Announcements

• The midsemester exam will be on Day 13, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 rather than on Day 12, Monday, 3 March 2008
  
  
• Good Luck!
  
  
  
• REM: Term Project (term paper/class presentation) Abstract, Outline, and Bibliography
  
  
  • this is not for the Case Study -- case study is next item
    
    
  • Paper (1) bibliography and (2) promissory abstract due to WebDrop <https://webdrop.d.umn.edu> by Friday, 7 March 2008

  Abstracts

  Maxine C. Hairston

  • Writing the Abstract
    
    
  • The Uses of Abstracts
    
    
  • Promissory Abstracts
    
    
    • Writing the Promissory Abstract
      
      
  • Summary Abstracts
    
    
    • Writing the Summary Abstract
      
      
  • Length of Abstracts

• REM: The Case Study is due by Friday, 28 March 2008, 12:59 p.m. , to WebDrop <https://webdrop.d.umn.edu>

Features of the Day

• Return Midsemester Examinations
  
  
  • eGradebook <http://www.d.umn.edu/egradebook>
  • grading
    • criteria for grading written works
    • " The Strike Zone "
      
      
      
      © Major League Baseball Properties, Inc.
    • " The Curve " 
  • UMD Grading Policies
  • proofreader's marks
  • Note: if you took or will take a exam, it may take several days for you to get your exam back
    
    
    
• Check:
  
  

Student Papers Session #1 -- Week 13 Day 26 -- 28 April 2008 Student Papers Session #2 -- Week 14 Day 27 -- 30 April 2008 Student Papers Session #3 -- Week 14 Day 28 -- 05 May 2008 Presentation Information and feedback

 

for your research papers try the UMD Library > Research Tools and Resources > Assignment Calculator <http://www.d.umn.edu/lib/assign/index.phtml> The Case Study is due by Friday, 28 March 2008, 12:59 p.m. , ( from today) The Term Paper is due by Friday, 9 May 2008, 12:59 p.m. , ( from today) Papers are due to WebDrop at <https://webdrop.d.umn.edu>




• REM: Term Project (term paper/class presentation) Abstract, Outline, and Bibliography
  • Paper (1) bibliography and (2) promissory abstract due to WebDrop <https://webdrop.d.umn.edu> by Friday, 7 March 2008
  • this is not for the Case Study -- case study is next item
    
    
    
• REM:, to WebDrop <https://webdrop.d.umn.edu> The Case Study is due by Friday, 28 March 2008, 12:59 p.m.
  
  
  
• Old Business
  
  
  
• Languages / Linguistics and Communication (slides)
  
  
  • phonemics
    • the study of basic sounds
  • phonetics
    • the study of sound units
  • morphemics
    • the study of how sound units combine to form "words"
  • syntatics
    • the study of rules of sentence and phrase structures
  • semantics
    • the study of meaning
  • kinesics
  • the study of "body language" -- motion
  • proxemics
    • the study of "body language" -- space
  
  
  
  • categorizing (stereotyping)?
  • Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
  • semantics
    • ethnosemantics?
    • ethnoscience?
    • "componential analysis"?
    • semantic domains
    • Anthropac?

Old Business

Assignments

• Read: Ch. 6, "Everyday Cognition," pp. 171-184
  
  
• Review: Ch. 4, "Perceptual and Cognitive Processes," 94-125

Notes

• Wednesday 27 February 2008: Ended with first section, "with ESP do you have concepts without percepts?"
• Monday 03 March 2008: Finished Old Business and Features of the Day, except for optical illusions, Basic concepts, Major Schools, and Review of Concepts

Announcements

• Thoughts Can Heal Your Body: At least 30% of treatments work because we believe they will -- Robert Moss (Parade, 9 March 2008)
  
  
  
• REM: Term Project (term paper/class presentation) Abstract, Outline, and Bibliography
  
  
  • this is not for the Case Study -- case study is next item
    
    
  • Paper (1) bibliography and (2) promissory abstract due to WebDrop <https://webdrop.d.umn.edu> by Friday, 7 March 2008

  Abstracts

  Maxine C. Hairston

  • Writing the Abstract
    
    
  • The Uses of Abstracts
    
    
  • Promissory Abstracts
    
    
    • Writing the Promissory Abstract
      
      
  • Summary Abstracts
    
    
    • Writing the Summary Abstract
      
      
  • Length of Abstracts

• REM: The Case Study is due by Friday, 28 March 2008, 12:59 p.m. , to WebDrop <https://webdrop.d.umn.edu>

Features of the Day

• Old Business
  
  
  
• linguistics and communication (cont.) (slides)
  
  
  • phonemics
  • the study of basic sounds
  • phonetics
    • the study of sound units
  • morphemics
    • the study of how sound units combine to form "words"
  • syntatics
    • the study of rules of sentence and phrase structures
  • semantics
    • the study of meaning
  • kinesics
    • the study of "body language" -- motion
  • proxemics
    • the study of "body language" -- space

Old Business

• Return Midsemester Examinations
  
  
  • eGradebook <http://www.d.umn.edu/egradebook>
  • grading
    • criteria for grading written works
    • " The Strike Zone "
      
      
      
      © Major League Baseball Properties, Inc.
    • " The Curve " 
  • UMD Grading Policies
  • proofreader's marks
  • Note: if you took or will take a exam, it may take several days for you to get your exam back
    
    
    
• Optical Illusions
  
  
  
• Review of "Basic Conceptions of Culture-Personality Relations" (after LeVine 1982)
  (handout)
  
  
• Revew of "Major Schools and Approaches of Psychological Anthropology" (Bock 1982)
  (handout)
  
  
  
• Main Terms, Concepts, Ideas and People in Culture and Personality Studies

• REM: Term Project (term paper/class presentation) Abstract, Outline, and Bibliography
  
  
  • this is not for the Case Study -- case study is next item
    
    
  • Paper (1) bibliography and (2) promissory abstract due to WebDrop <https://webdrop.d.umn.edu> by Friday, 7 March 2008

  Abstracts

  Maxine C. Hairston

  • Writing the Abstract
    
    
  • The Uses of Abstracts
    
    
  • Promissory Abstracts
    
    
    • Writing the Promissory Abstract
      
      
  • Summary Abstracts
    
    
    • Writing the Summary Abstract
      
      
  • Length of Abstracts

• REM: The Case Study is due by Friday, 28 March 2008, 12:59 p.m. , to WebDrop <https://webdrop.d.umn.edu>

Assignments

• Read: Ch. 6, "Everyday Cognition," pp. 185-197

Notes

• Monday 03 March 2008: Finished Old Business and Features of the Day, except for optical illusions, Basic concepts, Major Schools, and Review of Concepts
• Monday 10 March 2008: Finished linguistics and communication to #39 "Degeneration" (slides)