fandomhigh | Abnormal Psychology (Tuesday, 11/29/2005, 1:00 p.m.)

OOC: I have just started grading. For the sake of my sanity, this post is now CLOSED. A new psych post for Thursday's class will be going up shortly.

Jenny is sitting at the desk, laptop in front of her and sign-in sheet in front of the desk.

"Okay, guys, sign in, sit down, and take a look. Since your 100 word proposal was due today, I expect you guys aren't going to have any problems using them in the discussion. Be sure to let me know who you're partnered up with when you turn in your proposal." She gestures over at a series of bins. "Make-up homework goes ~~in the OCD threads I'll be creating shortly~~ there, guys."

On a projection screen in the front of the classroom is this image.

"Read through your handout on the Asch Conformity Experiment and the scientific method, and then start talking about a few things:

"First, how well does your experiment proposal translate into a hypothesis? Jack, Paige, your initial proposal included a hypothesis, so you're both a step ahead of the game. If it translates well, tell me why. If it doesn't, tell me why not." ETA: This goes in the Scientific Method discussion thread.

"Second, what's your prediction of the results of your experiments, guys?" ETA: This goes in the Scientific Method discussion thread.

"Third, check out the study in the handout. What do you think you would have done in the situation? Be honest with me. Not everyone here is a rugged nonconformist. And whatever answer you would have given? Tell me why in a 100 word essay. Turn it in ~~in the right comment thread~~ where the homework bin is or you won't get credit for it." ETA: Any discussion on this experiment goes in the Asch Conformity Experiment discussion thread. Your essay goes in the Current Homework thread.

"Now, I'm ~~creating an additional comment thread~~ sending out an e-mail to the class list for group discussion. This is partly for those of you that are going to be missing a class due to a scheduling conflict. This isn't intended for those of you who should be here to make up something--unless you come see me about getting an excused absence. Anyone who wants to earn some extra-credit, though, it'd be nice if you guys could do some discussion with the ones that are going to miss being in the class. Right? Any questions? I'll also be holding regular office hours. You can always turn in missing homework in my office if you'd rather."

"And guys?" Jenny looks over the class. "Don't make me hand out detentions for missing proposals. You've had two weeks to find a partner and come up with an idea and 100 words to explain it. Get them in to me by the end of class."

The Scientific Method
1. Observation and description of a phenomenon or group of phenomena.

2. Formulation of an hypothesis to explain the phenomena.

3. Use of the hypothesis to predict the existence of other phenomena, or to predict quantitatively the results of new observations.

4. Performance of experimental tests of the predictions by several independent experimenters and properly performed experiments.

OOC: Those with IC schedule conflicts (so far, the only ones I'm aware of are Callisto on Thursdays and Jessica on Tuesdays and Thursdays) and excused absences can post in the comment labeled 'e-mail' and it will count towards their attendance/participation grade. Please see me in Jenny's office hours--preferably with an IC note from the clinic--to get an excused absence.

Useful Links:
Jenny's Voice Mail
Jenny's E-Mail

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Jenny's got bagels and cream cheese sitting out by the attendance sheet.

Duce takes a bagel and schmears it before heading to a seat. She winces at the Asch conformity diagram, because seen through many sets of eyes, it's enough to induce a headache. The snakes, however, think it's clever.

Canine or not, Cameron pads into the room and barks his attendance, hoping Jenny got Spider's voice mail.

Jenny hasn't gotten any voice mail at all today.

"Hey, guy," she says, bending down to pet the dog. "Who let you off your leash today?"

You were in my Criminal Justice class earlier. Okay, who do I have Criminal Justice and Abnormal Psych with? Vala? Cam?

"This is a student?" asks Jenny incredulously?

Weirder than Sunnydale. Right.

"Okay, we've got a student who's a dog." Jenny stands back up and dusts her hands off. "Jack, you think it's Vala or Cameron?"

He barks again as his name is mentioned and happily starts wagging his tail again. Damn, but that thing is annoying.

"Cam?" Jenny grins, but holds in her laughter. "Okay, well, I guess you're stuck making up the discussion in e-mail. You want to stick around after class? Maybe we can hit the library and do some research, try and figure what happened to you?"

Cameron sits down and barks up at Miss Calender in agreement. He might have to get Dream to explain what happened to him to her.

Cameron barks once as Jack mentions his name.

Cameron's head droops as Jenny clearly doesn't know. He sighs and resignedly lets himself be petted.

Jack signs in, and nabs a bagel. He's having a good ~~day~~ ~~week~~ month. His life pretty much can't get any better. Accordingly, he beams at Ms. Calendar, hands in his overdue assignments [[in the OCD threads below]] and takes his seat secure in the knowledge that the universe loooooooves happy people and would neeeeeever mess up their lives.

If Jenny knew what Jack were thinking, she would blink, shake her head, and try not to be cynical about ~~being killed by Angelus within a few short hours of admitting to Rupert that she was in love with him~~ how things worked out for her in Sunnydale.

She just grins at Jack as he takes his seat.

Jonathan sadly signs in, he completely ignores the bagels.

Callisto signs in. She does not act like she's trying to be invisible. Really.

Faith signs in, looks at the bagels, thinks of yearbook food, discards this thought, considers that it is psych class, and decides not to risk it.

Jack signs in and takes a seat.

Broots signs in and nabs two bagels.

Anders signs in, and gets a very happy grin on his face at the sight of the bagels and cream cheese. He takes a bagel, slathers it generously with cream cheese, and eats half of it. The other half he saves very carefully.

Vala shows up, juggling papers ~~and somehow not noticing there's a wolf in class today or that her boyfriend's missing~~

~~Vala would probably be right at home in Sunnydale, then.~~

~~You have a point there~~

*signs in*

((ooc: Sorry about lateness, somehow missed it being posted last night.))

{{OOC: That's fine; I usually give a few days for the oddly timezoned people.}}

Mystique signs in.

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