I think that if I assigned something that was intended to be fun, interesting, and teach about conditioning, I might hesitate to have it dissected by other lists to whom I didn't post it myself. Sure, maybe Robin's wording might have actually been a bit "gratuitous, unfounded, unfair, and certainly bound to bias students" as one of the more assertive replies remarked, but I kind of felt the same way about Christopher's posting it to those lists. What was your motivation for forwarding it to those other lists, Christopher? I hope it was to see if there were any suggestions to broaden the scope of the assignment.
Or should we have a policy on TIPS that we "keep it in the shop" without the permission of the originator of the post?
Beth Benoit
University System of New Hampshire
on 10/10/03 12:04 PM, Christopher D. Green at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear TIPSters,--
I forwarded the message Robin sent describing the Watson assignment to two listservs dedicated to the history of psychology ("Cheiron" and "Society for the History of Psychology" [APA Div 26]). I was intrigued by the swift and almost unanimous reaction. I think the members of those two lists brought up some important points that others considering using the assignment should have a look at. Because there were too many replies for me to forward them all to TIPS, I have posted them to a website which can be found at http://www.yorku.ca/christo/Watson-archive.htm
I post one of the answers below.
Regards,
Christopher D. Green
Department of Psychology
York University
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M3J 1P3
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