Ecological Psychology

From Drmills

Ecological Psychology

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Note: This is a private wiki for the use of LMU Psyc 515 students only.

1 Class Projects
2 Work due every 2 weeks
3 Class grade roster
4 General writing and editing guidelines
5 General wiki editing information
6 How to edit here at this wiki using the WYSIWYG editor
7 How to edit here at this wiki using Wikitext formatting code
- 7.1 Using Word2MediaWikiPlus to convert Word documents to Wikitext
- 7.2 Other converters
8 Collaborating with classmates
9 Some research source materials available from Dr. Mills
10 Portfolio due dates
11 List of contributors and their portfolios

Class Projects

Article wiki -- a scholarly, formal review article written for the psychological science community. Use general wikipedia formatting (see below for links with information about this), except use APA referencing style for references in the text, and in the reference list. Note: this project has been cancelled for this semester. -- Dr. Mills.

Book wiki -- a wiki book written for the layperson, with rich graphics and links to additional resources. Again, use general wikipedia formatting (see below for links with information about this), except use APA referencing style for references in the text, and in the reference list.

Note: Your contributions to the book and article will be evaluated using this rating sheet.

Class blog -- add your blog posts to the top of the blog post page (also, add it to your portfolio page).
Your blog posts can be just about anything you want to write that is relevant to our topics. Your posts might include a running narrative of your personal reactions to what your are learning, your opinions about things, a brief review of an article or book you found interesting, additional material that you wrote that was not included in the wiki because it was too detailed or too specific, etc. And, any combination of the above. You can blog about pretty much anything you want. You can even blog about others' blog posts. So, tap into your creativity. This blog is open to the web, so don't include personal information that you do not want the entire world to have access to.

Class email group: http://groups.google.com/group/ecopsych To post to group via email: ecopsych@googlegroups.com
The purpose of the class email group is to facilitate online sharing of information, discussions, and to get feedback from your peers about your writing contributions. What to post to the class email group? Any of the following: comments or questions, links to information, coordinating collaborative work -- anything related to the class. Each time you add a significant contribution to one of our wikis (other than minor edits), post it to the class email group. You are highly encouraged to give each other feedback on their posts. While the Blog is more about your personal reactions, the Email Group is more public and designed to share information, and have an online conversation with each other.

Panel Presentations-- See the link for instructions. Note: For this class, you will not have to create a readings "cliff notes" summary. Also, for the article (or chapter) summary, you will not need to create an article summary or outline. Otherwise, follow the instructions as noted.

Work due every 2 weeks

Your writing contributions will be due every 2 weeks, on Fridays at 5pm. I will let you know via email, and in class annoucements, when the next contributions to your portfolio is due.

When you have a close to final draft of your contribution to the wiki book and wiki article, post these to our email group and ask for feedback from your peers. If you do this several days before it is due, you might be able to get some helpful feedback from your classmates (or me).

In addition, before you post your contributions to your portfolio page, make an appointment to meet with a writing tutor at the Library Learning Rescource Center. The person to contact is Ann Stenglein, 338-2726, astengle@lmu.edu . Bring a printout of your wiki book and article contribution to the meeting, and the writing tutor will review your contributions with you, and make suggestions for edits. Have the tutor stamp your paper with the LRC stamp. To get credit for meeting with the tutor, give me the stamped paper at our next class session. If you don't meet with the tutor before your portfolio contributions are due, you will be docked 2/3rds of a grade (say, from a B+ to a B-) for that portfolio.

Before the portfolio deadline, copy all of your contributions (formal article, wiki book, blog post, and your email post) to your portfolio page. In your protfolio, include the section outline heading from the wiki artcile and wiki book above your contribution(s) to indicate where in the outline your work will be inserted. Separate your bi-monthly portfolio contributions by a horizontal line, and label them in order (Portfolio #1, Portfolio #2, etc.).

In addition to coping material to your portfolio, you must also copy:

your article contribution to the formal article wiki page (once we begin that project)
your wiki book contribution to the wiki book page
your blog post to the class blog wiki page
also, remember to copy your reference list to the References pages of the wiki book and article, as appropriate. Insert each reference in the list in alphabetical order. Use APA referencing style.

If you don't make the Friday, 5:00 deadline, you will be docked 1/3rd of a grade for each day late (revision dates are recorded on the "history" tab of your portfolio page).

After the due date, I will grade your portfolio contributions for the previous 2 weeks, and offer suggestions for revisions (in red) on your portfolio page. If you make the suggested edits and revisions before the next portfolio due date, I'll increase your grade by up to 2/3rds of a grade (say, from a B- to a B+). When you have completed your revisions, email me to let me know. You can check the class roster for your grades.

To retain formatting when you copy and paste material from one place to another:

When you copy and paste from one place to another on the wiki to another (e.g., from your Portfolio to the wiki book or class blog) you need to copy the Wikitext, rather than the WYSIWYG text (which will lose formatting). To see the wiki text, click on the Edit button at the top of the wiki page from which you want to copy material. Click on the "Wikitext" button. Copy the material to the clipboard. Go to the wiki page where you want to paste the material. Click on the Edit button, click on the "Wikitext" button, and the paste the material in the appropriate section.

Class grade roster

To check on your grades so far in the course, see the class roster.

Your lowest grade will be dropped at the end of the course. You final grade in the course will be the average of the remaining grades.

General writing and editing guidelines

Your writing contributions will be evaluated by these criteria:
- discovered, integrated and synthesized relevant information about the topic
- critical analysis of information (of both corroborating and non-corroborating evidence)
- conclusions based on evidence, especially empirical evidence, not simply opinion
- written in an impartial, objective tone
- the contribution fits in well with the existing outline and material
- writing is of high quality: interesting, flows, analytic, good argumentation, organized
- used APA style referencing appropriately (including reference list)

For the wiki book only:
- included relevant graphics (tables, histograms, photos, etc.).
- included a list of relevant external web links for more information (add at the bottom of the section you are editing)

How to insert images:

All images (graphics, diagrams, photos, etc.) must reside externally to this wiki. Do not upload any images here. Instead, insert the full web address of the web image you would like to insert. To find the full web address of an external image on another website that you would like to insert, go to the website that has the image, right click on the image, and then click "Copy Image Location" (in Windows -- I'm not sure how to do this on a Mac...). This will copy the the full web address of the image to your clipboard. You can then paste it to the wiki page you are editing. (If you have a photo or graphic that you have created yourself, you will need to upload it to another website (.e.g, flicr.com, etc.), and then link to it.)

For example, to insert the image below, I simply copied the full web address of the image (note, you will need to click the "Edit" button to the above right, then click the "Wikitext" button above to see the actual web address of the source image, instead of the image itself):

An extinct yeast colony with poor ecological management skills

Source: drmillslmu.com/peakoil.htm

Immediately below the image, indicate the Source: the website page of the image (but without the name of the image itself). Use the wiki formatting code to do this properly (click on the "Wikitext" button above to see the wikitext code). If you have trouble with linking to the source web page, at least include the link that is as close as possible to the web page where the image resides.

Resources:

List of Writing Reference Sites
APA Style: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APA_style
APA Style (lots of good links): http://www.lib.wsc.ma.edu/citation.htm#APA
Wikipedia Style: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style
Other Wikipedia style guidelines: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_style_guidelines
The Elements of Style (online)http://www.crockford.com/wrrrld/style.html
Research resources: http://degreedirectory.org/articles/Top_Reference_Sites_for_Creating_a_Research_Paper.htm
Your first article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Your_first_article
Neutral Point of View (NPOV) -- your writing should "represent fairly and, as much as possible, without bias all significant views (that have been published by reliable sources)" (from the wikipedia page on this topic).

General wiki editing information

Apparently two people cannot be editing the wiki at the same time (even if they are editing different sections) without causing a conflict (which is difficult to fix).

I suggest that you write your contributions off line (in Word, etc.), and, when you are ready to post to the wiki, do so quickly. Avoid spending long stretches of time editing the wiki. If you have to do that, try to click Save often -- so if someone else does log in and try to save, you won't lose all of your editing work.

Unless you use a Word to Wikitext converter (see below), when you copy and paste from your home editor (Word, etc.) to our wiki you will lose all formatting (bold, italics, etc.). So you might need to spend a little time re-doing that formatting using the wiki WYSIWYG editor (or, use the Wikitext formatting code). Or, in your Word document, edit a purely text file (without formatting) but include the Wikitext formatting codes (for example, for bold text, surround the text to be bolded by three apostropies, : bold), then copy and paste to the wiki. Here is a cheat sheet for the wikitext codes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cheatsheet

How to edit here at this wiki using the WYSIWYG editor

Edit as you would using any editor, using the buttons on the editing bar. To save your work, scroll down to the bottom of the outer window, and click "Save Page."

Always edit by clicking on the section edit link, not the Edit tab at the top of the page. It is much easier and faster to edit a smaller section than the whole page. Also, if the WYSIWYG editor screws up (see warning below), it is easier to roll back a section edit to a previous version.

WARNING: The WYSIWYG editor apparently has some bugs. If you find that it has really screwed things up, click on the "history" tab (at the top of the page), and then click "undo." If you have problems editing with the WYSIWYG editor, edit using the Wikitext markup instead (see next section).

How to edit here at this wiki using Wikitext formatting code

Then, click on the "Wikitext" button in the upper left.

Here are some resources to get you started:

Slide Show: http://www.slideshare.net/doctorwiki/askdrwikicom-wikitext-tutoral/
Editing: [1]
Tutorial:[2]
Cheat Sheet: [3]
General tools: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tools

Using Word2MediaWikiPlus to convert Word documents to Wikitext

Word2MediaWikiPlus is a Word macro that you can install in Word. It will place a new button on your Word Toolbar. When you click the button, it will covert the current open Word document into Wikitext. You can then copy and paste the Wikitext to our class Wiki. This will allow you to work in Word, and, when you transfer your work to our Wiki, you will not lose your document formatting (bold, italics, etc.). If you would like to try this, follow the instructions below:

Download the Word2MediaWikiPlus from:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=189402&package_id=221877

Unzip the file on your computer.

Open Word, then open the file:

Word2MediaWikiPlus_Installer.doc

In Word, click on Tools / click Macro / click Security

Make the changes noted (under Security set to Medium / under "Trusted Publishers" put a check in the checkbox for "Trust access to Visual Basic Project").

Click on the "Install or update macro" button.

You will see a new button on your Word icons "Covert to Wiki."

Reset the Macro security options to their original settings:

In Word, click on Tools / click Macro / click Security

Set Security to back to High / under "Trusted Publishers" clear the check box for "Trust access to Visual Basic Project".

Click OK.

Work on your wiki contribution(s) in Word.

When you are ready to covert your Word document to Wikitext, click on the new "Convert to Wiki" button on your Word toolbar. Then click the "Convert" button (at the bottom right).

You will see the program doing the conversion to your document. It will also open a web browser window and try to upload it, but it will fail to do so. Just close that web browser window.

Your document is now covered to Wikitext. Copy it to the clipboard. Log in to our class wiki, go to where you want to paste your contribution. Click on Edit, then click on Wikitext. Paste your contribution to the appropriate place. Click on "Save".

Other converters

I have not used any of the below, but here they are for your information:

More Word to Wikitext converters:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tools/Editing_tools#From_Microsoft_Word

HTML to Wikitext converters:

Collaborating with classmates

Interested in collaborating with a classmate(s)? If so, indicate the topic(s) that interest you, and your name and email below:

Some research source materials available from Dr. Mills

If you are interested in one of these book chapters as a one reading resource for one of your portfolios, email me or stop by my office.

Evolutionary Perspectives in Environmental Problems,by Dustin J. Penn and Iver Mysterud, editors

Introduction: The Evolutionary Roots of Our Ecological Crisis Dustin J. Penn Iver Mysterud 1
Human Nature and Resource Conservation
Human Behavioural Ecology and Conservation Joel T. Heinen Bobbi S. Low 9
The Evolved Psychological Apparatus of Human Decision-Making is One Source of Environmental Problems Margo Wilson Martin Daly Stephen Gordon 31 The Ecological Noble Savage Hypothesis
Game Conservation or Efficient Hunting? Raymond Hames 53
Behavioral Ecology of Conservation in Traditional Societies Bobbi S. Low 67
Evolutionary Ecology and Resource Conservation Michael S. Alvard 81
The Tragedy of the Commons
The Tragedy of the Unmanaged Commons Garrett Hardin 105
Closing the Commons: Cooperation for Gain or Restraint? Lore M. Ruttan 109
Revisiting the Commons: Local Lessons, Global Challenges Elinor Ostrom Joanna Burger Christopher B. Field Richard B. Norgaard David Policansky 129
Grassland Conservation and the Pastoralist Commons Monique Borgerhoff Mulder Lore M. Ruttan 141
The Evolution of Discounting and Conspicuous Consumption
Conserving Resources for Children Alan R. Rogers 157
Two Truths about Discounting and Their Environmental Consequences Norman Henderson William J. Sutherland 165
Sex Differences in Valuations of the Environment? Margo Wilson Martin Daly Stephen Gordon Adelle Pratt 169
The Evolutionary of Magnanimity: When is It Better to Give than to Receive? James L. Boone 183
Overpopulation and Fertility Declines
Evolutionary Economics of Human Reproduction Alan R. Rogers 201
More Status or More Children? Social Status, Fertility Reduction, and Long-Term Fitness James L. Boone Karen L. Kessler 219
The Demographic Transition: Are We Any Closer to an Evolutionary Explanation? Monique Borgerhoff Mulder 237
Biophilia
Biophilia and the Conservation Ethic Edward O. Wilson 249
Human Behavioral Ecology: 140 Years without Darwin is Too Long Gordon H. Orians 259
Conclusion: Integrating the Biological and Social Sciences to Address Environmental Problems Iver Mysterud Dustin J. Penn 281

Ecological Psychology: Creating a More Earth-Friendly Human Nature by George S. Howard
Chapter
1 On a Certain Blindness in Humans 5
2 Psychology and World Overpopulation 11
3 Already Dead? 28
4 Sustainability in an Increasingly Toxic World 35
5 The Business of Ecology 44
6 Combating Killer Thoughts 54

Pt. II Act Locally 63
7 The Light Bulb Kid 66
8 Habits at First Are Silken Threads 71
9 Recycling Trashy Systems 81
10 Cheap Is Beautiful: Is Your Money Working as Hard as You Are? 93
11 Water, Water Everywhere: But Is It Safe to Drink? 105
Epilogue: Changing Human Nature 117

Psychology of Environmental Problems by Deborah Winter, Susan M. Koger

Ch. 1 What on Earth Are We Doing? 1
Ch. 2 Freudian Psychology 27
Ch. 3 Social Psychology 55
Ch. 4 Behavioral Psychology 87
Ch. 5 Physiological and Health Psychology 121
Ch. 6 Cognitive Psychology 154
Ch. 7 Holistic Approaches: Gestalt and Ecopsychology 185
Ch. 8 Putting It Together: Using Psychology to Build a Sustainable World 211

Psychology and Environmental Change by Raymond S. Nickerson

Chapter
1 Introduction 1
2 The Problem 12
3 Behavior as a Cause of Environmental Change 47
4 Attitude Assessment and Change 72
5 Changing Behavior 91
6 Technology Enhancement 118
7 Substituting Resource-Light for Resource-Heavy Technologies 137
8 Artifact Design and Evaluation 148
9 Consumption, Consumerism, and Environmental Economics 159
10 Risk and the Psychology of Prevention 172
11 Cost-Benefit and Tradeoff Analyses 185
12 Competition, Cooperation, Negotiation and Policymaking 203
13 Concluding Comments 215