Annette, I know nothing about #2, but perhaps for #1 you are looking for something like this?
http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=buy.optionToBuy&id=1981-09628-001 On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 10:13 AM, Annette Taylor <tay...@sandiego.edu> wrote: > Please forgive cross postings. > > (1) I used to cite an article by Smith (1974) and in fact I know I have > read it! Not so many years ago even because the details are clear to me; > this is a test of encoding specificity with same or changing rooms (one > more white and one more orange) for learning and testing but in an added > condition she asked participants to imagine themselves in the learning room > when they changed rooms from learning to testing and they performed as well > as those who did not change environments. > > I have searched and searched and searched and searched and cannot find > it--psych info, google scholar, academic search premier, you name it. > > Can anyone help me out here? > > (2) I attended some talks at APS this past week. I find the whole approach > to personality these days to befuddle me completely. Every one of the talks > I went to tried to categorize people into polar opposites of types either > in thinking or decision making styles or any of a slew of other reasons > doing so. > > Now this conflicts with what I had always believed that most human > characteristics including personality and other types of thinking > characteristics are pretty much normally distributed with most people > falling in the middle--having aspects of both poles--68% within one SD and > 95% within 2 SD and so about 5 % would be purely one type of the other. > > But the talks I went to all suggested that there is sort of upside down > curve with 95% of people being clearly categorized as this or that and the > bottom of the curve, the 5% sort of being hard to categorize. > > I am so confused. Can anyone clarify this discrepancy for me please? > > Thank you > > Annette > > > Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D. > Professor, Psychological Sciences > University of San Diego > 5998 Alcala Park > San Diego, CA 92110 > tay...@sandiego.edu > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: devoldercar...@gmail.com. > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=177920.a45340211ac7929163a0216244443341&n=T&l=tips&o=48811 > or send a blank email to > leave-48811-177920.a45340211ac7929163a0216244443...@fsulist.frostburg.edu > -- Carol DeVolder, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology St. Ambrose University 518 West Locust Street Davenport, Iowa 52803 563-333-6482 --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=48812 or send a blank email to leave-48812-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
