[tips] Velcro Parents

2010-08-23 Thread Mike Palij
The NY Times has an article on the parents of students who are moving into dorms right now. While helicoptor parents hover over their students, velcro parents seem to be unable to unattach themselves from their children and a number of colleges now have put into place activities and programs for

RE: [tips] Warning: Rant: $180!!!!!

2010-08-23 Thread Marc Carter
For general psych in the past I used a text by Mynatt Doherty that is sadly no longer in print. It was excellent pedagogically, well-written, and cheap as hell -- no pretty pictures, but a lot of data and discussion of how we get the data and how we use the data to tell us what to believe.

[tips] Warrant/is Facebook the solution?

2010-08-23 Thread michael sylvester
I guess students will soon begin posting what books they need for classes on Facebook and I am sure they will get great responses. Comments invited. Michael omnicentric Sylvester,PhD Daytona Beach,Florida --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here:

Re: [tips] Velcro Parents

2010-08-23 Thread Claudia Stanny
One of the Deans told me that during one of the orientation sessions this summer, one parent asked what sort of assistance the university provided to help parents find employment on campus! I think there might have even been an inquiry about living on campus as well. I had one case (several

[tips] Tenure Treack POsition in Biopsychology/Animal Bavior: West Chester University of Pennsylvania

2010-08-23 Thread Pollak, Edward
Description: Join a vibrant campus community whose excellence is reflected in its diversity and student success. West Chester University (WCU) of Pennsylvania, located 35 miles west of Philadelphia, is seeking applicants for a Biological Psychologist - tenure track Assistant Professor beginning

Re: [tips] Warning: Rant: $180!!!!!

2010-08-23 Thread Maxwell Gwynn
Nancy: Is it possible for the author (namely, you) to request that Amazon activate the Search Inside the Book option? I'd like to look through your book to see how useful it may be to someone preparing for the Psych subject test for the GRE. -Max Maxwell Gwynn, PhD Psychology Department

[tips] interested in being listed as a departmental consultant?

2010-08-23 Thread David Kreiner
Departmental Consulting Service Consultant Applications Interested in being listed as a consultant with DCS? The Departmental Consulting Service (DCS) is a service offered through the joint efforts of the APA Education Directorate and the Society for the Teaching of Psychology (STP). We match

Re: [tips] Velcro Parents

2010-08-23 Thread Michael Smith
Perhaps they should provide special rooms where mom can breast feed her precious one last time. Maybe it's actually a new stage of development. Instead of child, adolescent, emerging adulthood, adulthood, and old age we could have: childhood, extended childhood, childhood undocking (may take 2-5

[tips] Conservapedia and the Deutsche Physik: When Ideology Drives Science

2010-08-23 Thread Mike Palij
Robert Park, professor of physics at the University of Maryland, author of the book Voodoo Science, and editor of the weekly enewsletter What's New, had the following entry in the last issue of What's New: |2. CONSERVAPEDIA: OMINOUS ECHOES OF DEUTSCHE PHYSIK. |Last week I commented about

Re: [tips] Conservapedia and the Deutsche Physik: When Ideology Drives Science

2010-08-23 Thread Rick Froman
What are some scientific assumptions and beliefs as opposed to ideological ones? Rick Rick Froman rfro...@jbu.edu On Aug 23, 2010, at 1:37 PM, Mike Palij wrote: All of these can be used as examples of ideologically driven attempt to corrupt the scientific enterprise and to substitute

[tips] Ivar Lovaas dies at 83

2010-08-23 Thread sblack
One of the giants of applied behaviour analysis and treatment for autism is no longer with us. NYTimes obit here: http://tinyurl.com/Lovaasobit Stephen Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, Emeritus Bishop's University

Re: [tips] Ivar Lovaas dies at 83

2010-08-23 Thread Dr. Bob Wildblood
I was an undergraduate psychology major and working with a man whom I considered a giant Newell Kephart, who had developed theories about Brain Injured and Slow Learning Children when Life Magazine did its story Screams, Slaps and Love which I still have in a box somewhere because I was

Re: [tips] Conservapedia and the Deutsche Physik: When Ideology Drives Science

2010-08-23 Thread Mike Palij
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:52:47 -0700, Rick Froman wrote: What are some scientific assumptions and beliefs as opposed to ideological ones? Let me start by first trying to identify what ideology refers to: |Ideology today is generally taken to mean not a science of ideas, |but the ideas

Re: [tips] Conservapedia and the Deutsche Physik: When Ideology Drives Science

2010-08-23 Thread sblack
On 23 Aug 2010 at 17:26, Christopher D. Green wrote: Psychology was also a victim of politicization under the Nazis. Which brings to mind one of its more famous victims, Sigmund Freud, and the supremely sly and ironic comment he is claimed to have added when asked to sign a document attesting

[tips] correlation/causation confusion of the day

2010-08-23 Thread Ken Steele
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/24/health/24real.html?ref=health The best part comes at the end: Wash your cat often to reduce animal allergens. Now that would be a viral video on YouTube. Ken --- Kenneth M. Steele, Ph.D.

[tips] For Scholars, Web Changes Sacred Rite of Peer Review - NYTimes.com

2010-08-23 Thread Christopher D. Green
The grip of traditional peer review loosens ever so slightly. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/24/arts/24peer.html?hp Chris -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 416-736-2100 ex. 66164 chri...@yorku.ca http://www.yorku.ca/christo/