[tips] Introduction

[Primus, Joanna]

Hello fellow TIPSters!

I am brand new to classroom teaching of psychology, but have been teaching 
Intro through Capstone level courses online for several years.  I'm excited to 
be a part of this listserv and will surely have many questions!

I worked at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology for 6 years in 
various library-related positions, and while doing that, obtained a Master of 
Arts in Psychology with a Generalist focus. I would like to go back to school 
to be certified in clinical mental health at some point.

My question for the group:  I'm reading books about teaching your first 
Psychology 101 class and getting some good tips, but wondered if anyone had a 
few words of wisdom, or things they wished they would've known going in the 
first time.

Cheers and have a happy and safe holiday!

Joanna

Joanna Primus, MLIS, MAP
Director of Library Services
Community College of Aurora
16000 CentreTech Parkway
Aurora, CO 80011-9036
303.360.4740
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Re: [tips] heritability again?

[John Kulig]

more culture-free .. sorry for typo! 

== 
John W. Kulig, Ph.D. 
Professor of Psychology 
Coordinator, Psychology Honors 
Plymouth State University 
Plymouth NH 03264 
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From: "John Kulig"  
To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" 
 
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 10:57:56 AM 
Subject: [tips] heritability again? 










Just checked my snail mail box and thought I was done with H .. but in my new 
copy of Psych Science, Kan et al .. "On the nature and nurture of Intelligence 
and ...". It gives H estimates for a variety of cognitive abilities and .. low 
and behold .. H estimates are higher with more culture-laden tests like 
Information, Vocabulary, Spelling and Arithmetic than more culture tests such 
as similarities, perceptual speed, memory and inductive reasoning. I would have 
predicted a zero correlation (never a negative), but not necessarily positive! 

== 
John W. Kulig, Ph.D. 
Professor of Psychology 
Coordinator, Psychology Honors 
Plymouth State University 
Plymouth NH 03264 
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[tips] heritability again?

[John Kulig]

Just checked my snail mail box and thought I was done with H .. but in my new 
copy of Psych Science, Kan et al .. "On the nature and nurture of Intelligence 
and ...". It gives H estimates for a variety of cognitive abilities and .. low 
and behold .. H estimates are higher with more culture-laden tests like 
Information, Vocabulary, Spelling and Arithmetic than more culture tests such 
as similarities, perceptual speed, memory and inductive reasoning. I would have 
predicted a zero correlation (never a negative), but not necessarily positive! 

== 
John W. Kulig, Ph.D. 
Professor of Psychology 
Coordinator, Psychology Honors 
Plymouth State University 
Plymouth NH 03264 
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Re: [tips] Sources of happiness

[John Kulig]

Thanks Jim for the placentas and twins data. I finally got around to looking at 
it. Yes, the mono/dual placenta issue was more important that I would have 
expected ... two quick notes (1) both vocabulary and block design have decent 
factor loadings on g but a little higher for vocabulary (.83 and .70 if you go 
with the Chabris 2007 data, In Roberts, M. J. (Ed.) Integrating the mind: 
Domain general versus domain specific processes in higher cognition. Hove, UK: 
Psychology Press). (2) This is a great example of a "non-shared" environmental 
effect, where the potent environmental effects seem to be. 

JK 

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John W. Kulig, Ph.D. 
Professor of Psychology 
Coordinator, Psychology Honors 
Plymouth State University 
Plymouth NH 03264 
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- Original Message -

From: "Jim Clark"  
To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" 
 
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2013 2:03:31 PM 
Subject: RE: [tips] Sources of happiness 












Hi 



Here’s one reference showing an interesting placenta/chorion effect (if the 
long link works). 



http://books.google.ca/books?id=ee4KTFdIabAC&pg=PA34&lpg=PA34&dq=identical+fraternal+twins+placenta+chorion+heritability&source=bl&ots=4R5daMklV9&sig=B9HiXx4FhjrJZCraisZy8T36b60&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Se-xUu_4HI34oAT08oDIDw&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=identical%20fraternal%20twins%20placenta%20chorion%20heritability&f=false
 




Specifically, on the Block Design monozygotic / single placenta correlate more 
highly than mono/dual placenta, which correlate about the same as dyzogotic / 
dual placenta. So, obviously H index would vary as a function of placentation. 
Interestingly, the placenta effect was not observed on Vocabulary measure. 



And here’s a source for the percentages of different intrauterine environments 
for twins (e.g., about 2/3rds MZ have single placenta/chorion, vs none of DZ). 



http://www.twins.org.au/twins-and-twin-families/about-twins/facts-and-figures 




Take care 

Jim 




Jim Clark 

Professor & Chair of Psychology 

204-786-9757 

4L41A 





From: John Kulig [mailto:ku...@mail.plymouth.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2013 12:52 PM 
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) 
Subject: Re: [tips] Sources of happiness 




This may be my third post? We shall see! 


I am currently trying to locate some info (in between grading) in uterine 
environments ... sometimes MZ crowd each other out. As far as Cooper and Zubeck 
1958, it seems Jensen was integrating lots of information from numerous sources 
.. these include the relative stability of IQ scores, the decrease in shared 
environmental effects with age, the failure to increase IQ through very 
concentrated efforts, the (weak but real) increase in the similarity of MZ 
twins as they develop through adulthood and old age (why don't environmental 
effects pull them apart with age?). Finally, our estimates can underestimate H 
due to gene-environment _correlation_ .. e,g, in adoption studies biological 
parents traits and the adopting environment correlate (weak, but real Plomin 
1994 Genetics and Experience; Ge et al 1996 The developmental interface between 
nature and nurture ... Dev Psych 32, p. 574) That is, what looks like an 
environmental effect may be rooted in biology, as we modify our environments, 





Probably no such thing as H = 0 ... any more than a naturally occurring 
correlation ever equals the null = .  





== 
John W. Kulig, Ph.D. 
Professor of Psychology 
Coordinator, Psychology Honors 
Plymouth State University 
Plymouth NH 03264 
== 



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From: "Jim Clark"  
To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" 
 
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2013 12:46:15 PM 
Subject: RE: [tips] Sources of happiness 





Hi 





For me, the primary implication of heritability indices greater than 0, no 
matter what the quality being studied, is that it is on the face of it 
inconsistent with the notion that genes have nothing to do with the trait 
(i.e., it is all environment). I say "on the face of it" simply because some 
confounding variables are not addressed in many studies (e.g., the more similar 
intra-uterine environment for identical versus fraternal twins). I'm less 
certain what importance can be attached to precisely how much of the variation 
should be attributed to genes. 





And then of course, there are versions of Gene X Environment interactions that 
are stronger than simply range of reaction. For example, Cooper & Zubeck's 1958 
finding with maze learning in rats ... see critical results at 
http://www.springerimages.com/Images/HumanitiesArts/1-10.1007_s10539-009-9152-3-0
 . Jensen includes discussion of this and numerous other issues related to 
heritability in his classic HER paper. See 
http://www.samtiden.com/tbc/las_artikel.php?id=35 . 





I'm not sure why the strong interaction reported by Cooper & Zubeck did no