A couple of interesting articles have come my way and both espouse different
attitudes of requiring teachers (pre-college) to know neuroscience. One
source is Education Week that argues that teachers should know neuroscience
and can be accessed here:
On 2012-06-07, at 8:14 AM, Michael Palij wrote:
Back to the original point, it is amusing to see courses in physiological
psychology and/or physiological pedagogics being offered in the early
bulletins of the School of Pedagogy because one has to wonder what
possible interest would these
On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 06:20:34 -0700, Christopher Green wrote:
On 2012-06-07, at 8:14 AM, Michael Palij wrote:
Back to the original point, it is amusing to see courses in physiological
psychology and/or physiological pedagogics being offered in the early
bulletins of the School of Pedagogy
Hi
Part of the problem with Bem's advice to tell a story (i.e., make up a
story?) when writing papers is that one can never be sure what is fact and
what is just for the sake of the story. Here, for example, the tell a story
model makes me skeptical that Bem was as unsympathetic to paranormal
I appreciate your point about Bem's advice about writing papers, but my sense
is that the notion of 'telling a story' in scientific papers predates Bem by
decades and has been implicitly promoted in our best journals. It seems to me
that legions of scientists have been trained to write
Interesting point that Miguel makes. On the assumption that he is correct, that
the desire to tell a story implicates telling a 'clear and easily
understandable story', I wonder if psychology differs from the physical
sciences on this point, and if telling about the 'glitches' is necessary if
On 2012-06-07, at 10:24 AM, Michael Palij wrote:
| Munsterberg had been a vocal critic of child study in numerous
|public addresses in the mid-1890s, adding his voice to other
|colleagues who were critical (a) of the questionnaire (“syllabus”)
|method of data collection (see Baldwin, 1898),
I confess, I have never been as eager to despise Malcolm Gladwell as many other
behavioral scientists were. Yes, he overblew and misinterpreted some results,
but he seemed to occupy an important niche in the complex ecology by which
difficult, nuanced scientific findings get translated to the
...just as we were beginning to get some street cred (or thought we were?)
comes this article from The Globe and Mail with the headline:
Psychologists use murky research methods, survey finds
Gee, what kiljoys...they want us to stick to a stated method and not change as
results come in?! How un-Bem like! There goes our precognitive powers lol!
G.L. (Gary) Peterson,Ph.D
Psychology@SVSU
On Jun 7, 2012, at 8:06 PM, Beth Benoit beth.ben...@gmail.com wrote:
...just
Hi everyone,
Check out what's new in ToPIX here on the STP blog:
http://teachpsych.blogspot.com/2012/06/new-topix-content-672012.html
Also, here's something new for us to work on: A ToPIX Song List.
What songs do you use to illustrate psychological concepts? Let's put our heads
together and
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