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Sight, 1(6) A student psychology newsletter from: http://www.psitutor.org June 18th, 2006 Keep on going … "Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow." -Mary Anne Radmacher ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The news this week - *** Announcements *** Statistics : Holiday stats!? ~_* *** Feature Article : Born Aliens - Part 1 *** Learning Resources *** The Student Psychology Forum @ http://www.psitutor.org/Forum.html COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION ARE THE KEYS TO LEARNING! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Announcements: CONGRATULATIONS! Well done to all those who have finished their exams for the first semester. Just think, you can now watch TV again, read a novel, and maybe even have some time to work at a holiday job. Don't know quite where to start? Put your psych knowledge into practice: - become a volunteer - join online chats and discussion forums - read an original work by a psych theorist - watch psych-themed DVDs - attend cultural events in your community - feng shui your home (environmental psych) NEW HORIZONS FOR ONLINE TUTORING I have recently joined a Russian-based online tutoring company: VirClass Corporation, to provide social science homework help. I am looking forward to extending my cultural networks, developing my understanding of psychology, and fine tuning my tutor skills. If your course includes math and/or science subjects you can also access group or individual tutoring online - an excellent resource: www.virclass.com PUBLISHING STARTS SOMEWHERE… Well…it's not a peer-reviewed research journal, but my first publication is a short poem for a coffee-book in the USA, Immortal Verses. You can read the poem at my blog and save yourself $55 (hee hee): http://psychmatters.blogspot.com As an undergrad I found poetry a great mnemonic tool, haiku being my favorite form for remembering terms and definitions. And now, I can use my study techniques to bring pleasure to others - yes, I did find a lot of my studies fun : ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Statistics: Holiday Fun!? ~_* STAT GAMES Try it and see, stats can be fun! Holidays are an ideal time to review difficult subjects without time pressure, and in a more playful way. I used this resource when teaching at my local uni: http://www.economics.pomona.edu/StatSite/Statgame.html RABBITS AND WOLVES Decide how big your forest is, set population parameters and run the simulation. You can read the easy to use graphs and reinforce your learning of probability and relationships between factors: http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/rabbits/ index.html GO COUNTRY! My niece is five, and we use this activity when we are out and about getting to know our local trees, and just to interact with our environment: http://mathforum.org/paths/measurement/tree.html WHIRLY BIRD STATS Make your whirly bird and measure its ability. Again, An activity that's fun for me and the kids: http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/mathline/ lessonplans/esmp/whirlybird/whirlybird_procedure.shtm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Article: Born Aliens: Part 1 I found this an interesting read, your comments are welcome at the Student Psychology Forum. by: Sam Vaknin Neonates have no psychology. If operated upon, for instance, they are not supposed to show signs of trauma later on in life. Birth, according to this school of thought is of no psycho- logical consequence to the newborn baby. It is immeasurably more important to his "primary caregiver" (mother) and to her supporters (read: father and other members of the family). It is through them that the baby is, supposedly, effected. This effect is evident in his (I will use the male form only for convenience's sake) ability to bond. The late Karl Sagan professed to possess the diametrically opposed view when he compared the process of death to that of being born. He was commenting upon the numerous testimonies of people brought back to life following their confirmed, clinical death. Most of them shared an experience of traversing a dark tunnel. A combination of soft light and soothing voices and the figures of their deceased nearest and dearest awaited them at the end of this tunnel. All those who experienced it described the light as the manifestation of an omnipotent, benevolent being. The tunnel suggested Sagan - is a rendition of the mother's tract. The process of birth involves gradual exposure to light and to the figures of humans. Clinical death experiences only recreate birth experiences. The womb is a self-contained though open (not self-sufficient) ecosystem. The Baby's Planet is spatially confined, almost devoid of light and homeostatic. The fetus breathes liquid oxygen, rather than the gaseous variant. He is subjected to an unending barrage of noises, most of them rhythmical. Otherwise, there are very few stimuli to elicit any of his fixed action responses. There, dependent and protected, his world lacks the most evident features of ours. There are no dimensions where there is no light. There is no "inside" and "outside", "self" and "others", "extension" and "main body", "here" and "there". Our Planet is exactly converse. There could be no greater disparity. In this sense - and it is not a restricted sense at all - the baby is an alien. He has to train himself and to learn to become human. Kittens, whose eyes were tied immediately after birth - could not "see" straight lines and kept tumbling over tightly strung cords. Even sense data involve some modicum and modes of concept- ualization. Even lower animals (worms) avoid unpleasant corners in mazes in the wake of nasty experiences. To suggest that a human neonate, equipped with hundreds of neural cubic feet does not recall migrating from one planet to another, from one extreme to its total opposition - stretches credulity. Babies may be asleep 16-20 hours a day because they are shocked and depressed. These abnormal spans of sleep are more typical of major depressive episodes than of vigorous, vivacious, vibrant growth. Taking into consideration the mind-boggling amounts of information that the baby has to absorb just in order to stay alive - sleeping through most of it seems like an inordinately inane strategy. The baby seems to be awake in the womb more than he is outside it. Cast into the outer light, the baby tries, at first, to ignore reality. This is our first defence line. It stays with us as we grow up….to be continues. About the Author: Sam Vaknin is the author of Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited and After the Rain - How the West Lost the East. He is a columnist for Central Europe Review, United Press International (UPI) and eBookWeb and the editor of mental health and Central East Europe categories in The Open Directory, Suite101 and searcheurope.com. Visit Sam's Web site at http://samvak.tripod.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ***Resources: Easy Graphs OK, it's not APA format, but the graphs are colour-full, easy to make and you can print, email or save them in various formats: http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/index.asp? ID=01D541909DCAFDD1D Play Psychology For you, or the kids… http://www.instructables.com/howtoons/ Cast Your Gaze this Way ' CAST is a nonprofit organization that works to expand Learning opportunities for all individuals, especially those with disabilities, through the research and development of innovative, technology-based educational resources and strategies: http://www.cast.org/ Invent Today Visit the Lemelson Centre for the study of Invention at play: http://www.inventionatplay.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- That's the student psychology news for this week, hope it was of some interest and or help. Feel welcome to email topics that are relevant to you (admin@psitutor.org), and I will do some research and include them. Remember, www.psitutor.org now has Live Tutor Chat, or you can email your questions and assignments for some homework help. And come join the student psychology forum @ http://www.psitutor.org/Forum.html for help with homework, essay or questionnaire construction etc. Maybe you just want to discuss a theory! You are welcome to forward this newsletter onto others who you think my benefit from it. write well, Charmayne Paul www.psitutor.org v-_- pax |
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