Re: [tips] Money Changes Everything: Mental Health Treatment Edition

2011-06-17 Thread Jim Clark
Hi I'm struck by the last sentence in Mike's quote from the panel. Is it really the case that disempowerment is what leads people (in general or just those with mental illness?) to be violent? How is that any less an over-generalization and stigmatizing about poor people than asserting that peopl

RE: [tips] Perceptual Learning and Statistics

2011-06-17 Thread Mike Palij
On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 13:33:04 -0700, Rick Froman wrote: >Mike Palij quoted an article from the New York Times by Benedict >Carey that said: > >"For years school curriculums have emphasized top-down instruction, >especially for topics like math and science. Learn the rules first - the >theorems, t

[tips] To whom it may concern!

2011-06-17 Thread michael sylvester
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RE: [tips] Perceptual Learning and Statistics

2011-06-17 Thread Rick Froman
Mike Palij quoted an article from the New York Times by Benedict Carey that said: "For years school curriculums have emphasized top-down instruction, especially for topics like math and science. Learn the rules first - the theorems, the order of operations, Newton's laws - then make a run at th

re: [tips] Perceptual Learning and Statistics

2011-06-17 Thread Mike Palij
On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 08:38:56 -0700, Michael Britt wrote: >There has been a lot of talk on the internet lately about perceptual learning. > That can be either a good thing or a bad thing. >I believe that most of it was spurred by an article on the topic that appeared >in the NYT. I have a fe

RE: [tips] Enter for doctorate/exit with masters

2011-06-17 Thread Marc Carter
I know of some grad programs that use exams at the end of two years to decide whether or not you get nothing and have to leave (fail), a master's and have to leave (a "Master's Pass"), or can go on to finish the PhD (a "PhD Pass"). I don't know how common it is, though. Where I went to school t

Re: [tips] psychology on you tube

2011-06-17 Thread Jonathan Mueller
Mixed in among the links on this page are a lot of videos I use in intro psych http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/100/100sched.htm You can also find some more video for social psych here http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/technology.htm#video Jon === Jon Mueller Profe

[tips] Perceptual Learning and Statistics

2011-06-17 Thread Michael Britt
There has been a lot of talk on the internet lately about perceptual learning. I believe that most of it was spurred by an article on the topic that appeared in the NYT. I have to admit that I don't know much about this topic, so two questions for those of you more familiar with it than I: 1)

[tips] Enter for doctorate/exit with masters

2011-06-17 Thread michael sylvester
Have you been in grad school when the department has decided not to allow a grad student to continue in the doctoral program but decides to grant that student a so called "terminal" Masters degree? I have known a couple of people that this has happened to and they were pissed. I guess they can

RE: [tips] psychology on you tube

2011-06-17 Thread Annette Taylor
Actually, here is a partial list attached. Hope it attaches. OK. Lots of pocasts from scientific american because they only take a minute. Most of these are ABC network type videos. Does anyone know how to download these only my computer? I will not have access to streaming video next spring so

RE: [tips] psychology on you tube

2011-06-17 Thread Annette Taylor
Jim, if you compile a list of these can you send them to this list? I like to use youtubes which I convert using zamzar.com (thanks again to Sue Frantz for that nugget!) As long as they are on the same computer or drive they slip seamlessly into a ppt presentation. Annette Annette Kujawski Ta

[tips] Money Changes Everything: Mental Health Treatment Edition

2011-06-17 Thread Mike Palij
The NY Times has a sad story about the death of a young woman who worked in a group home for people with mental illness. One of the residents, a man suffering from schizophrenia, killed her. The focus of the article, however, is not so much about the death but how this situation could occur, that

Re:[tips] Sex roles

2011-06-17 Thread Allen Esterson
Stephen Black writes: >The long-established and respected journal _Sex Roles_ has >a problem. It's its name. It seems that "sex" implies biology and >"gender" implies environment. They like "gender" (and >environmental explanations) better. So they have a >long-standing policy of advising their au