Some tipsters have turned my comment about Myers text to appear as if I was
attacking the author's character.Come on: since when a statement about a text
is a statement about the personality function about an author. This happens
because some tipsters do not read my original post and comments are based on
a seconfary source of a secondary source.I must ask Elizabeth Loftus to
examine fabrication behavior among tipsters. I never said Dave Myers is a
millionaire.As a matter of fact my millionaire statement was not in the same
post re Myers text. I did explain what I meant by my millionaire statement and
yet some tipsters remained obstinate and obdurate in
attributing the unintended meaning to me.Now to answer your questions:
I remembered going through Myers text in its earlier editions(at that time the
ancilliaries were in a blue box) and I found the text boring, bland, and lacked
exuberance. Now just because I felt that mean that others felt the same way.
I do not doubt that later editions might have changed .Btw,I do not believe
that text elaborations by adding a few critical thinking inserts here and
there and some cross-cultural inserts here and there are valid criteria for the
the extended variables.As the cross-cultural dude on Tips,real cross-cultural
means that the assumptions of the Eurocentric paradigm is laid flat because
other paradigms should be equal and not just extensions of the Eurocentric
paradigm to other cultures. Actually Myers text is really a "Johnny come
lately" re the Ccross-cultural perspective.There were earlier texts that
focused on some degree in adapting to the changing demographics of the
American classroom.There was a text called The world of psychology put out by
Allyn and Bacon that had ESL addenda. Dennis Coon texts were cross-culturally
friendly. Btw,just because a iext comes with all those
media and computer gizmos imply that the writing style of the core text has
changed. Interestingly enough,when taking Psychology to other cultures one may
need to use concepts that are more indigenous to a certain region and
culture.There must be an emic-etic distinction.I suspect that students overseas
still are encouraged to use their imagination.World wide acceptance of a text
probably has more to do with marketing skills.I would curious for some members
of the UN to view some texts and choose some for the classroom in their
countries.U.S society is very visual.We live on the assumption that if we
improve the visuals it will be stamped on the brain.Real education depends on
the theatre of thinking not on holding an iPod.
Well that's it. Hope my subjective explanation helps to explain my sublective
evaluation.
Now let us move on.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
" if we keep on drinking,we will never get a hangover"
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