Psychology Tutor: Mentor (PSI) Psycho-Social Incarnation

Statistics is a learning hurdle for many of us. I failed the first two years of studying the topic; felt way out of my depth and unable to relate to the concepts. Lately, browsing my Twitter stream, it appears that many other psychology students have similar experiences. So, I have put together my fav Top [...]

Cairns Regional Councils’ Public Art Plan (2012-2017) draft is on the web for my local community to puruse and comment upon. I signed up to the Your Say: Help shape the future of our region to do exactly that, contribute to our communiy’s growth and development. You can review the Plan’s Evaluation Strategy here. Following, [...]

Part of my role as a private psychology Tutor:Mentor is providing students with PASW (previously SPSS) resources to enable self-learning. The key to understanding statistics,  is to put it into practice in your daily life. Keep a learning journal, a ‘learning shoebox’ of accumulated notes or simply jot messages onto your mobile phone~ as long [...]

The Research Topic is, Analysis of Technological, Management and Pedagogical Framework for Virtual Institutes and suggesting a framework for Virtual Institutes. Ravi Limaye wishes to undertake a research study in Open Learning with the following components: a) Opinionnaire from Technical institutes and other stakeholders on relevance, readiness for Open Education for states of Madhya pradesh, [...]

Students of psychology are keen to get tutor:mentor help during the holidays, to review learnt material and to prepare for the next semester. Given your busy busy schedules I have put together a package to give you daily tutor:mentor access at an economical fee. $25 p/week for 10 mins a day (max. 50 mins in [...]

The Non-Verbal Measure of Stress, pictured above, provides a brilliant example of difference within a species of dolphin. The degree of difference one sees in the pic indicates the degree of stress one is experiences ~:-) It is a great way to visualise the degrees of difference between participants in a sample; similar characteristics with [...]

PsychED! Academic Coaching for Psychology Undergrads by Char Paul Get your own Virtual Classroom First Online Workshop, November 15th, 2011 First Face-to-Face Workshop for Cairns locals TBA. An 11 week online delivery of academic coaching for psychology undergrads~ PsychED! (Psychology Education) Get a head start for 2012 or review and prep for your second, third [...]

What I Think About Statistics in Psychology

Everything is Going to be OK! is my free pdf download~ a study support handbook for undergraduates of the psycho-social student tribe (PSST!). Get your free copy by signing up to the enewsletter on the homepage www.psitutor.org (scroll up ~:-) Feedback on this valuable resource is appreciated~

Syllogisms

Here is a copy of the newsletter I received recently from Mental Health Academy: It was stated perfectly by Anthony Robbins: “We live in an age where we’re drowning in information and starving for wisdom.” Well, we’ve done something about it. We have just launched an exciting new section to our website, the MHA Journal [...]

Frequency Distributions & Histograms We use frequency distributions (distances between scores) to count the number of people/etc that fall within intervals across a range of values. Frequent = often; more than once or twice; influenced by sample number~ distance of range. The mode is a central tendency statistic that we can use to identify where [...]

I know, this is based on the 5th edition, however, you will notice the links from the pyramid highlight changes with the 6th edition.