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Welcome
to the Web site of Marlowe C. Embree, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
University of Wisconsin -- Marathon County
Office #316
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Email me at marlowe.embree@uwc.edu (just click on the hyperlink and you're there!)
Phone: (715) 261-6252
Democracy requires of its citizens qualities that it cannot provide.
-- Jurgen Habermas
Site last updated: Wednesday, September 3, 2008
What's New?
Welcome to the fall semester! Read on for important information related to your course(s). By no later than Friday, September 5, you should have:
Familiarized yourself with the basic structure of this site so you can find your way around (including the ability to locate the online lecture notes for your course)
Read your course outline/syllabus, including the "general syllabus document" that applies to all courses
Read the text reading guide for week 1
Ushered in world peace and solved the global warming crisis (optional - for extra credit)
Office hours: 8:00-8:50 on Mon, Wed, Fri, and 8:00-10:50 Tue, or by appointment.
Weekly text reading guides: Approximately 25% of exam questions will be drawn from assigned text readings, whether or not that material has been specifically covered in lecture. To help you draw links between text and lecture, weekly reading guides will be posted online (click this hyperlink). These will be updated each Wednesday. Stay current!
PSY 250 students: If you have a class conflict related to the chemistry class (you know who you are), you will need to go to the companion course site on D2L (d2l.uwc.edu). Log in using your student username and password and then go to the PSY 250 Fall 2008 site (if you do not see a list of courses available to you on the D2L home page, click the "twistie" icon). Each week, this site will provide you with information about topics and assignments for that week. You will be expected to complete these additional assignments in exchange for not being in class every day. Email me with any questions or comments. (Right now the course site includes the first online discussion assignment, due no later than 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, September 7. This assignment requires that you have Windows Media Player or equivalent, so be aware of that if you are working off-campus. You will be prompted as to whether you want to open the file; click yes - it's safe.) If you do not have the chemistry course conflict, this material does not apply to you and should be ignored.
Coming soon:
Information about the NEW spring 2009 class in the psychology of religion (offered on campus as a COBE class for UWSP upper division credit)
General Course Information and Hyperlinks
Fall 2008
PSY 202 -- Introductory Psychology
M W F, 8:00-8:50 (sec 1) and 9:00-9:50 (sec 2)
Unit 3: Physiological psychology
Unit 4: Sensation and perception
Unit 5: Motivation and emotion
Unit 8: Cognition, intelligence, and psycholinguistics
Unit 9: Developmental psychology
Unit 10: Clinical psychology (diagnosis)
Unit 11: Clinical psychology (treatment)
PSY 250 -- Lifespan Development
M W F, 1:00-1:50 p.m.
Unit 2 - Genetics, heritability, and birth
Unit 3 - Infancy, toddlerhood, preschool
Unit 4 - Childhood and adolescence
Unit 5 - Young and middle adulthood
Unit 6 - Elderhood and thanatology
PSY 307 - Personality psychology
M W F, 2:00-2:50 p.m.
Unit 5 - Phenomenological school
Unit 6 - Cognitive and biomedical schools
Unit 7 - Noological school and the PPM
Unit 8 - Eclecticism and other matters
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
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.
Masthead quote:
Those who are familiar with my Web site know that the quote at the top of this page changes regularly. You may miss one of your favorite quotes and wonder where old quotes go to die. Click here for an archive.
