Re:[tips] tips digest: November 09, 2010

2010-11-09 Thread Kimberly C. Patterson
Thanks Ed. Sorry if someone put something in your coffee that may have upset you but you simply could have skipped over my question and leaving your nasty comment. Isn't this supposed for be a valuable source for colleagues who are passionate about Psychology to help each other out? Isn't this

Re:[tips] tips digest: November 08, 2010

2010-11-09 Thread Kimberly C. Patterson
Thank you all - sorry when I wrote my question I had no sleep and was in an all white room. ;) I work two full-time jobs practically and I have been drained. Thanks for the info - no matter how much it supports (or does not) my future article for PTN. Respectfully yours, Kimberly C. Patt

RE: [tips] question

2010-11-09 Thread Annette Taylor
I think there might be something like this on the APA education directorate website but I don't have the time to surf around right now to put you closer to the answer. I know I have seen this type of information as well, but longer ago than the other suggestion for a 2010 published article; I th

RE: [tips] student question about hallucinations

2010-11-09 Thread Mike Palij
On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 16:07:45 -0800, Scott O Lilienfeld wrote: .[snip] > BTW, Chris Green is correct about Savannah...a very pretty (albeit very >unusual) city. Quite unlike any city I've ever seen - a wild mix of classic >Southern architecture intermixed with a decidedly bohemian flavor. Nev

RE: [tips] student question about hallucinations

2010-11-09 Thread Lilienfeld, Scott O
Rick et al. See: http://schizophreniabulletin.oxfordjournals.org/content/32/4/701.full for a review of this rather murky literature. BTW, Chris Green is correct about Savannah...a very pretty (albeit very unusual) city. Quite unlike any city I've ever seen - a wild mix of classic Southern

Re: [tips] Liberal arts revives (a little)!

2010-11-09 Thread Christopher D. Green
Mike Palij wrote: > And not to knock Savannah, GA but why would one attempt to start such > a college there? It is supposed ot be beautiful there. As I recall, it is the only major city of the Old South not to be destroyed in the Civil War (apart from New Orleans, which is a different world).

Re: [tips] question

2010-11-09 Thread Patrick Dolan
This should do it... Stoloff, M. L., McCarthy, M., Keller, L.,Varfolomeeva, V., Lynch, J., Makara, K., Simmons, S. & Smiley, W. (2010). The Undergraduate Psychology Major: An Examination of Structure and Sequence. Teaching of Psychology, 37, 1-15. Patrick Patrick O. Dolan, Ph.D. As

RE: [tips] question

2010-11-09 Thread Marc Carter
I hope someone comes up with an answer for you; we just did an incredibly tedious process of looking at our peer and aspiration schools (yes, we yet aspire!). Figure two days for 30 schools... I wish there were a database somewhere! Good luck, m -- Marc Carter, PhD Associate Professor and

[tips] student question about hallucinations

2010-11-09 Thread Rick Stevens
After pointing out that most hallucinations of schizophrenics were auditory, a student asked if congenitally deaf schizophrenics had some different, but analogous, type of hallucinations. I have no idea and was hoping that one of you might. Thanks, RS -- Rick Stevens Psychology Department Unive

[tips] question

2010-11-09 Thread Steven Specht
Dear Colleagues, I did a little google searching with this one already and keep finding information about individual programs, so I need a little help. Can someone direct me to information regarding what courses are offered in the psychology major nationally? I thought I had a paper in my files

re: [tips] Liberal arts revives (a little)!

2010-11-09 Thread Mike Palij
On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 11:58:32 -0800, Christopher Green wrote: >Check it out! Someone intends to open a new "old fashioned" liberal >arts university. The good stuff doesn't begin until about paragraph #10. >http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/08/the-woe-is-us-books/?hp I don't know, smells

[tips] Liberal arts revives (a little)!

2010-11-09 Thread Christopher Green
Check it out! Someone intends to open a new "old fashioned" liberal arts university. The good stuff doesn't begin until about paragraph #10. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/08/the-woe-is-us-books/?hp Chris --- Christopher D Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M

Re: [tips] Fwd: Random Thought: Can't Stop Change

2010-11-09 Thread michael sylvester
Ok. Is there a conflict between the purported 7 year change cycles and Erikson's psychosocial stages of development? It would seem that Erickson's differential stages encompass stage fixation for many years (at least more than 7).I am assuming that you are only referring to cell rejuvenation b

[tips] The frontal cortex excuse

2010-11-09 Thread michael sylvester
Undoubtedly tipsters are familiar with the "abuse excuse",the "lack of self -esteem" abuse.However, there are attempts to explain criminal and other immoral and risky acts of pre-teens and teens as demonstrative of uncontrolled impulses and inconsideration of behavioral consequences because t

Re: [tips] Colors affecting behavior

2010-11-09 Thread Beth Benoit
I winced at your chiding of Kimberly, Ed. I don't think the purpose of TIPS should be to make someone feel embarrassed for asking a question, whether or not they could find the answer themselves with some diligent searching. Your reminder about googling and Google Scholar is a good one for all of

[tips] Typology of difficult patients

2010-11-09 Thread Christopher Green
Gosh! I'm sure glad that students don't fall into the same categories as the neurologists give for their "difficult patients": dependent clinger, entitled demander, manipulative help-rejecting complainer, and self-destructive denier. Come to think of it, I'm glad that professors don't fall into

[tips] Colors affecting behavior

2010-11-09 Thread Pollak, Edward
Kimberly C. Patterson asked "Does anyone know of a study where colors of a room affect students?" When a student asks me such a question I tell them to do a Google or Google Scholar search. I try to help them [pick out the best key words but I much prefer they learn how to do it themselves. In

[tips] Fwd: Random Thought: Can't Stop Change

2010-11-09 Thread Louis E. Schmier
All this archaic, "fall backward" time change we did this weekend with our clocks and getting in the groove for the Lilly conference in a week got me thinking about change. How many times have you said with a carved in stone defiant finality, "It's not me" or "that just me." Well, I'd