Psychology Tutor: Mentor (PSI) Psycho-Social Incarnation

As regular readers know, I am currently working with a clinical postgrad student to analyse her stats on cognitive function within and across two groups. Due to the small sample of the sub-groups (diagnoses) her supervisor has suggested the use of Bayesian statistics. Well, neither of us have used this form of analysis before and [...]

The best way to learn anything, is to make it relevant to your life. That simple. Really. I have been a busy bee on Twitter helping students relate their fav TV show characters and events or song lyrics to their lecture materials in psychology. Great for them~ as they learn to link new knowledge to [...]

I’ve been on Skype with a Clinical Psychology postgrad who is completing her Masters and needs a hand with the analysis. It’s been an interesting session. Her sample is small (n=44) however all the variables have shown themselves to be normally distributed~ bonus~ we decided to run some inferential tests. The SPANOVA test is also [...]

I have never watched Gossip Girl in my life ~:-) However, I am always willing to go the extra mile to help students of psychology wrap their minds around class topics and to prep for exams. So here I am this Saturday morning at my PC watching past episodes of TV Dramas to highlight links [...]

Here is my post for Discussion that I wrote for my online Tertiary Teaching course at USQ. My theme was the low level of statistics literacy amongst undergraduate psychology students. Implications for Undergraduate Psychology programs with regards to: Development of active participatory societies? As graduates they cannot fully participate as they do not know how [...]

Sometimes a montage is the only way to go to prep for an exam~ it helps you to narrow down a concept to it’s main points and you can use a lot of pictures to aid mnemonic memorisiation. Let me know what you think of my YouTube flick… What theorists would you like to see [...]

Along with everything else that I do, I am the principal of The Junk Wave (previously Reuse and Recycle, Cairns): a new business that collects junk from industry, manufacturers, corporate and private households. We cleanse and categorise the junk to resell as collage and construction material to Early Childhood centres (day care centres, Kindergartens, Outside [...]

A memory aid technique that I have used in my studies is mnemonics, the use of rhyme and/or visualization. A mnemonic can include sound, taste, touch or movement. For example, I often have to memorize new terms, or names of theorists and dates of their models etc. I make flashcards with a definition on one [...]

What level of data is a social security number? A social security number is a label much like a footballer or netball player has a label in the form of a number. It is a whole number, it is discrete, in that the difference between one whole number and the next does not have another [...]

Sometimes the journal critique you are asked to do in class is not focused on the methodology. This is an example of summarising an article and relating your conclusions to other literature. Winerman, L. (2006). On the other hand, maybe I do remember… Monitor on Psychology, 37(6) Retrieved 6 December, 2011. Summary This article’s focus [...]

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