RE:[tips] Addressing Student Questions in Introduction to Psychology

$(UHere's a good answer to that question: https://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/013.html Jon === Jon Mueller Professor of Psychology North Central College 30 N. Brainard St. Naperville, IL 60540 voice: (630)-637-5329 fax: (630)-637-5121 jfmuel...@noctrl.edu http://jonathan.mueller.f

[tips] teaching resources and ideas

Dear Colleagues, Just a reminder, if you are looking for thousands of resources (e.g., activities, assignments, videos) for the teaching of social psychology and related courses, you can find them at http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/. Also, I send out a free, monthly e-mail newslett

Re: [tips] Why do we feel "embarrassed for others"?

That was awesome! Of course, nowadays late night tv often has B-, C-, and D-grade actors come on and read something dramatically as humor. But I believe poor William did think he was creating high art. However, given his level of success I don't really feel embarrassed for him as I would someo

Re: [tips] Worst coaching call ever? A classic example of hindsight bias

Dave, An excellent analysis of the situation -- a must read for many of our classes. I still think they were both "dumb" moves! Thanks, Jon === Jon Mueller Professor of Psychology North Central College 30 N. Brainard St. Naperville, IL 60540 voice: (630)-637-5329 fax: (630)-

Re: [tips] Correlation & Causation

Very interesting. I am not much of a statistician, but it appears to be a promising direction for possibly teasing out causal inferences down the road. But for now, the limitation that it only applies to cases in which it is known that one of the two correlated variables causes the other seems

Re: [tips] Intro Psych Honors at Community Colleges

Jeff, Hi. I really like your blog post assignment. Would any of the student's blog posts be available online for use to peruse? Jon === Jon Mueller Professor of Psychology North Central College 30 N. Brainard St. Naperville, IL 60540 voice: (630)-637-5329 fax: (630)-637-5121

Re: [tips] Pavlov biography

Naperville, IL 60540 voice: (630)-637-5329 fax: (630)-637-5121 jfmuel...@noctrl.edu http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu >>> "Mike Palij" 11/15/2014 1:54 PM >>> On Sat, 15 Nov 2014 10:30:38 -0800, Jonathan Mueller wrote: >I was able to read the review her

Re: [tips] Pavlov biography

I was able to read the review here http://online.wsj.com/articles/book-review-ivan-pavlov-by-daniel-p-todes-1416005700 without a subscription Jon === Jon Mueller Professor of Psychology North Central College 30 N. Brainard St. Naperville, IL 60540 voice: (630)-637-5329 fax: (6

Re: [tips] Negative Reinforcement Example

Thanks, Paul. That is helpful. This would then likely be an example of escape/negative reinforcement http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOLxQGLJouI&feature=youtu.be Jon === Jon Mueller Professor of Psychology North Central College 30 N. Brainard St. Naperville, IL 60540 voice: (63

Re: [tips] Spurious Correlations

And just a reminder, you can find examples of confusing correlation and causation here http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/100/correlation_or_causation.htm Jon === Jon Mueller Professor of Psychology North Central College 30 N. Brainard St. Naperville, IL 60540 voice: (630)-637

Re: [tips] Psychology Degree 411

I have a number of professional websites, and I get these kinds of requests all the time. Most of these are businesses trying to increase traffic to their site through more links to their sites. I can often tell these kinds of requests because the individual does not identify themselves beyond

RE: RE:[tips] Facilitated communication

I would suggest you bring two squirt guns to class with you each day -- one with a pleasant, reinforcing liquid in it (probably Coke, since you are in Atlanta) and the other with a disgusting, punitive liquid (e.g., Pepsi) in it. If you don't conceal their presence from your students, you proba

[tips] teaching resources and ideas

Dear Colleagues, Just a reminder, if you are looking for thousands of resources (e.g., activities, assignments, videos) for the teaching of social psychology and related courses, you can find them at http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/. Also, I send out a free, monthly e-mail newsletter

Re: [tips] Funny example of extinction

I've used that clip for years. It's awesome. Jon === Jon Mueller Professor of Psychology North Central College 30 N. Brainard St. Naperville, IL 60540 voice: (630)-637-5329 fax: (630)-637-5121 jfmuel...@noctrl.edu http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu >>> "Pollak, Edward (Re

Re: [tips] Who's going to APS in Washington?

Jeff, Your "excuse" falls a little flat given that "The Hangover Part IV" and "Fast and Furious: How to process 1000 poster presentations in under an hour" will be playing at the conference itself! Jon === Jon Mueller Professor of Psychology North Central College 30 N. Brain

Re: [tips] Who's going to APS in Washington?

I will be presenting at the Teaching Institute at 2:15 on Thursday. I will be around most of the rest of the conference. I will be sporting a cool, new TIPS logo! Jon === Jon Mueller Professor of Psychology North Central College 30 N. Brainard St. Naperville, IL 60540 voic

RE: [tips] Meet A Tips Legend!

Sounds good. I'll be at APS. Would like to meet you. Jon === Jon Mueller Professor of Psychology North Central College 30 N. Brainard St. Naperville, IL 60540 voice: (630)-637-5329 fax: (630)-637-5121 jfmuel...@noctrl.edu http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu >>> "Frantz,

[tips] teaching resources and ideas

Dear Colleagues, Just a reminder, if you are looking for thousands of resources (e.g., activities, assignments, PowerPoint slides) for the teaching of social psychology and related courses, you can find them at http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/ including many student resources

Re: [tips] Lots of questions about attention

Annette, Here is a research article that directly addresses Question 4: http://www.psych.utah.edu/AppliedCognitionLab/cdir.pdf Jon === Jon Mueller Professor of Psychology North Central College 30 N. Brainard St. Naperville, IL 60540 voice: (630)-637-5329 fax: (630)-637-512

[tips] teaching clinical/developmental psych website?

Gary's question about a clinical psych listserve reminded me that I wanted to inquire about the existence or development of a teaching clinical psych website (as well as other psych areas). As you may know, there are some very good websites for the teaching of different courses in psychology, i

Re: [tips] Correlation/ Causation?

Nice example. As a reminder, I have collected a large number of such headlines and related activities at http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/100/correlation_or_causation.htm Jon === Jon Mueller Professor of Psychology North Central College 30 N. Brainard St. Naperville, IL 6

Re: [tips] APA Format

Bob et al., I have links to a lot of good APA format/style and other writing resources on my Resources for the Teaching of Social Psychology site at http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/student.htm#writing Jon === Jon Mueller Professor of Psychology North Central Colle

Re: [tips] research methods activity

Annette, Unfortunately, I don't have a good article or answer for you, but I wanted to mention another possible resource for your excellent idea. On my Resources for the Teaching of Social Psychology site, there is a section that includes links to hundreds of research articles organized by to

Re: [tips] Dark Matters

Very cool. === Jon Mueller Professor of Psychology North Central College 30 N. Brainard St. Naperville, IL 60540 voice: (630)-637-5329 fax: (630)-637-5121 jfmuel...@noctrl.edu http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu >>> Michael Britt 7/9/2012 8:43 AM >>> I thought I'd

Re: [tips] Happy birthday

Thanks Bill and all the rest of you. I've learned a lot from this group over the years. Jon === Jon Mueller Professor of Psychology North Central College 30 N. Brainard St. Naperville, IL 60540 voice: (630)-637-5329 fax: (630)-637-5121 jfmuel...@noctrl.edu http://jonathan.mueller

Re: [tips] induction and deduction

I teach about them in my ed psych class because these future teachers will be teaching concepts, so it is helpful to understand how we acquire them. As you know, most of the concepts we learn before we enter school are learned inductively. How did you learn what a chair is? Or a dog? Or a fre

Re: [tips] The "Testing Effect"

Nice video! I love these animated talks. I'm waiting for one of my students to animate one of my lectures and put it online. === Jon Mueller Professor of Psychology North Central College 30 N. Brainard St. Naperville, IL 60540 voice: (630)-637-5329 fax: (630)-637-5121 jfmuel...

Re: [tips] The "Testing Effect"

The testing effect is built upon forced recall. Research consistently finds that recall is superior to recognition for retrieval practice. This guide from the Institute of Education Sciences http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/pdf/practice_guides/20072004.pdf provides a nice overview of several reco

Re: [tips] APA style example research report

Michael, Hi. I have collected a few APA style sites here http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/student.htm#writing You might find some examples of what you are looking for in there. For example, at the end of the APA tutorial (first link) there are some sample papers that I believe hav

Re: [tips] gelatology

You may have found it already, but the ISHS site is a great resource for teaching such a course. http://www.hnu.edu/ishs/ Jon === Jon Mueller Professor of Psychology North Central College 30 N. Brainard St. Naperville, IL 60540 voice: (630)-637-5329 fax: (630)-637-5121 jfmu

Re: [tips] learning styles

And here are a couple more good reviews of learning styles http://home.centurytel.net/msv/Documents/Learning-Styles-Different%20Strokes.pdf https://crm.lsnlearning.org.uk/user/order.aspx?code=041540 Jon === Jon Mueller Professor of Psychology North Central College 30 N. Brai

Re: [tips] WoooHoooo! EARTHQUAKE!

Jeff, I just laughed -- did you feel that? Jon === Jon Mueller Professor of Psychology North Central College 30 N. Brainard St. Naperville, IL 60540 voice: (630)-637-5329 fax: (630)-637-5121 jfmuel...@noctrl.edu http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu >>> Jeffry Ricker 8/2

Re: [tips] psychology on you tube

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

RE: [tips] Anything Interesting Happen Recently?

I don't know when you would date it, but you could include the controversy over psychologists participating in the interrogations at Guantanamo. Jon === Jon Mueller Professor of Psychology North Central College 30 N. Brainard St. Naperville, IL 60540 voice: (630)-637-5329 fax: (6

Re: [tips] Favorite non-test evaluation

A lot of good suggestions/ideas given so far -- you can find quite a few more examples of alternative assessment ideas on my Authentic Assessment Toolbox site at http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/toolbox/tasks.htm or http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/toolbox/examples/authe

Re: [tips] Intro Psych: Seeking good non-test based assignments

Carla, I have four brief assignments related to scientific thinking I use in my intro course, which you can find here http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/100/100assgn.htm Also, you can find other intro assignments at Amy Sweetman's Introductory Psychology Resources website at http:

Re: [tips] revisionist history

Excellent study idea! Wonder if that has been done. === Jon Mueller Professor of Psychology North Central College 30 N. Brainard St. Naperville, IL 60540 voice: (630)-637-5329 fax: (630)-637-5121 jfmuel...@noctrl.edu http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu >>> "Jim Clark" 10/

[tips] correlation and causation

Wow. I think a better title of her book would have been "100 simple ways to twist correlational evidence into causal to sell books to those terrified of getting Alzheimer's." http://www.aolhealth.com/condition-center/alzheimers/prevent-alzheimers?ncid=webmail Of course, I could stop being so

Re: [tips] Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

Okay, let me try this again. If you go to my intro psych schedule page at http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/100/100sched.htm and go to April 16 you will find several links to resources on TMS including some good video. As a bonus, you will also find some deep brain stimulation link

Re: [tips] Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu >>> "Jonathan Mueller" 10/13/2010 8:25 AM >>> Michael, TMS has been found to be quite effective for motor disorders like Parkinsons, and is being applied now to a variety of other disorders and ailments. A rec

Re: [tips] Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

Michael, TMS has been found to be quite effective for motor disorders like Parkinsons, and is being applied now to a variety of other disorders and ailments. A recent special edition issue of Neurological Focus addresses TMS and appears to be freely available online at http://thejns.org/toc

[tips] teaching resources and ideas

Just a reminder, if you are looking for thousands of resources (e.g., activities, assignments, PowerPoint slides) for the teaching of social psychology and related courses, you can find them at http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/ including many student resources that could be

Re: [tips] Piaget Examples from Popular Television or Movies

fmuel...@noctrl.edu http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu >>> "Mike Palij" 8/3/2010 9:48 AM >>> On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 06:19:49 -0700, Jonathan Mueller wrote: |To illustrate how even as adults we can struggle with some problems |like conservation, I tell my studen

Re: [tips] Piaget Examples from Popular Television or Movies

To illustrate how even as adults we can struggle with some problems like conservation, I tell my students the story of following a truck. You are on the road and you find yourself behind a slow semi. You notice that as the semi is approaching a bridge the driver pulls a baseball bat out of his

[tips] appropriate journal?

Sorry for the cross posting. My colleague Heather Coon and I have conducted some research this year on people's misinterpretation of causal and correlational headlines in the news covering scientific research. This goes beyond our more traditional psychological work, so we are wondering what

Re: [tips] How The World Cup Will Kill You~!

Of course, we were told earlier that "winning World Cup lowers heart attack deaths" http://preventdisease.com/news/articles/winning_world_cup_lowers_heart_attack.shtml whereas the "stress of watching the big game (Super Bowl) can be hazardous to heart" http://www.hpnonline.com/dailyupdates

Re: [tips] fundamental psych concepts (was assessment)

Annette, That's an interesting thought. How are misconceptions different in psychology than in other sciences? In general, I think you are right about there being more core misconceptions in something like physics. But some of those are more readily apparent because they deal more with the