If teaching about inappropriate causal inferences from correlational
studies is your bent, you might want to integrate some critical thinking
exercises in your lesson plans. I give time in most of my classes to these
issues but found that when students read their texts or assigned articles,
Dear Fellow Tipsters,
As I continue the retirement cleaning and pitching process, the next books
to be offered are:
Terman MerrillMeasuring Intelligence
Terman MerrillStanford-Binet Intelligence Scale, Manual
for the Third Revision, Form L-M
Wechsler
Hi Tipsters,
The following "classic" books are looking for a new home.
George KellyA Theory of Personality, The Psychology of Personal
Constructs
Kurt Lewin A Dynamic Theory of Personality: Selected Papers of
Kurt Lewin
Donald Hebb Organization of Behavior
Oh, no!! I'm having a paradigmatic identity crisis! I am a boomer (born 1957: rock
on, dead Elvis) and the parent of a 12-year-old daughter. You would think that this is
all you'd need to know about me to know where I stand on the issue of "The Nurture
Assumption." Blaming my daughter's
Gary Peterson wrote:
Students invariably jump on weak sampling and inappropriate generalization
but have a
harder time understanding the internal validity issues of research design.
I find this also, even among graduate students.
The May and Hunter article abstracted below
Oops - I mistated part of the conclusions when I gave the "between 27% and
39%" figure, as the 27% was actually the overall (student and faculty)
percentage correct for the second question (it'd be easier if I actually had
the article here - it's well worth reading). My point stands, though.
Hello again -
In a message dated 2/1/2001 1:27:33 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
This is exactly where Harris says that parents have the strongest effect on
the development of their children. As I understand her, she is arguing that
parenting style and other "in home
Gerald Peterson wrote
"It's been a while since I have read about Milton Erikson, the
famous
hypnotherapist. I understand his work has garnered a strong following
among those promoting "neurolinguistic programming" or NLP. I am
wondering if any tipsters present info about hypnosis
Title: Re: Student Question
Some of the cadavers used have requested in their wills that their bodies be donated. In that case, the ashes are returned (with gratitude, I'd hope) to the families. But as for the ashes of unclaimed bodies, I don't know.
(If you're about to eat lunch, skip the
On Thu, 1 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am wondering why a more middle-of-the-road view on this
question is not being studied (or is it, and I am just
clueless?)
That is, it makes little sense to say, however convincingly,
that parents have virtually NO influence on how their
Hi,
Thought some list members might appreciate this:
From the recent issue of The Lancet:
http://www.thelancet.com/journal/vol357/iss9253/full/llan.357.9253.news.15155.3
Theory of mind located in right prefrontal
cortex
The ability to empathise with another human being is located within
Bill McCowen wrote
Trivia- Old Milton was clinically supervised as an undergrad (I don't know
doing what) by Hull. That is probably where his experimental influence
came
from, I would surmise.
HULL I was trying to remember the "big name" with whom Erikson studied
as an undergrad.
jim clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Would the 0 influence claim have problems with other evidence
that _appears_ to suggest family effects? I would expect that
religiosity, social attitudes, and like constructs would, for
example, vary in consistent ways across families. That is, some
Dear Stephen and all,
Very interesting. Do Bouchard et al. also report
absolute values on those MMPI (and IQ) scales?
The reason I ask is because correlations are
(unit free) measures of association but not
of discrepancy. In fact, we know that linear
transformation do not affect them. Thus, if
Hello again -
It was written:
"First, there really isn't a 0 influence model, as I understand Harris. She
is arguing that environmental influences are very contexutal. Thus parents
DO have influence. They influence how children behave with their parents.
But when children leave home, the
The fact that peer groups of various ilk's exert a consistent, but not
necessarily uni-dimensional or even predictable in any direction on
adolescent development suggests that the seminal events in one's life may
be chaotic, in the sense that the physicists use the word.
If thesis the case,
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