Medscape: Medscape Access. Almost no education research is replicated, new article shows. The word “replication” has, of late, set many a psychologist’s teeth on edge.
Experimental psychology is weathering a credibility crisis, with a flurry of fraud allegations and retracted papers. Marc Hauser, an evolutionary psychologist at Harvard University, left academe amid charges of scientific misconduct. Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel-Prize-winning psychologist at Princeton University, entered the fray in 2012 with a sharply worded email to his colleagues studying social priming. He warned of a “train wreck looming” that researchers would avoid only if they focused more diligently on replicating findings.
And the journal Social Psychology devoted its most recent issue to replication – and failed to replicate a number of high-profile findings in social psychology. Yet psychologists are not the worst offenders when it comes to replication, it turns out. Rarity of Replication. Hit-the-reset-button-in-your-brain. Photo THIS month, many Americans will take time off from work to go on vacation, catch up on household projects and simply be with family and friends.
And many of us will feel guilty for doing so. We will worry about all of the emails piling up at work, and in many cases continue to compulsively check email during our precious time off. But beware the false break. How to Break the Procrastination Habit - Robert Wright. New laws on marijuana were supposed to boost tax revenues and free up cops to go after “real” criminals.
But underground sales—and arrests—are still thriving. Opinion: For a more productive life, daydream. In 1990, a 25-year-old researcher for Amnesty International, stuck on a train stopped on the tracks between London and Manchester, stared out the window for hours.
To those around her, no doubt rustling newspapers and magazines, busily rifling through work, the young woman no doubt appeared to be little more than a space cadet, wasting her time, zoning out. But that woman came to be known as JK Rowling. And in those idle hours daydreaming out the train window, she has said that the entire plot of the magical Harry Potter series simply "fell into" her head.
Stanford University’s Carol Dweck on the Growth Mindset and Education. “You’re so talented!”
, “You are gifted – a natural!” , “You’re doing so well in school, you must be really smart!” – children receive these messages (or their negative counterparts), along with many other messages on a daily basis from their peers, parents and teachers. Are these just words or do they mean more? How are children affected by the words we use to praise, coach and criticize them? I recently met with Stanford University’s Carol S. Ms. OneDublin.org: What sparked your interest in the field of psychology? Carol Dweck: “I was always interested in people and why they do what they do, and that crystallized in college. HowStuffWorks "How Human Memory Works" The more you know about your memory, the better you'll understand how you can improve it.
Here's a basic overview of how your memory works and how aging affects your ability to remember. Your baby's first cry...the taste of your grandmother's molasses cookies...the scent of an ocean breeze. Try, try again? Study says no: Trying harder makes it more difficult to learn some aspects of language, neuroscientists find. When it comes to learning languages, adults and children have different strengths.
Adults excel at absorbing the vocabulary needed to navigate a grocery store or order food in a restaurant, but children have an uncanny ability to pick up on subtle nuances of language that often elude adults. Within months of living in a foreign country, a young child may speak a second language like a native speaker. Brain structure plays an important role in this "sensitive period" for learning language, which is believed to end around adolescence. The young brain is equipped with neural circuits that can analyze sounds and build a coherent set of rules for constructing words and sentences out of those sounds.
Brains Sweep Themselves Clean Of Toxins During Sleep. Katherine Streeter for NPR While the brain sleeps, it clears out harmful toxins, a process that may reduce the risk of Alzheimer's, researchers say.
During sleep, the flow of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain increases dramatically, washing away harmful waste proteins that build up between brain cells during waking hours, a study of mice found. "It's like a dishwasher," says Dr. Maiken Nedergaard, a professor of neurosurgery at the University of Rochester and an author of the study in Science. Dunlosky.pdf. Pomodoro Technique Illustrated. La Técnica Pomodoro no funciona. Ultimamente he visto varios artículos sobre la Técnica Pomodoro.
Aunque esta técnica puede funcionar en algunos casos, opino que es demasiado estricta e incluso puede perjudicar la concentración. ¿Qué es la Técnica Pomodoro? Técnica Pomodoro. La Técnica Pomodoro es un método para la administración del tiempo desarrollado por Francesco Cirillo a fines de los años 1980.[1] La técnica usa un reloj para dividir el tiempo dedicado a un trabajo en intervalos de 25 minutos -llamados 'pomodoros'- separados por pausas.
Relacionado con conceptos como timeboxing y desarrollo iterativo e incremental, usados en el desarrollo de software, el método ha sido adoptado en contextos de desarrollo ágil y Programación en pareja (pair programming)[2] además de otros contextos de trabajo. El método se basa en la idea de que las pausas frecuentes pueden mejorar la agilidad mental,[3] [4] y trata de ofrecer una respuesta eficaz frente al tiempo, en lugar del estado de ansiedad que suele provocar el "devenir" del tiempo, del que se habla en los escritos de Henri Bergson y Eugene Minkowski.
Los peligros de la procrastinación y cómo luchar contra ella. El portal sobre la procrastinación. Procrastinacion.org. Yoprocrastino.pdf. Procrastinación.