nd me something.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
"if two people always agree,one of them
is unnecessary"
the behavior of tipsters seems consistent. .Don't you
agree?
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
Paki
Profs on tipster land campuses.
In other developments,a student asked a teacher "why do they hate us?"
The teacher pointed to an Arabic student and said "why don't you ask him?"
The teacher has been suspended pending further investigation.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Dayto
.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
that some tipsters did not require Learning.
American Psychology is Learning. There is a learning perspective
on virtually all the fields of Psychology.
Let us not forget our roots.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
el of interest in the course.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
Even though Sherlock Holmes would say "elementary Dr.Watson",would
someone tell me what really is severed doing the split-brain
technique. Is it the whole corpus callosum or the criss-crossing
fibers?
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
I am toying with the idea of requiring my students to join a listserv
as part of a course requirement.
Any suggestions as to what list they should join and for what courses?
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
would the observation that as tragedies increase church attendance
apparently increases be considered an example of positive correlation?
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Rick Adams wrote:
> Michael Sylvester wrote:
>
> > Give back the land to the Palestinians and halt Israeli expansionism.
>
> Not to burst your bubble, Michael, but:
>
> 1. WE aren't holding the disputed land in the first
On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Johnna K. Shapiro wrote:
> At 11:46 AM -0400 9/14/01, Michael Sylvester wrote:
> >Give back the land to the Palestinians and halt Israeli
> >expansionism.
>
>
> Michael -
>
> Thousands of people didn't die violent deaths on Tuesday
On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Louis_Schmier wrote:
> As the great historian, Burkehardt said, "beware the simplifiers!"
>
>
> Make it a good day.
>
how about the law of parsimony. Why look for complex solutions
if a simple solution would do.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Flprida
On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Paul Brandon wrote:
> At 11:46 AM -0400 9/14/01, Michael Sylvester wrote:
> >Give back the land to the Palestinians and halt Israeli
> >expansionism.
>
> Which lands?
> What land is there in the former British Mandate that both Israelis and
>
Give back the land to the Palestinians and halt Israeli
expansionism.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
o College
> Milwaukee
>
I don't get it. When was Nos born?
Michael Sylvester
somewhere I read that girls learn more and have greater academic successes
in those schools than attending co-ed institutions.
is this currently valid and reliable?
Michael Sylvester,Ph.D
Daytona Beach,Florida
prejudices . Hence if one is anti-semitic or anti-black,managing those
feelings and cognitions would be a desirable and workable.
Feedback requested.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
hen
Like the rock group BTO song "You ain't seen nothing yet"
and while on these pop culture themes,can anyone tell me where
the folk singer Gordon Lightfoot is from? I have heard that he
is from Washington State.Others have him as born in Canada.
This is related to the tea
of Color (do not recall the author)
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
s that are struggling with this language?
Michael Sylvester
of a shark attack, but it is also far more lethal.
>
>
>
>
> Make it a good day.
You forgot to mention that sharks go where there are plenty of bait fish.
Just as it is said "where Id is,there shall ego be."Similarly we can say
"Where bait is,there will sharkey be"
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
uck
one of the problems with these type of research is
pin-pointing the the proximal stimulus(is it sound or tactile?one shold
not assume that just because one rings a bell that the stimulus which
produced the response was auditory.It could have been tactile)and the
operational definition of
,playing stocks (not a real job) and have
less quality time to help shape the direction of youth.
>From my experience,the young kids are probably more tolerant of diversity,
from Rock music to Swing,from Freud to Maslow and so on.
"Where have all the flowers gone?"
Michael Sylveste
alligators and
wonder at their misfortunes. The sharks and the alligators were
here long before we evolved.
Btw,isn't one of the guidelines for critical thing to avoid emotional
reasoning?
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
ulture,we promote rigid
individualism and assume that when thing happen to people,it is their
fault or lack will-power.No wonder,the fundamental attribution is rampant
around.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
ried playing the theme music from the movie Jaws
and found it attracted the sharks.
And while on this subject (free associating),did I read somewhere
that cows give more milk when certain types of music are played?
Tipsters from the dairy States should know about this.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
shark attacks in the area recently.
Suggestions solicited.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
The following bumper sticker was seen on campus:
"The only vitamin for a christian is B1."
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
does the correlation still hold that students and profs that wear glasses
tend to be above average in intelligence than those who don't?
I am not sure about contact lenses?
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
t describes research on a
> subject that has come up on TIPS before: what people who have been blind
> since birth dream about.
>
> Jeff
You mean folks like Stevie Wonder,Jose Feliciano,Ronnie Milsap,Ray
Charles
have no idea in their dreams of what harmonicas,guitars and pianos look
like?
can I use an earlier edition of the text?
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
When Skinner wrote the piece "Are theories of Learning necessary?"
was he focusing more on laws or principles or relationships?
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
Law of
> Effect doesn't provide some predictive mathematics. So, why is it a law?
>
But laws also imply predictability.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
tudents the same
> lesson.
At times it is not what the facts are ,but the hidden agenda as to why
the data is presented. I guess Jensen,Eysenck and the others that follow
the London racist line are scientifically correct.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
do not want to be with the other Moby Dicks.
Comments invited.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
Jeff: can I use this as an example of Ex-post facto research?
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
and how do we correct the misconceptions?
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
what's the skinny (no pun intended) on transracial adoptions?
If a white couple adopts a black child,is this good or bad
or somewhere in between for the child?
Will there be an identity crisis?
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
Which Ivory league university is offering its courses on line?
And do you have the website address?
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
How dare you put Oprah in the same boat as Mrs.Cleo?
>From my observations,Oprah does get reputable researchers on her show.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
. (Dr.Dre-the rap artist}
but a PhD assumes academic credentials.
What is your take on this?
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
the text by Carver and Scheier has a section on research method
for the various perspectives.I have not used it for a quite sometime,but
they may have an updated edition.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
To all our blonde tipsters (Mona Lisa excepted),have a fun day.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
I just do not believe that age prejudice is most prevalent on the planet.
In the U.S maybe,but definitely not in the rest of the world.
Since when values became defined by the amount of references on the
internet?
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
first two or
three kids.
The drowning episodes appeared to be methodical and conscious.She
chased a kid around the room and took the kid upstairs to be drowned.
I am assuming that one can be so methodically systematic and orderly
to be declared insane.
Send me something.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona
If TIPS disappeared I am prepared to self-administer a lethal injection.
Btw, is there TIPS without Stephen Black?
Michael Sylvester
Daytona Beach,Florida
ime.
- compare and contrast behavior after varying hours of sleep
and your tips behavior.
-if efficiency is affected,you may want to draw conclusions
about behavior and sllep time.
Hope this help.
As a true experimentalist.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
ir final.
>
However since it was a peronal behavior modification program,
a one subject single design could be appropriate.
Btw,there are designs that utilize subjects as their own control.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
in the
classroom.
My ability to go back and forth from the Eurocentric and the non-
Eurocentric is truly amazing.This I call this "strategic acculturation"
and this may well be the modus operandi of future profs who will have
interact with diverse populations with varying gestalts.
In my cu
logy
to India and it was a flop.
I-O theories as we know it is based more on Western Capitalistic
modus operandi.I am not sure it would apply to the plantain(a family
of the banana) or the cigar industry in the land of el commandante
Fidel Castro and Che Guevara (gone but not forgotten).
M
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Paul Smith wrote:
>
> Sylvester repeats what by now seems to be his fundamental confusion:
> contrary to his belief, the fact that you cannot simply transfer the
> _conclusions_ [true] does NOT imply that you cannot transfer the tools
> [scientific methodologies]. Ma
ools in the South.
Observations(not opinions) are that Southerners are the most obese
of all the people in the U.S.Given the criteria that profs will look
in ther surrounding environments for research ideas,there may be
departments south of the Mason-Dixie line involved in such researh.
Good luck.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> But I get the feeling, Michael that you are telling your students that
> whatever they believe and they see and hear is just OK and must be the truth.
> So I don't know why I am even bothering to respond.
>
> Nancy Melucci
> ELAC
In
have been published in peer reviewed (i.e., Eurocentric) journals, and
> then decide which is more persuasive.
>
Observations (not one observation) is another form of research
methodology.Not all topics are researchable.One ought to distinguish
opinion from observations.
Michael Sylvester
possible that we are only
> remembering the "observations" that conform to our theory?
What is more real a confirmation bias or a scientific hypothesis?
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Beth Benoit wrote:
> At the risk of fanning a flame, just a little, I feel I should respond to
> the following point made by Michael Sylvester, since it was in response to a
> comment I made:
>
> > As to attack on opinions,let me say this about that.Som
Please!Please! Spare me another religious thread.Have had enough
from PB.
Michael Sylvester
are introduced
by the West and not indigenous.
There is alot of bystander apathy to the homeless in the U.S
which does not involve being in a crowd.
Stay tuned!
I cannot wait to comment on shame and guilt cross-culturally.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
"
t; make that statement to a class.
>
> Beth Benoit
> University System of New Hampshire
>
See Zimbardo's video on Social Psych.
Michael Sylvester
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Paul Brandon wrote:
> At 1:49 PM -0400 4/23/01, Michael Sylvester wrote:
>
> "whatever goes around,comes around".
>
> But once is enough!
>
not necessarily!
Michael Sylvester
a growing
lack of connecting with other people and an ambivalence about values.
The so called Fundamental attribution error can only be observed
in a society like the U.S which places emphasis on dispositional
attributions .
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
is it my understanding that warning and emergency lights are usually
placed on the left in automotive and aviational settings,so that the info
would reach the right hemisphere and hence cause quicker reaction time?
MIchael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Paul Brandon wrote:
> At 12:43 PM -0400 4/23/01, Michael Sylvester wrote:
> >On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Paul Brandon wrote:
> >
> >> At 11:07 AM -0400 4/23/01, Michael Sylvester wrote:
> >> >of all the topics in Psychology,the one that appears
r them
to quit the classroom and come back later when they are ready
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
#x27;there a therapy called Primal Scream?
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Paul Brandon wrote:
> At 11:07 AM -0400 4/23/01, Michael Sylvester wrote:
> >of all the topics in Psychology,the one that appears to be contrived
> >and artificial is the subject of learning.
>
> You've made this statement (troll) before.
&
or social significance,but it may
not be in natures best interest.
Comments invited.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
"Earthquakes do not kill people,buildings do."
is it still true that a grad student is allowed to have
only one C in couses taken?
(for example : stats)
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
Whatever happened to summer reading list recommendations?
I guess someone finally saw the light and is no longer
recommending this type of bourgeois (sp) activity.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
> Way to go, dude.
>
> Nancy Melucci
> East Los Angeles College
> Monterey Park, CA
>
Please note that I am the only one entitled to use the expression "dude"
on TIPS.
Michael Sylvester
Daytona Beach,Florida
A student came up to me and said, "I could have graduated cum laude
had you not given me a C in your class."
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
I usually say" good morning" to my class when I enter the room.
But I have observed no return of the same from the students.
How should this be interpreted?
Since I do not get a response,should I discontinue the practice?
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
.
I may be tempted to adopt that text.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
can anyone explain to me statistical expressions such as:
1 part in a billion.
This caught my attention because of the discovery of arsenic
in a number of playgrounds in the Central Florida area.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
There is freedom of speech in all countries.
However,there may not be freedom after speech.
Dig!
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
guage?
Btw,has English been declared the national language of the United States?
When the Early American Psychologists went to Germany to study under
the German Structuralists,did they know German?
And when G.Stanley Hall invited the Freudian group to Clark U.did
they lecture in English?
Michael Sylv
seek your forgiveness."
Of course the students will be wearing masks.
What are the possible campus wide effects?
Is it a good idea or not?
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
Happy Easter to all Christian believing tipsters.
According to St.Paul "Let us put on the new man".
The dude left out woman.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
because he was not flunking some students:
He felt that he was just going to give them additional work.
Are there any statistics on the frequency of grades when an I has been
removed?
What is your take on Incompletes and their eventual conversion to letter
grades?
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach
I know this is a religious time-interval with Easter and Passover.
Personally,too much religious type topics are on TIPS.
Lets get back to subjects re the teaching of psychology and other
controversial issues .
Btw,lets stop the Mother Theresa bashing.
Michael SDylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Flori
re Judaic theology
what does that have to do with the teaching of psychology?
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
g students to read
pages so and so for the next class?
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
rn Scientific hegemony overided these.
What is this about enjoying the benefits of Western culture?
Reminds me of the slogan:AMERICA,LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT (huh)
I can balance my views because I employ the method of Strategic
Acculturation- moving in and out between varying cultural thoughts.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
th of classical music CDs to play for her newborn. What questions would
> youencourage your friend to ask before she makes such a large investment
> based onthese findings?
>
> 1. What questions would you want to ask a person who claims that he or
> she has ESP and other alleged “paranormal” powers? What type of evidence
> would you like to back up these claims?
>
>
A friend of mine who is about to take his oral comprehensives for
his PhD could not answer those questions.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
The privileged (i.e., protected)
> status of religion was also the topic in the article that we
> discussed here a month or so ago.
>
> Best wishes
> Jim
>
But Science is unable to understand musical compositions,artistic
creations and other affairs of the heart and internal sensibilities.
This emphasis on scientic approaches is quintessentially
Eurocentric and fails to account for the other ways of knowing.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
do any of you follow a contract grading policy?
for example,to get an A one needs to:
write 4 term papers,2 book reports and critically evaluate the complete
works of BF Skinner
to get a B,one needs to: write 2 term papers,dissect a rat's brain.
to get a C, just do nothing.
Mi
" I spent all weekend studying for that test and I do not understand
why I got such a low grade."
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
?
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
and the myth continues.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
type of students
enrol in that type of a course.I suspect that some take it only for
the grade. My interests are the anti-black prejudices
manifested by Cuban,people from the Middle East,Brazilians,Italians and
Asians.If you think we have it bad here,being black in Japan could be
torture.Does your book cover those types?
Anyway,looking forward to reading it.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
This would seem to be appropriate to explain where our field
is heading- with so many correlates of behavior tied in with
biologiocal, genetic and neural strata and sub-strata.
Comments invited.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
degree from the university.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beaxch,Florida
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Mike Scoles wrote:
> But the pace is too fast there. Here, it is much slower. In fact we
> move backwards in time.
As if we did not notice.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
I remember a work by Maltz about the above topic re the impact
of plastic surgery on personality.If I recall correctly,it portrayed
a negative impact on body,mind and behavior.
Is there someone on Tips who can reiterate the findings at that time
and if there is any concurrent validity?
Michael
nment due Monday.
Maybe I should have given them only a 3 day notice to get the work
done.
Or maybe, I should have adopt a strategy of having them
turn in info on a week by week basis towards the accomplishment
of the final goal.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
ulus.Btw,there is a stimulus for the tears and the stimulus for
the sound.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
be developed in the pitching domain.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
Some people have compared the influx of college students during
Spring Break vat Daytona,Panama City,Cancun,Jamaica etc
as some sort of mating season with all the
activities assuming some form of ritualized courting and mating
displays.
I hope I am not sounding like Desmond Morris
Michael
were infrequent and usually held on a mountaintop.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
(Not an original)
by the misbehavior
of college students during Spring Break.They remark: how can
these folks are going to college and yet they behave so stupid
and dumb.
I also feel that the educated should transcend cultural imperatives.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
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