cognitive psychology

Cognition Scholars,

I have resent everyone an invitation to the shared document for module two’s collaborative project. When you successfully login to the …@student.ngcsu.edu account you will see the invitation (theoretically )

You can login here… follow the directions. Here is a FAQ if you want to learn more.

If you have trouble come and see me or go to the help desk
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FYI… if you are serious about graduate school come and talk to me about this.

Undergraduate Statistics Program Now Taking Applications!

APA’s Advanced Statistical Training in Psychology program is now open for applications! This exceptional opportunity is designed for students who will be undergraduate seniors in the 2008-2009 academic year. It is an ideal way to learn more about statistics at a time when many students are thinking about graduate school. Successful applicants are those who have firm plans to pursue a graduate degree in psychological science.

Up to 20 students will be selected to participate in this intensive, 9-day, hands-on seminar. Featured activities include lectures, SPSS activities, hands-on activities, discussions about graduate school, as well as plenty of fun!

The ASTP targets students who are from traditionally underrepresented groups in psychology. For purposes of this program, the definition of underrepresented groups is intentionally broad, including students who are members of ethnic minority groups, first generation college students, and students who have had to overcome other kinds of social, physical, or economic barriers on the road to academic excellence.

ASTP will take place at the University of Maryland, College Park, July 12 – 20. Housing, meals, instruction, labs, and some social events are covered for all students. Participants will pay a $200 registration fee and provide for their own travel. Financial need should not be a barrier to anyone’s participation. For those with financial need, scholarship support is available for travel as well as for the registration fee.

The deadline for applications is Monday, March 17. Visit www.apa.org/science/astp.html for more information about the program and the application requirements.

I’m getting excited about the presentation…. from the looks of the shared document group one is sitting a high bar and I believe they will do a bang-up job… maybe even a better job than the rest of us will do counting the white t-shirt gang pass the ball

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Here is a brief description of what we will be doing for the collaborative media development portion of our class.

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=df4fj645_114jqjrrzc7

Here is the rubric I am working on.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pKR5dBjqTI3dpWWhhdtKzPA

I realize it’s not awesomely clear, but I don’t work in the education department… I’m trying

Our groups look like this:

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=df4fj645_114jqjrrzc7 Armstrong, Krysty Lynne
1 Ashley, Catherine Danielle
1 Bennick, Wesley Gayle
1 Butler, Kristy Lynn
1 Cope, Elizabeth Alexandria
1 Fisher, Tori Jo
1 Garner, Jessica Michelle
1 Grau, Harriett
2 Jewell, Jennifer Elaine
2 Jones, Charles Ridgley
2 Martin, Kelly Ann
2 McNichols, Catherine Elizabeth
2 Murray, Kate Ann
2 Narvaez, Karla Michelle
2 Renfroe, Tiffany Jade
2 Rodriguez, Heather Julie
3 Saenz, Nikolas Arturo-Waitman
3 Shumock, Nathan Alan
3 Stancel, Dawn Angelique
3 Sutton, Kimberly Renee
3 Teems, Samantha Emily
3 Wacaster, Jodie Blair
3 Whittington, Ryan Gabriel
3 Willard, Amy Lynn

… I too am praying to the flying spaghetti monster to bring us some snow.

Candles are burning on my pirate alter and I am simmering some marinara.

Technorati Tags: FSM snow NGCSU psych

I had fun yesterday… I hope to learn everyones name soon… you guys should quiz me. Just ask, “What’s my name prof_chuck?”

We will start on some meatier content next time. You might want to start reading chapter 2 on Perception.

Here is the one click subscription if you have iTunes running on your computer:

itpc://podcasting.gcsu.edu/4dcgi/podcasting/ngcsu/channels1287/30473.xml

Here is the URL for a manual subscription in your aggregator of choice:

http://podcasting.gcsu.edu/4dcgi/podcasting/ngcsu/channels1287/30473.xml  <– cut and paste

I have no idea why… but I am giving the fall commencement address at NGCSU.

It’s really hard to decide what to say so I fell back on what comes naturally. I’ve stolen remixed almost everything in my speech from the Internet (YouTube, websites devoted to commencements, site that collect quotes…etc.) and I’ve remixed them for me and my audience. I’ve tagged many of them on delicious with the tag, commencement.

I also created a website on my University space for this graduating class (and anyone else that needs it). It’s full of classic stuff to entertain and inspire. Check it out here. I hope to put a copy of my speech there too, It’s still in rough shape right now, as a Google document of course.

The speech will mostly be about collaboration, networking, and the future of communication. I’ve borrowed liberally from the educational technology blogs that I aggregate. Thanks! I hope to give everyone credit during the speech. I got a great lead on a futurist article in the Guardian from Derek’s Blog. I am greatly impressed and inspired by Demo Girl… I can’t get enough of what she has to share.

Mad references go out to Barry Vercoe, Maurice Lévy, Biz Stone, Peter Norvig, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Hey Kane (and everybody else),

I dropped some old slides in on the nav bar… take a look.

If you’ve been skipping class you missed out on a lot of fun as we worked together on many of the tasks/puzzles/mind torture devices

The calendar to get us through looks like this:

November 15 — Reasoning
November 16 — shared sites are due by noon so that everyone has the weekend to study with them and write excellent reviews before the exam on Tuesday.
November 20 — Exam over our last set of material, chapters 8 & 10
November 27 — Collaborative Exam and get your ind. exam back
November 29 — I’m traveling to DC, use this time to work together on correcting your old exams and preparing for the final.

FINALS
December 6 — 12:45 TTR class meets from 1 - 3 p.m.
December 8 –  2:20 TTR class meets from 1 - 3 p.m.

So we are now covering chapters 4, 5, 6, & 7. The lectures are a little out of order with the material, although we will go over most of it together in class.

We are currently hard at work in the chapter 6 & 7 material. Then we will look at more abstract ways of thinking about memory with chapter 5. We will finish this section by looking at imagery in chapter 4.