1, Instincts
2. Race determining ability
3. Old women should not have children but old men should.
4. Correlations
5. Anti-Sylvesterism
6. Sex determining ability.
7. Science determined by psychology.
8. The poor should be poor.
9. Students should go into debt to get an education
10. Fat is ugly.
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From: michael sylvester
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2009 1:29 AM
Subject: [tips] 10 worst ideas of Psychology
1.Negative reinforcement -trying to be like physics wannabes
2.Fundamental attribution error-depends on if one lives in an individualistic
culture
3,Developmental stages- very vague;where does one stop and the other begins
-continous or discrete
4.Intelligence-what is it? Whites think that it has to do with the 3Rs and
abstract thinking
The term should be abolished from the language
5. Statistical significance
6.Need for achievement (Nach)-McC;elland took this idea to India,it was a
major flop
7.Stimulus and Response-very difficult to distinguish: cannot have one
without the other
8.Psychology as a science
9.Academic transfer-the idea that teaching critical thinking skills will turn
out better students -most students just want a good grade.
10,Learning and conditioning.This takes the prize.There is no such thing as
conditioning in the real world.As a matter of fact this is a topic that we can
do without.Learning and conditioning are artifacts of our domrstication.L and
C do not exist in the real world of animals where everything
come about through fix action patterns.The closet to any form of learning
that exist in the wild are tropisms and habituation.
Michael"omnicentric" Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
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