Herb Coleman wrote:
It the story that I find suspicious or at least hysterical. My bet is
that when a serious news organization (if there are any left)
investigates we'll find that Ms. Jacoabson was trying her creative hand
to show how people come to believe what they believe or some such
Rick Froman wrote:
I wouldn't characterize the mood of the article as tentative skepticism if
by that you mean the author of the article entertains the possibility that
the entire incident was a hoaxed figment of Ms. Jacobsen's imagination or
an
attempt to see what she might get people to
Rick Froman wrote:
I wouldn't characterize the mood of the article as tentative skepticism if
by that you mean the author of the article entertains the possibility that
the entire incident was a hoaxed figment of Ms. Jacobsen's imagination or
an
attempt to see what she might get people to
Patricia Spiegel wrote:
AND, I am wondering how Paul's cat apparently saw it? (At least first
time
around.)
This will be a lot of inference, and only a description rather than an
explanation, but it was obvious to me from her response (particularly the
stereotypical stalking/hunting
There's an interesting letter to the editor in the NYTimes today:
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To the editor:
Re: 'Depressing News on Depression,' your April 23 editorial about
antidepressants and children:
These medicines are more effective than you say, and not as harmful as
you
Christopher D. Green wrote:
Developmental Psychology
Early Development
Teenage Development
Lifespan Development
(You can drop out the adjective psychological because it is understood
in a psychology department.)
Cognitive Development
Emotional Development
Social Development
etc.
We
The last one was funnier.
Paul
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From: sylvestm [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 9:31 AM
Subject: Eurogenic Psychology
Although Psychology purports to be the scientific study of behavior and
Todd Nelson
Hang on Paul.. Remember it says to be continued, so maybe THAT's
where
the funny punchline will be!
I hope I'm not giving away the punchline with this, but I hope it's
something like African clay (not Piaget) discovered 'conservation'. It's
not true, you know, but it's a
Douglas Peterson wrote:
4) Warriors Don't Cry - Melba Patillo Beals - one of the students who
first
integrated Little Rock Central High in 1957
There is similar material in Robert Coles' Lives of Moral Leadership:
Men and Women Who Have Made a Difference, on other students and teachers in
David -
are you going to bring your cane and shawl to Des Plaines? Seriously,
the inference and errors in social judgment work sounds most
interesting. see ya' d
Yes, I'm going to drive my old Buick on down there tomorrow afternoon,
and limp around the conference for a day. Join me for
Oops...
I guess barely under 50 is still old enough to make the personal
message sent to the list mistake. Now I've exposed to the world the
weakness that David and I share for strong (blackberry) drink. Sorry.
Paul
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From: Paul C. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED
I do think it was a very good list of questions, and of course because there
are differences in the behavior, there must be causes of those differences,
so that specific question was a good one. I am somewhat skeptical about
psychologists' ability to remember normal explanations for behaviors
Mike's message reminds me of a very disappointing movie trailer I saw last
week. It was for a new film in which a couple's son is killed in a car
accident, and an evil scientist convinces them to clone him, promising that
they'll get an identical child - a replacement. Then when the cloned child
...and an Fresh Air interview with the author, with Terry Gross:
http://freshair.npr.org/day_fa.jhtml;jsessionid=5L24YB4CRQKJZLA5AINSFFI?todayDate=current
She (Bair, the author) sounds like a fan of Jung, not surprisingly, I
suppose. Perhaps the book reads more critically than the interview,
Stephen Black wrote:
This may reflect the technological bias of the web. Can anyone
name another who might attract a greater number of hits? And I'd like
to hear whether anyone thinks it plausible that Eysenck could rank so
high in citedness.
Public Figures:
Oprah: 1.79 million
Paris Hilton:
G. Marc Turner wrote:
Actually, weight is determined in part by the force of gravity pulling on
an object's mass. The force of gravity lessens the further the object is
moved away from the center of a rotating objects. That's why things are
weightless in space. They still have mass, but
TIPSters who are not easily frightened (wink) will enjoy seeing fellow
TIPSter Jim Matiya's smiling face on page 285 of the latest issue of
Teaching of Psychology (Vol 30, No. 4), as he is honored as the 2003 Moffett
Memorial Award winner for outstanding teaching of psychology in high
schools.
Michael Caruso wrote:
First off, he doesn't define negative reinforce*ment*, he defines negative
reinforc*er* as a stimulus that decreases the strength of behavior with
it's
application. I remember this use of the term negative reinforcer when I
was
in college. So usually a negative
Is this right? I was under the impression that PsyD programs emphasized
clinical work, not teaching.
Paul Smith
Alverno College
Milwaukee
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From: John W. Nichols, M.A. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What I find horrifying is that this instument, IQ tests, with all their
admitted and proposed flaws, are probably responsible for more deaths and
crippled lives than any weapon devised by humans.
Friendly tip: This kind of extreme hyperbole undermines your point.
Jim Clark wrote:
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, David L Gent wrote:
has anyone else noticed the tendency
towards liberal-humanist fundamentalism (there used to be a
couple of guys in the British media who helped define it for
me)?
The idea that belief in science and reason is akin to
Riki wrote:
I had two other quibbles:the top note in the octave is usually viewed as
higher than the bottom note, yet they say it's the same.
I believe perhaps the illusion worked too well for you. Their point was
not that notes an octave apart are the same note. Those notes were not
pure
Steven Specht wrote:
In Betty Edwards best-selling book entitled Drawing on the Right Side
of Your Brain, she provides a nice example of drawings produced when
students are given an inverted image as a model. Do any of you know
whether there is research which empirically supports this
Al Shealy wrote:
That's a convenient way of making yourself feel better about it; but we
all know that beliefs about evolution are strongly correlated with
religious beliefs. So we can excuse our discrimination while there's no
evidence that students with these beliefs will be less successful
Al Shealy wrote:
If the letter of rec. is supposed to be our estimate of a student's
ability to perform in graduate school or as a professional, religious
beliefs should ONLY be relevant if they are indeed correlated with
graduate school performance or professional performance. Where is the
Wallace may have been too humble to mention this, but his list is available
in book form, in a wonderful piece titled
Twenty Studies That Revolutionized Child Psychology (Prentice Hall)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0130415723/qid=1043166096/sr=8
James Guinee wrote:
How many of us have had a non-trad student in the classroom who admitted
on one occasion I went to college twenty years ago but didn't care.?
We can do a lot to get people more motivated but can't make people care.
I'll bet I'm not the only TIPSter who was him or
Paul Brandon wrote:
For Thomas this was empiricism.
For me it is hearsay (anagram at your own risk ;-)
O my! Shiftier areas.
Paul Smith
Alverno College
Milwaukee
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David L Gent wrote:
Paul also wrote
The rampant dishonesty of the creationists is in sharp
contrast to the scientists' sense of responsibility to the truth. It
often feels as though the scientists are fighting with one arm tied behind
their backs, devoutly following the rules no matter how
Rod -
I'm generally with you on this, particularly because of the careful
scientific/theological distinction that you made.
Is it a lie to believe in the process of evolution, but still believe
that there is an supernatural force that initated the process?
Of course honestly
(Replying respectfully:)
Mike Lee wrote:
As opposed to the creation/evolution debate where critics of evolution
often have little or no formal training in the field of biology, the
advocates of intelligent
design are for the most active and well-established professionals in their
field.
Oh, yes, I got this one several years ago. The money sure has come in handy,
though I would have really liked to have received enough to buy the Red Sox.
Oh well...
Paul Smith
Alverno College
Milwaukee
-Original Message-
From: James Guinee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday,
Jim, I think that you overreacted here. Stephen pointed to several examples
of what is very clearly the garbage of religion (as opposed to the
'moral' religion, to use your words in each case), and suggested that a
little less religion would help. Clearly his post is an example of
screaming
Stephen Black wrote:
Perhaps a little less religion is what the human race really
needs if we want to encourage it to continue.
Stephen backed this by reference to some of the barbaric violence committed
in the name of religion. However, there is a much more subtle and
simultaneously
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
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)
tasha howe wrote:
We have discussed adding a section for the student to write What have I
contributed to the classroom? -- we want to get students to realize
they are not passive sponges and that they have as much responsibility as
we do
for how a class turns out and how enjoyable it is.
Karl L. Wuensch wrote:
My university successfully installed a virus filter on incoming mail
that removed the virus attachment from all incoming mail before being
delivered to the faculty and students. They have done the same for every
virus
scare recently. My anti-viral software never gets
I hope that in the sports tangent we haven't lost sight of the original
question, which I'll repost here:
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Dear Tipsters,
I am currently writing a module on knowledge creation in
psychology and I want to include a unit on the relationship between
knowledge and
of October 2001. I've kept some of my favorite posts in my
archive.
If you can't find it with these dates and thread references, email me
and
I'll forward what I have.
Haydee Gelpi
Broward Community College
Florida
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From: Paul C. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED
All -
It just figures that this would be the semester I'm on sabbatical, just as
the best plagiarism example yet seems to be popping up. I don't know the
details, and I hate to falsely accuse the guy, but it looks as though
historian Stephen Ambrose believed (as many of our students seem
Stephen W Tuholski wrote:
Can't be a packers fan... I don't like cheese, and I can't imagine
wearing it on my head. That they are coming into the city that I live
only
makes them the enemy. I do respect the fans though. As for the Pats,
well, I
group up in the Boston-area. They have been
Stephen W Tuholski wrote:
happiest place on earth), all we talk about is the Rams. I don't have
tickets to the inevitable throttling of the Packers on Sunday, but my
friends and I are going to go down to tailgate anyway.
Tailgate? You sit outside a DOME and pretend to be tailgating?
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