Saturday, April 21, 2012

Two Ecological Approaches 30 years later

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Abstract:  In 1982, Cutting pointed out that two distinct theoretical programs were developing within the tradition rooted in James J. Gibso...
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Sunday, April 8, 2012

Verbal Behavior, the Weather Man, and the Fundamental Lie of Professional Poker

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I am reading Skinner's Verbal Behavior for the first time with my undergraduate class. It is amazingly good. The only criticism I would...
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Wednesday, April 4, 2012

The APA convention can be worth while?!?

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Last year I attended the American Psychological Association 's annual meeting for the first time in over a decade. The main conference w...
Tuesday, April 3, 2012

What should an Intro Textbook do?

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The last post highlighted points from a 2008 article in which I suggested several things were wrong with introductory psychology courses, a...
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Friday, March 30, 2012

Eight things wrong with Introductory Psychology

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While hopping a bit from one blog to another, I ended up on Graham Davey's blog, reading a nice post titled " What ever happened to...
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Saturday, March 24, 2012

Evolution and Homosexuality

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For a semester at Clark I was asked to organize the weekly 'recitations' for Introductory Psychology. The course itself was quite la...
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Saturday, March 17, 2012

Why study developmental psychology

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While searching through old files, I found an email from an undergraduate student who was interested in developmental psychology, and who as...
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