[tips] Random Thought: Shelf Life
I've been toying with the idea of replacing my computer. But, it's proving to be formidable and unnerving. Everywhere I go and everything I read and everyone to whom I talk indicate that all the files I've got backed up using Windows XP will be read on Windows 7 or Mac, and all the programs I'm running on XP will run on 7 or Mac even with some convoluted tweaking, that the new won't speak or easily speak to the old. They just aren't all that compatible. It almost sounds like I'd be trying to listen to my old LPs on a DVD player. Whether my fears are well founded or not, on this soggy morning that, some stuff that happened--or did not happen--in class yesterday, and some journals entries I've read this past week all have gotten me to thinking and wondering. What's the shelf life of all this information we transmit, verse in, train for, test, and grade? What's the shelf life of such attitudes and habits and values as trustworthiness, curiosity, commitment, perseverance, endurance, imagination, compassion, service, self-discipline, creativity, dedication, humility, respect, empathy, kindness, courage, authenticity, honesty, responsibility, fairness, and caring that we should be advocating, promoting, instilling, and modeling? Which will prove to be timely and which timeless in the shaping of lives: information or character? Make it a good day. --Louis-- Louis Schmier http://www.therandomthoughts.com Department of History http://www.therandomthoughts.edublogs.org Valdosta State University Valdosta, Georgia 31698 /\ /\ /\ /\ (229-333-5947) /^\\/ \/ \ /\/\__/\ \/\ / \/ \_ \/ / \/ /\/ \ /\ //\/\/ /\ \_ /__/_/\_\ \_/__\ /\If you want to climb mountains,\ /\ _ / \ don't practice on mole hills - --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
Re: [tips] 10 worst ideas of Psychology
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. - Original Message - 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. Michaelomnicentric Sylvester,PhD Daytona Beach,Florida ---To make changes to your subscription contact:Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
Re: Re:[tips] categories of intelligence
I have a question What's the difference between Sternberg's practical intelligence and the construct of crystallized intelligence (Horn/Catell)? Seems like Sternberg focuses on tacit knowledge but can't that be considered a subset of crystallized? Steve I am surprised that you have not received any replies from Tips members.Anyway Sternberg's practical intelligence could be seen in street smarts individuals.It is intelligence within a context. Cattell is basically a personality trait theorist and crystallized is at the other spectrum of fluid intelligence.I would not equate the two.Crystallized is a more restrictive idea whereas practical could also be conceptualized as accomodation to fit assimilative factors. Ironically,Sternberg gave the example of someone trying to find a way out of a traffic jam as pratical intelligence.Interestingly enough if you use a GPS system.one would have crystallized one's intelligence.GPS and crystallized have one thing in common-they both mediate reality. Hope this helps.I do stand corrected. Michael omnicentric Sylvester,PhD Daytona Beach,Florida --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
[tips] APA style and DOI numbers
Here's some good news from those of you who were dreading having to cut and paste dozens of DOI numbers into your reference sections starting in January. It is a website that allows you to enter a list of reference, and if gives you back the references with all available DOI numbers appended: http://www.crossref.org/SimpleTextQuery/ Chris -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 416-736-2100 ex. 66164 chri...@yorku.ca http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ == --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
[tips] Health stats trivia question
Are more people killed every year by antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections or by car accidents? Answer below. . . . . . . Chris -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 416-736-2100 ex. 66164 chri...@yorku.ca http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ == Bacteria that develop resistance to common antibiotics mean trouble for more than a quarter million Canadians every year. Most develop infections while in hospital. About 8,000 of them die from those infections --- more than will die of breast cancer, AIDS and car accidents combined. (Source: From: http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/02/12/f-superbugs.html) I presume the numbers are roughly the same (but 10 times larger) in the US. Of course, the 30,000+ gun deaths per year in the US may dwarf all of this. :-( --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
Re: [tips] APA style and DOI numbers
Hi If a full reference is adequate to produce a DOI, if available, then doesn't that mean that the DOI is redundant and unnecessary to find the article? The rationale for this requirement really escapes me, which leaves one in the unfortunate position of having to say to students: do it because the APA Style guide says to do it. On an empirical note, is there any evidence that people were retrieving incorrect articles given the information available in past editions? Take care Jim James M. Clark Professor of Psychology 204-786-9757 204-774-4134 Fax j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca Christopher D. Green chri...@yorku.ca 24-Oct-09 7:18:53 PM Here's some good news from those of you who were dreading having to cut and paste dozens of DOI numbers into your reference sections starting in January. It is a website that allows you to enter a list of reference, and if gives you back the references with all available DOI numbers appended: http://www.crossref.org/SimpleTextQuery/ Chris -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 416-736-2100 ex. 66164 chri...@yorku.ca http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ == --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
[tips] Ecclesiastical Psychology
I really miss the latin mass and all that Gregorian chant within the Catholic liturgy.However this is not about me. I think that the latin mass could probably help ameliorate some conflict that has emerged between Latino catholics and Anglo catholics.Anglo catholics go to churches where the ceremonies are in English and Latino catholics go to churches where the ceremonies are in Spanish. The Latin mass could have solved that issue. Dominus vobiscum Et cum spiritu tuo. Ite missa est. Michael omnicentric Sylvester,PhD Daytona Beach,Florida --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
Re: [tips] APA style and DOI numbers
Hi Thought I might try to answer my own question about rationale of and purpose for DOIs. One planned use for DOIs would be as active links to an on-line version of the reference, as mentioned at the bottom of the following piece: http://equinoxjournals.com/ojs/equinoxdownloads/doicitations.pdf I input a set of 12 references into the program Chris mentioned. It found two DOIs. When I clicked on the DOI links it went to the article site, but the actual articles required $ or login as licensed user. Presumably, DOIs as links to articles would primarily be of use in an institutional environment with licensed access. I'm not sure how or whether that would work if one were clicking on DOIs outside of some proprietary system like PsycINFO. If I simply print a PDF of the data returned by the CrossRef DOI system, the links are not active. The numbers themselves need to be embedded in html code to function. And when I copied the entire data and tried to paste it into a wordprocessor, the reference format was messed up. Perhaps there is a way around this? There does appear to be some mercenary motives also at work (but of course the whole publishing enterprise is in the make money business). See: http://doi.contentdirections.com/eps/sieck1.pdf http://doi.contentdirections.com/eps/sieck2.pdf Naturally, all of this is not free ... there are charges to acquire a DOI. Which leads one to wonder how all of this will integrate with Open Access efforts? About which there has been discussion: http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/1155.html Take care Jim James M. Clark Professor of Psychology 204-786-9757 204-774-4134 Fax j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca Jim Clark j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca 24-Oct-09 11:27:45 PM Hi If a full reference is adequate to produce a DOI, if available, then doesn't that mean that the DOI is redundant and unnecessary to find the article? The rationale for this requirement really escapes me, which leaves one in the unfortunate position of having to say to students: do it because the APA Style guide says to do it. On an empirical note, is there any evidence that people were retrieving incorrect articles given the information available in past editions? Take care Jim James M. Clark Professor of Psychology 204-786-9757 204-774-4134 Fax j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca Christopher D. Green chri...@yorku.ca 24-Oct-09 7:18:53 PM Here's some good news from those of you who were dreading having to cut and paste dozens of DOI numbers into your reference sections starting in January. It is a website that allows you to enter a list of reference, and if gives you back the references with all available DOI numbers appended: http://www.crossref.org/SimpleTextQuery/ Chris -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 416-736-2100 ex. 66164 chri...@yorku.ca http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ == --- 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)
