prof_chuck’s psychology blog

So there is a lot of discussion about a new presentation tool called slideshare. Check it out and the commentary on CogDogBlog and TechCrunch.

ALSO…. don’t forget about our old friend thumbstacks…. and you can try Empressr too.

Hello Scholars.

It’s shaping up to be a very busy week.

On Monday we have a psych club meeting. Dr. Lloyd will present on applying for graduate school. Check it out! I’ll be at a meeting on civic engagement.

On Wednesday CLC will meet to plan out the recycling mission in complete detail. I’ll be at the faculty meeting in support of the new Quality Enhancement Plan ( INFORMATION LITERACY!!!!!!!!). Let me know what you need from me. I’m working on the recycling bins as we speak.

In addition, on Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 there will be a speaker up in the HNS auditorium speaking on, “Mitochondrial DNA in diabetes, function and malfunction”. I want to check that out. Sounds good.

Intro Psych will be covering Sensation and Perception. The Collaborative Knowledge Development learning community will be covering that too and will be giving their PPT presentation of their survey results on Wednesday. Does anyone need help?

Stats will continue to work on SPSS projects. We’ll catch up to our textbook work on SPSS, then start on independent sample t-tests.

Cognition will dive into a variety of topics related to long-term memory as we finish chapter 5 and start on chapter 6. By the end of the end of the week you guys want be able to believe anything anymore, least of all, your memory. It’s gonna be great fun!

So I’m heading out to Savannah for an information literacy conference.

I hope to return with lots of new torture techniques
If you’ve been in class, then you know what you are supposed to do.

Have a good weekend.

27 out 34 students particpated in our little test. I hope that those that have stopped coming to class remember to drop
Central Tendency:

Mean = 53.33
Median = 55

Dispersion:

Standard Deviation = 18.79
Variance = 353.154
Range = 70
Minimum = 20
Maximum = 90

Percentiles:

25th = 39
50th = 55
75th = 69

Where do you fall in the distribution?

Thanks Kim!

Psychology Club
9/25/06 Talking points

Introduction/Officer Elections
President: Meg Cary
Vice President: Sarah Deacon
Secretary/Assistant Treasurer: Kim Burnette
Treasurer: Christy Christmas

Possible Activities for ’06/07 School Year
* Grad School Workshop
* Social Activities (with Sociology Club?)
* Fundraisers

• Battle of the Sexes?
• Queen for a Day?

* SEPA in spring
* Volunteering with Community Helping Place
* Guest Speakers

• Recent NGCSU Graduates
• Clinical Psychologists

* Tour of Laurelwood

The next Psyc Club meeting will be Monday, October 2nd. All meetings will be held on the first Monday of each month at 12:15pm. Everyone bring a friend!

The initial meeting of the 2006 Psychology GRE Study Group will be held Wednesday, September 27th at 11:00am in Newton Oaks 015.

EDIT — Our next meeting will be Monday the 9th of October because of inventory in our reserved room.

Scholars,

Anyone doing anything? I know of a few that are… check out the call for research from the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR). Here’s the link… everything needs to be in by Dec 1.

Remember to work through the social bookmarking assignments for chapters 1, 2, and 3.

Between the end of class today and the test on Thursday, be sure and review at least two shared links by commenting on the review for test #1 page.

Chuck,

What is going on (cognition) with this information I am sending? I thought it would be good for the class to know, for I don’t have a clue! See you tomorrow.

Earnest

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. This is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe and the biran fguiers it out aynawy. WOW!

Seems like an excellent example of the power of top down processing / expectations. Thanks for sharing E.

Hey Cog Scholars,

We will go over getting into Coglab today.

Here is the Link to Coglab (I usually just google it):

http://coglab.wadsworth.com/

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Here are the instructions to logging into Coglab. You may want to print these out or open them into another tab to follow along with as you log in.

You will need three pieces of information to log in:
1. Our group ID is NGCSU
2. Our access password is psycho
3. You will also need a registration code.

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If you didn’t buy a text bundled with a registration code you may purchase one from the publisher. I found a reader bundled with the e pin code for 23.36 or so here.

The ISBN is: ISBN-10: 0534574106 | ISBN-13: 9780534574109

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Be sure to put in your name correctly so that I know to give you credit for your participation.

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