Steven raises a good point, and one I hadn't considered. In fact, I'm
guilty of just this on one of my assignments in my Dev Psych class. In that
class, I teach the students how to use PsycINFO. I give them a topic, and
they are required to find 12 references and turn in an APA style reference
I haven't seen this exercise before, but something seems wrong (at least as
it's been described). From what I can gather, you're trying to show that
speaking up in class won't kill you by having the experimental group (those
who mention their name aloud) to speak up in class. After the
Hi folks. I just saw a press release on Ken Steele's (a contributor to
TIPS) recent article on the failure to replicate the Mozart Effect just
published in Psychological Science. If you want to read a description of
the study, it's found at http://www.foxnews.com/health/072399/mozart.sml
The
Can anyone help with a student question? She wants to know about potential
causes of vertigo. After a quick web search, I was able to find that some
think it's due to adrenal cortical insufficiencies, but that's about all.
Can any of you physio types help out?
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I used to assign Walden II as a source of extra credit. Interesting enough,
I ran into a former student of mine the other day that I had back in 1988.
He thanked me for having him read Walden II and told me that it changed is
whole political outlook. Needless to say, I was somewhat
I've been approached by one of our blind students on campus about taking my
cognitive psychology course next fall. I teach the course with many
overheads of figures and graphs from our text and others, and I'm not sure
how to accomodate this student's needs. Have any of you taught cog psych to
a
Let me respond briefly to Ken's statements below.
This is a 2 part answer (having to do with the value 7 +/-2 and
having to do with the concept of STM) , and I will allow the
real cognitive psychologists to correct and expand on my answer.
1. Is STM a myth?
The *serial* process model of
Please folks, practice some critical thinking skills before passing on
every email you receive warning of some new and deadly virus. Take the time
to verify what you receive. At the least, check a couple of reliable
sources. The info below was cut and pasted from Symantec's (a popular
anti-virus
Along the same lines, Hayden Fry, the former football coach at the U. of
Iowa (also has a B.A. in psych) had the Univ. paint the visitor's lock room
pink for the same reasons. Whenever their games are televised, the
commentators generally get a kick out of it.
At 11:04 AM 2/11/1999 -0500, you
Hi Pat. Of course, all of these categories cannot be overlapping because if
1/6 children are stillborn, obviously those children cannot also suffer
from birth defects or FAS. My guess is that the birth defects category and
FAS category DO overlap; in fact, many children suffering from FAS have
My point was that children who are born dead probably are not counted in
the heart defects, neurological defects, etc. statistics cited by Pat's
instructor in his earlier post. You could be correct, however, if the
original authors did include them in the statistics. It would just seem odd
to me
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