Friends,
I know I am being a pest (so perhaps I should be posting to the PESTS list) but my
students are asking a lot of good questions. I need some guidance.
1) We watched some footage of the famous Harlow Monkey experiment this week. Some of
the students inquired if the need for touch was e
I think there are plenty of programs in Human Experimental. They've just
been renamed to sound more trendy. For example in the SUNY system the
degree is in human experimental psychology with concentrations in
cognition, physiological.
Dawn
At 09:42 PM 07/06/2000 +, Richard Pisacreta wr
TIPSters,
Let me begin by complimenting Linda Woolf on an excellent post
regarding reasons why we, as academics, might wish to continue to be
APA members. I agree with everything she said. She is absolutely
correct about the fact that compared to other psychology
organizations, APA does a l
This discussion brings to mind another related issue.
Can anyone name any other field, other than Psychology, that has the
audacity to believe that there is little more to be gained by basic
research? To my knowledge, there are few, or no, doctoral programs left in
the USA that give a Ph.D. i
At 2:50 PM -0500 7/5/00, Mike Scoles went:
> My question remains--Is there something inherently wrong with searching for
> genetic bases of characteristics, either physical or behavioral?
I don't think so. I also don't think that such research is being
stifled by taboo (as you seemed to imply i
At 7:06 PM + 7/6/00, Richard Pisacreta wrote:
>I was a member of APA from 1980 to 1990 and stopped paying my dues. I got
>fed up with APA issuing policy statements on controversial issues without
>first polling the members.
..
>They asked me to rejoin in 1997, all past dues forgiven, low
>
> > From: Paul Brandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: Re: Loftus, ethics & APA (long)
> >
> > It should also be noted that Loftus is hardly the only psychologist to
> > quit the APA because of their drift away from the scientific approach to
> > the study of behavior. That's the reason for the
>Paul Brandon wrote:
>
>> At 2:50 PM -0500 7/5/00, Mike Scoles wrote:
>>
>> >Then why are some some inherited diseases much more common is some
>> >groups than in others?
>>
>> The point is that those groups do not differ systematically in terms of
>> _other_ genetic characteristics.
>
>I didn't m
> From: Stephen Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: MPD, recovered memory, and Acocella
>
> For those who don't have time to read Joan Acocella's book on the
> multiple personality (aka dissociative identity disorder) craze,
> _Creating Hysteria_, or even her fine preliminary account in the
> Ne
One thing I especially try hard to do in introductory psychology is
prepare students to be informed consumers of information about psychological
tests. I point out that not only have they, themselves, taken lots of
psychological tests already by the time they are college students, but also as
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