As a school psychologist, I have had to call for CPS for "procedural" stupid things, as well as real ones. For the most part, they have demonstrated appropriate responses for the situation. There are appropriate times for immediate removal without the procedure you suggest. For example, when a single parent was beating the 6 year old (closed fist, bruises on the face and body) for making their own dinner when they had not eaten since breakfast.
I would like to point out that, by using these supports, you are becoming mindful of, and acquiring new behaviors. Given sufficient time, repetition, and success, they will become new, adaptive behaviors and eventually habits - assuming you are not prompting/reminding yourself to do maladaptive behaviors. This is not outsourcing self-control, but enhancing it to help with skill acquisition. During development we had external supports to learn many things such as tying shoes, learning trig, and so on, eventually we internalized these processes. This is simply an electronic means of doing so.
retention is surely not the answer - and not for the strawman of self-esteem - but because it increases drop-out rates ( possibly due to many aspects of learning and personality that i bet covary with self-esteem, such as self-efficacy and self-control)
http://www.nasponline.org/about_nasp/pospaper_graderetent.aspx
furthermore, this is why early intervention has become so important - catching failure at kindergarten and first grade for reading, and somewhat later for math skills is critical to ensuring low drop-out rates, and later ability to master sequential/subsequent information.
this is really dead on, although i have my phd, i still find myself thinking "shouldn't i know more about XXXXX phenomena?' of course, then i go and do the research... maybe that is the distinguishing feature, but then again, i think many of the non-phd folks here do the same.
in the situation of a scary looking stripper at a bachelor party, i just told her i was gay and sat on my friends lap, which by the way i am not, but it worked fine for the moment!
hey, as a former semi-pro drummer (i paid for grad school playing in bands,)i find the drums on rock band to be exceedingly hard. I am curious, do guitarists have similar difficulty playing guitar? I can't play guitar for crap in real-life, but it's totally easy on rockband... funny.
I agree whole-heartedly, after hearing water gurgling and babbling in a brook three days ago, I haven't been able to bring myself to drink it, as I believe it may be sentient. I am getting very thirsty though, so I don't know how long I will be able to refrain from the carnage and water-shed. (pun intended)
okay, they are annoying, but how many of us have gotten jobs through recruiters? most of us i'd venture to say. not there aren't bottom feeders in a any profession...
well, actually, it's kind of like groupthink, but groupthink has to do with charismatic leaders. the current article is actually a bit more related to production-blocking im(not so)ho.
i just my adt system to stop answering my phone with "system on." they deny that there service ever does such a thing, yet, it occurs with my system as well as a number of buddies who have adt. no discernible pattern to when the system picks up...
a guy that deals with nanotubes is going to have a difficult time understanding the relative size of a problem, and blows it all out of proportion. Nanotubes are small... you know- kinda like atoms, we don't worry about atoms do we? silly.
Diane Rehm, the NPR interviewer has this disorder and does 1-2 hours of show every weekday. scott is hardly the first to recover function, unless he means completely typical function (i couldn't decide which he meant after RTFA.)i hope for his sake it is a permanent, full recovery.
I think you are very on-track. However, I disagree that the content, insofar as the banality and commercialism, have much to do with it. I think the wave of targeting video-media (e.g., Baby Einstein) and programming (e.g., Sprout, PBS-Kids) with very stimulating, very short programs that maintain attention extraordinarily well, decrease the amount of time children engage in reciprocal social interactions, thus decreasing opportunity for neural connections to be made that regulate such social interaction. Without access to highly stimulating programming, children may be more inclined to actively turn to a sibling or parent for stimulation, whereas a child seated in front of a monitor can passively receive a similar level of stimulation without the social component.
Well of course the "lunar landing" rocks were similar to Earth's, they were from Earth. It is accepted fact that we never went to the moon. The present analyses simply add more support to this fact. Oh, and if you want to know my credentials, as IANAA (the last part can be astronomer or astronaut- take your pick) I watch Fox, and that is where I get all my current information, everything else is in my Bible. You can't imagine how much I have saved on bookcases and moving expenses over the years by only reading and owning one book.
very similar experience. i think there are a few factors at work. genetic predisposition/stress, and the way you "get used to processing and attending to information.
the more stressed i am, and the more involved in my work, the less i am able to focus on smaller details such as attending to other's emotional needs. i suspect that it has to do with the amount of cognitive resources available. this is consistent with a theory in psychology, called the diathesis-stress model, wherein people are observed to have a predisposition for certain pathologies or behaviors, which are more likely to occur under stress.
I suspect that analytical work, while appearing to be equally taxing on the surface, actually requires more "cognitive-use-of-resources" than more social professions like marketing and sales. accordingly, we have fewer resources left over to attend to subtle cues.
reminds of the greg bear book, "bloodmusic" in which a biologist hacks lifeforms that start out as essentially tiny intelligent parasites, but eventually realize they no longer need people to survive, and get rid of them as superfluous.
After being issued a challenge by a MENSA member during a heated debate, I was administered an IQ test, scored high enough to get in, and said, "No thank-you." The look on the MENSA member's face was pretty priceless, as in "... now why don't you want to pay dues to join our elitist club?"
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As a school psychologist, I have had to call for CPS for "procedural" stupid things, as well as real ones. For the most part, they have demonstrated appropriate responses for the situation. There are appropriate times for immediate removal without the procedure you suggest. For example, when a single parent was beating the 6 year old (closed fist, bruises on the face and body) for making their own dinner when they had not eaten since breakfast.
I would like to point out that, by using these supports, you are becoming mindful of, and acquiring new behaviors. Given sufficient time, repetition, and success, they will become new, adaptive behaviors and eventually habits - assuming you are not prompting/reminding yourself to do maladaptive behaviors. This is not outsourcing self-control, but enhancing it to help with skill acquisition. During development we had external supports to learn many things such as tying shoes, learning trig, and so on, eventually we internalized these processes. This is simply an electronic means of doing so.
retention is surely not the answer - and not for the strawman of self-esteem - but because it increases drop-out rates ( possibly due to many aspects of learning and personality that i bet covary with self-esteem, such as self-efficacy and self-control) http://www.nasponline.org/about_nasp/pospaper_graderetent.aspx furthermore, this is why early intervention has become so important - catching failure at kindergarten and first grade for reading, and somewhat later for math skills is critical to ensuring low drop-out rates, and later ability to master sequential/subsequent information.
this is really dead on, although i have my phd, i still find myself thinking "shouldn't i know more about XXXXX phenomena?' of course, then i go and do the research... maybe that is the distinguishing feature, but then again, i think many of the non-phd folks here do the same.
so to clarify, only wrong about being wrong?
don't you mean your bedroom in your mom's basement?
in the situation of a scary looking stripper at a bachelor party, i just told her i was gay and sat on my friends lap, which by the way i am not, but it worked fine for the moment!
now i need a new periodic table
he can't play a slate? as in tabula rasa? how odd. after 30 years of drums or so, i never played one either. however, i have played tabla...
hey, as a former semi-pro drummer (i paid for grad school playing in bands,)i find the drums on rock band to be exceedingly hard. I am curious, do guitarists have similar difficulty playing guitar? I can't play guitar for crap in real-life, but it's totally easy on rockband... funny.
I agree whole-heartedly, after hearing water gurgling and babbling in a brook three days ago, I haven't been able to bring myself to drink it, as I believe it may be sentient. I am getting very thirsty though, so I don't know how long I will be able to refrain from the carnage and water-shed. (pun intended)
okay, they are annoying, but how many of us have gotten jobs through recruiters? most of us i'd venture to say. not there aren't bottom feeders in a any profession...
perhaps they spanked it too hard.
well, actually, it's kind of like groupthink, but groupthink has to do with charismatic leaders. the current article is actually a bit more related to production-blocking im(not so)ho.
i just my adt system to stop answering my phone with "system on." they deny that there service ever does such a thing, yet, it occurs with my system as well as a number of buddies who have adt. no discernible pattern to when the system picks up...
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a guy that deals with nanotubes is going to have a difficult time understanding the relative size of a problem, and blows it all out of proportion. Nanotubes are small... you know- kinda like atoms, we don't worry about atoms do we? silly.
nope - didn't know that...
Diane Rehm, the NPR interviewer has this disorder and does 1-2 hours of show every weekday. scott is hardly the first to recover function, unless he means completely typical function (i couldn't decide which he meant after RTFA.)i hope for his sake it is a permanent, full recovery.
I think you are very on-track. However, I disagree that the content, insofar as the banality and commercialism, have much to do with it. I think the wave of targeting video-media (e.g., Baby Einstein) and programming (e.g., Sprout, PBS-Kids) with very stimulating, very short programs that maintain attention extraordinarily well, decrease the amount of time children engage in reciprocal social interactions, thus decreasing opportunity for neural connections to be made that regulate such social interaction. Without access to highly stimulating programming, children may be more inclined to actively turn to a sibling or parent for stimulation, whereas a child seated in front of a monitor can passively receive a similar level of stimulation without the social component.
- scary.
Well of course the "lunar landing" rocks were similar to Earth's, they were from Earth. It is accepted fact that we never went to the moon. The present analyses simply add more support to this fact. Oh, and if you want to know my credentials, as IANAA (the last part can be astronomer or astronaut- take your pick) I watch Fox, and that is where I get all my current information, everything else is in my Bible. You can't imagine how much I have saved on bookcases and moving expenses over the years by only reading and owning one book.
actually, on the Jetson's, Jane puts on a fake "done-up" face to answer the videophone when she looks like hell.
very similar experience. i think there are a few factors at work. genetic predisposition/stress, and the way you "get used to processing and attending to information.
the more stressed i am, and the more involved in my work, the less i am able to focus on smaller details such as attending to other's emotional needs. i suspect that it has to do with the amount of cognitive resources available. this is consistent with a theory in psychology, called the diathesis-stress model, wherein people are observed to have a predisposition for certain pathologies or behaviors, which are more likely to occur under stress.
I suspect that analytical work, while appearing to be equally taxing on the surface, actually requires more "cognitive-use-of-resources" than more social professions like marketing and sales. accordingly, we have fewer resources left over to attend to subtle cues.
reminds of the greg bear book, "bloodmusic" in which a biologist hacks lifeforms that start out as essentially tiny intelligent parasites, but eventually realize they no longer need people to survive, and get rid of them as superfluous.
After being issued a challenge by a MENSA member during a heated debate, I was administered an IQ test, scored high enough to get in, and said, "No thank-you." The look on the MENSA member's face was pretty priceless, as in "... now why don't you want to pay dues to join our elitist club?"