RE: RE:[tips] Student resistance to some ideas?

2013-04-29 Thread Jim Clark
[mailto:j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca] Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2013 11:02 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE:[tips] Student resistance to some ideas? Hi Thanks to all for the thoughtful comments. I would just like to focus on one issue, nicely contextualized by Annette&#x

RE: RE:[tips] Student resistance to some ideas?

2013-04-29 Thread Helweg-Larsen, Marie
lwegm/index.html -Original Message- From: Jim Clark [mailto:j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca] Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2013 11:02 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE:[tips] Student resistance to some ideas? Hi Thanks to all for the thoughtful comments. I would just like to fo

RE:[tips] Student resistance to some ideas?

2013-04-28 Thread Jim Clark
Hi Thanks to all for the thoughtful comments. I would just like to focus on one issue, nicely contextualized by Annette's comment below about the need to rebut every individual myth. Ultimately I think most of us want students to acquire general principles rather than specific facts. In my c

Re: [tips] Student resistance to some ideas?

2013-04-28 Thread Gerald Peterson
> > From: Wuensch, Karl L [wuens...@ecu.edu] > Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2013 3:40 PM > To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) > Subject: RE: [tips] Student resistance to some ideas? > >I keep telling my students that they

RE: [tips] Student resistance to some ideas?

2013-04-28 Thread Tim Shearon
7;t teach an old dogma new tricks." Dorothy Parker From: Wuensch, Karl L [wuens...@ecu.edu] Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2013 3:40 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] Student resistance to some ideas? I keep telli

RE: [tips] Student resistance to some ideas?

2013-04-28 Thread Wuensch, Karl L
: Saturday, April 27, 2013 1:21 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] Student resistance to some ideas? Hi In my culture and psych course, I spend some time on the idea that (at least in modern times) overt discrimination tends to be observed mostly under ambiguous

Re: [tips] Student resistance to some ideas?

2013-04-28 Thread Paul C Bernhardt
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RE: [tips] Student resistance to some ideas?

2013-04-28 Thread Helweg-Larsen, Marie
[tips] Student resistance to some ideas? Hi In my culture and psych course, I spend some time on the idea that (at least in modern times) overt discrimination tends to be observed mostly under ambiguous situations (e.g., poking studies, ignoring evidence showing innocence in mock t

RE:[tips] Student resistance to some ideas?

2013-04-28 Thread Annette Taylor
Hi Jim: In my work on dispelling student misconceptions my colleague and I have found in over a decade of research that the most efficient approach requires you to activate the misconception and THEN show them why that misconception leads to unsupported predictions and THEN ALSO to show that th

[tips] Student resistance to some ideas?

2013-04-27 Thread Jim Clark
Hi In my culture and psych course, I spend some time on the idea that (at least in modern times) overt discrimination tends to be observed mostly under ambiguous situations (e.g., poking studies, ignoring evidence showing innocence in mock trials, ...). Nonetheless, when I ask students on test