A faculty member at our college several years ago wrote some software to
turn a computer into a talking calculator for a blind student in his stats
class. I am trying to track it down now. More relevant, though, is that
his work was supported by IBM and they had a huge library(?) of resources
do you schedule exams the day before or the day after a holiday?
I personally do not schedule an exam before a holiday because I do not like to be
depressed reading the
written answers of students on the holiday -when I should be on the beach having fun.
I try not to schedule an exam the day
Hi Tipsters,
As many others did, I enjoyed the thread chronicling the historical use of
the term "negative
reinforcement" as it's currently understood. To Chuck and those others who
were most directly
involved, I suggest you post the current summary to the Animal Learning
Behavior listserve
I'm looking for interesting early retirement plans available
at private colleges. Does anyone have information to share?
Kathy Dillon, Ph.D.
Dept. of Psychology
Box 5058
Western New England College
1215 Wilbraham Rd.
Springfield, MA 01119
413-782-1726
FAX 413-782-1746
I tend not to schedule exams too close holidays, on either end. However,
for classes that meet
on Tuesdays and Thursdays, I generally schedule exams for Tuesdays so that
students have a
weekend over which to study.
-Mike
At 01:48 PM 8/30/00 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
do you schedule
Hello folks,
One of my Harbor College Intro Psych students was inquiring about the state
of current information on the dangers and possible benefits of caffeine in
the human nervous system.
Is there anything conclusive available on this drug?
I hope everyone is doing OK in this early part of
Michael Sylvester wrote:
do you schedule exams the day before or the day after a holiday?
Whenever it works out conveniently in the course schedule.
I personally do not schedule an exam before a holiday because I
do not like to be depressed reading the written answers of
Hi Nina!
I taught a race and gender course at Northern Kentucky University. I
used Ken Monteiro's Ethnicity and Psychology: African, Asian-, Latino-,
and Native-American Psychologies as one of the texts. Format -
Discussion, film, and group work with limited lecture.
Harriette Richard
Associate
I think caffeine has a very positive effect overall--when taken
in large amounts in the form of Starbucks before 10:00 am.
After that, forget it.
Oh, that's not the scientific answer, sorry.
Actually, I have been reading Dean Edell's book, "Eat, Drink, and
be Merry" and have been enjoying it in
Hello all,
I have a little problem I hope someone can help me with. We have a
little money in the budget for new instructional materials, and I *thought*
I had heard that the Mind videotape series had a new edition. When I called
Annenberg CPB, however, they said that there was simply a
To avoid this problem, I have 3-4 copies of each of my texts on reserve in
the library, two hour room use only, no checking them out.
Rip Pisacreta, Ph.D.
Professor, Psychology,
Ferris State University
Big Rapids, MI 49307
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: "Linda M. Woolf, Ph.D." [EMAIL
I'm curious -- do we think the caffeine in Diet Coke (and obviously other caffeine
sodas) produces the same results listed for coffee? If so, I want to know why offices
have free coffee and not free Cokes for the non-coffee drinkers!
Margie Stinson
Lee College Adjunct
A question from my Advanced General Psychology class, in the context of
discussing the nervous system and how neurons work:
Is it true that the closer a tattoo is to the spine, the more the tattooing
hurts?
I've challenged them to go out and collect data from people they know who
have more than
Scientific American (August 2000) has an interesting article called The
Universe's Unseen Dimensions
which may interest you. Unfortunately, it is not available from the
Scientific American web site. Your
local library will be your best source.
The article is related to D-brane theory of our
At 12:46 PM 8/30/00 -0500, you wrote:
I'm curious -- do we think the caffeine in Diet Coke (and obviously other
caffeine sodas) produces the same results listed for coffee? If so, I want
to know why offices have free coffee and not free Cokes for the non-coffee
drinkers!
FYI: I did some
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