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Beagle147 (profile) wrote,
on 6-8-2004 at 12:53am
Current mood: frustrated
Music: "Buddy Holly" -Weezer
I am kind of at the end of my rope with a few things that have been going on for the past few months. I am tired. I am tired of high school drama. Aw, fuck it, I'm tired of middle school drama. This is some fucked up shit, and it's not what I need to deal with right now. Someone get back to me when we all start acting like 17 year olds again.

On another note, I talked to mr. gilbert today after practice about private lessons and explained to him that I called a bunch of music stores in the phone book about them, three of which responded with "what's a marimba?" So he shook his head and said lemme give you a number. I'll teach you. So tomorrow I'm gonna call him and set up lessons to learn how to play right over the summer. Last year it was just kinda a quest to learn the notes as accurately and quickly as possible, and I lost some of the fundamentals. So I need to start from square one I think to improve and succeed this year. And I can't do that with 15 other people or whatever. I'm not going to waste everyone's time with my lack of experience on the instrument.

I have to start research for my extended essay. Amanda, if you have some names of experiments from psych handy about the leading questions and whatnot, I'd appreciate it. Otherwise don't worry about it. No biggie...just figured if you knew some off hand, you know.

The bolts took Lord Stanley's Cup. Good for them. They had a few players on there that I was happy to see get the cup, although I was rooting for the flames. It was more of a 60-40 favoring of the flames than a die hard calgary fan thing. I'm only die hard for the red wings when it comes to hockey. Don't even get me started on football though, and my Eagles. This is their year guys. The Eagles are gonna take the superbowl. Although, I must say, I'm pissed off that we lost thrash and deuce. Shame.
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DragonSpeaker

06-09-04 12:02am

Score, someone has need of my wealth of... useless knowledge! (Besides Alex Trebek, that is.) You have called on the right geek- I mean, freak. Errr, same difference.

Anyway, some people you should look up would include Patricia Kuhl, who did lots of research on how leading questions can distort and create memories of abuse in children. You should also do a little research into hypnosis and how people that have been "put under" sometimes "recovered" memories of abuse and things due to leading questions posed by the analysts. That would lead you to a bit of Freud and how some of his patients supposedly were cured by talking about these recoveries... You might also want to delve into a bit of Asch (Asche? Not sure on the spelling). He did experiments on conformity, i.e. when the psychologist conspires with all but one member of a group to give the wrong answer to his question, the other person often gives it too although they know it is incorrect. Kuhl is the best though. If you find some of her stuff, it will probably also include names of people she worked with and in turn to their works.

APA - for the official psych site, which actually has some useful links and search whatnot.

Oh, and if you do an actual experiment, you need this:

Informed Consent - so you don't get caught up in the law. It's much easier to use their forms and tweak them than to make your own. x.X

This site rocks the psychological socks too: Rawr. There is a link called Memory that has tons of stuff.

Another thing I recommend is kidnapping one of the textbooks from Davis, but I don't know if it's worth risking your limbs over.

I think I used to know more...
but now I don't.

XD Good luck!

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Beagle147

Re:, 06-09-04 11:14am

Amanda, you're my hero.

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Anonymous

06-09-04 5:44pm

Agree with you about the drama. SOMEONE needs an intervention, hinthintnudgenudge say no more :-D...yeah research is good, so naturally im not doing any of it :-D

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