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Welcome
to the Web site of Marlowe C. Embree, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
University of Wisconsin -- Marathon County
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Email me at marlowe.embree@uwc.edu (just click on the hyperlink and you're there!)
Phone: (715) 261-6252
To be afraid of ideas, any idea, is to be unfit for self-government.
-- Alexander Meiklejohn
Site last updated: Friday, November 20, 2009
What's New?
We WILL be having class on Monday, November 23, as regularly scheduled. I was able to work out the other situation.
Student evaluations are coming in early December. Check here for details (I am guesstimating that they will occur on Wednesday, December 2). Please plan to be in class for this important activity. Your opinion is valued (especially if I agree with it, but even if I don't).
Office hour cancellations: Due to off-campus appointments, office hours for Tue. 11/24 will be cancelled. My apologies for any inconvenience. I will be checking email throughout that day, as circumstances permit.
PSY 202 students, here is a list of technical terms for the upcoming (11/20) unit exam. And here is a revised set of Unit 8 notes that more closely match what we covered in lecture. Note: due to some pre-existing commitments over the coming weekend, I will probably not be able to return the graded exams until Wed. 11/25. Sorry for any inconvenience. -- Quiz #6 will be available the morning of 11/18. Both this quiz and Discussion #6 are due no later than 5 p.m. on Monday 11/23.
PSY 250 students, I finally figured out what was causing the page number problems and have fixed that problem. A new reading guide will be posted here soon (tomorrow or early next week). Look for it.
PSY 307 students (I will leave this here for students who arranged in advance to take the exam late), a study guide for the upcoming (11/18) unit exam can be found here (covers text reading material also). The study guide has been slightly revised as of 11/16. Also check out this set of notes related to lecture material on analog vs. digital communication (ignore the second half of the notes, which addresses issues we did not cover in this class).
PSY 307 students, see this new link which now forms part of the Unit 6 lecture notes. It's complicated material, so you might want to review it before we get to this lecture (which will probably take place on or around Nov. 30 or Dec. 2).
Results of my research project can now be found online (this link). This is a general summary for student consumption, so it does not include the usual material (formal literature review with citations, detailed statistical tests) that will be presented in the research article I am writing for publication on this topic.
How does personality type relate to the Edward de Bono cognitive modes? My data collection indicates a significant, and theoretically consistent, pattern of correlations between the Myers-Briggs personality dimensions and the de Bono cognitive modes, as follows:
Impressive, I think, given that respondents (PSY 202 students) had completed the MBTI some weeks before but had been given no explanation of what the MBTI was about, so did not have a theoretical understanding that could guide their responses to the Six Hat inventory.
General Announcements
Office hours: 8:00-8:50 daily, plus 9:00-9:50 Tuesdays. The Friday office hour each week will be held in the Writing Center. Exceptions (due to scheduled meetings and the like) will be posted on this Web site and on my office door. If these hours don't work for you, you can schedule an appointment with me at another mutually convenient time, or use email.
Coursecasting: This semester, I will be part of UWMC's pilot "coursecasting" program. PSY 202 lectures will be audio recorded and turned into online-accessible audio files. The audio files can be found here (posted within one business day of each live class); scroll down to the link for your class, then click on the desired lecture file. This is not a substitute for attending class, but is a useful study/review resource. I'll be eager to learn what students think about this technological innovation. By the way, I hate how I sound on tape.
Course Information and Hyperlinks
Fall 2009
Note that the General Syllabus Document is part of the official syllabus for all courses.
PSY 202 -- Introductory Psychology (section 1, 9:00-9:50 MWF; section 2: 10:00-10:50 MWF)
Course Syllabus (note that some of the assignments for this course are found on the D2L course site - log in and go to Fall '09 PSY 202)
Unit 3: Physiological psychology
Unit 4: Sensation and perception
Unit 5: Motivation and emotion
Unit 8: Cognition, intelligence, and psycholinguistics
Unit 9: Developmental psychology
PSY 250 -- Lifespan Development (1:00-1:50 MWF)
Unit 1: Introduction; research methods
Unit 2: Genetics, prenatal development, and birth
Unit 4: Middle childhood through adolescence
Unit 5: Young adulthood through midlife
Unit 6: Elderhood; gerontology and thanatology
PSY 307 -- Psychology of Personality (2:00-2:50 MWF)
Unit 5: Phenomenological school
Unit 6: Cognitive and biomedical schools
Unit 7: Noological school and the positive psychology movement
Unit 8: Eclecticism, modernism and postmodernism, and other loose ends
General Resources for Students and Others
Strategies for student success:
Identifying Your Learning Style:
Identifying Your Instructor's Type (and related expectations)
How To Be An Effective Student
Strategies for career success:
Careers in Psychology Resources
Revitalizing the Leader in You
Becoming a Catalyst for Change
Solving Life Problems using the Six Hats
Getting Better at Weak Cognitive Modes ("Hats")
Dr. Embree's book Self-Managing Your Career
Strategies for a variety of other things:
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner -- with apologies to Sidney Poitier, who's just going to have to take it
Why I Am A Dualist -- for those with a philosophical bent, which can easily ossify if you aren't careful, so try to straighten yourself out, please
A Social Psychologist's Search for Purple America -- a bit dated now, but of interest as a historical curiosity
Kendra's Window -- a stab at psychologically informed fiction
The Social Psychology of Green -- how to change the world starting locally
Carl Jung and Religion/Spirituality -- part of a much longer article I am currently developing on type and religion for the Journal of Psychological Type... might be of interest to some readers
Psychology in action: (a look at Web resources of possible interest)
Are you addicted to caffeine? Caffeine addiction will probably be included as an official clinical syndrome in the new version of the DSM. Check out the hyperlink to find out why... and what you can do about it. The best part of waking up is decaf in your cup!
How long will you live? Check out this cutting-edge Web site for a scientifically grounded estimate of your marginal life expectancy... and what you can do to live longer if you don't like your score.
Are our brains wired for belief? Check out what the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life has to say about this question. (This is the transcript of an interdisciplinary forum and, as such, represents a wide range of differing views on the subject - some of which I find congenial, others not. So don't take this site as representative of my own views, which are a secret. I could tell you what they are, but then I'd have to kill you.)
About the instructor
My educational background includes a B.A. in psychology from the University of Denver and a Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. My work history includes roles as a college teacher, project researcher, outplacement counselor, and small business owner including twelve years' recent experience as a career management consultant.
I think of myself as a cognitive-dispositionalist and nonreductionist with a strong idiographic and noological orientation (if this already means something to you, you ought to do well in the class). My diverse and growing research interests include the relationship between personality diversity and discipline-specific academic performance; personality and cognitive style correlates of student worldview development; relationships between religion, politics, and personality; generational influences on longitudinal personality development; and more.
In my spare time, I am an ailurophile, alpha geek wannabee, INFP, part-time iconoclast, prototypical member of Strauss and Howe's Idealist generation, and avid viewer of Law and Order reruns. I am a past recipient of the Dave Greenberger Memorial Desk Award. My grade school nickname was "Wooden Head". I am the only person in the Wausau area to celebrate Waitangi Day each year. I have memorized the William Butler Yeats poem "The Choice" in its entirety (all eight lines). I collect wheat ear pennies, play chess badly, am a former couch potato, have studied five foreign languages (with minimal fluency at best in any), am a crypto-Dooyeweerdian, and agree with G. K. Chesterton that anything worth doing is worth doing badly.
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