[tips] Book recommendation

Hi, I just finished reading _Still Alice_ by Lisa Genova. It's a very quick read, it took me less than a day (would've been faster but I had to keep taking my glasses off to dry my eyes). It is a novel told from the perspective of a woman with early onset Alzheimer's disease and spans a fairly shor

[tips] New ToPIX content: 3/6/2011

Hi all, The latest additions to ToPIX can be found in the STP blog: http://teachpsych.blogspot.com/2011/03/new-topix-content.html Sue -- Sue Frantz Highline Community College Psychology, CoordinatorDes Moines, WA 206.878.3710 x34

[tips] So you want...(Psychology's turn)

You just knew they were going to get around to psychology with this, didn't you? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZaLipDgFZQ Question: Would you recommend this video to your students? (thanks to Deep Surfer for this, especially as the acknowledgement seems to drive Palij (yada-yada) nuts with c

[tips] Changing the Culture of Science Education at Research Universities #2

Some subscribers to TIPS and TeachEdPsych might be interested in a recent post "Changing the Culture of Science Education at Research Universities #2" [Hake (2011)]. The abstract reads: * ABSTRACT: In response to my post "Changing the Culture of Scienc

Re: [tips] Repeated-measures ANOVA activities

Hi There are various canned experiments out there (e.g., stroop task). Personally, as someone who has taught such a course for a number of years, I would avoid the actual data collection (assuming this is not a combined methods / stats class) and give an artificial data set as the result of s

[tips] Random Thought: On Being A Teacher

UNC 81 duke 67!! Heart still pumpin', even though I've taken off my "Thing One" Carolina blue wig. And, while this true blue Tarheel is flying high, I know, in the end, THE GAME is really just that: a game. Life and teaching are not! That came home after I opened my mailbox this mor

re: [tips] Repeated-measures ANOVA activities

I suggest that you take a look at the Reaction Time (RT) Color experiment at the Online Psychological Laboratory (OPL) at http://opl.apa.org . If you want to collect data from your class, register your class on the website (see "Register" on the menu bar near the top of the page). Your class' data

[tips] Repeated-measures ANOVA activities

Hello, First, I apologize for the cross-posting. I'm looking for a quick in-class activity I can do (in an intermediate statistics course) in order to introduce my students to the repeated- measures (or one-way within-subjects) ANOVA. I have a relatively small class (21 students) and we meet in a

[tips] Mamas, Don't Let Your Kids Grow Up To be Psychiatrists

There is an interesting article in the NY Times that focuses on a psychiatrist who today engages in dispensing medications instead of using psychotherapy though he was trained in talk therapy but had to changes post-2000 when the insurance companies would no longer pay "sufficiently" for talk the