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Seminar Readings

3/20: J. Jordan Hamson-Utley, PhD, ATC
Assistant Professor
Program in Athletic Training
Dept. of Health Promotion and Human Performance
Weber State University

Using Psychological Interventions with Injured Athletes: Attitudes & Effectiveness

Hamson-Utley, J. J., Martin, S., & Walters, J. (2008). Athletic trainers’ and physical therapists’ perceptions of the effectiveness of psychological skills within sport injury rehabilitation programs. Journal of Athletic Training, 43, 258–264

Hamson-Utley, J. J., & Vazquez, L. (2008). The comeback: Rehabilitating the psychological injury. Athletic Therapy Today, 13, 35-38.

Hamson-Utley J. J. (2007). Using mental imagery to improve the return from sport injury. Podium Sports Journal, 2,1.

Hamson-Utley, J. J., Martin, S., & Reneau, R. (2008). The effect of music, visual imagery, and guided Imagery on a pain pressure task. Poster presentation. (Click on "fit to page" in print menu)

These papers will be discussed in the talk.

4/10 RMPA Practice Talks and Posters

TBA

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1/23: Dianna Rangel, Ph.D.
Director, University Counseling Center
Weber State University

Doing Psychology in the Real World: Practice, Research, and Whatever Else Works.

American Psychological Association (2005). Statement on Evidence-based Practice in Psychology. Policy Statement on Evidence-Based Practice in Psychology. Approved by Council, August, 2005.

Dawes, R. M., Faust, D., & Meehl, P. E. (1989). Clinical versus actuarial judgment. Science, 243, 1668-1674.

Rosen, G., Glasgow, R., & Moore, T. (2003). Self help therapy: The science and business of giving psychology away. In S.O. Lilienfeld, S.J. Lynn, J.M. Lohr, (Eds.) Science and pseudoscience in clinical psychology (pp. 399-424). New York, NY US: Guilford Press.

2/6: Eric Amsel, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Department of Psychology
Weber State University

How Students Learn About the Scientific Nature of Psychology.

Amsel, E., Johnston, A., Alvarado, E., Kettering, J., Rankin, R., & Ward, M. (in press). The effect of perspective on misconceptions in psychology: A test of conceptual change theory. The Journal of Instructional Psychology.

Amsel, E., Frost, R. B., & Johnston, A. (Under Review). Misconceptions and conceptual change in undergraduate psychology students: The case of human uniqueness. Cognition and Instruction.

Amsel, E., Baird, T., & Ashley, A. (Under Review). Misconceptions and conceptual change in undergraduate students learning psychology. International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.

2/20: Adam Johnston, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Physics
Weber State University

Psychological Perspectives in Science Education

Demastes-Southerland, S., R. Good, et al. (1996). Patterns of conceptual change in evolution. Journal of Research in Science Teaching 33, 407-431.

diSessa, A. A. (2002). Why "conceptual ecology" is a good idea. In M. Limon & M. Lucia (Eds.) Reconsidering Conceptual Change: Issues in Theory and Practice (pp. 29 - 60). Dordrecht, The Netherlands, Kluwer Academic Publishers.

2/27: Sam Zeveloff, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Department of Zoology
Weber State University

Sexual Selection: Two Centuries of Darwin

Trivers, R. L. (1972). Parental investment and sexual selection, in B. Campbell (ed.) Sexual Selection and the Descent of Man (pp. 136-179). Chicago: Aldine-Atherton.

Trivers' paper presents the Parental Involvement Theory of sexual selection. It is technical but a worthwhile read!

Pinker, S (1997). How the mind works (pp. 460-493). New York, NY: W. W. Norton.

Pinker provides an very accessible presentation of evolutionary psychology's account of relations between men and women (pp. 460-476) and husbands and wives (476-493). Sexual selection and Triver's theory is explicitly discussed in the first part of the reading.

Background Readings.

Boul, K. E., Funk, W. C., Darst, C. R., Cannatella, D.C., & Ryan, M. J. (2007). Sexual selection drives speciation in an Amazonian frog. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London series B, 274, 399-406.

Zeveloff, S. I., & Boyce, M. S. (1980). Parental Investment and mating systems in mammals. Evolution, 4, 973-982.