I can answer the eye color question somewhat--eye color does change as one ages. Eyes tend to become less intense in their color (everything fades or shrivels as you age...). It isn't likely that one will change from brown eyes to blue eyes or vice versa (I know of no such event). However, I also find it interesting that the new product to make lashes grow (Latisse, which was originally developed to treat glaucoma) causes deposit of pigment and can actually make one's blue eyes brown, permanently. Carol
Carol DeVolder, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology Chair, Department of Psychology St. Ambrose University Davenport, Iowa 52803 phone: 563-333-6482 e-mail: devoldercar...@sau.edu -----Original Message----- From: tay...@sandiego.edu [mailto:tay...@sandiego.edu] Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 3:17 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] reply to bill and new student Q I completely miss the point of your response and will not be able to respond again until tomorrow. And drat! I had ANOTHER student question to post: Is it common or rare or even possible that eye color changes across the life span? I am merely suggesting that Hake makes a good point. Given that we have a background in the areas of the many factors that make for good educational practice why are we not the driving force in that are of research and literature? If you examine the literature on outcomes assessment it is dominated by the hard sciences. Yet, there can be no denial based on my own published research and the literature reviews therein, that we, as a discipline of psychology are doing a horrible job of disabusing students of the psychobabble they come into our courses with. We are perfectly happy to fill students up with the facts as we see them, and never pay any attention as to whether or not they have taken the false preconceptions and replaced them with correct conceptions. We pay no attention to pedagogies and teaching techniques that could benefit our discipline in the public eye, by doing so. And I guess for that matter maybe we should have better behaved pets and children........ Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 619-260-4006 tay...@sandiego.edu ---- Original message ---- >Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:14:18 -0400 >From: "William Scott" <wsc...@wooster.edu> >Subject: Re: [tips] Reclaiming TIPS >To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <tips@acsun.frostburg.edu> > >>>> <tay...@sandiego.edu> 10/21/09 3:04 PM >>> >... things like student learning outcomes, how best to effect assessments, and [why] are psychologists NOT at the forefront of this work? >>>> > >And psychologists should have well behaved dogs and children, too! > >Bill Scott > > >--- >To make changes to your subscription contact: > >Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
