We are again doing a psychology tour in the year 2000. I would appreciate
any posting of this announcement for students, or passing the word on about
the year 2000 Psychology Tour.
Psychology Tour Schedule as of November 16, 1999:
The Psychology Tour in the Year 2000 - Monday May 15 - Sunday June 4, 2000
A year 2000 Psychology Tour Course will be offered by St. Cloud State
University, where the students, and tour course instructor, Jerry Mertens,
will visit and interact with the best of:
(1) Psychology as a Natural Behavioral Science with Emphasis on Behavior
Analysis, and
(2) Critical Thinking (Analysis) in General and Specifically Related to
Extra Ordinary Claims.
Below is a draft of my "wish list" for a "dream team" for the year 2000
Psychology Tour. A few of these stops have already agreed to participate,
for others currently listed, for a variety of reasons, they may not be able
to participate. Those interested in the people and places we will visit
need to keep an eye on the updated tour schedule for changes. An (*)
before the entry indicates a tentative okay from the stop. A (-) means
inquiry has been sent. We are working to make this Psychology
Tour course the best first hand educational experience possible.
Past psychology tours have attracted good students from all over the world.
We hope to again recruit good students this year. Our Psychology Tour will
appreciate any help in recruiting some good students. Our tentative
schedule:
May 15 Monday, 9 AM Welcomes & Introduction to the 2000 Psychology Tour
- 1 P.M. Behavioral Pet Therapy, Tony Marcatillio, Applied Psychology, St.
Cloud State University
* 3 P.M. Towards a Natural Science View of Hypnosis - Barber's Views on
Hypnosis, Bob Murphy, Applied Psychology St. Cloud State University
~ Travel to Mankato and stay at the dorm at Minnesota State University
May 16 Tuesday
9 A.M. Minnesota State University (Mankato) a look at their Behavior
Therapy - Behavior Analysis Program - courses offered - including both
applied and experimental analysis of behavior, examples of current work of
some former graduate students, where students have gone for their
doctorates, behavioral interests of faculty, etc.
* 9 A. M. Michael Fatis
- 10 A. M. Nancy J. Fenrick
- 11 A. M. Daniel D. Houlihan
* ? Noon Paul K. Brandon, will participate if available, but still has
questions about his schedule.
1 P. M. lunch and travel to St. Paul
3 P.M. Pending needed last minute schedule changes in the Governor's
schedule, we will see if Governor Jessie Ventura, would agree to welcome
students and talk with our traveling psychology course.
Eat and free time at world's largest shopping mall, Mall of America,
enroute to staying at Mankato
- May 17 Wednesday, Travel to Boys Town 400 miles with a stop at Drake U.,
leave 8 A. M. 260 miles, Noon lunch and talk with Scott Wood, "The Behavior
Analysis Movement" - Des Moines, Iowa - continue Travel to Boys Town, 140
miles from Des Moines, stay at a dorm in Omaha area
* May 18 Thursday 10 A.M. - 4 P.M. Thursday, Mike Handwerk and staff
members will give us a presentation on the Boys Town Program, lunch will be
available $3-$5 in the eating area with the youth, sources say lunch is
good, food is usually prepared by Pierre, a French chef - hopefully a new
youth will be welcomed to the community with their traditional ceremony
that day - late afternoon tour of the Boys Town Campus
4 P.M. travel to U. of Kansas, Lawerance, Kansas (110 miles)
May 19-20-21 (Fri. Sat. & Sun. visit Kansas U. Department of Human
Development and Family Life Stay College Park Apartments
May 19 Fri.
- 10 A.M. Don Baer,
- 11:30 P.M. Keith Miller,
1 P.M. Lunch
* 3:00 P.M. James Sherman
* 4:30 Tour Dept. Campus & Lawerence, Dinner & Conversation with Jen Dressel
May 20 Sat.
* 9 A.M. George Semb, Computerized Keller PSI Personalized System of
Instruction & Other Interests
- 10:30 A.M. Don Bushell Kids 3-12 Program
12:00 lunch
- 1:30 P.M. Barb Etzel
* 3 P.M. Vance Hall
* 4:30 P.M. Ed Morris
* Following Ed's talk Ed has invited us to his home for a reception party
May 21, Sun.
* 11 A. M. Dave Born
* 12:30 P.M. Lunch and Conversation with Og Lindsley
3:00 P.M. travel to St. Louis (250 miles) Stay at in St. Louis area
* 8 P.M. late night talk with Len Green, Washington University
May 22, Mon.
* 9 A.M. Monday visit the continuation of the work of Masters and Johnson
in St. Louis (Tour and discussion with Leslie and Andy)
~11 A. M. travel to Indianapolis (220 miles), visit Jim Rice, Private
Practice, and travel Columbus, Ohio (190 miles) Stay Ohio State U.
May 23, Tues.
* 10 A. M. Visit Ohio State U. program - John Cooper, William Heward, Jim
Cowardin (Precision Teaching Based Charter School Program and Other
Behavioral Interests),Tim Heron, Diane Sainato, Ralph Gardner, Nancy Neef
* 4 P. M. Travel to Morgantown, West Virginia (230 miles) stay at Summit
Suites.
May 24th & 25th Visit West Virginia University Program
* May 24, Wed. 8 A. M. Departmental Breakfast and visit with Dave Schaal
* 10:30 A. M. Andy Lattal
noon lunch
* 1:30 Rob Hawkins, Some Relationships between Behavior Analysis and
Behavior Therapy, and other behavioral interests
- 3:00 Phil Chase
* 4:30 B. F. Skinner Foundation presentation by Kent Moreno
* following the Skinner Foundation presentation we have been invited to a
cookout at the Vargas' home hosted by Ernie Vargas (and Julie Vargas "in
spirit" from Australia where she will be on May 24th)
*Stay Summit Suites
May 25th, Thurs.
* 9 A. M. Susan Schneider, Evolution and Operant Conditioning, and other
behavioral interests
* Travel to D.C. - 220 miles (in D.C. we will stay in the convention
hotel (Mariottt, Wardman Park)
May 26, Friday - There will be 3 options in D. C. on Friday (see a more
detailed description of this day's event):
- (1) NIH (National Institute of Health), general information presentation
and a visit with Leslie Biesecker, Human Genetics area. This will be the
regular psychology tour stop on May 26. Numbers 2 &3 below are possible if
one has a specific interest in the area covered, see further details in
extended course description.
* (2) Pre-convention workshops of the Association for Behavior Analysis
(ABA) These pre-convention workshops are NOT part of the regular ABA
registration, or a part of the regular Psychology Tour. Later, a list of
these pre-convention workshops and their fees will be published. If a
touring student selected to go to one of these workshops a good way to
get around paying the extra fee for the workshops, is to volunteer as a
helper at that workshop. As a volunteer, one would help with attendance,
pass out different materials, and other such jobs depending on the
workshop. To be the volunteer helper at one of these pre-convention
workshops a student would need to register early. One workshop by Don
Pumroy And Roger McIntire is offering two students waiver of fees.
* (3) SQAB (Society for the Quantitative Analyses of Behavior) this all
day meeting is in the convention hotel. This session might be of interest
for students with strong Experimental Behavioral Analysis interests and
background. Psychology Tour members with interests in this area may select
these sessions, inform me if interested, as we need get a waiver of the
groups usual fee.
* May 27 - 30 Saturday to Tuesday, Convention of the Association for
Behavior Analysis (ABA) Convention, at Mariott Wardman Park. We will use a
certain number of hours of the convention program for our course, and will
line up special events for our course also. We will work with the ABA
Student group. We are working on arranging Student Conversation Hours with
some of the ABA "stars" for a question and answer period:
* Gina Green (current President of ABA),
* Beth Sulzer Azaroff,
* Scott Geller,
* Pat Friman.
* We will also have a student centered Behavioral Alumni Reunion sponsored
by St. Cloud State U..
May 30 Tuesday - late A.M. - travel D. C. to Pittsburgh (260 miles)
* 5:30 Visit Leslie Julie Smith & Leslie Ann Braksick, The Continuous
Learning Group, Corapolis, PA.
Stay Pittsburgh
May 31 Wednesday, Travel to Kalamazoo - possible stop Youngstown
(approximately 400 miles)
* P.M. conversation with Richard Malott
Stay in Kalamazoo
June 1, Thursday Western Michigan University
* 9 A.M. Wayne Fuqua, Department Chair
* ? 10 A.M. Jack Michael will participate if available, but still has
questions about his schedule.
* 11 A.M. Howard Farris
* Noon lunch and visit Malott's Behavior Analysis Training System, Beth
Trojan & Sabastian Bosch
4 P.M. Behavioral Industrial Program/OBM
* ? John Austin will participate if available, but still has questions
about his schedule.
* ? Alyce Dickerson will participate if available, but still has questions
about her schedule.
* Dale Brethower
* 6 P.M. eat with and talk with Erin Van De Hey, a "new" student at WMU
* 8 P.M. Maria Malott, Executive Director of ABA, talking on ABA and her
work in Behavioral Industrial / OBM
Stay in Kalamazoo
June 2, Friday
* 9 A.M. Rick Spates, WMU Clinical Program
* 10 A.M. Alan Poling
* 11 A.M. travel to Vicksburg, MI a visit with a St. Cloud State U.
undergrad & W.M.U. doctorate graduate, Sue O'Brien Eickhoff, Sue will talk
about application of her work as the President of Ronnigen's a research and
development company. Lunch will be provided by our hosts, Ronnigen's.
1:30 P.M. travel to Chicago
* 4:30 Vist Howe Developmental Center, Matt Miller and David Pyle
* travel and stay in Milwaukee, U. of Wisconsin at Milwaukee dorm
Conference housing, Sandburg Halls - enroute we will stop and visit Racine,
WI the geographical and cultural center of the world. Perhaps, your only
chance in your lifetime, and/or eternity to have a chance to visit the most
famous intersection in the solar system. You will have the chance to have
what makes Racine famous, Kringle, in the place that made it famous. (This
opinion, of course, is the biased view of the course instructor.)
June 3 Saturday visit with
* Roger Bass, the group BALANCE, TBA, behavior analysis applied to music,
behavioral education topics, teaching Behavior Analysis
*Marshall Dermer
- Paula Lamberg
- Jay Moore
- Alan Baron
travel to Madison - stay: College Park Regency, 1402 Regent Street, Madison, WI
* Sat P.M. We have been invited for Brats and conversation with Glen
Sallows at his home.
June 4 Sunday
*11:00 A.M. Glen Sallows - Wisconsin Early Autism Project - hopefully with
a parent and child demonstration of some of the Lovaas techniques.
Travel to St. Cloud (400 miles)
* Stop Wonder Spot - wrap up tour, possible drop student at Wisconsin
Dells transportation connection, Twin Cities airport, or drops at locations
on I-94 enroute back to St. Cloud
Gerald C. Mertens, Psychology Department, Whitney House, 720 4th Ave.
South, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN. 56301-4498 / Office Phone
(320) 255-2138, Department Secretary (Mary Williams) Phone (320) 255-4157,
2 possible FAX numbers: (320) 202-0919 or (320) 255-3098 (BOTH OF
THESE ARE GENERAL OFFICE FAX INCLUDE MY LAST NAME ON FAX)
email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Home Address: 916 10th Ave. S., St. Cloud, MN. 56301 / Home Phone (320)
251-3134
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Gerald C. Mertens, Psychology Department, Whitney House, 720 4th Ave.
South, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN. 56301-4498 / Office Phone
(320) 255-2138, Department Secretary (Mary Williams) Phone (320) 255-4157,
FAX: (320)255-3098 (320)202-0919 (GENERAL OFFICE FAX INCLUDE MY NAME ON
FAX) email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Home Address: 916 10th Ave. S., St. Cloud, MN. 56301 / Home Phone (320)
251-3134
