cognitive psychology

Everything should be set-up to work tomorrow on WebCT.

If you are prepared, you should have plenty of time and be very successful.

Best, prof_chuck

… then group 2 presents on Thursday.

Tests when we get back from spring break.

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 have an opportunity to go to a workshop on Thursday morning that he is presenting. I’m going to take it, so… class cancelled for 2/26. Use this time wisely to read and reflect on our current material.

Best, prof_chuck

Gran    Luke    1
Phillips    Brandon    1
Tanksley    Jessica    1

Parker    Ashley    2
Franklin    Savannah    2
Allison    Lisa    2

Finney    Heather    3
Ledford    Madison    3
Anderson    Lela    3

Robbins    Elizabeth    4
Murphy    Andrew    4
Harper    Kelly    4

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Martin    Andrew    6
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King    James    6

Stanley    Victoria    7
Thompson    Abbey    7
Mayo    Brent    7

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Wolf    Katherine    8
Anderson    Samantha    8

Anderson    Stephanie    9
Treutel    Alishia    9
Patterson    Emilee    9

Chappelear    Morgan    10
Laterza    Alisha    10
Reid    Kelli    10

Schulz    Jordyn    11
Melton    Charles    11
Hoffman    Jordan    11

Baldonado    Todd    12
Stalnaker    Sarah    12
Reiher    Scot    12
Turner    Deborah    12

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.

Hello Scholars,

Looks like we are ready for our first online exam on Tuesday. It will take place in Vista. If you are enrolled in the class you should see something that says, “Learning and Cognition – Spring 2009 PSYC-3310-A“.

Once inside you should make sure your system works before the morning test time by taking the practice quiz. At 8 a.m. the invisible test will appear and allow you to begin. It must be completed by the time our regularly scheduled class is over at 9:25.

The test is open book and note. Closed other students. Take the test the traditional way, then use any remaining time to learn the material you were unable to answer.

If anyone is caught trying to cheat in this pro-learning environment I will Fail you and ask the Vice President for Academic Affairs to expel you from the university.

Spend some more time studying before Thursday. Be there at 8 for our collaborative exam. I’ll be placing you into groups. The collaborative exam will be closed book and notes, but you will most likely have three brains… that should be more than enough power to plow through the material.

I’ll be in my office during our online testing time to calm any emergencies you might create for yourself.

Best, prof_chuck

Dear Students of Sociology/Psychology,
    It is on behalf of Alpha Kappa Delta that this letter is being written. We invite those students with an interest in Sociology, no matter how great or small, to join our Honor Society provided they meet the requirements of initiation. These requirements include that the student:

• Must be an officially declared sociology major or demonstrate a serious interest in sociology within an official program of the host institution.
• Must be at least a junior by standards of the host institution.
• Must have accumulated the equivalent of an overall GPA of 3.0 and rank in the top 35% of their class in general scholarship
• Must have maintained the equivalent of a 3.0 GPA in sociology courses taken at the host institution prior to initiation.
• Must have completed at least four regular courses in sociology prior to initiation.

    If you are interested please contact our faculty advisor, Dr. Franziska Bieri, no later than March 10th. Thank you in advance for your interest and we look forward to hearing from you!

Sincerely,
Cassi Gerjets
Lambda of Georgia Chapter President

I think the presentations went very well this morning. Going first can be scary. I expect the next two groups to learn from this experience and keep raising the bar…

The formatting was much improved over last semester’s work. Keep on thinking about the reader. Additionally, I think it’s OK to place words about a link on the page rather than a full URL. Full URLs are probably best for referencing, but you might want to think about shrinking the font on those so that the don’t wrap on the page, etc.

You should also think about working from the site, rather than as a logged in editor. This is what others will see, your links will work in a more natural way, and you’ll have more room on the scree with the editing tools removed.

Don’t forget to introduce yourself.

One last thing on my mind, I really thought the presentation of brain parts/mods/areas went well. It was simple material, but I liked that it was written and shared in thorough way on the site, then presented not by reading words, but by using images. We can all go back and read the info ourselves. Your shared info and your presentation can be different things.

Cog Scholars,

Since we finished our work together why don’t we make tomorrow a work day for the collaboration folks. All of you know who you are in groups with (check your email). Since this is our first go at it, I think it will be justified and then we’ll have a great presentation/study session on Thursday. Everything should be top notch and groups 1a & 1b will place the bar way up there…

This is not likely to happen for our other groups (mods 2 & 3) so you guys should consider getting together as well. Coffee in the library is always nice.

I’ll be in tomorrow morning to help and solve some problems.

Best, prof_chuck

Hey everyone,

Did you make it through some of the tutorials?

Remember will be getting some data in SPSS today. Lab assignment 1

Additionally, we’ll learn to analyze some descriptive problems by checking your HW in SPSS. Remember to bring it with you.