Re: Baddeley Memory Text

1999-10-26 Thread Michael J. Kane
Annette Taylor wrote: I have used the Hermann and Searleman book (although it seems to be missing from my shelf so I don't have the title handy, something to do with real work applications of memory. I didn't especially like it because it was too much based on applications and not enough on

Fwd: Passive Na+ channels

1999-10-26 Thread SNRandall
Hi Stephen and others interested, Inspired by Stephen's great sleuth work on Bloom/Oxytocin/Sex Differences and the Scholar's Creed of yesterday, I finally got off a message to my neurobio colleague at Uof Mich on the membrane channels. (Stephen had suggested in an off-list communication

HELP: Psychometrics for HS students

1999-10-26 Thread G. Marc Turner
On rather short notice I've been asked to do a presentation on psychometrics to a group of high school math students (10-15 students). When I agreed to say yes, I had a wonderful plan in mind. Of course, now I'm realizing that there simply won't be enough time for them to do what I would love to

Interest and Quality of Teaching

1999-10-26 Thread Jim Clark
Hi For my Ed Psych class I am talking about interests of teachers on standardized interest surveys (e.g., Jackson Vocational Interest Scale). I am curious whether anyone knows anything about the relationship between teacher interest in a topic and quality of instruction. Elementary and

What do colour-blind people see?

1999-10-26 Thread Stephen Black
This is a perennial question on TIPS, and one I was just asked in class. I'm aware of studies on a few rare individuals who are colour-blind in one eye but not the other, so they can use conventional colour names learned with their good eye to describe what they see with their colour-blind eye.

Re: Passive Na+ channels

1999-10-26 Thread David
Thanks for going after that information, Sandra. One thing, though. I don't think Richard Norman is discussing the same issue we were discussing. He's saying that there's a big difference between sodium channels and sodium _pumps_ (transporters). But we'd been talking about subtypes of

Re: Passive Na+ channels

1999-10-26 Thread SNRandall
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Generation X, Critical Thinking, Postmodernism, The Media

1999-10-26 Thread Michael J. Kane
For an interesting read on the topics above, see an article by Matt Nisbett on the CSICOP web page (Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal) at: http://www.csicop.org/articles/19990809-genx/ -Mike * Michael J.

Re: HELP: Psychometrics for HS students

1999-10-26 Thread Kenneth M. Steele
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999 09:39:31 -0500 "G. Marc Turner" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On rather short notice I've been asked to do a presentation on psychometrics to a group of high school math students (10-15 students). When I agreed to say yes, I had a wonderful plan in mind. Of course, now I'm

Re: Baddeley Memory Text

1999-10-26 Thread Deb Briihl
I have been reading one put out by Karl Haberlandt (who, btw, has also published a cognitive textbook). It breaks away from the traditional STM/LTM distinctions that are found in many books. At 12:27 PM 10/25/99 -0700, Annette Taylor wrote: I'd love to see replies to this quesiton to the list as

Re: Passive Na+ channels

1999-10-26 Thread SNRandall
Great, thanks. . . and I take FULL RESPONSIBILITY for the 'naivete' reflected in my original question. Yet another colleague has pointed out my incorrect recollection of the uncertainty we had discussed. (red-faced, I am ! ) . . . Should have saved my question for a time when properly

FW: Kitty Genovese Murder story on The History Channel

1999-10-26 Thread Cheryl A Rickabaugh
Ann Weber has posted a review of the video that has been discussed over the past few days. With her permission, I'm posting to this list (see below). Hope folks find it helpful. Cheryl R. ___ Cheryl A. Rickabaugh

Electroconvulsive therapy and placebo effect

1999-10-26 Thread Jeff Ricker
Does anyone know if the efficacy of ECT for the treatment of depression has ever been tested with a placebo control group? I don't know how one would perform such a test; but I do know that there are many people out there who are much smarter than I. Some such person might have designed a valid

Re: HELP: Psychometrics for HS students

1999-10-26 Thread John W. Kulig
Marc: If you are looking for a short instrument, there are several good ones, such as Snyder's self-monitoring scale (20 items +-), or, the Keirsey Temperment Scale (a watered down Myers-Briggs). Copies of both should be easy to find - but if not I can send a copy. On Tue, 26 Oct 1999

summer program for 1st 2nd yr students

1999-10-26 Thread Hugh J. Foley
FYI...Hugh For more info, go to: http://www.apa.org/science/ssi.html Summer Science Institute Get Exposed to Something More than the Sun! The APA Summer Science Institute (SSI) is a 9-day, all-expense paid, intensive

randomized block design

1999-10-26 Thread Michael Sylvester
is it still revelant to to use subject variables like gender and ethnicity in the randomized block design? Michael Sylvester Daytona Beach,Florida