Re:[tips] Useful Hardware and Software for Computer Lab?
The Memory Screening Test has an interesting history and the only reason to describe it for the list is the observation that it represents a test that cannot be normed. I heard about the test indirectly from Charles Long when traveling back from a conference. He went to a session in which someone was following a tumor patient using a memory recognition test in which the examiner would present a card with 6 figures, point to one and ask the patient to remember that a particular figure had been indicated. After presenting 15 cards, the examiner then presents the first card and asks, Which one of these did I point to before?. The standard amnesic response is, You never showed me these before. The examiner then proceeds through the 15 cards asking the same question. All the patient has to do is point to, or name the figure indicated on the first presentation. The test is eloquent, simple and portable. It was a perfect substitute for the testing I was doing while following trauma patients in the ICU and acute hospital setting. I could administer the test every day as the patient recovered memory. When the patient obtained 13/15 correct, I would administer a regular memory test and other neuropsych assessment. The test was normed with the Memory Assessment Scales (MAS). However, after giving it to approx 800 subjects, I observed that there was no variance among normal subjects. Maybe 10 normal subjects made an error. A test with no variance among normals cannot be normed. This was one major factor that encouraged me to rethink how norms are constructed and what they really mean. This problem of low variance includes many tests used in neuropsychology. In my experiences with patients at very low levels of ability, I have come to the realization that cognition is either on, and working within normal limits, or essentially, off. For example, the idea that memory increases monotonically with the memory score is a fallacy. There may be major characterizations of memory disorder that might correspond to levels of ability but the idea that it increases and decreases monotonically with a memory score is just incorrect. I also think that the scaling and construction of conventional norms reifies small differences reinforced by a bell curve model of ability. The amount of variance in the raw score describing normal is much smaller than we think. The raw score levels corresponding to norms are not reported because test publishers wish to protect their norms. They consider them proprietary. The scaling of ability using standard scores reinforces the interpretation that small differences in ability appear large. Compare your memory to that of Commander Data on Star Trek and you will have an idea of what a large difference might be. When it comes to memory, a normal level is essentially impaired. If one of the drug companies invented a medication that improved memory by a standard deviation, I would not be impressed. iPads, iPhones and continuous internet access have increased our memory ability much greater. I made iPad versions of the screening test and the Hahnemann Orientation and Memory Examination (HOME). These were portable tests I developed to track trauma patients. The data I collected was reported in Williams, J. M., (1990). The Neuropsychological Assessment of Traumatic Brain Injury in the Intensive Care and Acute Care Environment. In C. J. Long, L. Ross (Eds.), Traumatic Brain Injury, New York: Plenum. Mike Williams P.S. I also sell a beautiful Naming Test that also cannot be normed. Check Brainmetric.com. On 12/11/13 11:00 PM, Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) digest wrote: Subject: Re: Useful Hardware and Software for Computer Lab? From: Michael Brittmich...@thepsychfiles.com Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 06:08:53 -0500 X-Message-Number: 3 Mike, I'm curious about your Memory Screening Test. The description in iTunes mentions some norming work that has been done on the test. Do you have any published research on it? Michael Michael A. Britt, Ph.D. mich...@thepsychfiles.com http://www.ThePsychFiles.com Twitter: @mbritt --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=31273 or send a blank email to leave-31273-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] Useful Hardware and Software for Computer Lab?
Mike, I'm curious about your Memory Screening Test. The description in iTunes mentions some norming work that has been done on the test. Do you have any published research on it? Michael Michael A. Britt, Ph.D. mich...@thepsychfiles.com http://www.ThePsychFiles.com Twitter: @mbritt On Dec 11, 2013, at 12:35 AM, Mike Wiliams jmicha5...@aol.com wrote: This is a shameless plug for software I designed myself. They are all sold through brainmetric.com. Although they were originally designed for research studies, I have always had in the back of my head that many would be useful in teaching labs. I also developed some programs for teaching statistics. If you have E-prime, Presentation and systems like these installed, many researchers have developed procedures in these systems that could be used in class. Mike Williams Drexel Univesity --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: michael.br...@thepsychfiles.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13405.0125141592fa9ededc665c55d9958f69n=Tl=tipso=31209 or send a blank email to leave-31209-13405.0125141592fa9ededc665c55d9958...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=31216 or send a blank email to leave-31216-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] Useful Hardware and Software for Computer Lab?
Hi We have a 40 seat computer lab that we use for data analysis, research methods, physiological psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. Other courses may also eventually use the lab. We also have some to spend each year on labs and I wondered if people might have suggestions about hardware or software that they have found particularly useful and/or would love to have if they had the resources. Suggestions welcome. Take care Jim Jim Clark Professor Chair of Psychology 204-786-9757 4L41A --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=31116 or send a blank email to leave-31116-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] Useful Hardware and Software for Computer Lab?
I don't have ant suggestions but I'd love to know what you've already got along with what others have, like, or suggest. Carol On Dec 10, 2013, at 2:26 PM, Jim Clark j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca wrote: Hi We have a 40 seat computer lab that we use for data analysis, research methods, physiological psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. Other courses may also eventually use the lab. We also have some to spend each year on labs and I wondered if people might have suggestions about hardware or software that they have found particularly useful and/or would love to have if they had the resources. Suggestions welcome. Take care Jim Jim Clark Professor Chair of Psychology 204-786-9757 4L41A --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: devoldercar...@gmail.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=177920.a45340211ac7929163a021623341n=Tl=tipso=31116 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-31116-177920.a45340211ac7929163a021623...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=31200 or send a blank email to leave-31200-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] Useful Hardware and Software for Computer Lab?
This is a shameless plug for software I designed myself. They are all sold through brainmetric.com. Although they were originally designed for research studies, I have always had in the back of my head that many would be useful in teaching labs. I also developed some programs for teaching statistics. If you have E-prime, Presentation and systems like these installed, many researchers have developed procedures in these systems that could be used in class. Mike Williams Drexel Univesity --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=31209 or send a blank email to leave-31209-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
