Kent,
I can't find THE answer here at home at 0510, but I'll half-way bet it is
evolutionary. I base this on the marsupial Virginia Opussum, didelpus
virginiana, which either doesn't have anycrossed motor pathways, or at
least doesn't have a full complement of crossed motor pathways. This leads
Dear Jean,
There is a long history in experimental psychology of the
study of massed versus distributed practice, starting
with Ebbinghaus. If one spaces ones studying across
many separate episodes, one retains more information
longer than if one crams the same amount of studying into
fewer
When we look up at a clear sky, we can "see" forms that disappear when we blink our
eyes. The teacher said that these images were impurities in the vitrious humor that we
were looking through.
Not a myth. That is exactly the origin of "floaters". And they
don't really disappear, they just
There is a proliferation of Court judges in the media: peoples court,
Judge Judy,Judge Mills Lane,Joe Brown etc.
Since the procedures involve critical thinking criteria,such as
examining the evidence,defining the problem etc.,I was curious of
tipsters' opinions re
the pros and cons of
Tipsters:
since I am swamped these days I am only briefly skimming this exchange--
but the gist, as I read it seems to be that in some cases researchers
have asked for parental consent and considered a non-response as
consent and a response to only occur if parents do NOT want their
child to
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From: Kent Korek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Looking for some help!
Date: Thu, Sep 23, 1999, 9:56 PM
The student's question involves how the each side of the brain
controls the opposite side of the body. He understood the left side of the
brain controls the
We are actively working toward assessment in our dept. and I am in charge
of it at the undergraduate level. I asked for info about this last spring
and received a lot of useful information (a belated thank you to those that
helped me). I now realize that my problem was that I was assuming that I
If web pages would be helpful, the links on
http://www.tulsa.oklahoma.net/~jnichols/ethics.html
might be helpful. They are ethical guidelines sites, rather than
position papers.
The "Human subjects and research ethics" link is not working (may be
temporary), but an AltaVista search will yield
College of Wooster. Wooster, Ohio. Assistant Professor of Psychology
(tenure track) beginning Fall 2000 to teach undergraduate courses and
advise undergraduate research theses. Courses to include Sensation and
Perception, Introductory Psychology and Statistics and Experimental
Design on an
At 12:14 PM -0700 9/23/99, Jeffrey Nagelbush wrote:
This discussion of "passive" informed consent reminds me of experiences I
had with our local public school district. A number of times graduate
students (I believe in education)from a non-local university were given
permission by the school
TIPSters,
Thanks for the info about passive informed consent. I'm glad to hear from
the IRB experienced people. I'd also like to hear from those that have
gotten approval for passive informed consent on studies. For example, I was
involved in a study of 1500 adolescents across northern
Everyone on this list has been such an excellent source of
information in the past and so I am again requesting your expertise.
Below is an email that I received this morning from a colleaque's student.
Could anyone help me out here, the subject area is out of my domain.
Thanks,
Richard-
Others have already commented on the "floaters" in the vitreous but there
are other explanations as well. Some people have a Mittendorf's dot in
their lens (I do). This is a cluster of anomylous cells which sometimes
occur when the hyoid artery, which feeds the lens during
I do not have the reference, but I do have a newspaper clipping that
described a study in which asthma and arthritis sufferers wrote about
stressful events in their lives and showed either more improvement or less
deterioration than sufferers who wrote about daily plans.
It appeared in an issue
Annette wrote:
Wouldn't you have to request this consent for each individual study
separately? As I have been reading the posts it sounds like a
part of the problem, for me, is that it sounds like parents are
being asked for blanket consent for an entire semester--not
necessary for a
Hi all--
Adrian Morrison tells me that the following is the correct URL:
http://biomednet.com/hmsbeagle/1998/25/people/op_ed.htm
Cheers--
Amy Silvestri
From: Stephen Black [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Morrison paper and crack babies
Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Amy
Rob Weisskirch wrote;
Here is my rationale for passive consent:
1. The school district has accepted passive consent. With the support of
the school, they are going to back up any parental objections.
That's great but, I would get in writing that they will assume all
legal
OK Rick, I am putting on my parent hat now--mind you, a parent you
knows a little something about research, and even the potential for
problems.
As a parent I would refuse to sign it! How's that for a _practical_
problem--I would most definitely want to know the nature of each
study. Although,
Rob Weisskirch wrote:
5. The relationship between schools and university research is already
tenuous. Asking the school to assume the burden of distribution and
collection may risk the relationship for research purposes.
Actually, I would advocate that the researcher must assume the
K. Korek wrote:
"Today my Advanced Placement Psychology class finished going through the
various parts of the brain and split brain research. At the end of the
discussion a student asked (why) .the left side of the
brain controls the right side of his body and vice versa. .. He
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