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2007-03-08 Thread Pollak, Edward
Aw, you folks have no sense of humor. I show the following to trigger discussion of several learning-related topics such as negative reinforcement, punishment, regression, etc. and it always gets howls of laughter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCHDGxlEFS0 And instead of rats playing

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2007-03-08 Thread Gerald Peterson
Thanks all for the UTube vids. I have one classroom where I can bring those up and project them..my Gen. Psych. I am starting a collection now too! Some we might best save for a psych dept. party instead of class ha. Gary Gerald L. (Gary) Peterson, Ph.D. Professor, Psychology

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2007-03-08 Thread taylor
-260-4006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Original message Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:17:05 -0500 From: Gerald Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [tips] Re: That's Incredible's Rat Basketball To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@acsun.frostburg.edu Thanks all for the UTube

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2007-03-08 Thread taylor
-4006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Original message Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 06:31:30 -0800 (PST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [tips] Re: That's Incredible's Rat Basketball To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@acsun.frostburg.edu Here are some of my favorites: They are not all

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2007-03-08 Thread Turner, G. Marc
At 08:36 AM 3/8/2007, you wrote: OOPS, I just checked some links and they didn't go where they were supposed to :( The southpark episode is the John Edwards one.darn, I can't find it now. Not sure if this is the one you were looking for or not, but it might be...

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2007-03-08 Thread Patrick Dolan
Tipsters- A colleague has a short clip of 2 rats playing basketball that I've made available at the below link. It is originally from a news cast but she doesn't remember where she got it from. http://www.users.drew.edu/pdolan/RatBasketball.RM Patrick -- Patrick O. Dolan, Ph.D.

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2007-03-08 Thread Jim Matiya
at www.Teaching-Point.net Need Inverted Goggles or Displacement Goggles? I got 'em! Using David Myers' texts for AP Psychology? Go to http://bcs.worthpublishers.com/cppsych/ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [tips] Re: That's Incredible's Rat Basketball To: tips@acsun.frostburg.edu Date: Thu, 8

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2007-03-08 Thread Jodi Gabert
(TIPS) Subject: [tips] Re: That's Incredible's Rat Basketball Tipsters- A colleague has a short clip of 2 rats playing basketball that I've made available at the below link. It is originally from a news cast but she doesn't remember where she got it from. http://www.users.drew.edu/pdolan

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2007-03-08 Thread Christopher D. Green
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here are some of my favorites: They are not all youtubes. Gary: can you send yours? Critical Thinking Do YOU believe in astrology? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQPFoDkGFrU Have you seen the reply to Bill Nye by the astrologer James Young? Hilarious stuff. Key

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2007-03-07 Thread DeVolder Carol L
Please let me know if you find that tape--I went to school with some of the players but our copy wore out long ago and I have since moved on. Carol Carol L. DeVolder, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology Chair, Department of Psychology St. Ambrose University 518 West Locust Street Davenport, Iowa

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2007-03-07 Thread Beth Benoit
Your googling probably already uncovered this description, with a wonderful little continuous video of two rats playing basketball, but just to save others the effort: http://www.rattycorner.com/articles/basketball.shtml Beth Benoit Granite State College Plymouth State University New Hampshire

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2007-03-07 Thread Linda Walsh
Funny - I was just looking for the same segment! Guess we must be hitting the learning chapter at the same time. This clip or a very similar one used to be available on the website of the Discovery Place, but they reorganized their website and that link is now dead. I poked around a little

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2007-03-07 Thread msylvester
When I was at Wichita State I conditioned pigeons to play ping pong. Michael Sylvester,PhD Daytona Beach,Florida --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tipstext_mode=0lang=english

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2007-03-07 Thread taylor
, 7 Mar 2007 09:29:46 -0500 From: Beth Benoit [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [tips] Re: That's Incredible's Rat Basketball To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@acsun.frostburg.edu Your googling probably already uncovered this description, with a wonderful little continuous

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2007-03-07 Thread Beth Benoit
in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 11:01 AM Subject: [tips] Re: That's Incredible's Rat Basketball This was great, but I can't find anything online that actually shows a game :( Do you have a link? Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D. Professor

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2007-03-07 Thread Miguel Roig
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 11:01 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] Re: That's Incredible's Rat Basketball This was great, but I can't find anything online that actually shows a game :( Do you have a link? Annette Annette

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2007-03-07 Thread Paul Brandon
At 8:33 AM -0600 3/7/07, Linda Walsh wrote: Funny - I was just looking for the same segment! Guess we must be hitting the learning chapter at the same time. This clip or a very similar one used to be available on the website of the Discovery Place, but they reorganized their website and that

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2007-03-07 Thread Gerald Peterson
These are probably white, eurocentric rats that have been bred and experimented upon without regard for their potential as basketball stars, or without regards to their fundamental animal rights. They clearly need representation. I am sure in the future we will not agree to use such hapless

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2007-03-07 Thread Jonathan Mueller
Julie, Here is one possible link to the episode to which you are referring. I live here in Naperville, IL. I believe I remember that a psychology class at Naperville North High School went on the That's Incredible show many years ago demonstrating the rat basketball training. I don't remember

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2007-03-07 Thread Jim Matiya
Hi Julie, I remember the episode well. I use to have a copy of it as well. Do I still have that copy? I am not sure, but I can look. Have you tried the Rat Olympics ( it isn't called that because the U of Nebraska was warned by the Olymipic Committee they were violating copyright laws.)

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2007-03-07 Thread Linda Walsh
If you search Rat Basketball on YouTube you will find a clip of a rat which has been trained, not with overhead hoops, but to put a ping pong ball into a plastic dish. Linda Walsh University of Northern Iowa [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To make changes to your subscription go to:

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2007-03-07 Thread Jim Matiya
Opps no video...sorry Try this link for video: http://www.oxbowhay.com/link.sp?page=academy_articleid=40642 And some fishy behaviors...try: http://www.fish-school.com/gallery.htm Jim Jim Matiya Moraine Valley Community College [EMAIL PROTECTED] New webpage:

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2007-03-07 Thread Beth Benoit
/ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: tips@acsun.frostburg.edu Subject: [tips] RE: That's Incredible's Rat Basketball Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 15:04:47 -0600 Hi Julie, I remember the episode well. I use to have a copy of it as well. Do I still have that copy? I am not sure, but I

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2007-03-07 Thread Jim Matiya
heroes. Thank you so much for sending those sites. Beth Benoit Granite State College Plymouth State University New Hampshire - Original Message - From: Jim Matiya To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 6:41 PM Subject: [tips] RE: That's