On 11 Feb 2002 at 12:59, Mark A. Casteel wrote:
Tipsters: I've grown tired of the Lot in Life assignment (see Hamill, S. B.,
Hale,
C. (1996), Teaching of Psychology) I have used the past four years in my
developmental
psych course, and am looking for new ideas. The ideal assignment will
Title: Re: health psychology movies
Hi
everyone:
I am
offering my health psychology class an opportunity to write an
analysis of how various health-related themes are presented in the
movies. I'm calling the assignment, Health Psychology Goes
to the Movies. Some of the movies I'm recommending
Subject: Grading and depression
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I jokingly tell my students that some of their writings are so terrible
that I have to take some prozac to help me overcome their writing induced depression.
Keeping in mind that these are college students,how do you react to answers
Title: Message
I've
used "And the Band Played On" in both health psychology and in a psychology of
social issues course - it is a docu-drama based on the U.S. and French
researchers attempts to understand what washappening and intervene in the
early stages of the AIDS epidemic. It is based
Very similar to the way I respond to questions like this.
Gary J. Klatsky, Ph. D.
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Miguel. Just a random or two.
(1) i should be 1 for ungrouped (if the numbers are integers) but i
= interval width if grouped. So if you group into categories 4 to 6, 7
to 9, 10 to 12, i = 3 (but I'm sure you already know that).
(2) IF ungrouped, but your interval contains a bunch of identical
At 10:48 AM -0600 2/12/02, Rick Froman wrote:
To those of you on the list who have ridiculed the importance of
making a distinction between scales of measurement (I say, unwisely
kicking the drowsy canine), the recent unpleasantness in the pairs
skating at the Olympics might make you
Another possibility is to adapt the concept maps described in the
latest ToPs issue (Winter 2002).
Elizabeth Mazur, Ph.D.
Visiting Associate Professor of Psychology
University of Michigan-Flint
Flint, MI 48502-1950
(810) 237-6620; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-Original Message-
From: Dave
Dear Colleagues,
I received the following note from Bill Hill on Psychteacher and wanted
to forward it to you as some of you may not subscribe to that list. I
also want to second his recommendation!
Many of you who are members of the American Psychological Association
(APA) recently received
Dennis Goff wrote:
I have students write a news article about any topic in Developmental that
they would like. The longer pieces in Science News or the news magazines
like Time serve as the model. I require that they use five sources for the
news article and require that those sources are from
I also second (or third) the recommendation of this movie but want to point
out that it's an especially good movie for academics. Emma Thompson's
portrayal of an English professor was flawless. Rent it just for that -
it's out on video.
Sherry
Sherry Ferguson, Ph.D
Research Psychologist
I always use Aquinas in my history systems class, and students read the
section from Summa Theologica covering free will. It is a great example of
the rational/theistic approach of the middle ages.
Aquinas was dealing with the free will paradox - that is, how can all
omnipotent and
Title: Re: embarrassing statistical
question
I wholeheartedly agree with John Kulig. I don't even bother
covering
that formula in stat. It makes very questionable
assumptions in an
effort to achieve what looks like great precision in finding
a
percentile. For example, it assumes that the scores
I agree with Tim and John. I covered those grouped distributions
half-heartedly the first time I taught stats, in 1988, and haven't touched
'em since. It seems pretty shady (the implication that you're finding some
nice specific number despite the unreasonable assumptions), and it's VERY
low on
Please describe the nature of the
true scores for which the putatively interval data are a positive linear
function. I'm not familiar with
the metrics of judging skating performances.
-Original
Message-
From: Rick Froman
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Sent: Tuesday, February 12,
I would like to add my, Me Too! to Tim and John's posts. Rather than
torture students with the percentile formula, I use Tukey hinges for
quartiles.
I also have difficulty with the (High - Low) + 1 formula for the range
that is presented in some texts. It assumes that the units of measure
are
Because there have been exchanges on the topics of evolution and creative
design, I thought you might be interested in the following piece which
appeared in yesterday's New York Times:
In Ohio School Hearing, a New Theory Will Seek a Place Alongside
Evolution
The latest challenge to evolution's
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 12:27:08 -0600 Paul C. Smith
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But I assume that also means
that they're not likely to encounter much in the way of grouped data. Sure,
I can think of some situations in which they might (secondary analyses of
previously grouped data), but I've
Kenneth M. Steele wrote:
In an important sense, all data is grouped-data. We specify
some boundary conditions of inclusion/exclusion in a unit and
those conditions typically cover a range of variations which we
*might* attend to under other circumstances.
To continue with and (likely)
Colleagues,
I am looking for data on trends in enrollment in undergraduate
psychology. I have been to research.apa.org and not found what I
wanted. I would like a graph/table of national enrollment/#
graduating majors in psych over the last 10 year with data as recent
as possible.
Any
Craig,
The major difference between this assignment and a typical term paper is the
kind of writing. The students write these news articles for a different
audience (not me) and they can write in a style that is a little more
comfortable for them. (Some of them do present a term paper with a
Aquinas was dealing with the free will paradox - that is, how can all omnipotent and omniscient God create a being with free will if a willful act by definition would have to be something the omniscient God could not predict. But, Aquinas came down firmly on the side of free will.
Why can't an
A twist on this assignment would be to have them research the scientific
literature on a topic and then develop a webpage to present their work.
That is a different style in form and function than term papers but
could still serve to help them learn about psychology and to present
what they have
Our current contract expires in July, oh joy. We are about to begin negotiations. Can some of you folks please answer the following questions and send the data to my university email address below. Thanks.
What % raises have you had in each of the last four years?
What % of your faculty are not
The paradox is tied to having both omniscience and being the creator. If you create an organism and know exactly what that organism will do, you have in fact predestined that organism. For the organism to be truly free, it would have to be able to break out and do something unknown to the
Title: Message
Just when I thought we might actually be
somewhat out of the cave.
Although
perhaps Ted might think that you were just proving his
point...
Excuse me,
I've just got a bad case of cat-scratch fever...
__
Roderick D. Hetzel,
Ph.D.
You may be able to predict what your children will say and/or do, but you
making a probabalistic prediction, based on your knowledge of them in
similar situations. Sometimes children do unexpected (to you)things. If you
were successful in predicting with perfect accuracy everything they did
Title: Re: scary, isn't it?
Nope, wasn't Ted Nugent, nor was it George Carlin, who was given credit earlier. So maybe Rip Pisacreta can start taking credit.
See either the Urban Legends website (snopes.com) or www.truthorfiction.com
Beth Benoit
University System of New Hampshire
Here is a
Well, I knew it couldn't have been George Carlin, but as far as I
knew,
it could have been Ted Nugent.
At 11:15 PM 2/12/02 -0500, Beth Benoit
wrote:
Nope, wasn't Ted Nugent, nor was it George Carlin, who was given
credit earlier. So maybe Rip Pisacreta can start taking
credit.
See either the
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