prof_chuck’s psychology blog

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What happens when you play your records backwards?

You see weapons of mass destruction everywhere?

http://jeffmilner.com/backmasking.htm

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9 As

12 Bs

11 Cs

5 other

Good work… way to keep working, the final really helped a lot of you. Remember that as you keep on working at the university, distributed practice and testing help. If it’s not set-up for you, create it yourself using online quizzes and self-testing.

Who:    Dr. Jonathan Gulledge
Faculty Candidate in the Department of Psychology & Sociology
When:    Monday, April 13th at 2:30PM
Where:    NOC Room 106

Monkeys Count, What’s Next?

Over the past few years the topic of nonhuman primate cognition has been the focus of some of the most interesting and contentious debates in cognitive psychology.  The variety of exceptional cognitive abilities displayed by nonhuman primates has intrigued many of the most active and influential researchers in our discipline.  With the application of computer technology to the nonhuman primate research arena numerous new abilities, capacities, and applications have been discovered.  Computer-based studies of nonhuman primate short-term memory, long-term memory, visuospatial working memory, attention, and numerical cognition will be discussed.  Additionally, studies of the negative impact of long term exposure to microgravity (e.g., spaceflight) on nonhuman primate cognition will be discussed.     

If you are interested in being a part of psych club for the fall and spring of 2009-2010 please reply by commenting on this post. This is especially important if you can’t make it to the meeting today.

Feel free to introduce yourself and tell us what you want to do after graduation.

Best, prof_chuck

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Hey Ya’ll

If you have any kinda chance go to hear the speaker for Darwin Day. Word around is its gonna be great:

 Dr. Craig Nelson will be speaking Wednesday evening, February 25th, at 7 p.m. in the HNS Auditorium on Evolution, Creation, or Both? This event is open to the public!

Dr. Craig Nelson is Professor Emeritus at Indiana University.  An evolutionary ecologist, Craig is an expert on evolution, integrating science and religion, and “creation science.” He also researches teaching, especially the teaching of critical thinking. His biological research (60+ publications) has been on evolution and ecology. His articles on teaching (20+) address critical thinking and mature valuing, diversity, active learning, teaching evolution, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. He has presented invited workshops at national meetings and institutions in 37 states and 8 countries. He co-directed a series of national institutes for high school biology teachers on “Evolution and the Nature of Science” and was founding Director of IU’s Environmental Program. In addition, he was the founding president of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. He received the highest award bestowed by Indiana University, as well as the President’s awards from both Vanderbilt, and Northwestern Universities. In 2000, he was named the “Outstanding Research and Doctoral University Professor Of The Year by the Carnegie Foundation”.

I’m hoping this creationism nod in the title is a ploy to get folks into the auditorium… me and the FSM will be there.
Best, prof_chuck

Scholars,

Nice job on the independent tests. I hope you went back and reviewed the material afterwards. Always give your hippocampus a fighting chance.

Today I will be putting you into groups of three at 8a.m…. when our class/test starts. Work together and learn from each other. This is a closed book / closed note exam, but you will have three brains. By my calculations that’s about 2 and 1/2 brains to many for this task.

I have not released your independent tests yet becasue I want everyone to be equals during this collaborative process. The most poorly prepared participant may be able to explain a concept or two to the best prepared participants.

On Monday I’ll pass these exams back and I encourage you to get back together with your group and find the solutions to answers that evaded all of you. Remember we still have a final exam coming up.

My very favorite module is coming up. I believe we’ll have a lot of fun looking at memory. We’ll be doing lots of phenomenological work so come prepared to participate.