Recently there have been speculations about detecting Alzeimers,autism,and
other pathologies as early in life as possible.
Re Alzheimers,researchers think that there are biological markers
that can be detected very early in life and preventative treatment can be
applied.I find this idea crazy.For
Paul: Your "functionally" equivalence idea seems to be conceptually neat but
the reality is that the only equivalence is that of a reinforcer given
contingent at the end of the run and the bar press.The end may justify the
means,but means may not be equivalent.Another difference I perceive is
I want to thank all of you who responded to my post on textbook rentals. As
someone who loves printed books and who kept most of his college textbooks from
the 1970s until very recently (had to make room), it pains me to see the
newer trend in students' more detached relationship to their text
Books are such a sore point. Their cost is way out of hand. Everyone is at
fault, in my opinion, except for the students. I don't see anything that they
do that warrants the costs. Though, students use them as a way to convert
scholarship and parent's money to cash. We used the same text for the
Or: Can humour work when nothing else will?
See this insane video, courtesy of the University of Bergen,
Norway. No Norwegian required.
It's just like Dickens' "A Christmas Carol". Only it's about
plagiarism. With sex.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mwbw9KF-ACY
Stephen
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Hi Chris-
Thanks so much for passing this along! Years ago I spearheaded a project to
help severely mentally and phyically handicapped individuals develop
communication skills via computer technology. I would have given anything to
have had a device like this back then. Even if it only works h
I have seen a few of the Inception "It's all a dream" ads and
thought it would sink like a stone to the bottom of lake in movie
attendance. Wrong again. Yecch.
Ken
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Kenneth M. Steele, Ph.D. steel...@appstate.ed
David Kreiner wrote:
I have mixed feelings about it for reasons already mentioned by others,
but students do like it. Another factor to consider, depending on who is
running the rental program, is what it means about financial pressure to
keep the current textbook. Our bookstore prefers for u
I usually buy textbooks in bulk and put them in a storage unit.At the
beginning of the semester,I inform students that they can "rent to own" their
text from me and rhey can pay monthly at a 20% interest rate
or they could exchange their bilberries,iphones, blueray players,and other
digital
I usually buy textbooks in bulk and put them in a storage unit.At the
beginning of the semester,I inform students that they can "rent to own" their
text from me and rhey can pay monthly at a 20% interest rate
or they could exchange their bilberries,iphones, blueray players,and other
digital dev
Annette,
It is ever thus.
Chris Green
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Annette Taylor wrote:
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> Oh great! A whole new crop of students coming in, in the fall, with a
> whole new poop-load of psychomythology/psychobabble to disabuse.
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> Well, let's get out those critical thinking exerc
We have a textbook rental program that has been in existence for many years,
run by the university. The rental fee is currently $40 per book. All
undergraduate hardback books are available for rental, but not paperbacks or
books for graduate classes (we have Master's programs). Students are allo
Oh great! A whole new crop of students coming in, in the fall, with a whole new
poop-load of psychomythology/psychobabble to disabuse.
Well, let's get out those critical thinking exercises.
BIG SIGH.
Annette
Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D.
Professor, Psychological Sciences
University of San Di
Bob-
Out campus has a B&N bookstore so we will have rentals this year. We are given
the choice to have our texts available or not within the program. I tend to
allow the students to decide though I send out notes to my classes with my
thoughts on the idea. One of those thoughts is that I don't
I don't know about today, but when I was a student at Purdue University from
1964 - 1970, both Southworth's and University Book Store had a policy of buy a
new book pay full price. Turn it in at the end of the semester and get 50%
back. They then sold used books at 75% of the new book price an
SHIRLEY SHERROD
U.S Department of Agriculture
Michael "omnicentric" Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
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Earlier this year, Barnes & Noble issued a press release on its
program of renting textbooks. The press release, dated January 11,
2010, is available here:
http://www.barnesandnobleinc.com/press_releases/2010_jan_11_textbook_rental.html
The press release says that B&N, which runs the college book
Miguel:
ASU has had a textbook rental system since 1938. The current fee
is $105 per semester.
The system works in the following fashion. One textbook per
course is designated as the rental textbook. Other, supplemental
books must be purchased. Paperbacks are exempt from the system.
S
UWF is starting a rental program in the fall term (probably the same
contract private bookstore franchise). It has some limitations. Not all
textbooks are available for rental, so an instructor who wants to make
rental an option for his or her students must determine first if there is a
suitable
Today I was somewhat surprised when a NY City metro area university that I
shall not identify here announced that their campus' bookstores, which are
operated by a private entity, are going to start offering textbook rental
services starting this Fall. Presumaby, the rentals will result in "up
Very cool!
Thanks Beth.
-Don.
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From: Beth Benoit
Date: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 2:26 pm
Subject: [tips] autism early diagnostic tool
To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)"
> A report appeared in the July 19 online issue of Proceedings of
> the Nationa
A good advertisement that people should eschew such "social" media.
It seems to me that one would have to be some kind of plebeian to post
to the world one's latest naked escapades, antics while in another of
one's drunken stupors, or how much one hates so-an-so, etc. Why people
think their viewpo
I'm with you Bob - I don't like AT&T any more than most iphone users (I'm even
not liking Apple that much these days I hate to say). Hopefully next year
we'll see iphone on Verizon and as soon as its available I'm switching.
Unfortunately it's expensive to develop apps and right now Apple has
Michael Britt said in regard to his app:
>So in short I think it'll be different and, ultimately, really useful.
>
>Still looking for more people who want to check out the app. Feel free to get
>in touch.
>
Although I am a devoted Apple (specifically Mac) person, I do not have, nor
will I have
Holy cow! Anyone care to come up with pedagogical applications for this?
http://www.ted.com/talks/tan_le_a_headset_that_reads_your_brainwaves.html
Make sure you watch the last couple of minutes to see "real world"
applications.
Chris
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Christopher D. Green
Department of Psychology
York Univers
There is an interesting article in the NY Times titled "The Web
Means the End of Forgetting" which focuses on (a) the internet's
ability to retain large amounts of personal data that a person may
have made available through social media websites like Facebook
and MySpace, blogs, picture sharing si
Good point - the flipboard is a great app. Also, there's an app called Reeder,
which is also nice, although my favorite rss reader so far is an ipad app
called SkyGrid. All worth checking out.
Despite how useful I find these apps, I wanted to make an one that is really
focused on the best psy
This seems much like the already existing iPad Flipboard, which I
think one can add RSS feeds etc., and pulls together all of the
information in magazine format including pictures, links, etc.,
especially if you use facebook and twitter
--Mike
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Michael Britt
wrote
I saw the movie inception and I learned something new. According to the lead
character (played by Leonardo DiCaprio), we not only use a small part of our
brain while we're awake, but apparently we use even less of it when we're
asleep. Guess it's time to get out those subliminal "learn-while
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