Hi
Are we sure that psychology is hard? Or, to be more precise, harder than other
intro level courses?
Take care
Jim
James M. Clark
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Great point. I actually talk A LOT about that as it is the focus of my
research, but not in that particular little piece. A do attribute the piece to
Pat and might add an addendum of my own.
Thanks!
Annette
Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D.
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>Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:54:57 -0600
>From: "Shearon, Tim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: [tips] why psychology is hard
>To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <tips@acsun.frostburg.edu>
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>Annette (is Pat still about?)
>I think this is good but in re-reading it, it occurs to me something I tell my
>students and usually put on the syllabus isn't in Pat's essay/page. What I'm
>referring to is that well discussed, on tips anyway, "prior beliefs"
>difficulty (within the spirit of Pat's web-page). What I mean is that the
>"self-evident" nature and what students bring to the class may well also make
>the course difficult and specifically more difficult for some (the greater the
>set of misinformation and erroneous belief the more difficult the course is
>likely to be). Of course attitude/openness plays a role as well. Perhaps it
>should be tied in with Pat's points on memory ("missing hooks", as he put it.
>But in this case it is the difficulty of "bad hooks", as it were). It could be
>argued that is part of what Pat is referring to in that section on
>hooks/memory but I do find it helpful to specifically discuss the problems of
>"obvious answers or common sense" and "pre-existing" beliefs on their performa!
nc!
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e. Anyway, that is a good link or starting point for a discussion with them.
>Tim
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>teaching: intro to neuropsychology; psychopharmacology; general; history and
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>"You can't teach an old dogma new tricks." Dorothy Parker
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>Annette, with his permission, I have a link to Pat Cabe's essay on the subject
>in my web page:
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>http://facpub.stjohns.edu/~roigm/Why%20Intro%20Psych%20is%20a%20tough%20course.html
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>Miguel
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