- MIT researcher Deb Roy wanted to understand how his infant son learned language
- He wired up his house with video cameras to catch 8 to 10 hours of video a day of his son’s life
- He then parsed 90,000 hours of this home video to find out how the word “ga ga” slowly turn into the word “water”
- Additionally, he and his team developed new ways to use motion analysis (space-time worms) to view how and where his son moved throughout the house
This is a video of Alan Baddeley explaining the development of his working memory model.
Aug 212011
Jul 082011
If you’ve ever had trouble trying to decipher the APA manual, try this brilliant APA resource from Purdue instead!
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/2/10/
This site “will help you learn how to use the American Psychological Association (APA) citation and format style. This section contains resources on in-text citation and the References page, as well as APA sample papers, slide presentations, and the APA classroom poster.”
Jun 162011
This is a Nobel Prize sponsored video on some of the latest scientific research on the biological workings of memory.
This is a TED video of brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor’s account of her experiences during a massive stroke. During the stroke she observed the shutting down of her brain functions.
Click the link below to download some examples of syllabi used for introductory human factors/ergonomics (HF/E) courses. There are some other good educational resources on this page and linked pages as well:
http://www.hfes.org/web/EducationalResources/educresourcesmain.html
May 312011
Click the link below for the American Psychological Association’s (APA) Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct:
The Classics in the History of Psychology website is an effort to make the full texts of a large number of historically significant public domain documents from the scholarly literature of psychology and allied disciplines available on the Internet.
There are now over 25 books and about 200 articles and chapters on-line. The site also contains links to over 200 relevant works posted at other sites.
