Unit 9 Test Tomorrow!!!

Unit 9 Test is tomorrow. Make sure you have all of the stage theorist figured out. Don't forget how useful mneumonic devices can be. If you have some good ones feel free to share in the comment section. I will try to publish them quickly. Notes are attached and don't bank on a snow day tomorrow.

Unit 9: Development Notes

Another Kohlberg Dilemma

Hopefully you enjoyed our discussion about Joe and his father today. If so, I have another one for you. This is from a video posted on youtube. It present the famous Heinz Dilemma and is interactive. Once you come to the end of the video you make your choice and it will explain which level of moral development you are reasoning from. It's pretty cool! Check it out it and try the multiple options. It may help you better identifiy Kohlberg's stages.

Assignment: Parent Interviews

If you missed class on Thursday, then you didn't here about the Parent Interview project due Feb. 20th. This is a great opportunity to sit down with your parents and ask them all those human development questions you have been wanting know about. The project requires you to turn in your interview notes, summary and the rubric sheet. Any questions please email me.

Comics Books and Bad Science

I know some of you in class are fans of comic books and thought I would share this:

Many social psychologist have studied the effects of our media on juvenile delinquency. Today most of the research looks at violent video games and rap music. However, in the 1950's the evil medium was comic books. Psychologist,Fredric Wertham's, 1954 book Seduction of the Innocent claimed the violent imagery was harmful to young people who read them. This prompted the U.S. Congress to pressure comic book companies into establishing a self regulatory organization called the comic code. Recently there has been a review of Wertham's data from his case studies of comics. The following was originally posted over at the blog site Teaching High School Psychology:

BAM! WAP! KA-POW! Take THAT, poor research methodology!

Posted: 13 Feb 2013 11:57 AM PST

Librarians Assemble! Carol Tilley, media literacy professor at the University of Illinois, looked at the archival data from a study done by Psychiatrist Fredric Wertham, and figured out that his own data didn't support the conclusions he presented to the U.S. Senate!

"BAP! WAP! KA-POW! Library Prof bos doc who K.O.'d comic book industry"

This was back in the ol' days when comic books didn't have a great reputation Wertham told the Senate that comics might contribute to increases in violence, drug use, and "sexual deviancy" (as he defined it). 

Enter our hero: Carol Tilley swoops in and uses her super-archivist powers to look at Wetham's original case study notes and finds that he often didn't have much if any data to support his dramatic conclusions. POW! Take that, bad science!

Psychology teachers could use this as a compelling example of the importance of responsible data use by psychologists, and that research should be re-examined and continually peer-reviewed, especially when dealing with case study and other qualitative research that might be easily misrepresented. 

Look! Up in the sky! It's a lirbarian! It's a critical thinker! It's super-heroine Carol Tilley! 

image credit: http://news.illinois.edu/news/13/0211comics_CarolTilley.html
posted by Rob McEntarffer

Unit 8 Test

Hope everyone is studying and reviewing for tomorrow's Unit 8 Test. To help I have posted the notes in case you have missed anything. Also, many of you have asked for the answer to the sample intelligence test questions I gave you, so I included them below as well.

Thinking
Language
Intelligence

Intelligence Test Answers:

1. Friday

2. a. P Y The alternate letters starting with S spell

“silver anniversar,” and this sequence completes

the phrase “silver anniversary.”

3. 25

4. ANNIVERSARY

5. MENSA

6. b

7. b

8. b

9. TOM

10. HOUSE

11. JANE

12. 9 p.m.

13. b. Both grow in the ground.

14. a. Alternate numbers go up by 2 and down by 1,

starting with 1, and 10.

15. e is the only one that is not an artistic work made

by man.

16. PARACHUTE

17. 5

18. c

19. LAND

20. c. The number of lines goes down opposite the

stick, up on the side with the stick, and the stick

alternates from lower left to top right.

Respondents score one point for each correct

answer. They should add 5 points if they finished in less

than 20 minutes, and 3 points if in less than 30 minutes.

Scores range from 0 to 25. On the basis of the scores of

some Mensa members who took the test, Salny provides

the following interpretation of scores.

25 You’re an excellent Mensa candidate.

25–24 You can almost surely pass the Mensa

supervised test.

14–19 A very good candidate for Mensa.

10–13 A fair candidate.

Below 10 Everyone has an off day!

Side note:

An intelligence test does not measure drive, persistence,

creativity or any of the myriad other skills that often

count for more in achieving success out of school. A low

score on an I.Q. test does not mean probable failure in

life. All it means is that the person taking the test did

poorly on that particular test. Most of us do not spend

our lives in situations that can be measured by paperand-

pencil tests. Since this is so, scores obtained on such

tests should be viewed with some restraint if they are

high and with some skepticism if they are low. They

measure only one aspect of a total life pattern.