I must apologise to those TIPSters who received the Digest for Monday
10 August postings. My posting in the thread RE: [tips] Drop Kicking
Malcolm Gladwell, continued was inordinately long. When I click
Reply to a TIPS Digest email the whole Digest automatically goes
into the reply. I thought
As the topic of the publication in Wikipedia of the Rorschach ink blots
and their most common answers was discussed recently on TIPS, you may be
interested in the following:
CANADIAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (CPA) POSITION ON PUBLICATION AND
DISSEMINATION OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS
Finally, someone can tell me if the term went missing is actually correct, as
in: The two hikers went missing shortly after sunset.
It sounds so wrong!
Pat Santoro
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Welcome back Scott. Good to have you back.
Marie
Marie Helweg-Larsen, Ph.D.
Department Chair and Associate Professor of Psychology
Kaufman 168, Dickinson College
Carlisle, PA 17013, office (717) 245-1562, fax (717) 245-1971
Because of students' significant confusion over the use of affect and effect, I
present this table and these examples to them at the start of the semester. I
believe I have fewer affect/effect errors than I used to see... of course, I
could be fooling myself.
Noun
Here is Grammar Girl's take on went missing.
http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/went-missing.aspx
She says that it is correct, a British usage dating to at least the 1940s that
has gained a footing in the US recently.
Paul C. Bernhardt
Department of Psychology
Frostburg State University
The days of dark cabals retaining power by controlling secret knowledge
may be coming to a close (yes, including psychologists and their tests).
Hemeticism has had a long a storied tradition in the West (and other
places too) but, unlike the old days when one could hide a sacred
manuscript in
Dear Tipsters,
What do you think about the ubiquitous use of looking to when it means
hoping to or expecting to or wishing to? It annoys me.
Am I an old fuddy-duddy who is not tolerant of one of our natural language
evolutions or am I correct that there is a perfectly acceptable and more
Stuart et al
I was influenced quite a bit by Pinker's books on language (Language Instinct,
How Language Works ..) and his negative critique of 'langauge mavens', so I
tend to be tolerant of language evolution so long as there is precision in
sentences i.e. having language match thought -
Can you wreak anything but havoc and can you effect anything but change?
Rick
Dr. Rick Froman, Chair
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences Box 3055
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Proverbs 14:15 A simple man believes anything, but a prudent man gives thought
to his
I've just changed textbooks for intro this year and noted that in the
powerpoint slides and text I will be using this year they have intelligence
test items. I have routinely seen these in the past in other intro texts; as
well as items from various clinical tests (anxiety and depression
The correct phraseology in such a circumstance is fixin' to.
Rick
Dr. Rick Froman, Chair
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences
Professor of Psychology
Box 3055
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Welcome back, Scott!
Would Amy Wolfe's rather unusual relationship be able to be so easily
classified as a paraphilia? People who have paraphilias, such as shoe
fetishes, don't have *relationships* with the shoes. They don't want to *
marry* them. I suppose we could consider comorbidity and
Two great replies with ideas today Paul. Thanks for the tips.
Annette
Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
University of San Diego
5998 Alcala Park
San Diego, CA 92110
619-260-4006
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Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:33:59 -0400
From: Paul
Many thanks, Marie. Given my always-nutty work schedule, I will probably
continue to lurk most of the time, but may chime in occasionally. I'm just
pleased that the Freudians in the group haven't yet commented on the fact that
my first post upon returning concerned a paraphilia. Hmmm
Thanks much, Beth...yes, I think you have a good point; she would almost
certainly be diagnosed with a paraphilia, but it seems likely that this isn't
the end of the story (it rarely is).
Scott O. Lilienfeld, Ph.D.
Professor
Editor, Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice
Department of
I love this Britishism, but do not know if it's grammatically correct in UK:
American Me: Is she going home after dinner?
British You: She might do (or just, Might do.)
Paul
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I think it is the kind of gaming (as described in Annette's last paragraph)
that the professional psych organizations are concerned about. I've heard that
you can also go online and find the correct responses to many other tests
used to screen applicants to police jobs and such. So perhaps (as
I think there are two important issues here. First, the issue of copyright.
Most off the tests found online are copyrighted, and their posting is a
violation of that (unless they are posted by or with permission from the
copyright holder). For example, publishers such as PAR have a huge problem
Annette Kujawski Taylor wrote:
I've just changed textbooks for intro this year and noted that in the
powerpoint slides and text I will be using this year they have intelligence
test items. I have routinely seen these in the past in other intro texts; as
well as items from various clinical
The Eurocentric perspective emphasizes scientific and experimental methodology
as the means to arrive ata certain truth.The non-Eurocentric predominates
because human culture is much more than the relationships between measurable
variables.The Eurocentric perspective remains obstinate and
I don't believe that I've ever met a scientist who thinks that scientific and
experimental methodology are a means to arrive at a certain truth. Michael,
where did you get this idea?
From: michael sylvester [msylves...@copper.net]
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009
There is somewhat of an underlying social psychology of race about the current
concerns of health care.Way way back a study of white and black High school
students showed that white students took threats from black students more
seriously than if the same threats came from other white
Non-Eurocentric michael sylvester wrote:
Please note that it is not
possible to explain the non-Eurocentric within a
Eurocentric framework.
Reminds me of the Personal Growth days where we were all told, I can't
explain it to you, you have to experience it. The difference in this
Especially for those of you who are also IRB members, how many times have you
seen Principle Investigator? ;-)
Miguel
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In case you didn't catch this: on the Daily Show John Oliver did a
very funny piece that has to do with an argument between two
scientists as to whether chimpanzees or Orangoutangs are our closest
relative. Aside from the content of the argument, the piece is just
funny for anyone involved in
Hi
The CPA statement also overstates the case for secrecy, unless I'm misreading
the statement. For example, it asks what would happen to validity if driving
tests were public. To my knowledge driving tests are public and people know
exactly what questions and behavior will be on the test.
Here are a couple more that are not pronounced the same but often misused by
students:
should of should be should have
off of when they want some other preposition
and confusing while and whereas
Annette
Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
University of San Diego
5998
Reminds me of the time when I worked a night shift job as an undergraduate and
one of the supervisors tried to get us a “night differential” raise by arguing
that he would have a “moral problem” on the night shift if we didn’t get the
raise! Heh . . . I did persuade him to add an “e” to
Sorry to post this on TIPS, but it does spring from an earlier message I
posted on TIPS about what to do with extra texts and teaching materials. I
received the following message from Dap, but when I replied, my message was
returned. Dap, can you let me know a working email address? Beth Benoit
A trend I've been seeing in student writing over the past few years involves words such as "nowadays," "overall," and "themselves." Some students will break these words down into their component parts and write "now a days," "over all," and
Oftentimes when often workspreventative instead of preventive
can not instead of cannot
tedious phrases like:
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Dear Tipsters,
Moving on to a related language practice:
Any time soon instead of in the near future or simply soon.
Any other examples of filler phrases that take up time and space?
What about this from the advertising world: All new (when it is clearly not).
Sincerely,
Stuart
���Michael Sylvester wrote:
The Eurocentric perspective remains obstinate and obdurate despite
the common sense of culture, religion and other factors that propels
human stability.
Looking at human history I see the common sense of culture and
religion as much a source of dissension as of human
Some time ago a TIPSTER posted a list of statements that he put on the blacboard
at the start of a Methods class. The statements were facts or beliefs, and
represented different ways of knowing. (The only one I remember is God exits.
I would like to modify and use that list in my class this
The only one I remember is God exits.
Was that an atheist or deist worldview? :)
Rick
Dr. Rick Froman, Chair
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences
John Brown University
Siloam Springs, AR 72761
rfro...@jbu.edu
From: Joel S. Freund
Looking at human history I see the common sense of culture and
religion as much a source of dissension as of human stability. But
perhaps Michael means individual human stability, in which case, yes,
culture and religion play a strong role in that. But I would say at
some cost, e.g., in providing
I didn't post the original, but from memory here are a few of the ones that I
used at the start of each semester:
Santa Claus lives at the North Pole
People need oxygen to live
2 + 2 = 4
There is life after death
The moon is made of green cheese
Money buys happiness
I would then ask the
There's a good exercise on this in the instructor's manual that comes with the
Myers intro text; it was compiled by Martin Bolt. I've used it a bunch of
times, and it works great!
From: Don Allen [dal...@langara.bc.ca]
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 6:37 PM
To:
Beth Benoit asked me to send this on to y'all as she accidentally exceeded her
quota today and obviously I haven't (am enjoying not having to prepare for
classes for the first summer in 28 years).
If you are in a place with not too much light pollution tonight, be sure to get
out and enjoy
���Michael Smith wrote in reply to my posting below:
I think common sense has a lot going for it.
Of course it has – but in terms of understanding the natural world in
its widest sense, other people, other cultures, etc, it also has severe
limitations.
Mike then provided instances where
No
Michael Sylvester wrote
The non-Eurocentric predominates because human culture is
much more than the relationships between measurable variables.
The Eurocentric perspective remains obstinate and obdurate
despite the common sense of culture, religion and other factors that
propels human
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