Annette- Spring break? Oh, dear. Don't,. . . well, you know. ;) Yes, I love the Norman site/blog as well. Tim _______________________________ Timothy O. Shearon, PhD Professor and Chair Department of Psychology The College of Idaho Caldwell, ID 83605 email: [email protected]
teaching: intro to neuropsychology; psychopharmacology; general; history and systems "You can't teach an old dogma new tricks." Dorothy Parker -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wed 3/4/2009 5:04 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] the matching law and toilet paper Ok, I *WAS* just going to lurk but honestly, you folks are too funny! I was rolling on the floor a few minutes ago in great glee over the don norman blogsite when an adjunct came by..... In the two days I've been back I've found two great new resources. The pubmed.gov website and the don norman blogsite. What would me life be without you folks helping my teaching? I just now sent the blogsite link to my students who are assiduously studying for their research methods midterm tomorrow morning. I know this will help them understand the importance of WHY research methods is such an important class to take and excel in. And just think, if this was a monitored teaching list, I couldn't even thank you all for your wonderful contributions to my teaching. Ah.....spring break next week....it hardly gets better than this ;) Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 619-260-4006 [email protected] ---- Original message ---- >Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:01:08 -0500 >From: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [tips] the matching law and toilet paper >To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <[email protected]> > >On 4 Mar 2009 at 14:04, Jonathan Mueller justifiably admired Rick >Froman's post on (of all things) toilet paper: > >> What a beautiful example of science at work! An unstructured >> observation (in the bathroom) linked to prior research leads eventually > to >> an empirical question and a test of competing ideas. > >When I read the contributions to this thread, I was moved to remember >another wipe at the toilet paper question way back somewhere. I now >believe it was from the great Donald Norman, in his seminal book _The >psychology of everyday things_ (1988). > >Yes. I am flushed with success. If you go to his website, you'll find >what I think is an updated version of that essay, titled "Toilet Paper >Algorithms: I didn't know you had to be a computer scientist to use >toilet paper" at >http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/toilet_paper_algorit.html > >We have not hit bottom (so to speak) yet on this fascinating question. >Apropos, Norman tells us that his toilet paper essay generated 20,000 >hits on one Sunday alone. This fits well with the verbal discharge it has >produced on TIPS. > >Stephen (# 1048) > >----------------------------------------------------------------- >Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. >Professor of Psychology, Emeritus >Bishop's University e-mail: [email protected] >2600 College St. >Sherbrooke QC J1M 1Z7 >Canada > >Subscribe to discussion list (TIPS) for the teaching of >psychology at http://flightline.highline.edu/sfrantz/tips/ >----------------------------------------------------------------------- > >--- >To make changes to your subscription contact: > >Bill Southerly ([email protected]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
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