Among other things, I challenge them to assess whether the book has any
scientific validity and on what basis they make this judgment. (Hope this
doesn't open up another kettle of worms, but I fear it might.)
It's summer, but I'll try to recall other suggestions...;-)
Beth Benoit
Granite State C
Thank you Gene! What a nice example of collegiality. I appreciate it.
Hopefully you won't mind if I plagiarize heavily. :)
And since I'm pretty sure I've used up my daily allotment of posts, thanks
to anyone else who posts these wonderful ideas.
Carol
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 1:24 PM, C E Walker
Thanks Claudia, you asked some great questions. I started thinking about
this assignment for several reasons. First, I wanted to mix things up a bit
and do something I haven't done previously. I've been teaching this class
for a long time, and am always looking for new ways of doing things. My
prel
Do you have an overarching learning goal associated with reading these
books?
That might give you some ideas about how you want to structure the
assignment.
I think it helps to stand back and ask why the students should do this
assignment (besides the "good" of reading beyond the textbook).
For a
Carol: Below is an outline I have used for some years. It seems to work
well.
Book Review Outline for Psych 4113
* Give full information about the book including title, author,
publisher, date of publication, number of pages and cost.
* Provide some biographical information about
Not to mention
"The War Between Mentalism and Behaviorism:
On the Accessibility of Mental Processes (Scientific Psychology Series) by
William R. Uttal (Sep 1, 1999)"
The interesting thing is that he's also a major figure in cognitive psychology
-- he's criticizing from the inside.
On Jul 10, 2
Hi colleagues,
For those of you who require students to write book reviews (if any of you
do), what questions do you ask students to answer? I'm trying to create an
assignment where students choose a book (fiction or nonfiction) and review
it for my Brain and Behavior class. I'm thinking of books l
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On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 07:11:01 -0700, Paul Brandon wrote:
>
>And then there's always Bill Uttal's 'The New Phrenology'.
And then there's Uttal;s 2011 "Mind and Brain". See:
http://www.amazon.com/Mind-Brain-Appraisal-Cognitive-Neuroscience/dp/026201596X/ref=la_B001HOEDHY_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1341931568&
And then there's always Bill Uttal's 'The New Phrenology'.
On Jul 10, 2012, at 7:23 AM, Michael Palij wrote:
> A guest blog on the Scientific American website recounts one neuroscientist's
> issues with the use of neuroimaging, specifically fMRI, as a tool in trying to
> connect cognitive activit
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Also, if they show a pro-White bias on the White Racial Stereotype
version of the Implicit Association Task, their RT is also longer.
The research was reported at a conference and Nature published an
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A guest blog on the Scientific American website recounts one neuroscientist's
issues with the use of neuroimaging, specifically fMRI, as a tool in trying to
connect cognitive activity to brain activity. It is written for an
intelligent lay
audience and could be used in undergraduate courses (e.g.,
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that should be analyzed but the REASONS
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