By tim, on January 2nd, 2011 at 9:00 am I managed to get to the end of the reading and note making for block 1 of DD307 a couple of days ago. It felt mostly like a very, very long introduction, with chapters dedicated to the history of social psychology, the different epistemological stances and methods used and a brief overview of the topics that the British Psychological Society say make up the domain.
It means I now have to face writing my first essay of the year which needs to discuss the ways that different methods either limit, constrain and distort people’s experiences or to reflect their richness.
. . . → Read More: DD307 – Block 1 notes finished
By tim, on December 20th, 2010 at 9:41 pm I’ve finally finished making notes on the first chapter of Social Psychology Matters (in between removing all kinds of interesting malware from my daughter’s laptop). It was certainly an interesting read and laid out the starting positions for the critiques of ‘traditional’ social psychology that the course covers.
One area that was emphasised was the use of unrepresentative samples of participants in many social psychological experiments of past decades. For example, Erikson’s work on lifespan development only considered males and many North American social psychology studies confined themselves (and probably still do) to using only undergraduates as participants. Through the . . . → Read More: DD307 – first chapter down
By tim, on June 26th, 2010 at 1:32 pm Things I’ve done this week to avoid my brain exploding while trying to get through chapter 12 on reasoning.
Completed by hand my 2009-10 self-assessment tax return, made a trip to the post office to buy a 1st class large letter stamp and then posted it. That’s several months ahead of the deadline and if I’d chosen to do it electronically it’s even more months ahead of the deadline. (There’s a long and boring story as to why I refuse to file electronically which if you catch me in the bar at Residential School I’ll tell you all about if . . . → Read More: DD303 Week 19 – Reasons to be cheerful (part 3)
By tim, on June 19th, 2010 at 8:31 pm This week I’ve been working my way through chapter 11 on judgement and decision making. I’m glad to say that the horrors of chapter 9 on working memory are now fading into the distance. It’s a good thing that working memory is so short-term otherwise I’d still be being haunted by the gloop, gloop, gloop feeling I had as my brain turned to mush when trying to get through that week. Both chapters 10 and 11 have been a lot more interesting. After reading through all of the material on subjective expected utility (SEU) and Bayes’ Theorem, I was relieved . . . → Read More: DD303 – Week 18 – Decision time
By tim, on June 12th, 2010 at 11:04 pm I’ve finally managed to finish my notes for chapter 10 today, although I have read on into chapters 11 and 12 so I’m not quite as far behind the schedule as that might imply. In fact, I think I’m still pretty much on schedule at the moment, largely thanks to last week proper (17) having been a review week. I did think at the start of the course the number of review and ‘holiday’ weeks was very generous compared to those given on the level 2 OU courses I’ve done previously – but I’ve found I’ve needed them to stay . . . → Read More: DD303 – week 15
By tim, on May 31st, 2010 at 6:51 pm A couple of weeks behind the official schedule and I’ve managed to get through the chapter in the methods book on connectionism today. It’s quite interesting, particularly as there are a number of sample networks provided to help make sense of the examples they provide in the chapter.
All in all, a much better experience of teaching software than some of the other interactive learning aids the OU have provided on other courses. fOCUS II from ED209 still brings back memories of enormous frustration trying to code videos in a tiny little postage stamp sized window using a software package . . . → Read More: DD303 week 14 – making connections
By tim, on May 14th, 2010 at 8:46 pm It’s taken considerable effort every evening this week, but I’ve finally got to the end of chapter 9 on working memory. Phew! So I now have the weekend to think about my residential school project and to make a start on filling out the project proposal form. There’s a whole TMA’s worth of marks just for the completed proposal form. That seems a bit too straightforward somehow, especially after the torture of trying to understand the last two chapters.
The main thing DD303 has taught me so far is that if something looks as if it’s going to be straightforward . . . → Read More: DD303 week 13 – working memory (part 2)
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