud with the iceberg metaphor, although several discussed many other Freudian metaphors. One chapter (Hoffman, Cochran, & Nead, 1990) mentio
On May 22, 2006, at 7:35 AM, Donnelly, Michael wrote:I am astonished that you knew where to find this.I'm known for thinking outside the skull ... I mean "box"! Actually, I simply was following up on my suggestion to search periodicals. I went into the NY Times archives and searched for "Freud" and
On May 21, 2006, at 4:35 AM, Donnelly, Michael wrote:I have wondered if he may have placed it in some correspondence somewhere. Fortunately there are many published Freud letters, so we can search through those, but how many were never published?I just did a search for "iceberg" through every paper
OK, again I hope that I'm not simply repeating old news (I began to pull on this thread only yesterday ... sorry). In a book titled, "Applied Magic," by Dion Fortune (aka Violet Mary Firth Evans, 1890-1946), a British magician and mystic (according to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dion_Fo
Just another little tidbit. L. L. Whyte (1960/1978) stated that Fechner, "compared the mind to an iceberg mainly below the surface and moved by hidden currents as well as by the winds of awareness." He didn't, however, provide a reference for this claim.James (1890/1950) made no mention of Fechner'
On May 19, 2006, at 4:58 PM, Christopher D. Green wrote: Have you seen this use of the iceberg metaphor in Encarta? Chris http://encarta.msn.com/media_461543697/The_Mind_as_an_Iceberg.html I've just started following this discussion, so please forgive me if what I say already is old news. I look
On Mar 26, 2006, at 4:11 PM, Louis Schmier wrote:Jeff, I was being serious. JIn a way, so was I. It seems to me that "psychology" has become a "one-size-fits-all" kind of category. Anything to do with mind and behavior is accepted as a part of psychology. Lay people, in particular, think of psychol
On Mar 26, 2006, at 3:41 PM, Jeffry Ricker wrote:Extraterrestrial PsychologyOh, I forgot one: the psychology of tea pots. Jeffry P. Ricker, Ph.D.ChairDivision of Social & Behavioral Scie
On Mar 26, 2006, at 2:29 PM, Louis Schmier wrote:what material is not acceptable, universally unacceptable, in your discipline?Extraterrestrial Psychology Jeffry P. Ricker, Ph.D.ChairDivision of Social & Behavioral Sciences
The other day in my abnormal-psychology course, I taught about the uses of ECT for the treatment of mental disorders. I stated that ECT is used to treat major depressive episodes in those with psychosis, those who are nonresponsive to antidepressant medications, those who are highly suicidal, and a
On Mar 25, 2006, at 3:54 PM, Paul Brandon wrote:To embellish this slightly, one would expect on a list devoted to the teaching of Psychology that postings would exhibit a level of background knowledge at least comparable to the holder of an undergraduate degree in this field.Or, at least a working
On Feb 1, 2006, at 1:41 PM, Shearon, Tim wrote:We aren't a Christian school although we have ahistorical affiliation with one denomination. ...His only thought was thatsomething in the "intelligence" ... gottripped by the juxtaposition of teen and sex.-Original Message-From: Rick Froman [ma
On Jan 31, 2006, at 2:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Second, I see a trend in the USA today, and it seems to be no sex for anyone, under any circumstances (think of the Shakers, for example).Well, this should provide a lot of extra "lebensraum" for the expected exponential growth in Canada's popula
On Oct 21, 2005, at 8:25 PM, Bill Scott wrote:I have not made any explicit rules in my syllabus about phones. I have had a few cell phones go off in class. They are almost always turned off by an embarrassed student.That almost invariably has been my experience as well. When a cell phone rings, I u
On Oct 21, 2005, at 4:19 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, as this is a pet peeve of mine, I'll bite. Sometime last year this topic was discussed on TIPS and I remember posting an earlier version of my cell phone policy which, after some modifications based on your valuable feedback, now works like
Hi all, Does anyone know where I can find a copy of the following article:Blakemore, C. (1977, February 6). The unsolved marvel of memory. New York Times Magazine. It does not seem to be available in the NY Times Archive, however. I've also found that it was reprinted in:"Readings in Psychology 78/
Hi all,In reference to what a Department of Psychology can name itself in order to emphasize it's scientific approach to the study of mind and behavior, I say, "just give up." Roll over, expose your belly, and let them rip it out if they wish (please don't ask me who "they" are: "they" know who "th
On Sep 7, 2005, at 12:55 PM, Scott Lilienfeld wrote:In past years of teaching large undergraduate courses, I would occasionally include a multiple choice item asking students the name of their textbook author(s), which I had probably mentioned no fewer than 50 times during the semester. The percent
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