The Society for the Teaching of Psychology (APA Div 2), in cooperation
with APA's Education Directorate, offers a Department Consulting Service
that does program reviews. See
http://teachpsych.org/otrp/deptconsult.php.
Sue
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Highline
Hi all,
Here are simulated visual and auditory hallucinations produced by
Janssen Pharmaceuticals:
http://www.janssen.com/janssen/mindstorm_video.html
Note that this video was apparently made for use in a workshop, thus the
reference to olfactory hallucinations and flagging a facilitator
Hi all,
You can watch HM's brain being thin-sliced, happening live:
http://thebrainobservatory.ucsd.edu/hm_live.php
They started yesterday, reaching the corpus callosum. They plan to
resume at 8am PT today.
(Thanks to the Teaching High School Psych blog for the announcement:
You can get a little more information about what they're doing and why here:
http://thebrainobservatory.ucsd.edu/hmblog/?cat=17
Note particularly in the Not-So-White-Matter post the use of gelatin
(although it doesn't penetrate the tissue).
Sue
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Guess where your friends and family fall on the Kinsey Scale, and get them a
t-shirt. http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/services/scale_tshirt.html
That couldn't possibly go wrong.
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Sue Frantz Highline Community College
Psychology, Coordinator
Hi all,
Last week Chris Green pointed us to the new book, The College Fear
Factor.
Despite best intentions, today's first-generation college students and
their professors 'misunderstand and ultimately fail one another' in the
classroom, according to a new scholarly work on community
Dave: Open the pod bay doors, HAL
HAL: I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.
-Original Message-
From: Bill Southerly [mailto:bsouthe...@frostburg.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 1:23 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: [tips] Student Comment that
Hi all,
The Undergraduate Education in Psychology book group met last month to
discuss chapter 1. After introductions, the group discussed our general
observations and thoughts regarding the chapter. In order to achieve
psychological literacy, students must be prepared to do the work, and
An article from Tuesday's Reuters: Scared of flying? Press the fear
iButton
http://bit.ly/3GZpQf
Long-haul airline Virgin Atlantic Airways has launched an application,
or app, for its Flying Without Fear course which boasts a success rate
of over 98 percent.
98%? Really?
The airline
Hi all,
At the most recent Best Practices conference, there was mention of a
website that's a repository for validated personality tests. I'm almost
certain it was in Laura King's presentation, but I'm not finding it in
my notes, nor is her presentation one of the ones available on the Best
Just what I was looking for. Thanks!
They're now here: http://teachpsych.pbworks.com/Personality
Sue
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Psychology, Coordinator Des Moines, WA
206.878.3710 x3404
To: Frantz, Sue
Subject: presenter on interview methodology
Hi Sue,
I'm working with a cohort of faculty and staff here at Highline who are
working on their Ph.D. research proposals. We're looking for someone who
could talk through an example of survey research based on interviews.
Their projects all
Announcing a new Society for the Teaching of Psychology (STP) resource!
The Office of Teaching Resources in Psychology (OTRP) presents the
Teaching of Psychology wiki: http://teachpsych.pbworks.com/
This resource was originally slated for an early 2010 release, but given
the state of the
to protest in a less public manner, here
again are the instructions for setting up filters in Outlook. If you
use a different email system and would like assistance, you are welcome
to email me off-list.
Best,
Sue
From: Frantz, Sue [mailto:sfra...@highline.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, September
(1) Are there gender differences in the numbers of rods and cones in the
retina?
For interesting coverage of the evolution of color vision in primates, see this
Scientific American article from April 2009:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=evolution-of-primate-color-vision
I was at the Best Practices conference this weekend. Laura King, the
final speaker of the conference, cited this study:
Watanabe, H. Mizunami, M. (2007). Pavlov's cockroach: Classical
conditioning of salivation in an insect. PLoSOne.
(http://bit.ly/4mEZPl)
Sue
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Hi all,
It occurred to me that I haven't updated the TIPS subscribers list in
awhile.
If you have changes, send them to me off-list.
If you'd like to be added, send me (also off-list):
Your name
Your affiliation
Your affiliation's address
Your email address
Your web address
I knew I was forgetting something. The list is here:
http://flightline.highline.edu/sfrantz/tips/index.htm
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Hi all,
It occurred to me that I haven't updated the TIPS subscribers list in
awhile.
If you have changes, send them to me off-list.
If you'd like
iClicker collected a series of essays from faculty in different areas as
to how they use them:
http://www.iclicker.com/dnn/UserCommunity/FacultyCaseStudies/tabid/168/D
efault.aspx
A few years ago I did a presentation on my campus on using clickers. I
revised the PowerPoint so it makes sense
Hi all,
There's no need to leave the list because of one person.
If you have Outlook, here's how you can use filters to delete messages
before you even see them.
1. In the top menu, select Tools then Rules and Alerts.
Select New Rule. In the Start from a blank rule section,
Reminder: *The last day for early registration is a postmark by tomorrow
(Sept 30).*
Northwest Teaching of Psychology Conference
Friday, October 23rd
On the Highline Community College campus near Seattle in Des Moines, WA
Registration postmarked on or before September
There's all of Linda Bartoshuk's work on taste.
For example: http://www.pbs.org/safarchive/3_ask/archive/qna/3294_peppers.html
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Psychology, Coordinator Des Moines, WA
206.878.3710 x3404
I'm not advocating violating copyright law, but merely giving instruction on
how to use some features of your computer for whatever use you'd like.
On the top right of your keyboard is a Print Screen key. It's probably
abbreviated, something like PRTSC.
Hitting that key will copy everything
Greetings!
Are you interested in discussing the future of undergraduate education
in psychology?
In the summer of 2008, 80+ psychology faculty got together to figure out
where undergraduate psych education is and where it's going. The
results of their efforts are now available in this
This is a short 2-minute video.
It's numb, as if you'd been to the dentist and had 4 martinis. And you
feel this odd disconnect.
http://twitter.com/nprnews
nprnews http://twitter.com/nprnews Garrison Keillor Explains What A
Stroke Feels Like http://su.pr/1E3dUb
Fri, Sep 18 12:00:27
Announcing...
Northwest Teaching of Psychology Conference
Friday, October 23rd
On the Highline Community College campus near Seattle in Des Moines, WA
Registration postmarked on or before September 30th: $30
NWToP emphasizes sessions that provide content or techniques you can use
Annette (and everyone else),
My Technology for Educator's blog can be found here:
http://sfrantz.wordpress.com/
If you don't want to keep checking that site to see if there's something
new, add it to your RSS feed reader. Don't know what an RSS feed reader
is let alone why it's helpful, see
Just like speed dating, you get 3 minutes with a psychiatrist or
psychologist before moving on to the next one.
People looking for a quick fix? Or a good way to shop for a new
therapist?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/nyregion/31therapy.html
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Hi all,
Last year APA created a task force whose goal was to describes the
contributions of psychological research to an understanding of
psychological dimensions of global climate change, provides research
recommendations, and proposes policies for APA to assist psychologists'
engagement with
Through the Improbable Research blog comes this article from Wired,
Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know
Why.
http://www.wired.com/medtech/drugs/magazine/17-09/ff_placebo_effect?curr
entPage=all
An excerpt:
Some products that have been on the market for
For those who are interested...
Sue
From: Annoucement list for the Committee of Psych. Teachers at Community
Colleges. [mailto:pta...@lists.apa.org] On Behalf Of Boenau, Martha
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 9:06 AM
To: pta...@lists.apa.org
Subject: [PTATCC] Please disseminate a call for
Something else for those who are interested...
Sue
From: Annoucement list for the Committee of Psych. Teachers at Community
Colleges. [mailto:pta...@lists.apa.org] On Behalf Of Boenau, Martha
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 9:49 AM
To: pta...@lists.apa.org
Subject: [PTATCC] APA Speaker
What's the file extension? If it's M4P, which most iTunes files are, then
PowerPoint can't read it. It needs to be converted to MP3 or WAV (or something
similar). There are a bunch of audio converters online. Let me know if you
need a recommendation.
Alternatively (i.e., what I'd do), go
In this NY Times article, researchers discover that lost-hiker déjà vu does
exist.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/21/science/21circles.html.
An excerpt:
Dr. Souman, who studies multisensory perception, and his colleagues tracked the
movements of volunteers sent into the wilds of a German
The good folks at Improbable Research report on a study on the memory of
Buenos Aires waiters.
'Typical Buenos Aires senior waiters memorise all orders from clients
and take the orders, without written support, of as many as 10 persons
per table. They also deliver the order to each and every one
*
APA: Ludy Benjamin resigns over AHAP, torture
August 17th, 2009 by Jeremy Burman
Breaking news: Ludy Benjamin Jr.
http://psychology.tamu.edu/Fac_Ext.php?ID=9 has resigned from the
American Psychological Association.
In addition to his well-known and long-standing
For Beatles fans, fans of Rock Band, or instructors who have students
who are either or both.
This NY Times article (While My Guitar Gently Beeps) provides a nice
overview of the music genre of video games, the making of the Beatles
for Rock Band game (to be released 09/09/09), and, in the
What happens when you stay awake for 84 hours watching the sitcom,
Friends? Nausea and hallucinations.
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/08/06/Man-watches-84-straight-hours-of-
Friends/UPI-30151249602608/
If you need to see his pictures and a brief trip down Friends memory
lane in his
The dead link is my fault. I requested a change to the manual, and when
the change was made, they renamed the file. Here is the new direct
link:
http://www.apa.org/ed/pcue/ptcc-adjunct-faculty-resource-manual2.pdf
Sorry!
Sue
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From STP:
We would like you all who are at the APA Convention in Toronto to know
that the STP Hospitality Suite is at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel in
room 175 on the 8th floor. The schedule of Suite events is posted at
http://www.teachpsych.org/conferences/apa/apaprogram.php as is the full
A resource for your adjuncts. (Use this link to go directly to the
manual:
http://www.apa.org/ed/pcue/ptcc-adjunct-faculty-resource-manual.pdf)
Sue
The p...@cc Committee is pleased to share a new resource for teachers of
psychology at community colleges. The
No, not whether you're happy with your iPhone, but using your iPhone to
track your happiness... which may or may not be related to owning an
iPhone.
http://www.trackyourhappiness.org/
Track Your Happiness.org is a new scientific research project that aims
to use modern technology to help
Hi all,
Are you going to APA in Toronto?
The Office of Teaching Resources in Psychology (OTRP, a product of
Division 2: Society for the Teaching of Psychology) invites you to join
us for either or both of the following sessions.
Saturday, August 8
11am - 11:50am
STP suite, Fairmont
We recently added Rock Band 2 to our Wii collection. Dennis Goff is
partially to blame, although he doesn't know it.
In Rock Band, the notes move toward you as you plunk them out on a (toy)
guitar or drums (drum pads). (See
Does anyone have a syllabus that fits the description below? If so,
consider sending it to SHRP at s...@aaas.org. Then if you are so
inclined, consider sending it to me (sfra...@highline.edu) for review
and possible inclusion in the Project Syllabus database
Thanks Beth, Mike, and Carol! I've been having a lot of fun with it,
and I'm glad to hear that you're finding it useful!
I've had less time lately to write, but I have a number of tech tools in
the queue. Hopefully once we get on the other side of the APA
convention I can give you a little
Hi all,
Need an example of perception?
Courtesy of Awkward Family Photos. (NOT my story.)
When I was pregnant with my first child, my Grandma passed away. I didn't have
anything to wear to the funeral, so I had to settle on a low-cut maternity
blouse that made my breasts look enormous and
Hi all,
A colleague (Thanks Michele!) informed me that today's Woot.com t-shirt
is a brain map: http://shirt.woot.com/. They post a new t-shirt each
day. At the end of each day they move the shirts to the day of
reckoning area: http://shirt.woot.com/Blog/?cat=reckoning
So, if you read this
Some years ago (5? 10? 15?) Stephen Black offered his thoughts on the
uselessness of the BMI (my paraphrase).
Here are the Top 10 Reasons Why the BMI Is Bogus according to Weekend
Edition math guy Keith Devlin.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106268439sc=fbcc=
fp
Source? Are you sure it's not just the iPod?
From: michael sylvester [mailto:msylves...@copper.net]
Sent: Friday, July 03, 2009 3:02 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: [tips] Mandatory IPhones
University of Florida will require students to have
I had a student who also lost her sense of smell following a head
injury. In addition to choosing what to eat based on temperature and
texture, she said that she spent more time doing laundry, a concern
expressed by someone else in the article. (She couldn't apply the sniff
test to determine if
I'm also a proponent of Ning.com.
The advantage of an email list is that many of us still live in email. TIPS
comes to us. With a social networking site, like Ning, one needs to go to that
site. Although if you use an RSS feed reader, you can have Ning send you
updates when something new
In terms of permanent record storage (or at least as permanent as we can get),
nothing will beat the printed, as in hard-copy, word. (Although an argument
can be made for the oral tradition.)
Having said that, while I like the idea of a TIPS archive, I've rarely made use
of it. For me, the
For the those who use Twitter: http://tweetpsych.com/
TweetPsych uses two linguistic analysis algorithms (RID and LIWC) to
build a psychological profile of a person based on the content of their
tweets. The service analyzes your last 1000 tweets and works best on
users who have posted more
Hi all,
Microsoft has developed a prototype for a new XBOX game interface:
During the demonstration, British developer Peter Molyneux showed how
Natal could not only recognise faces, it could recognise facial
expressions to determine what mood a player was in and react
accordingly.
A call for nominations and a personal statement from current p...@cc committee
member, Nancy Schaab.
***
The APA Committee of Psychology Teachers at Community Colleges has put out the
following call for nominations:
Consider serving on the APA Committee of Psychology
I did a stint with ChaCha (http://www.chacha.com/, text any question to 242-242
or leave a message at 1-800-2-ChaCha), and I got a lot of sex-related and
relationship-related questions. In other words, kids (and adults) have already
discovered a hotline. Visit the ChaCha website to see
I talk about scripts as a kind of schema.
I'll always remember the first time I visited a warehouse-type grocery store
where you had to bag your own groceries. The cashier and I stood there looking
at each other, each wondering when the other was going to start bagging.
I also remember when
In this 911 call the caller tries to solve an old problem (unlocking the
car door) by using what has worked in the past. But it's not working.
Fortunately the 911 operator comes to the rescue.
http://failblog.org/2009/04/22/locked-in-fail/
http://failblog.org/2009/04/22/locked-in-fail/
Passed by Unanimous of the Faculty, March 18, 2009
The Faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is committed
to disseminating the fruits of its research and scholarship as widely as
possible. In keeping with that commitment, the Faculty adopts the
following policy: Each Faculty
message
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 10:33:38 -0700
From: Frantz, Sue sfra...@highline.edu
Subject: [tips] MIT Faculty Open-Access Policy
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@acsun.frostburg.edu
Passed by Unanimous of the Faculty, March 18, 2009
The Faculty
Rick Steves, best known for his PBS travel shows wrote this in a recent
blog.
**
Bungled Risk Assessment and Tragic Road Trips
http://www.ricksteves.com/blog/index.cfm?fuseaction=entryentryID=333
Having a daughter studying at Georgetown means I have a steady stream
I wonder if watching this video that shows the sheer volume of air
traffic over North America at any given moment has any impact on base
rate estimates:
http://www.aaronkoblin.com/work/flightpatterns/FPWeb_Final_3.mov
The middle segment provides an interesting way to visually depict data.
Sue
Division 2 (Society for Teaching of Psychology) does this:
http://teachpsych.org/otrp/deptconsult.php
Sue
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Psychology, Coordinator Des Moines, WA
206.878.3710 x3404
Project Syllabus: Call for Syllabi
With your courses, do you incorporate wikis, blogs, social networking, social
bookmarking, or other social media? Do you integrate diversity issues? Does
your course have a service learning component? Are you teaching online or
hybrid courses?
Consider
Of course you'll always find someone who will believe that something works,
even in the face of solid double-blind testing. (See my favorite example of
believe perseverance:
http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/ideomotor.html.)
For regression to the mean, how about vitamin C
Oops! Mea culpa on regression to the mean. =(
Sue
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Psychology, Coordinator Des Moines, WA
206.878.3710 x3404 sfra...@highline.edu
http://flightline.highline.edu/sfrantz/
--
APA Division 2:
For those who get TV's Fox channel... I've been watching the ads for
the new show Lie to Me beginning January 21st and wondering if it was
based on Paul Ekman's work. It is. http://www.paulekman.com/
please, please, please be a good program
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Sue Frantz
I joined TIPS in the summer of 1994. I remember I was teaching part-time for 3
different colleges in eastern Kansas. That fall I got my first full-time job
in southern New Mexico where I was the psych department. I can't overstate the
value TIPS had for me then -- you were my virtual
As most of us watch our budgets being cut...
From the News of the Weird
(http://www.newsoftheweird.com/archive/nw081214.html):
When the Poway Unified School District near San Diego cut teachers' printing
budgets this year, some handout-intensive instructors had to dip into their own
pockets
You can see Josh Klein talk about his vending machine for crows -- and see
Betty the Crow make a tool to retrieve food -- and watch a crow use cars as a
nutcracker:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/joshua_klein_on_the_intelligence_of_crows.html
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For any department doing a review, a must read is this article, which might be
the one Marc was thinking of:
Dunn, D.S., McCarthy, M., Baker, S., Halonen, J.S., Hill, G.W. (2007).
Quality benchmarks in undergraduate psychology programs. American Psychologist,
62, 650-670.
The Society for
Sunny von Bülow has died. Can you believe it's been 28 years since she was
found unconscious?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3660291/Sunny-von-Blow.html
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Sue Frantz Highline Community College
PsychologyDes Moines, WA
206.878.3710 x3404
Hi all,
Anyone have a copy of or access to this article:
McNeil, B. J., Pauker, S. G., Sox, H. C., Tversky, A. (1982). On the
elicitation of preferences for alternative therapies. New England
Journal of Medicine, 306, 1259-1262.
Any help is much appreciated!
Sue
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how this was constructed.
Bill Scott
Frantz, Sue [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/04/08 9:41 PM
http://statestats.appspot.com/
Put in a term that people might search for using Google, and this tool
will give you a ranking of US states by how popular that search term is
in that state
http://statestats.appspot.com/
Put in a term that people might search for using Google, and this tool will
give you a ranking of US states by how popular that search term is in that
state. And then it will correlate that search ranking with 21 different
variables, such as longevity, obesity,
I'm going with 2512 authors.
Aleph et al. 2006. Precision electroweak measurements on the Z
resonance. Physics Reports, 427[5-6]: 257-454.
There are 14 pages of authors... listed in Appendix A. With 2,512
authors, chances are good that you know one!
You can read the paper here:
PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: RE: [tips] One for the Guinness book
On 3 Dec 2008 at 14:25, Frantz, Sue wrote:
I'm going with 2512 authors.
Aleph et al. 2006. Precision electroweak measurements on the Z
resonance. Physics Reports, 427[5-6]: 257-454
: Frantz, Sue [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wed 12/3/2008 8:28 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: RE: [tips] One for the Guinness book
Stephen, I thought we decided years ago that you and I are closet reference
librarians.
Did you notice that 23 of the authors are dead
Hi all,
Netflix is offering a million dollars to the person or persons who can improve
their prediction system by 10% so they can better recommend movies that
customers will like. This is really a psychology problem, not a computer
problem. Anyone want to take crack at it? I nominate
Are you thinking of the Stanford Marshmallow Study?
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/244/4907/933
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Sue Frantz Highline Community College
PsychologyDes Moines, WA
206.878.3710 x3404[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all,
In March, Karen Armstrong made her TED Prize wish:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/speakers/karen_armstrong.html
Her wish was for a Charter for Compassion where all the world's
religions come together for peace.
It's now time to start writing (http://charterforcompassion.com/).
Hi all,
My apologies for the forward from PsycTeach, but... for your information.
Sue
-Original Message-
From: Society for Teaching of Psychology Discussion List
STP now has a Facebook group! If you would like to join, while you are in
Facebook, simply do a Search for the group
How about extra credit for reading newspaper stories where people are
being given reward points for eating vegetables?
http://www.startribune.com/world/34279464.html?elr=KArks:DCiUBcy7hUiacyK
UU
or
http://tinyurl.com/63peel
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All of them? =)
Sue
-Original Message-
From: beth benoit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2008 8:12 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: RE: [tips] Sarah Palin on genetics research
Guess it's a good thing I'M not running for Vice
You can access the TIPS archives here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/tips@acsun.frostburg.edu/
I have a link to it from the TIPS page here:
http://flightline.highline.edu/sfrantz/tips/index.htm
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Psychology Des Moines, WA
I don't use Google Reader per se for my courses, but I do include a couple
feeds (PsycPORT news and We're Only Human) on my website:
http://flightline.highline.edu/sfrantz/#links and I beam my Del.icio.us
bookmarks to my Intro Psych page:
This Candid Camera video just surfaced on Digg.
http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/165244/Elevator-Psychology.html?rh=173711
In this segment, the subject steps into an elevator, and 3 people step in
behind him, all facing the back wall. Stick around to the end of the clip for
the variation.
Why It's Hard to Change People's Minds
A new study shows that after being exposed to information contradicting their
ideas, most people still cling to their prejudices.
http://www.alternet.org/story/101973/why_it%27s_hard_to_change_people%27s_minds/
How many years have we been covering this in
Some of the Psych faculty at James Madison have used Second Life (SL)
for both online and face-to-face courses. At the most recent Best
Practices conference, Suzie Baker and Monica Reis-Bergan presented on
it. Suzie also did a presentation on SL at APA. I'm certain either of
them would be happy
Gotta love Fox News. Split. Right.
http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Nearly_unanimous_vote_for_Obama
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Oops. Meant to send this to someone else - who is not even on TIPS!
From: FRANTZ, SUE [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 7:22 AM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: [tips] Fox news
Gotta love Fox News. Split. Right.
http
Hi all,
I just received word of this upcoming presentation from a colleague in
biology:
http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/hl/
The 2008 Holiday Lectures on Science
What is mind?
Can molecular biology help us understand mental function ?
Eric R. Kandel, M.D.
Hi all,
I missed when this happened, but the following Annenberg videos are now
available for free (with free registration) in streaming video:
The Brain: Teaching Modules (1997)
The Mind: Teaching Modules (1999)
Discovering Psychology: Updated Edition (1990, 2001)
The World of Abnormal
Interesting question Nancy...
Since I'm not in your class, I can't really comment on what you are or
are not doing - or even that it's you -- that's prompted that response.
If it were me, I'd leave 10 minutes at the end of class one day and tell
students that I'd like to get some feedback
ECAR's report from their most recent survey of college students' use of
information technologies (IT) is now available.
In short, the use of technology continues to grow. And students would
like to keep their personal life separate from the classroom, i.e.,
classes shouldn't be in Facebook.
This article (http://bitchmagazine.org/article/mad-science), forwarded
to me by a colleague, does an excellent job encouraging its readers to
think more deeply about media reports of research.
The authors add:
We can't put all the blame on mainstream media, of course. Scientists
are part
For those who are interested, if you go to the TIPS member page:
http://flightline.highline.edu/sfrantz/tips/index.htm, click on TIPS: Recently
Recommended Websites. That will take you to my Del.icio.us page. This will
give you a listing of the bookmarks I tagged with TIPS. On the right
Have you looked at the Online Psych Lab (http://opl.apa.org)?
In the green menu bar click 'studies' then in the top right corner, click 'read
about studies.' The gender perception study is a possibility for you, but by
no means the only one. This study shows participants parts of faces then
Here's another 9/11 memory study. This one's from Psychological Science,
September 2003.
Abstract-
On September 12, 2001, 54 Duke students recorded their
memory of first hearing about the terrorist attacks of September 11
and of a recent everyday event. They were tested again either 1, 6, or
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