Psychology Tutor: Mentor (PSI) Psycho-Social Incarnation

Image by Brandon Christopher Warren via Flickr “Knowledge has changed, but the desire to learn is the same…yesterday, today, and tomorrow. We are still making connections.” Read more at Successful Teaching… Share your stories in a comment below~

Image by niiicedave via Flickr “In the world of classroom gardening, I can change that weed into a flower. How do we do that as teachers? By doing exactly the opposite of what I did for the first few days. Concentrate on the good behavior. Look at the flowers. Don’t ignore the weed, but don’t [...]

In a recent article in The Chronicle , Mary Ann Mason discusses ways the deck is stacked against ambitious women. The entire article is worth reading, but this passage, in particular, evoked strong memories and mixed feeling Read more over at Mama PhD… Your feedback is appreciated~

Image by Veyis Polat via Flickr Once a week or so I leave my house in the morning at the usual time, bag packed, computer stowed—but instead of heading straight to my office I go elsewhere… Read more over at Mama PhD… In what ways can you create vactation spaces…?

“This mentorship thing has cemented my interest in evolutionary psychology,” Conroy-Beam says. “My mentor’s not just a guy I work for, he’s a guy I work with, learn from, get to help.” Getting to see Lewis’s life as a graduate student has “led to me deciding I definitely want to go to graduate school,” the [...]

Image by Getty Images via Daylife I sometimes get mail from readers who are at the very beginning of their academic careers. They’re looking for advice about how they can situate their research to make themselves as employable as possible when they’re finished. This is, of course, a very smart and practical question — but [...]

BALTIMORE — A year ago, the big news at the annual meeting of the National Association for College Admission Counseling was the release of a landmark report questioning the use of standardized testing. While the report didn’t call for testing to be abolished, it said that most colleges that required testing in the admissions process [...]

Image by said&done via Flickr I have been away from my blog on a writing splurge. Researching and writing has taken me to insightful blogs, has me making contact with a diverse group of like-minded people, and provided me with much food for thought as to how to relate my findings to student needs. A [...]

In the article What Really Matters by Lynne M. Thompson, she talks about why she can’t get organized instead of how to use different tools such as a palm pilot to get organized. What does structure have to do with time? One of the major points of her article is not being aware that there [...]

Just Say No (Dayton,1974) Many people find it difficult to say “No” to doing something. Suggests that people cannot justify not cooperating. Need to ask ourselves how the new task will aid in meeting current goals. Prior prioritization of tasks should already have included the needs and conerns of others. Prior decisions should also have [...]

Image via Wikipedia Why was Locke strongly opposed to the concept of innate ideas proposed by Descartes? http://www.scienceandyou.org/articles/ess_12.shtml Discuss Locke’s criticism of the supposed evidence for innate ideas. http://www.elliotcross.com/essays/locke1.html What was Locke’s alternative explanation to the origins and sources of human knowledge? http://www.rc.umd.edu/cstahmer/cogsci/locke.html In this scheme, how do we acquire complex or abstract ideas, assuming [...]

Thompson’s model of strategic choice (1967) provides a framework for an optimal decision-making approach that aligns with the decision-task demands. The primary aim of the study was to determine if success would occur when Thompson’s strategy was followed. Ho: There will be no difference between the means of the decision approaches used, hence no group [...]

Image via Wikipedia People are like the loons Are born from the sea of soul Stay afloat many moons The sea the loon control. On that sea came the wave While the ship was taking form From shipwreck no-one could save Returned to sea by that storm. What seemed bad, was grace Kindness was in [...]