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Scholars,

I (potentually) get the honor of being in a video that the university is putting together for recruitment. I guess my hair allows me to represent diversity (I’m sure it’s not the white skin or maleness). I would like to recreate an exercise I do in all my intro psych class… it involves measuring the speed of neural conduction and is a hands on activity.

If you would like to be in the video (and potentually interviewed) be in the psych hallway Monday at 12:15.

In addition to making you famous, you will also learn (or relearn in some instances) a little about neural impulses.

XOXOX, prof_hollywood

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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.

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.

Hello 8 am scholars,

So I totally told everyone to keep their exams on Wednesday to help them prepare for the final examination. I had forgotten my new protocal of retesting in an open note format. Feel free to complete your exam and and use it as an open note on Friday. Actually bring it with you because I don’t won’t to make more copies and waste paper.

Try and use this as a learning tool. Spend some quality time with those exams (not your friends exam with the answers) and figure out why the correct answers are right and why the incorrect answers are wrong. Improve your test taking skills!

I probably won’t do this the next time around so use this experience to gain some wisdom. You will always be welcome to keep your exam after the open note test to help you prepare for the final, just not the second attempt at the exam.

XOXO, now who am I?

PS thanks to Big Red the yoga Guru for orienting me

Hello 8 a.m. Scholars,

We will have our first exam over the module #1 material on Wednesday, September 20th at 8 a.m.

It will be multiple guess, so bring a sharp #2 lead and your frontal cortext to class with you.
Modules:

Introduction to the Hiistory and Science of Psychology 1, 2, & 3
States of Consciousness 18, 19, & 20

Learning Community Scholars,

This link will get you a pdf file of our rubric for your presentation.

Groups 1, 3, & 5 will go on Wednesday. Groups 2, 4, & 6 will go on Friday.

You will have 15 minutes to impress everyone. Give us 5 minutes of background, 5 minutes of going over the questions, and 5 minutes for questions / defending your design.

Let me know ahead of time if you have any special media needs.