I was quite interested in the discussion about Seligman, as I am
starting on the chapter on Motivation these days.
I am teaching at a "Lycée" in Switzerland, (which would roughly be
equivalent to last year high school and first year college).
I introduce them to Seligman's experiments and it r
Hello,
my daughter is studying to become a midwife and they had a course on
breast feeding yesterday. They were told that when the baby is not
feeding well, it may be that he is not opening his mouth enough, so
the mothers are advised to "show" him how to by opening their mouth
forming a b
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1. Born without a corpus callosum
2. Is Homosexuality a Choice" YouTub
Hello tipsters,
one of my students submitted a personal project related to "Prison
Break" She wants to investigate into the concept of "latent inhibition
deficit": Apparently, the heroe is diagnosed with such a deficit,
which, when related to a high IQ seems to "account" for genius and
creati
Hello tipsters,
I need some input on the problem of gifted children.
We have a student (female, age 16) in our high school who took a WISC
test that yielded a result of 125. She is currently failing her first
year in our school, and we have just learned that 2 year ago, she has
been "detected"
Tipsters,
Mowrer is often cited in the context of learning and conditionning.
But also within the field of psychotherapy, and according to some
sources he seems to have worked at the integration of psychology and
religon or spirituality.
Can anyone shed light on this? Any insight into Mowrer's
Hi folks,
we are about to cover the chapter on consciousnes, sleep, altered
states and psychotropic drugs.
Has anyone compiled songs & lyrics related?
I found "Mother's little helper" by the Rolling Stones, and
"Pharmacopia" by Mudvayne.
Any other ideas?
Phil Gervaix
Gymnase de Burier
Tour de
Hi all,
We are covering the chapter on memory in my second-year class, and the
other day, we came to discussing the problem of "false memories". Can
anyone fill me on the latest explanation of déjà-vu phenomena from a
neurological point of view?
I heard two recently: acording to the first, it w
Hello from Switzerland,
My first mail
concerning
Efficient teaching methods (tips march 8,
2005) mentionned a canadian report
Hi all,
A recent report from Canada "Which pedagogies are efficient?" by
Gauthier C., Mellouki M. & al. is crossing the Ocean and being
abundantly debated here in Switzerland and in France.
In this literature survey, they compare different researches that
examine the efficiency of different p
Hi all,
I am looking for evaluation of mixed vs non-mixed education or school
systems in anglo-saxon countries.
More precisely, there is a controversy coming up here in French
speaking countries on whether to come back to seperate schools or
classrooms for boys and girls. I heard of comparisons
Rick,
a friend of mine has a son with cancer for whom they are trying to find a donor.
When no member of the family is a compatible donor candidate for marrow transplant, doctors go for an alternative called haploidentical stem cell transplant. (cf. http://www.haplo.org)
Maybe this is what they me
Hi all,
I have my students work on films that portray psychopathologies. Really
interesting, and for some even exciting!
One thing I found interesting to work on is the gap between
psychological diagnosis and the way the film portrays the pathology,
sometimes for "cinematographical" reasons (eg.
Jim,
Being Swiss and having studied Psychology not far from Geneva, I could only encourage
you to include Piaget in a mainstream course! This for several reasons:
first, Piaget has been a central figure in controversies linked to the nature of
intelligence (nature vs nurture) and learning just to
brain, as
if there were no one to control the traffic... So one way the brain finds
to defend itself against this agression is to shut up from the outside
world...
Philippe Gervaix
Switzerland
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Tipsters,
difficult to find official publications on the French government initiatives
undertaken last october, but a few summaries and articles (sorry, still
in French...
Policy paper concerning the prevention of violence in schools (August
2001)
http://www.justice.gouv.fr/publicat/circ230801.
TIPSters,
regarding he management of violent students in French schools (and
for those of you who read French, you can visit a French government
Justice Dpt page that sums up the 1945 legislation act and its revisions
up until spetember 2002.
http://www.justice.gouv.fr/actua/ordo45.htm
Since the
While you are in Switzerland, why not stop at Geneva and pay Piaget a visit?
But do tell me before, I live 40 miel away from Geneva, an 3 hours train from the
Jung's Institute.
Philipe Gervaix
Switzerland
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Alan,
pulling out one's razor seems easy these days: every time one has an alternate
explanation (ie. different views) we see Occam being pulled out, as if it were
enough to utter the word "Occam" to overthrow others' argumentation (was is this
called again? did I hear authoritative argumentation,
cu S., Jacquet M., Lhote, C. ( 1997) "Les Mécanismes de Défense: Théorie
et Clinique" Paris, Nathan.
Philippe Gervaix
Switzerland
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Hi Tipsters overthere,
Today's question may sound quite technical, but...
I am studying motivation at school with my students, using a book by 2
French authors who introduce their chapter on reward & punishment by
presentiing Tolman and Hull as opponents (actually resorting to a boxing
21 matches
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