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Sustainability and the Psychologically Literate Citizen
No full textThe current ecological crisis is of enormous relevance to psychology teaching, as it is essentially a problem of human behaviour. Despite this, psychology has been slow to contribute. As a result, our environmental problems deepen, while our knowledge, skills and values as teachers of psychology remain largely untapped. This chapter urges psychology educators to consider how they can nurture the psychologically literate citizen through a focus on ecological sustainability. We present four case studies from New Zealand psychology departments. Two are laboratory exercises, one based on a social dilemma, the Tragedy of the Commons, and the other on perceptions of animal cognition. The third is a fourth year class that is open to students from different disciplines. The final case study is an action research and teaching project designed to create a sustainable school. Participating in these experiences highlights for students the ecological issues faced by people everywhere, how to cooperate in the sustainable and equitable use of resources, how cognitions and moral reasoning are affected by culture and how to use one’s psychological literacy to effect social change.http://librarysearch.auckland.ac.nz/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?fn=search&doc=uoa_voyager2186757&vid=UOA2_
Fostering psychologically literate citizens: A Canadian perspective
No full textThe chapter, "Fostering psychologically literate citizens: A Canadian perspective" was written by the listed authors including Steve Charlton (Douglas College Faculty). This chapter argues that a desired outcome of an undergraduate education in psychology should be the development of psychological literacy. Psychological literacy includes skills such as critical thinking, statistical literacy and numeracy, effective communication and the ability to apply psychological literacy to one’s life. The chapter further argues that students should be encouraged to develop into psychologically literate global citizens. This latter concept extends the notion of psychological literacy in that it further emphasizes social responsibility, ethical commitment and the application of psychological literacy at both a community and global level. To illustrate these concepts the chapter discusses how psychological literacy may manifest itself through some of the key social issues facing Canadians today: volunteerism, environmental sustainability, illicit drug use, health care, and multiculturalism and diversity. Methods and examples of how to foster psychological diversity are presented through classroom exercises, case study and curriculum development. --From publisher description.Psychologically literate global citizenPsychological literacyVolunteerismMedical literacyService learningPublished
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Witelson's dichhaptic task as a measure of hemispheric asymmetry in deaf and hearing populations
No full textSpecialization of the right hemisphere for spatial processing was examined in adults and in hearing and deaf children using Witelson's dichhaptic task. Right- and left-hand performance did not differ for any of the groups although a significant age difference in overall performance of hearing subjects was found. The former result calls into question the validity of Witelson's task
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Preexposure to contextual stimuli: Effects on startle responding in humans
No full textPrevious research with rats has shown that preexposure to the contextual stimuli of the experimental situation results in facilitated habituation of the startle reflex. These findings support the predictions of nonrepresentational theories of habituation (e.g., Groves & Thompson, 1970), and oppose the predictions of representational theories (e.g., Wagner, 1976). The current experiment was designed to test whether the same results could be obtained with humans. Twentyfour hours prior to the habituation test, one group of subjects (E-P) was exposed to the contextual stimuli of the experimental situation, a second group (C-E) was exposed to different contextual stimuli, and a third group (C-N) received no pretreatment. The habituation test consisted of two sessions of 15 startle-eliciting noise bursts. The P-E group responded less on the first trial of Session 2. This finding is suggestive of greater long-term response decrements in this group, and thus supports the nonrepresentational theories of habituation
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