Re: Thyroid gland and sleep?

2001-09-30 Thread Rikikoenig
In a message dated 9/28/01 3:44:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tipsters - I received this question from a student. Her physician tested her thyroid gland because she was having sleep difficulties, and she wanted to know why the physician was testing they thyroid. She's a

Re: Memory span in children (student question)

2001-09-29 Thread jim clark
Hi No references, sorry. Just some faint memories from long-ago lectures. On Sat, 29 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >What is the memory span of say a 2yr old child? And how does it increase > (amount/time) when the child gets older? For example if a infant's memory is > an hour long and

Re: Your Thoughts

2001-09-29 Thread LisaHrrsn
I have a policy (that I explicitly put in my syllabus) that I will give make-up exams for "emergencies". However, make-up exams consist only of essay questions & are often a bit longer and harder than the regularly scheduled exam. This technique is effective in my lower level courses that trad

Re: Thyroid gland and sleep?

2001-09-28 Thread David Epstein
No, thyroid gland and depression. :) I checked Medline and google and found a few references to sleep disturbances as a symptom of hypothyroidism. But only a few. Hypothyroidism is one of the classic rule-outs, on the other hand, in patients who present with depression. I bet that's why the ph

Re: sleep/dreaming questions

2001-09-28 Thread John W. Kulig
Michelle: On the baby issue, they show the same swings through the sleep cycle as we do, and the same REM symptoms (smiles, REM), so it's safe to assume their REM is filled with dreams, as is ours. But some differences. Infants will spend much more time in REM than us, and total REM decreases

Re: Your Thoughts

2001-09-28 Thread Richard Pisacreta
I require documentation for all makeup work. >Dear Colleagues, > >I wanted to get some of your ideas and opinions on >taking student excuses from their face value. In other >words how do most of you handle situations where >students are absent on the day of exams and when >assignments are due. Do

Re: the freshman 15

2001-09-28 Thread James Guinee
(U-WIRE) PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Magic bars. Late-night pizza at the Gate. Vermonsters. These and other foods often lead to the Freshman 15, a nickname for weight gained in the first year of college. Dr. Heli Roy, a researcher and specialist at Louisiana State University, is studying the factors

Re: Student question about taste

2001-09-28 Thread Kenneth M. Steele
On Fri, 28 Sep 2001 08:22:18 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > This is a question from a student. I have never been aware of the taste > reaction that he is describing, but was wondering about his impression that > the salt receptors are stronger than the others on the tongue.

Re: Student question about taste

2001-09-28 Thread Donald H. McBurney
Nancy:     The salty taste  will  linger for two reasons.  First, it physically remains on the tongue for a while, and second, all tastes take time to build up.  Sugar takes about 10 seconds.  So, between those two effects you would expect salty to linger and sweet to take time.     You can tell

Re: Your Thoughts

2001-09-27 Thread Charles S . Harris
"In 20 years of university teaching I've experienced about 100 dead grandparents--at least five a semester, depending on class size. They seem to die like flies right when a paper is due, or before exams." --Meredith Small (Professor of Anthropology, Cornell), essay on "All Things Consid

Re: Your Thoughts [about make-up exams]

2001-09-27 Thread Don Allen
Hi All- I seem to be the odd person out on this one. I not only insist that students write every exam, I also insist that they inform me a priori if they are not able to write at the assigned time. From my course outline: Absence from class: It is understood that illness and personal emergenci

Dropping an exam (was RE: Your Thoughts)

2001-09-27 Thread FRANTZ, SUE
ve done so." -- Sue Frantz Highline Community College Psychology Des Moines, WA 206.878.3710 x3404 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://flightline.highline.ctc.edu/sfrantz/ > -Original Message- > From: Payam Heidary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thurs

Re: Your Thoughts

2001-09-27 Thread Richard Pisacreta
Mike Scoles wrote: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>My syllabus always states that the lowest exam will be dropped (at least >in undergraduate classes). A missed exam counts as a zero. This allows >everyone to have a free "bad day", whether it is a death in the family, >the end of a romance, or the common

Re: Your Thoughts

2001-09-27 Thread Payam Heidary
I agree with David about the dropping exam policy not being a good one. I do not adopt this policy in my classes mainly because it is sending the wrong message to students that they will not always be responsible for learning the information presented in lecture and text. The student can tell him

Re: Your Thoughts

2001-09-27 Thread Mike Scoles
My syllabus always states that the lowest exam will be dropped (at least in undergraduate classes). A missed exam counts as a zero. This allows everyone to have a free "bad day", whether it is a death in the family, the end of a romance, or the common anxiety-related "stomach virus." It also gi

Re: Your Thoughts

2001-09-27 Thread David Wasieleski
Not to be critical to Mike or anyone else who favors the "drop one exam" policy, but I've never been a big fan of it. I think i sends the message that one does not need to master all of the material for a course in order to achieve a high grade. In addition, in practice, it can also promote di

Re: Your Thoughts

2001-09-27 Thread John W. Kulig
Payem     I agree with Harry Avis that students - most of the time - do about the same on late exams. But I still hate them and have always worried about the comparability of the original and the make up. Lately I have adopted the "drop the lowest" exam score, in lieu of make ups. To make it work

Re: Your Thoughts [about make-up exams]

2001-09-27 Thread Jeff Ricker
Payam Heidary wrote: > how do most of you handle situations where > students are absent on the day of exams and when > assignments are due. For examinations: I always allow a student to take exams BEFORE the scheduled time. That way, if they know something is coming up for them, they can plan

Re: Your Thoughts

2001-09-27 Thread Payam Heidary
Very interesting story Marc. I think you can sometimes tell from non-verbal cues if a student is not telling you the truth also. I had this one girl come to me and say that her mother was in the hospital for 2 weeks and that she could not get any documentation about this to me. The interesting par

Re: maternity leave for psychology professors

2001-09-26 Thread Harry Avis
Many colleges have collective bargaining agreements and this is usually controlled by the contract. One option we have is to use up available sick leave and then get "catastrophic sick leave" at a slightly reduced rate. Other ways it can be handled is for other faculty to donate their sick leav

Re: Your Thoughts

2001-09-26 Thread Harry Avis
In 34 years of teaching I have changed my mind on this subject about 33 times. In the last few years, I have been less skeptical. My thinking on this is that students rarely do better on late exams than on the other exams they take on time, so they probably aren't gaining anything. It is not r

Re: Your Thoughts

2001-09-26 Thread G. Marc Turner
I have to tell a story that happened to another professor here last spring. Shortly before the 2nd exam, he received a phone call from a student. The student was very apologetic and said that his brother had been in an accident the previous day. He had driven to the hospital (about 150 miles a

RE: SPSS version 10 vs. 9

2001-09-26 Thread Larry Z. Daily
Margie, As far as I can tell, you're not doing anything wrong. SPSS output files are not compatible across versions. Fortunately, though, the data files are, so it's not so hard to carry the data from one machine to another and simply rerun the analysis. Cheers, Larry **

Re: souping up Personality

2001-09-26 Thread Michael Sylvester
the behavior of tipsters seems consistent. .Don't you agree? Michael Sylvester,PhD Daytona Beach,Florida

Re(2): UN Hq to Jerusalem

2001-09-25 Thread Peter Dybwad
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Peter- > >Ok, I give up. What does this have to do with Psychology? > >-Don. I take you point. I'm sorry.

Re: souping up Personality

2001-09-25 Thread Drnanjo
Joe et al.: I like to challenge students with the notion that "there ain't no such thing." There is a temperament, perhaps, but by and large human behavior is highly context dependent, i.e., one behaves quite differently when in the role of authority figure than when in the role of follower etc.

Re: Other APA manual silliness

2001-09-25 Thread Paul Brandon
At 1:42 PM -0400 9/25/01, Kenneth M. Steele wrote: >On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 12:00:18 -0500 Mike Scoles ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> While I'm on a rant about the publication manual, the >> subjects/participants distinction seems silly. > >What is the distinction according to the APA manual? > >As

Re: Other APA manual silliness

2001-09-25 Thread Mike Scoles
Paul Brandon wrote: > When sentences have participants and objects I will use the term when > referring to the subjects of research. After (trying) to help my son diagram sentences, Paul's suggestion is disturbing. -- * http://www.coe.uca.edu/psych/scoles/index.html * Mike Sco

RE: souping up Personality

2001-09-25 Thread Paul Smith
Joe Hatcher wrote: > I've been teaching Theories of Personality for fifteen > years now, and I'm reeallly bored with it. I've tried spicing it up with poster > presentations, having musicians and other artists in to talk (and > demonstrate) how they think personality applies to their > f

Re: souping up Personality

2001-09-25 Thread Gerald Peterson
Hi Joe, I can certainly relate. I teach a Theories class and we use it to prep students for abnormal psych. However, most of these so-called theories are of historical value and, except for recent work on trait theory, Freud's legacy, and social learning theory, there is very li

Re: Other APA manual silliness

2001-09-25 Thread Paul Brandon
At 12:00 PM -0500 9/25/01, Mike Scoles wrote: >While I'm on a rant about the publication manual, the >subjects/participants distinction seems silly. When sentences have participants and objects I will use the term when referring to the subjects of research. * PAUL K. BRANDON [

Re: Other APA manual silliness

2001-09-25 Thread Kenneth M. Steele
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 12:00:18 -0500 Mike Scoles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While I'm on a rant about the publication manual, the > subjects/participants distinction seems silly. What is the distinction according to the APA manual? As I read the relevant sections (pp. 18-19, 65, 70, 393-394)

Re: New APA Manual inconsistencies

2001-09-25 Thread Mike Scoles
James Guinee wrote: > > Has anyone noticed that the latest publication manual says to use, "he" > > and "she", sparingly, but to use, "lesbian" and "gay", rather than, > > "homosexual?" > > It seems he is pointing out that NOW we are supposed to limit our use of > he/she (what alternative do they

Re: Internet graphics, new!

2001-09-25 Thread G. Marc Turner
You can also get to this section of google by going to: http://images.google.com As far as I can tell, it searches for the terms you enter in the text of the page close to an image. I've used this to find pictures of famous psychologists, various distributions, etc. Right now I'd rate

Re: New APA Manual inconsistencies

2001-09-25 Thread James Guinee
> From: "Harry Avis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: New APA Manual inconsistencies > > I fail to see a problem. The phrase he/she, he and she, he or she is awkward > and should be used as little as possible. I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels

Re: Internet graphics, new!

2001-09-25 Thread Miguel Roig
At 07:45 PM 9/24/01 -0400, you wrote: >Regardless of your scruples this is an incredible site. I have also looked up brain cartoons, psychology >cartoons etc. Not that my scruples are any different from average folks, but I thought the following article might be of interest. September 6, 2001, T

Re: UN Hq to Jerusalem

2001-09-24 Thread Don Allen
East also serves as > a sign of respect to the Islamic world, as well as to Asia, Africa and > South America. It will create a significant doorway through which the > rest of the world and Europe/USA can seek more common ground. > > There are significant economic costs involved in mo

Re: New APA Manual inconsistencies

2001-09-24 Thread Mike Scoles
Harry Avis wrote: > I am beginning to wonder if the reader was supposed to read between the > lines of Scole's statement. Ah, no. And back at ya? Maybe I should ask my brother-in-law who, as a writer, would not be so suspicious of my intent. (I don't think his husband would be offended either

Re: Internet graphics, new!

2001-09-24 Thread Beth Benoit
Harry, This is the answer to the prayers of many of us. What a great site! Thank you for sharing it with us. A quick reminder to some of us who need S-I-M-P-L-E directions: on the page that opens after you click "advanced search," go below the section labeled "Advanced Web Search" to the NEXT

Re: New APA Manual inconsistencies

2001-09-24 Thread Harry Avis
I fail to see a problem. The phrase he/she, he and she, he or she is awkward and should be used as little as possible. Gays and lesbians is preferable to homosexuals because of the connotations (thanks in large part to some right wing zealots) of the term. The words, individuals, people, etc ar

Re: New APA Manual inconsistencies

2001-09-24 Thread Kenneth M. Steele
On Mon, 24 Sep 2001 15:49:34 -0500 Mike Scoles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone noticed that the latest publication manual says to use, "he" > and "she", sparingly, but to use, "lesbian" and "gay", rather than, > "homosexual?" > Yes, and, continuing, they point out that "gay" is a vagu

Re: New APA Manual inconsistencies

2001-09-24 Thread David Epstein
On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Mike Scoles went: > Has anyone noticed that the latest publication manual says to use, "he" > and "she", sparingly, but to use, "lesbian" and "gay", rather than, > "homosexual?" Interesting. Maybe this was the rationale: http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=homos

RE: Evolution

2001-09-24 Thread Paul Smith
I'm not exactly sure why, but I get regular mailings of the "Teachers' Guides" for series like this. This one looks especially well put together. They're quite impressive, with explicit connections to the National Science Education Standards, detailed indexes for the content of the shows, a glossa

Re: Croaking Lefties

2001-09-23 Thread Bobbie Turniansky
nt: Monday, September 24, 2001 3:15 AM Subject: Re: Croaking Lefties Hm.. Seems that a number of us are left-handers.me too!   A coincidence? Judy Muhn Oakland Community College Auburn Hills, Michigan

Re: Croaking Lefties

2001-09-23 Thread Jmuhn
Hm.. Seems that a number of us are left-handers.me too!   A coincidence? Judy Muhn Oakland Community College Auburn Hills, Michigan

Re: Parsimony

2001-09-21 Thread Gerald Peterson
In addition, I have found it useful to discuss parsimony in light of competing theories, explanations, interpretations and stress that it is not just the simple explanation, but the one preferred (a) fits with established knowledge, and (b) makes the fewest assumptions. In other words, I

Re: "Law of Parsimony", Reductionism, and Complexity

2001-09-21 Thread Jeff Ricker
In addition to what I stated and the article I included in my last post, I also wanted to send you links to two other articles relevant to Phillipe's questions: Lloyd Morgan’s Canon: A History of Misrepresentation by Roger K. Thomas (2001) http://htpprints.yorku.ca/documents/docs/00/00/00/17/htp0

Re: Parsimony

2001-09-21 Thread Paul Brandon
Just one slight amendment: At 10:22 AM -0400 9/21/01, Tom Allaway wrote: > Just a couple of points: > > * Parsimony is certainly a principle rather than a law; it is a rule to >guide our thinking. It is best called a heuristic.* * Parsimony does >not say everything is simple. It says th

Re: "Law of Parsimony", Reductionism, and Complexity

2001-09-21 Thread John W. Kulig
Philipee (and other tipsters): I want to address only your initial thoughts on parsimony. I don't know much about Occam (other than that he was William of Occam and is always cited by psychologists as an advocate of parsimony in philosophical disputes), but I know that Morgan's canon ("In no

Re: Croaking Lefties

2001-09-21 Thread Clare Porac
I have published a number of papers on this issue, including two in Developmental Neuropsychology (1998 and 2000).  I have studied relatively large samples of older left-handers and not only are they alive well into their nineties, but they are as healthy as their right-handed age mates.  I recent

RE: Richard Dawkins on Suicide Bombings

2001-09-20 Thread Rick Froman
-Original Message- From: Jeffrey Nagelbush [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 1:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Richard Dawkins on Suicide Bombings On the other side, perhaps, what about the Japanese who "willingly" flew suicide missions d

RE: Richard Dawkins on Suicide Bombings

2001-09-20 Thread Paul Smith
Jeffrey Nagelbush wrote: > From all that has been written, it appears that the members > of the Tamil Tigers are all likely to be religious, even if the movement is not a > religious one itself. The question is not really whether or > not a movement that encourages martydom is religious but wh

Re: Richard Dawkins on Suicide Bombings - some food for thought

2001-09-20 Thread James Guinee
> Two curiously correlated events: > > On Sunday, I attended church - not something I do often, but at times like > this I find the community provides a certain comfort. In his sermon, the > priest compared the terrorists to "abortion doctors who kill as many > children every single day." >

Re: Student ?:dyslexia and ambidextrous

2001-09-20 Thread Paul Brandon
At 1:30 PM -0400 9/20/01, Stephen Black wrote: >On Thu, 20 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Hi everyone! I haven't posted here before so I'll beg your indulgence >>if I'm >> asking too much >> >> One of my students asked a question that I don't have an answer for: >> Is there a link, a

Re: caffeine and nightmares?

2001-09-20 Thread Ron Blue
I've read or hear nothing in this area. It might keep you more alert so you might remember your dreams. Vitamin B-6 may be related to nightmares. Ron Blue

RE: Richard Dawkins on Suicide Bombings

2001-09-20 Thread Jeffrey Nagelbush
Stephen Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (among other valuable things): > > >"The Black Tigers [Tamil Tigers] constitute the most significant >proof that suicide terrorism is not merely a religious phenomenon >and that under certain extreme political and psychological >circumstances secular volunt

RE: Richard Dawkins on Suicide Bombings

2001-09-20 Thread Paul Brandon
At 12:47 PM -0400 9/20/01, Stephen Black wrote: >A less ambiguous answer to the question is in an article titled >"Rational Fanatics" by Ehud Sprinzak (at >http://www.foreignpolicy.com/issue_SeptOct_2001/sprinzak.html), >originally published in _Foreign Policy, Sept/Oct 2000). He >provides an inf

Re: Student ?:dyslexia and ambedextrous

2001-09-20 Thread Stephen Black
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi everyone! I haven't posted here before so I'll beg your indulgence if I'm > asking too much > > One of my students asked a question that I don't have an answer for: > Is there a link, a relationship between those who are dyslexic AND are also

RE: Richard Dawkins on Suicide Bombings

2001-09-20 Thread Stephen Black
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, jim clark wrote: > > The article referred to, posted originally by Wayne Spencer, > sought to discredit Dawkins' argument with (a) evidence that the > Tamil were responsible for most suicide bombings, and (b) the > claim that the Tamil were a secular organization. Is (b) > co

RE: Richard Dawkins on Suicide Bombings

2001-09-20 Thread jim clark
Hi On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Jeff Ricker wrote: > Here was an interesting response to the Dawkins' article on the PESTS > listserve. Because this article also is being discussed on TIPS, I > thought some of you might like to see the response. > http://www.sc.maricopa.edu/sbscience/pests/index.html Th

RE: Richard Dawkins on Suicide Bombings

2001-09-20 Thread Jeff Ricker
Here was an interesting response to the Dawkins' article on the PESTS listserve. Because this article also is being discussed on TIPS, I thought some of you might like to see the response. Jeff -- Jeffry P. Ricker, Ph.D. Office Phone: (480) 423-6213 9000 E. Chaparral Rd.FAX

RE: Richard Dawkins on Suicide Bombings - some food for thought

2001-09-19 Thread G. Marc Turner
At 05:17 PM 9/19/2001 -0500, Paul Smith wrote: > But the point was that many people - most if not all of those we >refer to as "religious" - do NOT believe that they will eventually die. Or My point was that it doesn't matter whether someone believes in the afterlife or not. They will st

RE: Richard Dawkins on Suicide Bombings - some food for thought

2001-09-19 Thread Paul Smith
I don't want to come across as necessarily agreeing with Dawkins' essay, but I think that part of the point has been missed here. G. Marc Turner wrote: > My reaction... > > Of course, this assumes that people place a value on > self-preservation over everything else. > > No matter how hard

Re: student lists

2001-09-19 Thread EKleinMetroState
In a message dated 9/17/2001 11:38:06 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: "Psycgrad"- for all graduate students in psychology, but I'm sure most subscribers would be willing to answer undergrads' questions about graduate school, etc. The policy of psycgrad is that undergrads ma

RE: Richard Dawkins on Suicide Bombings - some food for thought

2001-09-19 Thread Jim Dougan
At 01:20 PM 9/19/01 -0500, Rick Froman wrote: >I suppose Dawkins might be disturbed to note the irony that his comments >place him in the same class of broad brush blamers as the Falwells and >Robertsons of the world. Two curiously correlated events: On Sunday, I attended church - not something

RE: Richard Dawkins on Suicide Bombings - some food for thought

2001-09-19 Thread Paul Brandon
At 1:20 PM -0500 9/19/01, Rick Froman wrote: >I suppose Dawkins might be disturbed to note the irony that his comments >place him in the same class of broad brush blamers as the Falwells and >Robertsons of the world. I don't recall Dawkins threatening to drop any meteors on New York. Something el

RE: Richard Dawkins on Suicide Bombings - some food for thought

2001-09-19 Thread Rick Froman
I suppose Dawkins might be disturbed to note the irony that his comments place him in the same class of broad brush blamers as the Falwells and Robertsons of the world. Rick Dr. Richard L. Froman Psychology Department John Brown University Siloam Springs, AR 72761 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone

Re: Richard Dawkins on Suicide Bombings - some food for thought

2001-09-19 Thread G. Marc Turner
My reaction... Of course, this assumes that people place a value on self-preservation over everything else. No matter how hard we try, and how careful we are, we will eventually die. Knowing and accepting this fact leads some to ask the question "What's the point?" Well, the answer is often l

Re: Richard Dawkins on Suicide Bombings - some food for thought

2001-09-19 Thread Paul Brandon
At 10:22 AM -0500 9/19/01, Jim Dougan wrote: >I thought people might find this thought-provoking. It certainly has that >old Dawkins flair, does it not? >>Would they fall for it? Yes, testosterone-sodden young men too >>unattractive to get a woman in this world might be desperate >>enough to go

RE: here come the numerologists

2001-09-19 Thread Paul Smith
James Guinee wrote: > After Nostradamus predicted the terroristic attacks, I > figured it wasn't long before someone argued a simple use of numbers performed the > same bit of prognostication. > > So much for 13 being the unlucky number... To be on the safe side, I've made plans to s

RE: Course outline Quiz

2001-09-19 Thread Rick Adams
Michael Sylvester wrote: > Apparently some students are not reading the course outline. > They keep on asking questions where the answers are already > provided for in the outline. So I have decided to give them a > quiz on the course outline. Questions could be: how many > quizzes d

Re: Course outline Quiz

2001-09-18 Thread David Likely
Can't say I'm keen on questions like "what are my office hours?" -- I just tell 'em to see the posting (paper on my door, or print it from the web). I am keen on quizzes about the outline of course contents, because very often, I think, students remember bits and pieces but can't for the life of t

Re: Course outline Quiz/plagiarism

2001-09-18 Thread Stephen Black
On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Kenneth M. Steele wrote: > > A retired colleague in this department gave a test on the course > syllabus in the first week of a class. He used questions like > below and the test was worth 10% of the final grade. > > Students grumbled some but I was amazed at how little prote

Re: Course outline Quiz

2001-09-18 Thread Kenneth M. Steele
On Tue, 18 Sep 2001 09:33:47 -0400 (EDT) Michael Sylvester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A retired colleague in this department gave a test on the course syllabus in the first week of a class. He used questions like below and the test was worth 10% of the final grade. Students grumbled some bu

RE: Gallup data on effects of NYC disaster

2001-09-18 Thread Rick Froman
An event like this can give us a more personal understanding of history. In recent years, it was thought inconceivable that Americans would have approved of sending Japanese-Americans to "relocation" camps and, certainly, we would never do such a thing today. It is easy to forget the impact extrem

Re: Course outline Quiz

2001-09-18 Thread Payam Heidary
I have the same problem with my students also. They keep asking questions that I have already answered for them in their syllabus. This is just the "lazy" student orientation of not wanting to read and easier for them to just ask for quick answers. I do not give quizzes about my course outline nor

RE: course survey results (preliminary)

2001-09-18 Thread Michael Sylvester
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Charles M. Huffman wrote: > Marc, > > I wonder about the respondent to your survey that does not require or > offer Introductory Psychology. There is also one program that does not > require or offer Intro. to Statistics or Research Methods. Surely this > must be some er

RE: course survey results (preliminary)

2001-09-17 Thread G. Marc Turner
I was confused by this as well. After looking into the issue further I found the answer. The college in question does in fact offer a general psychology course. However, this course does NOT count towards the major. After looking at their catalog, the general psychology course is NOT listed in

RE: course survey results (preliminary)

2001-09-17 Thread Charles M. Huffman
Marc, I wonder about the respondent to your survey that does not require or offer Introductory Psychology. There is also one program that does not require or offer Intro. to Statistics or Research Methods. Surely this must be some erroneous data? Or, perhaps a TIPS member from somewhere on the

RE: split-brain

2001-09-17 Thread Shearon, Tim
Yes. _ Timothy O. Shearon, PhD Albertson College of Idaho Department of Psychology Caldwell, Idaho 83605 teaching: Neuropsychology/physiological Psychology, history of psychology, developmental, general -Original Message- From: Mich

RE: astrology and religion

2001-09-17 Thread James Guinee
. > > Here we agree. I'm perfectly comfortable with religious topics being taught > in our colleges PROVIDED they are identified as such instead of as > "scientific" subjects. In that vein, neither Christian beliefs (including, > of course, creationism) no

Re: Sleep questions

2001-09-17 Thread Cheri Budzynski
Check out:   Myers, B. & Badia, P. (1995). Changes in circadian rhythms and sleep quality with aging: mechanisms and interventions. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 19(4), 553-571. ___   Cheri A. Budzynski, Ph. D.Assistant Professor of PsychologyHeidelbe

Re: astrology and religion

2001-09-17 Thread James Guinee
Hello For some reason my post and your response never appeared in my digest mail. After some digging from the tipsmeister, I received confirmation that the post did appear, and there were two responses to it. For whatever it's worth, I felt compelled to respond. Since you did so publically,

Re: student lists

2001-09-17 Thread John W. Nichols, M.A.
For Student Lists see: http://www.tulsa.oklahoma.net/~jnichols/stulists.html most are still operating, as far as I know. For Faculty Lists see: http://www.tulsa.oklahoma.net/~jnichols/faclists.html most are still operating, as far as I know. (If you look far enough down the list, you will surely

Re: Sleep questions

2001-09-17 Thread Drnanjo
Regarding sleeep and brain development, there is a well-established connection between REM sleep and CNS development, and not coincidentally, infant animals tend to get a whole lot of REM. Recent exciting research suggests that although the amount of REM declines during the life cycle, REM rem

Re: Sleep questions

2001-09-17 Thread David Epstein
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Jeff Bartel went: > With respect to the first one, I (and, I suspect, the student) know that > it's harder to sleep when you're "stressed," but I was unsure as to the > mechanism involved. I'm never unwilling to speculate. The brain regions that are likely to be active duri

Re: student lists

2001-09-17 Thread Jessica Percodani
Here are some of good lists hosted by APA and students may subscribe by sending a message with "subscribe listname their name" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Psycgrad"- for all graduate students in psychology, but I'm sure most subscribers would be willing to answer undergrads' questions about graduate sc

Re: student's question

2001-09-17 Thread Deborah Hume
Saturday, Sept. 15 Dear TIPS colleagues: May I make a plea for peaceful and thoughtful conflict resolution on this list serve, just as I hope for peaceful and thoughtful approaches may be found to the conflict our nation faces? I am feeling somewhat "unworthy" to post this plea, because I reali

Re: Letter from Afghani

2001-09-17 Thread Paul Brandon
At 9:44 PM -0700 9/16/01, Payam Heidary wrote: >Dear Colleagues, > >I am copying a letter below from an "Afghani" that was >posted on a discussion board I saw. It is a good >example that illustrates the need to make a >distinction between the actions and desires of country >leaders and those who l

Re: Letter from Afghani

2001-09-17 Thread David Epstein
Why were the author's name, the date of publication, and all other source information removed? Here they are. http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/09/14/afghanistan/index.html Salon.com News | An Afghan-American speaks By Tamim Ansary Sept. 14, 2001 --David

RE: "teaching moments"

2001-09-16 Thread Paul Smith
It sure is good to hear from you, Miguel. I just yesterday finally got word that the last person I know personally who might have been affected is safe, and you're one of the few online acquaintances from whom I hadn't yet heard. My best, Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee

Re: Stats Question

2001-09-16 Thread jim clark
Hi On Sun, 16 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What kind of statistical technique would you use with a study (for a class) > consisting of 10 survey questions using a Likert Scale and two demographic > questions (gender and age) in which one male and five females subjects > responded? With

Re: "teaching moments"

2001-09-16 Thread Miguel Roig
At 12:21 PM 9/16/01 -0400, you wrote: I teach at the Staten Island campus of St. John's University where what is left of the World Trade Center (WTC) in lower Manhattan is within clear view of several areas near our campus. Sadly, I as well as many of our students and faculty know of someone or

RE: solving future plane strategies and signal to noise ratio

2001-09-16 Thread Gary Klatsky
13126 Fax: (315) 312-6330 -Original Message- From: Hershberger, Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 3:00 PM To: TIPS Subject:RE: solving future plane strategies and signal to noise ratio I took a six month sabbatical

RE: opportunities for learning/teaching

2001-09-16 Thread Paul Smith
All - Here is my response to a posting of the image in the same online forum that went through the Nostradamus thing I mentioned earlier: == Coincidence, of course. What else could it be? Somewhere I have a nice collection of these, in the form of a booklet ha

Re: opportunities for learning/teaching

2001-09-15 Thread Mike Lee
At 03:58 PM 9/15/01 -0400, Gerald Peterson wrote: The tragic events still unfolding will present valuable opportunities for classroom instruction.  Perhaps tipsters might explore possible class activities.  I mentioned earlier the "seeing of satan" in the smoke as an opportunity to teach,

RE: opportunities for learning/teaching

2001-09-15 Thread Ann Calhoun-Sauls
With the greatest respect to Gerald, I would like to suggest that we not push the "teachable moment" too much with this topic at this time. At the very moment that I learned of the planes crashing into the World Trade Center, I was reviewing what I planned to cover in my 11:00 Abnormal Psychology

Re: solving future plane strategies

2001-09-15 Thread Paul Brandon
The basic learning principles that account for thinking of a name associated with a place are obvious enough. You might have considered them before posting this message with its implications. >As soon as the news reports about the suspects receiving flight training >in Florida were broadcast, Mi

RE: solving future plane strategies

2001-09-15 Thread Paul Brandon
At 1:40 PM -0400 9/14/01, Michael Sylvester wrote: > Let get to the roots of the past and current factors that contribute >to that type of insanity. The roots of the problems in the Middle East go back _at least_ 2000 years. So far, you haven't mentioned anything further back than 50. * PAUL K

RE: solving future plane strategies and signal to noise ratio

2001-09-14 Thread Rick Adams
Tom wrote: > Is there not some collective action that could repair this? > Maybe I have just missed the point of TIPS. TIPS has been pretty much the same since I joined it years ago--it's a combination of a place to discuss classroom strategies, teaching techniques, new theoret

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