Re: apparition

2003-11-03 Thread Ken Steele
But look at the definition of negative reinforcement on that web site! http://intropsych.mcmaster.ca/intropsych/1a3/Learn/lec3-1.htm Ken Mike Scoles wrote: http://www.science.mcmaster.ca/psychology/psych1a6/1a3/S_P/lec3-3.htm Allan Siegel proposed that the afterimage is a compensatory

Reinforcers, Reinforcement, and Skinner

2003-11-03 Thread Ken Steele
Here are some excerpts from Skinner (1953) Science and Human Behavior (p.72-73): Principle 1: The effect of an event is not known in advance. It is a label for a change in behavior. The only way to tell whether a given event is reinforcing to a given organism under given conditions is to

Re: apparition (now McCullough effect)

2003-11-04 Thread Ken Steele
Mike Scoles wrote: Yes, it appears to be a relatively permanent change in behavior potential as a result of experience (and is subject to extinction, blocking, etc.). Mike: Do you have a reference for blocking of the McCullough efect? Ken

Re: Writing Pet Peeves

2003-11-17 Thread Ken Steele
1. The use of also as a universal conjunctive interjection. Sometimes I will circle instances of the word and provide a count at the top of the page. Ken --- Kenneth M. Steele, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of

Re: Petting Write Peeves

2003-11-18 Thread Ken Steele
Stephen Black wrote: Excellent, Karl, with one regrettable exception, your prohibition against split infinitives. Call me old fashioned, you said. You're old fashioned, Karl. Consider this from the New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998), by way of a review of it on Michael Quinion's

Re: BMI Scale

2003-11-20 Thread Ken Steele
JM: A year or so back, I computed the BMI for myself and several members of the ASU psychology department. All were physically active (runners, bicyclists) and in good shape. All of us were borderline obese according to the BMI rules at that time. So I have been wary of that measure ever

Re: BMI Scale (small vanity-relatedcorrection)

2003-11-21 Thread Ken Steele
Just for the record, I should have written borderline overweight rather than obese. (My current BMI matches Stephen's.) --- Kenneth M. Steele, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Psychology

Low self-esteem shrinks brain

2003-11-21 Thread Ken Steele
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3224674.stm --- Kenneth M. Steele, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Psychology http://www.psych.appstate.edu Appalachian State University Boone, NC 28608 USA

Re: Family environment in the news

2003-12-10 Thread Ken Steele
It is not clear how to interpret the meaning of SES in this article. Quoting Turkheimer et al.: It would be naive, however, to interpret SES strictly as an environmental variable. Most variables traditionally thought of as markers of environmental quality also reflect genetic variability

Re: course on intuition/skepticism/ESP

2003-12-31 Thread Ken Steele
Traci Giuliano wrote: I'm designing a first-year seminar course on the topic, and would love to hear from others who've taught similar courses and/or are willing to share syllabi. Another good source is Jeff Ricker's PESTs page. It is located at http://www.sc.maricopa.edu/sbscience/pests/

Re: class of 1 (for History of Psych.)

2004-01-13 Thread Ken Steele
To add to Chris Green's great suggestions... The student could replicate a Thorndike puzzle-box study in the context of reading the different accounts of learning by Thorndike, Tolman, and Guthrie. Christopher D. Green wrote: Wow! A class of one! What an opportunity, especially if the student

Re: A Whisper of Espionage: Neisser's reaction

2004-01-14 Thread Ken Steele
Ulric Neisser mentions Ley's book in his memoir of Kohler. I read Neisser's view of the charge as not proven. People can read the account at: http://books.nap.edu/html/biomems/wkohler.pdf Christopher D. Green wrote: Aubyn Fulton wrote: Chris Green wrote... (SNIP) And while you're looking at

Re: class of 1 (fThorndike 1898 vs 1911)

2004-01-14 Thread Ken Steele
Christopher D. Green wrote: It looks to me like Parick's school in Madison NJ isn't very far from Columbia U., where Thorndike's archives are loctaed. It might be interesting to pore through those, especially comparing his 1898 doctoral thesis, _Animal Intelligence_, with he 1911 book of

Re: Wertheimer on Kohler's Espionage

2004-01-23 Thread Ken Steele
There is a copy of the book in my university library. The library has been closed for a couple of days and I just now had the opportunity to obtain the book. The book was not edited by Michael Wertheimer, however the author thanks Michael Wertheimer for help in the preface. Other

Re: Do rats show a Mozart effect?

2004-01-26 Thread Ken Steele
Stephen Black wrote: Well, do they? Ken Steele knows. (Music Perception, 2003, vol. 21, 251--) And you can find the answer in http://www.acs.appstate.edu/dept/psych/Documents/Steele2003.pdf Enjoy it. Ken Stephen ___ Stephen L. Black, Ph.D

Re: Do rats show a Mozart effect?

2004-01-27 Thread Ken Steele
Christopher D. Green wrote: David Simpson wrote: I suggest that a careful reading of the data analysis of the target article might be informative. Indeed it might. One can only read so much, however. My main object was not to critique the content of the article but, rather, assuming Ken was

New email virus making the rounds

2004-01-27 Thread Ken Steele
There is a new email virus making the rounds, called MyDoom. It managed to sneak onto our campus and a friend on the West Coast informed me it was on their campus too. Here is a link to a description: http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100983.htm Here is a link to a new version of Stinger that

Re: Prisoners of Silence

2004-01-28 Thread Ken Steele
Carol Stonecipher wrote: Two minutes until class, but...(taking an opportunity to brag)... Hot Springs is a fantastic place to work...beautiful mountains to hike, lakes to play on...and being a transplant from the north... the weather here is quite pleasant! Oh, and the college is super, as

Re: CBS

2004-02-02 Thread Ken Steele
Moveon.org claimed that CBS was going to air a pro-administration ad. I didn't notice one. In retrospect, perhaps the baring of Janet Jackson's right breast was a subliminal appeal to the right? Paul Smith wrote: This is a little off-topic, but I'm wondering about CBS' decision not to run

Re: CBS

2004-02-03 Thread Ken Steele
to the anti-drug ads. But I was truly expecting to see some feel-good ad about how wonderful was the state of America because Bush was President. Paul Smith wrote: Ken Steele wrote: Moveon.org claimed that CBS was going to air a pro-administration ad. I didn't notice one. They did? I

Re: Black History Month: Psycholgy (Troll Alert !!!)

2004-02-08 Thread Ken Steele
sylvestm wrote: Conditioning and other learning paradigms are un-natural since they do not exist in the natural world. Michael Sylvester,PhD Daytona Beach,Florida --- Be strong and smart. Don't get sucked into this thread. ---

Re: Two Student Questions/ Crossed pathways

2004-02-10 Thread Ken Steele
On 10 Feb 2004, Pollak, Edward wrote: I had 2 questions from students the other day that I could not answer hopefully you folks can help. 1) This is an old one to which I've never found a satisfactory answer: Is there an adaptive significance to the contralateral organization of the brain.

Re: Echoes of Leon Kamin

2004-03-04 Thread Ken Steele
James D.Dougan wrote: I have learned something new in this thread, though - I had always thought that Kamin was much younger - but apparently he received his Ph.D. at Harvard in about 1954? Curiously, that would put him there at about the same time as Herrnstein was in graduate school.

Re: Top 5 Psych Journals

2004-03-11 Thread Ken Steele
Jean-Marc: I would check into whether you could get a subscription to Current Directions in Psychological Science. It publishes brief reviews (3-4 pages) of current topics across psychology. A subscription to CDinPS is rolled into a subscription to Psychological Science but I think that the

Re: rods and cones (why red is not quite dead)

2004-03-18 Thread Ken Steele
Stephen is correct. The usual textbook presentation of rod and cone sensitivity is normalized and one would need to go back to older literature to determine absolute sensitivity values. I can think of one reason why the practical advice advice is to use red light over white light. The

Re: rods and cones

2004-03-20 Thread Ken Steele
Stephen: Bartley has a long discussion on the advantage of red light over white light in his chapter on vision in the Stevens (1951) Handbook of Experimental Psychology. See pages 945-952. I was going to propose an experiment to test your and my ideas by looking at dark adaptation curves

Re: Surname and academic/research correlation

2004-03-29 Thread Ken Steele
A colleague reminded me about the sex and gender-role research by B. I. Fagot. Ken --- Kenneth M. Steele, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Psychology http://www.psych.appstate.edu Appalachian State

Re: Psychology hrs required to graduate

2004-03-30 Thread Ken Steele
35 of 122 hours (Functionally, it is 36 since it is hard to take only 35 hours.) Ken --- Kenneth M. Steele, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Psychology http://www.psych.appstate.edu Appalachian State

Re: Need help choosing textbook

2004-04-01 Thread Ken Steele
Stephen Black wrote: Dear colleagues: I'm considering switching to a new textbook of human sexuality. It has a unique approach, however, which makes me hesitant to assign it, so I'd like to ask your opinion first. A description is available at: http://members.aol.com/slevay/righteous.html

Re: A Perception Question

2004-04-01 Thread Ken Steele
Tom Allaway wrote: In a class discussion of the phi phenomenon the other day, the talk drifted around to stroboscopic phenomena, and the wagon-wheels-turning-backward illusion that you get with films or TV. I explained this briefly, but several of my students said that it didn't depend on a

Re: (Fwd) Your opinion about book covers

2004-04-05 Thread Ken Steele
Gosh! I poked around and found that there was both a http://survey.pearsoncmg.com/COVERTST5C.htm and a http://survey.pearsoncmg.com/COVERTST5B.htm that look to be the same form. And http://survey.pearsoncmg.com/COVERTST5A.htm is an in-house survey on book covers. How interesting ;-) Why

Re: Wagon-wheel illusion again

2004-04-20 Thread Ken Steele
Tom: Congratulations! Tom Allaway wrote: To all, but especially Stephen, Doug and David: I do believe I've got it! The demonstration experiment involved, in my case, a small kitchen device similar to a salad spinner, containing a rotating perforated plastic tub. When spun under a

Re: Wagon-wheel illusion again

2004-04-20 Thread Ken Steele
Stephen Black wrote: If confirmed, Tom, start working on your short note to _Nature_. The vibration requirement may also explain why Beth saw it while driving in a car. But one mystery remains: what was Dale Purves doing to vibrate his skull when he observed the effect outdoors? Stephen:

Re: Mozart effect

2004-04-25 Thread Ken Steele
Add a second wee problem. Rats do not hear much of the music because the piano note frequencies are below abolute threshold for rats. http://www.acs.appstate.edu/dept/psych/Documents/Steele2003.pdf Don Allen wrote: Hi Ron- Thanks for passing on the article. It's nice to know that we now have

Re: Wagon-wheel effect and the vibes

2004-05-11 Thread Ken Steele
Dang! And I thought that answer would explain why Don McBurney saw the effect with airplane propellers. (Or was that jet fan-blades?) Ken Stephen Black wrote: I really hate to bring this up because the solution was so elegant, but I did try to see the wagon-wheel effect outdoors, using an

Re: He Talks Too Much

2004-04-27 Thread Ken Steele
Laura Valvatne wrote: Hello Tipsters, A 60-year-old male who works for the U.S. Department of Agriculture sent me the following letter. I would appreciate any thoughts you have before I reply. 2- What causes some folks to be so secretive about things? I realize that there is a view that

Re: e-mail,handouts or both

2004-04-29 Thread Ken Steele
I warn students at the beginning of the semester that I will be mailing information to their official campus email address. I tell students that they need to check that address regularly or have the email forwarded to the email address they use on a regular basis. Students somehow cope with

Rats sniffing out land mines

2004-05-18 Thread Ken Steele
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/18/international/18RAT.html --- Kenneth M. Steele, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Psychology http://www.psych.appstate.edu Appalachian State University Boone, NC 28608 USA

Stanford Prison Exp -- A Teacher's Teaching Moment

2004-05-24 Thread Ken Steele
The results of the Stanford Prison Experiment are being widely applied as an explanation of the events at Abu Graihb. Frankly, I see the basis of this application as only a superficial extension of the standard power of the situation argument. Otherwise there are many differences between the

Re: sensation and perception text

2004-06-11 Thread Ken Steele
I am a fan of Matlin and Foley also. My guess is that the book is being updated because I received email about commenting on changes to the text. I like Coren, Ward, and Enns also. Ken Deb Briihl wrote: I've have been using Goldstein for a few terms. I used to use Matlin and Foley (sigh, but

The New Phrenology Uttal vs. Posner

2004-07-21 Thread Ken Steele
For those who have the time (hey--it's summer) and a speedy connection, there is a broadcast available of a dialogue between William Uttal and Michael Posner on the topic of Is Cognitive Neuroscience the New Phrenology? http://www.cogsci.northwestern.edu/dialogue.htm Ken

Re: Psychology in the eyes of other scientists

2004-07-21 Thread Ken Steele
Stephen Black wrote: On 18 Jul 2004, Miguel Roig wrote, referring to Sam Yaffe's article in The Scientist criticizing fMRI and by extension, psychology: But don't listen to me. Try William Uttal, an eminent neuroscientist, who has called these studies The new phrenology (2001), not a very

Re: Does music have charms to boost the brain?

2004-07-27 Thread Ken Steele
in the drama and control groups. Ken Steele of Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina says the effect is likely to be transient. Targeted experiences may initially move you slightly ahead of peers, he says, but your peers will eventually have similar experiences and catch up

Re: First Solid Evidence that the Study of Music Promotes Intellectual Development

2004-08-23 Thread Ken Steele
Christopher D. Green wrote: Ronald C. Blue wrote: http://www.psychologicalscience.org/media/releases/2004/pr040819.cfm First Solid Evidence that the Study of Music Promotes Intellectual Development There is some fairly tricky use of statistics in this study (which I think I would have

Re: Hot sauce as behavior mod

2004-08-27 Thread Ken Steele
Blandness can also be used as a punisher. http://www.npr.org/programs/wesat/features/2002/apr/loaf/index.html michael sylvester wrote: There is some experimentation on the use of hot sauce to modify behavior. It appears that some parents have told some of their kids to open their mouths,stick out

Re: laboratory software

2004-09-03 Thread Ken Steele
You might want to take a look at DMDX. It is free, very powerful, accurate, and programming is done with scripts. http://www.u.arizona.edu/~kforster/dmdx/dmdx.htm --- Kenneth M. Steele, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: International poll on US election

2004-09-10 Thread Ken Steele
Linda Woolf, Ph.D. wrote: Hi Y'all, Politically related discussions may have a place on this list particularly for those of us who teach courses in political psychology. Having said that, there is a different concern for listservs sponsored by non-profit organizations and institutions. Using a

Re: Quotes and readings

2004-10-13 Thread Ken Steele
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have a favorite psychological quote? Any area in psychology is fair game. What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. (The author is T. H. Key, according to www.bartleby.com) I was also asked if I could develop a list of short readings, (articles no

No wonder they are confused

2004-09-28 Thread Ken Steele
I had an extra lecture day in research methods and decided to teach about the 2-groups t-test. I wanted a pretty version of the formula to display and thought I would do a google-search and look at images to grab as a slide. Try it. Search on t-test formula and switch to images. No wonder

Re: Permission Slip Question

2004-09-30 Thread Ken Steele
I just had a discussion with the chair of our IRB about this issue. His stance was this: A person under 18 could participate in the experiment as an educational experience but couldn't give informed consent; therefore, the data must be discarded. It is also my understanding that the federal

Re: Permission Slip Question

2004-09-30 Thread Ken Steele
You may want to argue that the 17 year-old and for that fact, all under 21-year old college students are emancipated minors and thus able to give consent to participate. Dave David B. Sugarman, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology Rhode Island College Providence, RI 02908 Dave Would you explain this

Re: Review of: The Language Police

2004-10-01 Thread Ken Steele
Is Dr. Lilienfeld advocating that Dr. Green engage in the use of birth control methods? (Yes, its Friday.) Ken Scott Lilienfeld wrote: I believe that Dr. Green should be strictly prohibited from using the term disseminating on this list (as he did in his most recent message below), as it is an

Re: Freud yet again (and JB Watson)

2004-10-22 Thread Ken Steele
Allen Esterson wrote: Gay endorses Freud's absurd interpretations and dubious claim of a cure in the Little Hans case history. And far from the development of the little boy's horse phobia being something unexplained as Gay contends, the patient told his father (who reported the boy's

Re: behavioral terminology

2004-10-27 Thread Ken Steele
David Epstein wrote: On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Frigo, Lenore went: Any behaviorists out there willing to take a stab at this student question? If strict behaviorists won't use the term reward because it implies happiness or satisfaction, then why do they use the term punishment, which seems to me,

AromaTherapy discovers Classical Conditioning

2004-11-07 Thread Ken Steele
http://www.npr.org/rundowns/segment.php?wfId=4157119 --- Kenneth M. Steele, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Psychology http://www.psych.appstate.edu Appalachian State University Boone, NC 28608 USA

Re: Multi-section instruction by GTAs

2004-11-18 Thread Ken Steele
We have a faculty member, Paul Fox, who has developed a course in teaching for prospective GTAs. It is a program that has won state recognition and awards. The prospective GTAs learn about classroom management, work on syllabi and topic outlines, have discussions with current GTAs, and

[Fwd: [CP] Frank Logan]

2004-11-29 Thread Ken Steele
From: Comparative Psychology [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stanley J. Weiss Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 2:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CP] Frank Logan To: Friends and colleagues of Frank A. Logan.

[Fwd: Canada busy sending .] --a bit of humor as the semester ends

2004-11-29 Thread Ken Steele
Original Message Canada busy sending back Bush-dodgers (Headline in the Columbus Dispatch on 11/16/04) The flood of American liberals sneaking across the border into Canada has intensified in the past week, sparking calls for increased patrols to stop the illegal immigration.

Re: update on prayer study

2004-12-06 Thread Ken Steele
Stephen et al.: Cha has a letter of reply in the current issue of JRM to the criticisms of the study. http://www.reproductivemedicine.com/Letters/Letters.htm Ken Stephen Black wrote: For anyone intererested in a more complete version of this remarkable story, try Bruce Flamm's recent report,

Re: Subject Pools

2004-12-10 Thread Ken Steele
G. Marc Turner wrote: the Monmouth open source program [http://www.monmouth.edu/psych] I believe this program will not be available until Jan, so I haven't tried it yet. - Marc Unfortunately, the distribution date has been moved into March. Ken =

Recommended article - Statistics

2004-12-16 Thread Ken Steele
Pierce, C. A., Block, R. A., H. Aguinis (2004). Cautionary note on reporting eta-squared values from multifactor ANOVA designs. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 64, 916-924. Pierce e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eta-squared is a measure of effect size. There are actually 2 definitions

Re: First Solid Evidence that the Study of Music Promotes Intellectual Development

2004-12-22 Thread Ken Steele
have indeed found an outlet for your critique. If not, would you be willing to send me a prepublication version of this to have my students read? Thanks, Terry Rew-Gottfried Lawrence University Ken Steele wrote: Christopher D. Green wrote: Ronald C. Blue wrote: http

Re: First Solid Evidence that the Study of Music Promotes Intellectual Development

2004-12-22 Thread Ken Steele
Ken Steele wrote: Hi Terry: Oops! I didn't look at the return address. I ASSumed that it was going to Terry alone. Ken --- Kenneth M. Steele, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Psychology http

Re: disk quota/use of technology

2005-01-13 Thread Ken Steele
Nathalie Cote wrote: I don't want to have to carry around a library of CDs - it's much more efficient to keep everything at my fingertips on my faculty server. Nicely point out that 100 Mb is a pretty small amount of space for a personal computer user. A single CD will store 700 Mb (7x their

Re: High cost of textbooks

2005-01-16 Thread Ken Steele
It was an interesting article but it seemed to me that Roedieger's real complaint was that the textbook author got no royalties on the resale of textbooks. I wonder whether he would approve of our rental system at ASU. Textbooks are adopted for 3 years. Student's rent the textbook for a

Re: Renting Textbooks from the University

2005-01-16 Thread Ken Steele
-328-4102 Fax: 252-328-6283 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://core.ecu.edu/psyc/wuenschk/klw.htm - Original Message - From: Ken Steele [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences tips@acsun.frostburg.edu Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 12:09 PM Subject: Re: High cost of textbooks

Re: Renting Textbooks from the University

2005-01-17 Thread Ken Steele
Jean-Marc Perreault wrote: I think the rental system is really interesting. But it also brings about questions: 1- What about writing in your texts, making notes and highlighting? I don't know how that issue is dealt with. 2- What if you want to keep a text? Can you pay the difference to keep

[Fwd: ST News: Law change paves way for cellphone TV]

2005-01-26 Thread Ken Steele
Just what our students need... Original Message Subject: ST News: Law change paves way for cellphone TV Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 07:27:18 +0800 (SGT) Jan 26, 2005 Law change paves way for cellphone TV by Bryan Lee CHANGES made to telecom laws yesterday may pave the way for the

Re: [Fwd: ST News: Law change paves way for cellphone TV]

2005-01-26 Thread Ken Steele
Christopher D. Green wrote: Maxwell Gwynn wrote: On the student front, we may have to consider an entry in our course outlines regarding TV watching during class. Just Turn off all electronic devices before class begins should do it. -- Unless someone has a pacemaker :-) Ken Christopher D.

Re: seeking wisdom

2005-02-13 Thread Ken Steele
Annette Taylor, Ph. D. wrote: It bothers me when we discuss the Stroop effect that color-naming, a low- level, simple physical process, which is certainly automatized, is inhibited by a higher level, more complex and serial process, reading, which is also certainly automatized. Why should the

Re: Rate my professor

2005-03-15 Thread Ken Steele
Robin Abrahams wrote: You can, of course, also enter a rating for yourself. Try getting a typo or two in there--makes it look more convincing. I have seen hot ratings awarded to faculty who are decidedly not. Ken --- Kenneth M. Steele,

Re: Postcard Secrets

2005-04-01 Thread Ken Steele
Beth Benoit wrote: Interestingly, despite the reported norm of having the confessions be most likely to be sexual, my students always lean heavily toward I would rob a bank. Perhaps for my students, money is more appealing than illicit sex. Money is less readily available ;-) Ken

Re: efficient teaching methods

2005-04-08 Thread Ken Steele
Louis Schmier wrote: Efficient is not synonymous with effective or meaningful or lasting. Make it a good day. And it is not an antonym. Ken Louis Louis Schmierwww.therandomthoughts.com Department of Historywww.halcyon.com/arborhts/louis.html

Re: Justification of effort

2005-04-08 Thread Ken Steele
Marc Carter wrote: So, the other day I was flipping around the TV and I saw an ad for some diet pills that cost (something like -- I forget now) $153. (It was some weird number.) I have seen those ads. They contain a second ploy also. The ad-person stresses that these pills should be

Re: definition of standardized test

2005-05-20 Thread Ken Steele
Here is the teaser summary from the Observer: There were some interesting twists and turns on the road to the new SAT, and APS Fellow Richard C. Atkinson, President Emeritus of the University of California, was in the driver's seat. Atkinson offers a detailed account of his leading role in

Re: Definition of standardized test (was Re: tips digest: May 20, 2005

2005-05-23 Thread Ken Steele
admissions procedure to be very superficial. Ken Mike Palij wrote: - Original Message - Subject: definition of standardized test From: Ken Steele [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 13:32:18 -0400 Here is a definition I have never seen before: By 'standardized test,' I mean

obesity wars continue

2005-05-27 Thread Ken Steele
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/27/health/27obese.html?pagewanted=print --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Tuskegee experiment re-examined

2005-06-20 Thread Ken Steele
Stephen Black wrote: A colleague has alerted me to a remarkable on-line essay. The subject is the infamous Tuskegee study of untreated syphilis in Black men in Alabama, carried out between 1932 and 1972. My knowledge of this study is limited, but I'm aware, along with most people, that

Math Statistics vs. Psych Statisitics

2005-06-22 Thread Ken Steele
I don't know if you have ever had the odd experience of telling a student that the outcome of some statistical test means that the null hypothesis can be rejected and having the student look at you with trepidation and asking Is that good? I now have had an alice-in-wonderland experience of

Re: Raynor or Rayner

2005-08-29 Thread Ken Steele
Rosalie Rayner. Wuensch, Karl L wrote: Rosalie, Watson's student etc., is it Raynor or Rayner? I've seen it both ways and forget which is correct. ~~ Karl L. Wuensch, Professor, Dept. of Psychology East Carolina Univ., Greenville NC 27858-4353

Re: remembering faculty names

2005-09-07 Thread Ken Steele
Carol: I am not sure that I would worry too much about the issue of the difficulty of remembering student names. I was at lunch with an honor's student that I didn't know very well. To make small talk, I asked her the names of her instructors. She couldn't name a single instructor after

Re: classical conditioning of nausea

2005-10-05 Thread Ken Steele
Rick Froman wrote: Warning: unpleasant topic (nausea) ahead My son and I were walking across the grass and we came to an area where some wood chips were covering the ground. My son says the smell of the wood chips makes him feel sick. I thought that was unusual because wood chips usually

Re: a very cool illusion

2005-10-14 Thread Ken Steele
Dennis is right. The green dot is a color afterimage induced by the disappearance of the pink dot. A second aspect of the illusion is that the effect for me is strongly diminished if I move a few feet away from the monitor. This suggests that, when you are close to the monitor and fixating

Author of the visual illusion - Jeremy Hinton

2005-10-14 Thread Ken Steele
http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/col_lilacChaser/index.html Ken --- Kenneth M. Steele, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor Department of Psychology http://www.psych.appstate.edu Appalachian State University Boone,

small town boosterism [not teaching related]

2005-10-23 Thread Ken Steele
Excuse the small town boosterism but it is not often that Boone NC appears in the NY Times travel section. Here is the link: http://tinyurl.com/cq6sp Ken --- Kenneth M. Steele, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of

Re: Bell Curves and Hereditarian Hypotheses

2005-10-31 Thread Ken Steele
Jim Dougan wrote: Why is the normal distribution so closely associated with hereditarian theories of intelligence - to the point that it is almost taken as synonymous? I think this assumption is due to the fact that Galton, the hereditarian, was first with the use of the normal curve as

Re: Bell Curves and Hereditarian Hypotheses

2005-10-31 Thread Ken Steele
Jim Dougan wrote: We have been reading the opening chapter of Galton's Hereditary Genius in one of my classes. He spends most of the first chapter describing the normal distribution - or as he calls it the law of deviation from the average. This is of historical interest because it is one

Re: Low latent inhibition

2005-11-09 Thread Ken Steele
Here is a popular story on low latent inhibition. It is loosely connected with the latent inhibition effect. http://www.harvardmagazine.com/on-line/050445.html Ken Rob Weisskirch wrote: Tipsters, I have a dumb, TV show based question: On the TV show, Prisonbreak, the main character is

Re: constructivist math

2005-11-10 Thread Ken Steele
Christopher Green wrote: (On top of the fact that I think it is plain silly to expect each student to effectively recapitulate the entire history of mathematics by themselves in the course of a basic public education.) This is what I find to be the weird Haeckelian notion that a student

Re: Question About Miller Dicara (1968) Study Quoted in Kerlinger Lee (2000) Methods Text

2005-11-14 Thread Ken Steele
Mike Palij wrote: I asked the question below on the Psychteacher list but haven't received any responses yet so I thought I'd try here on TiPS as well. I apologize for the duplication to the people who are on both lists. * I have a question about the

Re: Question About Miller Dicara (1968) Study Quoted in Kerlinger Lee (2000) Methods Text

2005-11-14 Thread Ken Steele
Mike Palij wrote: On the basis of Dworkin Miller's review, I thought that most of the operant conditioning of autonomic response research was suspect or questionable. Am I incorrect in this interpreation? I think that the issue had to do with direct vs. indirect conditioning of an

Re: Question About Miller Dicara (1968) Study Quoted in Kerlinger Lee (2000)

2005-11-15 Thread Ken Steele
Mike Palij wrote: Okay, this confirms my impression. But why is the presentation in Kerlinger Lee (2000) so uncritical? Are the authors or the editor(s) unaware of the problems associated with their presentation with Miller Dicara's work? Hi Mike: I did this as a private reply since

Re: question about links

2005-11-27 Thread Ken Steele
DeVolder Carol L wrote: Dear Colleagues, I just noticed something astonishing today. I guess I am incredibly naiive, but here's what happened. I e-mailed a group of my students, using their school addresses, and in my message I included a brief description of a colleague's background,

Re: sensation and perception people take note

2005-11-30 Thread Ken Steele
Rick Stevens wrote: Wouldn't volume-induced hearing loss be fairly pitch-specific? I would think that popular music doesn't contain much in the extremely high segment of our frequency range. Remember that the hair cells are organized from high to low frequency along the basilar membrane.

Re: Wikipedia/Mozart Effect

2005-12-06 Thread Ken Steele
Paul Smith wrote: Since we're talking about Wikipedia, I wonder what people think about the Wikipedia article on the Mozart Effect. I'd particularly like to hear from Ken Steele about it (is he still around here?). No hidden agenda - just curious. Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee

Plagiarism detection software

2005-12-18 Thread Ken Steele
I have not been impressed with the various commercial plagiarism detection services, in contrast to Sandra Nagel's post. We have evaluated 2 commercial services at ASU and have found them lacking. The first service we evaluated failed to detect plagiarism in the first 3 pieces of material

Re: Plagiarism detection software

2005-12-19 Thread Ken Steele
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is the weakness of these services; that they cannot tap into pass-protected data bases, such as PsycArticles. On the other hand, my understanding is that, for at least Turnitin, all of those student papers that you had submitted now become part of the

Re: Time for final grades RESULTS

2006-01-04 Thread Ken Steele
Rick Froman wrote: Among our most rushed colleagues were Ken Steele and Joan Warmbold (she did take the cake but will have to split it with Ken) with less than two days (44 hours) from last final to grade deadline. Those with the most leisurely pace were Marie Helweg-Larsen (if it is true

Re: astonishing Psy.D. dissertation

2006-01-18 Thread Ken Steele
Jim Dougan wrote: I do thing it is a reasonable hypothesis that meaningful exposure to animal husbandry will have a positive impact on the mentally ill. Sadly, that hypothesis was not adequately assessed in the present study. -- Jim Thank goodness, all those years of running

Re: Wanted: up-to-date review of sensation and perception

2006-01-19 Thread Ken Steele
If you are looking at textbooks then, besides the usual suspects (Goldstein; Blake Sekuler), there is a new SP book by Wolfe, Kluender, Levi, Bartoshuk et al. (2006). It is published by Sinauer and has some of the nicest illustrations I have seen in a long time. Ken Paul Okami wrote:

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