What does it cost? Who can attend? Will there be a coursepak of readings
from the various labs regarding the research? Can students get course
credits for the tour?
At 11:02 AM 11/16/99 -0600, Gerald Mertens wrote:
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>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.
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>Psychology Tour Schedule as of November 16, 1999:
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>The Psychology Tour in the Year 2000 - Monday May 15 - Sunday June 4, 2000
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>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.
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>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.
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>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:
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>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
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>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.
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>* 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.
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>Eat and free time at world's largest shopping mall, Mall of America,
>enroute to staying at Mankato
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>- 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
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>* 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)
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>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
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>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
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>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
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>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.
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>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.
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>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
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>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)
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>May 26, Friday - There will be 3 options in D. C. on Friday (see a more
>detailed description of this day's event):
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>- (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.
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>* (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.
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>* (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.
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>* 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..
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>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
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>May 31 Wednesday, Travel to Kalamazoo - possible stop Youngstown
>(approximately 400 miles)
>* P.M. conversation with Richard Malott
>Stay in Kalamazoo
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>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
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>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.)
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>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.
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>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
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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,
>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]
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>Home Address: 916 10th Ave. S., St. Cloud, MN. 56301 / Home Phone (320)
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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]
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>Home Address: 916 10th Ave. S., St. Cloud, MN. 56301 / Home Phone (320)
>251-3134
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Dr. Joyce Johnson
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Developmental/ Experimental
Centenary College of Louisiana
PO Box 41188
2911 Centenary Blvd.
Shreveport, LA 71134-1188
<http://www.centenary.edu/~jjohnson>
office 318 869 5253
FAX 318 869 5004 Attn: Dr Johnson, Psychology
