RE: First day of class

2000-08-17 Thread Dave Johnson
t students like and do not like about the way faculty conduct the initial class period. Dave -- ---- Dave Johnson Department of Psychology John Brown University Siloam Springs, AR 72761 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Question about on-line resources for course set-up

2000-08-09 Thread Dave Johnson
. There, you will find the results of Project Syllabus. This project was an attempt to put exemplary syllabi on the web for examination and downloading. As of last week, I believe there were nearly 100 syllabi there representing a variety of content areas. Dave -- Dave

RE: quitting APA

2000-07-06 Thread Dave Johnson
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

RE: Debates and Critical Thinking

2000-02-22 Thread Dave Johnson
ersies. 26, 106-110. HTH, Dave -- ---- Dave Johnson Department of Psychology John Brown University Siloam Springs, AR 72761 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: conceptions of psychology in science fairs?

2000-01-20 Thread Dave Johnson
On 20 Jan 00, at 10:45, Gary Peterson wrote: Do any tipsters know of similar problems in the high schools of getting students to develop projects in psychological science? Are there prejudices or limitations for students interested in pursuing science, if their interest is psychology? Is

RE: the Rushton book

1999-12-07 Thread Dave Johnson
On 7 Dec 99, at 13:36, Karl L. Wuensch wrote: Yesterday I found in my mailbox a plain white envelope with no return address. Looked like junk mail, but what junk mail. I opened it, started to throw it in the garbage can, then saw that it was a little booklet. The author's name caught

RE: Psych-Law course

1999-12-02 Thread Dave Johnson
playing and the insanity defense. 26, 201-203. Dave -- Dave Johnson Department of Psychology John Brown University Siloam Springs, AR 72761 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: book on important experiments in psychology

1999-10-20 Thread Dave Johnson
On 20 Oct 99, at 12:39, David Appell wrote: I'm looking for books on the great experiments in the field of psychology. I know about "Great Experiments in Psychology," by Henry Edward Garrett, but it's out of print. I'd appreciate any recommendations. Go to http://www.bookfinder.com and do a

RE: In Class History Activities

1999-10-18 Thread Dave Johnson
On 18 Oct 99, at 15:02, Al Cone wrote: I don't have the original reference handy, but it was from _ToPs_ about seven or eight years ago, and I've found it very useful. The author was a Randy, but not Randy Smith, the other one. Simple: Begin each day with a toast to a "Great

I/O Activities

1999-06-28 Thread Dave Johnson
ey project as a group activity in an industrial/organizational course. Teaching of Psychology, 10, 110-112. HTH, Dave Johnson

Re: IS psychology a science?

1999-04-24 Thread Dave Johnson
On 24 Apr 99, at 8:59, Annette Taylor wrote: What would or what do the rest of you do when this comes up--and please don't tell me you go off like a roman candle because I don't feel like that was very effective--I think I just made an enemy instead of a convert. Dang my fiery nature.

Kallikak photos

1999-03-30 Thread Dave Johnson
On 27 Mar 99, at 23:29, Linda M. Woolf wrote: Goddard also retouched the photographs to make the Kallikaks appear mentally retarded for his book The Kallikak Family. The notion that Goddard *intentionally* retouched the photos to make the Kallikaks appear more "feeble-minded" has not

Re: History Systems

1999-02-18 Thread Dave Johnson
On 18 Feb 99, at 8:38, Gary Klatsky wrote: though the Activities Handbook for Psychology Vols. 1-3 but all I saw was staging a debate among the APA presidential candidates in 1924 and drawing a cognitive map of the history of psychology. Do you have any activities that have worked well in

RE: letters of rec.

1999-02-17 Thread Dave Johnson
On 17 Feb 99, at 16:59, Matthew P. Winslow wrote: As a beginning faculty, I have already been asked to write several letters of recommendation. I have not had the chance to sit on committees that regularly get thousands of these things every year (graduate admissions, job search), so I am

RE: Piaget help

1999-02-11 Thread Dave Johnson
On 10 Feb 99, at 16:59, Matthew P. Winslow wrote: it. I'm looking for any suggestions to beef it up, or make it more student-friendly, or perhaps a good film that covers Piaget (the one I showed was viable at best). I prefer suggestions that you actually use rather than hypothetical

Re: discipline-specific undergrad stats

1999-02-09 Thread Dave Johnson
On 9 Feb 99, at 10:30, Gerald L. Peterson wrote: I am not aware of any research on the discipline-specific stats course, but would also be interested in hearing of some. There is an article in ToP that deals with this issue, at least peripherally. Giesbrecht, N., Sell, Y.,

RE: Teaching References

1999-01-16 Thread Dave Johnson
ar in ToP and in the most recent issue the total number of annotations passed 4,800. {Johnson, D. E., Schroder, S. I. (1999). Annotated bibliography on the teaching of psychology: 1998, 26, 305-313} HTH, Dave -- ---- Dave Johnson Department of Psychology John Brown University