Re: bibliographic software

1999-10-06 Thread Bill McCown, Ph.D.
My experiences with Endnotes are exactly like those described. The program is simply outstanding. Endnotes did have some problems in downloading information from my university's version of Psych Lit. This was quickly solved with their outstanding Tech Support. The program is expensive-$150 or

Re: surface/central :traits

2000-09-13 Thread Bill McCown, Ph.D.
That was Ray Cattell's idea, and unfortunately, like so much of his genius, it never caught on outside a very few of his brilliant students. A great deal of people have been re inventing Cattell's concepts, though not as thoroughly. I imagine when psychologists are adequately trained in matrix

Re: Guest Speaker(?)

2000-09-18 Thread Bill McCown, Ph.D.
Is this list limited to the living? I don't mean that to be funny

Re: Name frequency

2000-10-02 Thread Bill McCown, Ph.D.
When I look out over my classes, I behold a sea of Heathers, Crystals, and Tiffanies, along with endless Jasons, Jeremys, and Dylans.

Re: Millennium Schizophrenic symptoms

2000-10-04 Thread Bill McCown, Ph.D.
No kidding, I did see and adolescent schizophrenic who believed that Pokemons were part of a conspiracy of some sort. While I think that is true, I think we were on different wave lengths about that one. I also saw, and I am serious, a paranoid schizophrenic woman during the 70s who believed

Re: d) two of the above

2000-10-06 Thread Bill McCown, Ph.D.
What research is this based on? Sounds like another case of "Test Bank Terrorism."

Re: Mozart effect for fun and profit

2000-10-16 Thread Bill McCown, Ph.D.
One of my students found a reverse Mozart effect among grateful dead fans. On the other hand, play China Cat Sunflower or St. Stevens and the Deadhead's performance increases on both anagram solving and nonverbal reasoning. The Magic Flute, particularly, disrupted Deadheads, though we don't know

Re: efficacy studies

2000-10-23 Thread Bill McCown, Ph.D.
An alternative interpretation of existing situations that is compatible with much of what goes on at psychological conventions is that psychology may be scientific, but psychologists are not necessarily. And not just the clinicians. Science if by nature self correcting. It may just take much

Is your cat oriented to person, place, and box?

2000-12-08 Thread Bill McCown, Ph.D.
ah, Dr. Torrey, I remember his migratory bird theory suggesting why rates of schizophrenia were 25% in Ireland. Guess what? They aren't any higher there than in Latvia. 1-2% Oops. Maybe this data does explain why my dog has been acting so strange. And I thought the cat box thing was simply a

Re: Lie detection by the DOD

2000-12-12 Thread Bill McCown, Ph.D.
WHERE IS THE apa'S ETHICAL COMMITTEE WHEN WE NEED THEM? /On the other hand, this kind of thing might have been valuable inasmuch as it could have determined which hanging chads were due to inattention vs ambiguity. A good deal of lie detector bunk is based on the subject's fear and the

Re: Latent inhibition = respondent or operant?

2000-12-13 Thread Bill McCown, Ph.D.
He does-long out of print- and LI is now used as a standard lab procedure to assess pre trial antipsychotic drugs.

a meta analysis program that wont break me

2001-01-09 Thread Bill McCown, Ph.D.
ation, but I'd hock my bicycle to get her a good program. Any help? Bill McCown, Ph.D. Associate Professor (with thanks from Dave K!) Bill McCown, Ph.D. Associate Professor

Re: Sexual relations policy

2001-01-26 Thread Bill McCown, Ph.D.
Please be aware that many people in the gay and lesbian communities believe that the sexual relations policies appropriate for straight individuals are entirely inappropriate for people of minority sexual orientations. The is especially likely to hold true in small college and university towns,

Re: Harris debate

2001-02-02 Thread Bill McCown, Ph.D.
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,

Re: Abnormal Psychology Blanche

2001-03-09 Thread Bill McCown, Ph.D.
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