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Sight, 1(7) A student psychology newsletter from: http://www.psitutor.org June 27th, 2006 Lead on… "Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results." - George S. Patton a complicated military man… http://www.generalpatton.com/biography.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The news this week - *** Announcements *** Statistics : Holiday activities *** Feature Article : Born Aliens - Part 2 *** Learning Resources & Fun *** The Student Psychology Forum @ http://www.psitutor.org/Forum.html COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION ARE THE KEYS TO LEARNING! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Announcements Adult Learner's Week Globally, an estimated 880 million adults remain illiterate. In 1999 the UNESCO General Conference approved an International Adult Learners' Week to: connect activities across nations, across borders, celebrate the adventure of learning, and enhance collaboration among service providers. This is a heads-up to prepare, contribute and take part in Adult Learners' Week in September, from the 1st to the 8th. Visit your national website: Australia: http://www.adultlearnersweek.org/index.html International: http://www.unesco.org/education/uie/InternationalALW/ Rate My Teacher A site that is kicking up a storm globally in the news. Provides a medium for students and parents primary, high school and university) to voice their opinions on the services that they are provided. Teachers too get to voice their feedback on their ratings. Be aware, there are rules, and the forums have moderators - I'm one ;-) Available to many countries: http://www.ratemyteachers.com/ Writing Advice with a Twist Advice to science writers - Imre Loefler, Nairobi Hospital Proceedings, Kenya Make sure that you indicate in the introduction to your paper that the problem you are addressing is of the utmost importance to the survival of mankind. If the topic is a "disease," quantify the proportion of the world population that might become its victims, calculate that proportion in absolute numbers, and proceed to address the annual expense that humanity incurs in consequence of that disease. Never admit that your choice of research topic has been motivated by anything other than utilitarian concern for the common good. It would be a mistake to declare that you were driven by curiosity that the matter you elected to scrutinise is esoteric, or that you stumbled upon your research topic by chance. If animals make up your study sample, enumerate all the steps that you took to treat them humanely. Make it clear that they had excellent food, plenty of water, sunlight, space in which to run around, toys, swings, a pool, snow or hot sand, as appropriate, and that they were allowed to have sex while waiting to be decapitated or whatever else was the charitable means of their demise. When you describe your methods, never omit a detail, however trivial. Always give the name of the producer of the syringe that you used and specify the basic material from which the tubes that you inserted were made. When reporting on the results, calculate the percentages to at least two decimal places. The more numbers that the "Results" contain, the more scientific the paper is. Use at least two statistical methods in which p values are mandatory. The "Discussion" is the literary part of every paper. It can take the shape of drama, it can be made to sound like a heroic epic or a sonnet, or it can consist of dry, crisp prose. It can be aggressive towards others who have examined the same problem previously, or it can be accommodating, laudatory. (These differences in style are generally not determined by the topic or even by the author's temperament, but by social position and career expectations.) In the "Conclusions," there is only one important sentence, of two parts-one stating that you made a breakthrough and the other that more research is needed. Another take on the DSM-IV The DSM, it is like a tumor. It is like a Christian megachurch. It is like a ... a ... something large and invasive and numbing to the soul, and while it has been, I'm sure, hugely helpful and necessary to many, it is churning and growing and seething all the time, swallowing all of humanity in its vortex of new and vaguely quantifiable suffering. To read any part of it is to come away convinced you suffer from at least a dozen happy disorders, most requiring medication or partial lobotomy. It's that kind of joy. Wanna read more...? http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2006/ 06/14/notes061406.DTL Brain Function Findings "The discovery challenges a basic assumption in neuroscience and could have implications for interpreting brain scans and under- standing what occurs during brain trauma and Alzheimer's disease." http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10740024/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Statistics: Holiday Activities Rainforest Stats YES these are useful revision activities, and I only source The ones which are fun! Why wallow in difficulty, when A few minutes on one of these sites could lighten your Study load…try them and see… http://www.rainforestmaths.com/ Collect your Data Collect data about yourself, your family and friends, or from Items around the home. Enter your raw figures, and hit the Refresh/ Reload button on your browser (normally near the Stop & Home buttons). http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/Lessons/graph.html Correct the Line Easy and Hard graphing tasks; set a line to suit the data: http://www.sums.co.uk/playground/hd6a/playground.htm Fish Stats My nieces and I will play this tag n' release in my lounge. It's edible too! http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/mathline/lessonplans/ pdf/msmp/somethingfishy.pdf ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Article: Born Aliens: Part 2 I found this an interesting read, your comments are welcome at the Student Psychology Forum. by: Sam Vaknin It has long been noted that pregnancy continues outside the womb. The brain develops and reaches 75% of adult size by the age of 2 years. It is completed only by the age of 10. It takes, therefore, ten years to complete the development of this indispensable organ - almost wholly outside the womb. And this "external pregnancy" is not limited to the brain only. The baby grows by 25 cm and by 6 kilos in the first year alone. [He] doubles his weight by his fourth month and triples it by his first birthday. The development process is not smooth but by fits and starts. Not only do the parameters of the body change - but its proportions do as well. In the first two years, for instance, the head is larger in order to accommodate the rapid growth of the Central Nervous System. This changes drastically later on as the growth of the head is dwarfed by the growth of the extremities of the body. The transformation is so fundamental, the plasticity of the body so pronounced - that in most likelihood this is the reason why no operative sense of identity emerges until after the fourth year of childhood. It calls to mind Kafka's Gregor Samsa (who woke up to find that he is a giant cockroach). It is identity shattering. It must engender in the baby a sense of self- estrangement and loss of control over who is and what he is. The motor development of the baby is heavily influenced both by the lack of sufficient neural equipment and by the ever- changing dimensions and proportions of the body. While all other animal cubs are fully motoric in their first few weeks of life - the human baby is woefully slow and hesitant. The motor development is proximodistal. The baby moves in ever widening concentric circles from itself to the outside world. First the whole arm, grasping, then the useful fingers (especially the thumb and forefinger combination), first batting at random, then reaching accurately. The inflation of its body must give the baby the impression that he is in the process of devouring the world. Right up to his second year the baby tries to assimilate the world through his mouth (which is the prima causa of his own growth). He divides the world into "suckable" and "insuckable" (as well as to "stimuli- generating" and "not generating stimuli"). His mind expands even faster than his body. He must feel that he is all-encompassing, all- inclusive, all-engulfing, all-pervasive. This is why a baby has no object permanence. In other words, a baby finds it hard to believe the existence of other objects if he does not see them (=if they are not IN his eyes). They all exist in his outlandishly exploding mind and only there. The universe cannot accommodate a creature, which doubles itself physically every 4 months as well as objects outside the perimeter of such an inflationary being, the baby "believes". The inflation of the body has a correlate in the inflation of consciousness. These two processes overwhelm the baby into a passive absorption and inclusion mode…to be continued 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 Leadership Camp Activities I am about to teach English and chaperone Northern European students staying in Cairns. I am upon this resource and thought: "What a great resource for the psychologist in training". Provide Randall with an acceptable reason for your wanting the CD, and He will pop it in the post - no charge from one-off orders: http://www.visionrealization.com/Resources/Receive_on_CD/ receive_on_cd.html Psych Fun http://www.davidpbrown.co.uk/psychology/index.html http://www.tk421.net/character/ http://www.astromind.com/fun/simon/index.html http://www.sanrio.co.jp/english/characters/tagame/tagame .html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. There is also the blog: http://psychmatters.blogspot.com 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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