Re: Adolescent Violence?

2001-01-30 Thread Stephen Black
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Jessica Percodani wrote: Does anyone know of any recent articles examining aspects of parenting related to violent adolescents? I'd recommend the work of one of my favourite gadflies, Judith Harris (as in her book "the Nurture Assumption"), which argues that parents have

The 5% Solution

2001-01-30 Thread Jeff Ricker
I just finished reading a paper by Camac (1995) titled "Public perceptions of psychology" (an interesting paper: I recommend it). In a section in which she was discussing difficulties that arise in the teaching of psychology, she mentioned a finding reported in Ellis Rickard (1977): "Even if we

RE: The 5% Solution

2001-01-30 Thread Paul Smith
Jeff Ricker wrote: And does anyone know if similar kinds of studies have been done by anyone else (and more recently than 1977)? From my dissertation: == In 1977, Eva Vaughan published the first of a series of articles introducing the study of false

Free History and Systems Books

2001-01-30 Thread Mike Bergmire
Ok Tipsters, Today's special is History and Systems. The following books are available for "adoption": Chaplin and Krawiec's Systems and Theories of Psychology (2nd ed) Murphy'sHistorical Introduction to Modern Psychology Murphy'sPsychological Thought from

mind/body/spirit

2001-01-30 Thread Pollak, Edward
Have your student go to http://www.google.com/ and search for "spirit spirituality graduate psychology college university". I got a lot of potentially relevant hits. Edward I. Pollak, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, West Chester Univ. of PA, West Chester, PA

RE:The 5% solution

2001-01-30 Thread Carroll, M. DR BSL
Jeff Ricker wrote: And does anyone know if similar kinds of studies have been done by anyone else (and more recently than 1977)? I've been lurking for awhile and learning a lot from many of the posts - thought I would finally jump into the pool. Anyway, I remembered seeing an article in

RE: The 5% Solution

2001-01-30 Thread Larry Z. Daily
Jeff, I did some searching on PsycInfo and the best I could come up with was a 1988 article by Rickard, Rogers, Ellis, Beidleman. It was titled "Some retention, but not enough" and appeared in the journal Teaching of Psychology,Vol 15, pages 151-152. According to the abstract, they compared 59

Re: RE:The 5% solution

2001-01-30 Thread Jean Edwards
I wonder if this tells us something about the efficacy of comprehensive exams? JL Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Carroll, M. DR BSL [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 11:27 AM Subject: RE:The 5% solution

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Re: RE:The 5% solution

2001-01-30 Thread Harry Avis
These findings are not particularly surprising given the circumstances. Remember there are huge differences in retrieval accuracy as measured by recall, recognition and relearning. When an exam is given several months after a course is over, recall and recognition memory will have declined

Adolescent violence

2001-01-30 Thread Weisskirch, Rob
TIPSfolk, I highly suggest that anyone teaching adolescence or even developmental take a look at Mike Males' two books: Scapegoat Generation (1994?) and Framing Youth: 10 Myths about the Next Generation (1999?). He describes how adolescents are unfairly targeted as the source of violence,

question: alcohol use and myelin damage

2001-01-30 Thread Traci Giuliano
Tipsters - A student in intro today said that he learned in high school that alcohol use can damage myelin...can anybody verify that for me? While we're at it, how about an easy way to explain how the brain stem and the autonomic nervous system together are responsible for breathing, heart

Introducing myself, Bruce L. Bachelder

2001-01-30 Thread brucebachelder
Tuesday 1/30/01 7:49 p.m. Good evening TIPSters, I have been subscribed, here, for a good long time now and have even posted a couple of times, but I now realize I may have blundered by not introducing myself. Please excuse me. I learned about lists via computer support lists and, to the best

Netiquette and introductions

2001-01-30 Thread Stephen Black
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, brucebachelder wrote: I have been subscribed, here, for a good long time now and have even posted a couple of times, but I now realize I may have blundered by not introducing myself. While introductions are interesting and welcome, there`s nothing either in the the TIPS

Cheesy debate

2001-01-30 Thread Stephen Black
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Weisskirch, Rob wrote: Harris only offers weak substantiation that has been refuted by many of the big cheeses in psychology (e.g., Maccoby and Steinberg). Ah, the oblique sideswipe technique and big cheese assertion gambit. Personally, I think Harris (Judith Harris and