Psych Season 1 Complete Pack

The comedy-drama series focuses on Shawn Spencer (James Roday), a police consultant who pretends to be psychic, and his assistant Burton "Gus" Guster, a pharmaceuticals salesman. The season consisted of fifteen 43-minute episodes, which aired at 10:00 p.m. on Fridays. Franks conceived the idea for the show when producers at Columbia Pictures requested he pitch them ideas for a TV program while he was working on the film Big Daddy. Initially rejected, the concept was shelved for several years until Franks collaborated with Kulchak to create an hour-long TV show. USA Network picked up the program, initially ordering an eleven-episode season.

Psych Season 1 Complete Pack

Franks has cited multiple sources as inspiration for the show. His father, as well as multiple uncles, are former Los Angeles Police Department officers; Franks has given real-life experiences as direct inspiration for numerous events which occurred in the first season.[33][34] Franks later explained that his comedic inspiration for the program was that he always "thought it would be fun to apply my comic sensibility to a cop show".[34] He has since explained that the inspiration for the fake-psychic concept in the show was due to a longtime wish to write a show about a man with "no psychic abilities but just had a great grasp of details".[32][33] The program's unique comedy drama format has been explained by producers to have been inspired by several 1980s detective shows. A prominent source cited by executives and actors was the TV show Moonlighting.[32][35] Other sources include programs Remington Steele and Simon & Simon.[32][36]

Two actors received star billing for the first season, while three additional actors were considered part of the main cast. James Roday portrayed Shawn Spencer, a life-long slacker who uses his hyperobservant ability to claim he is a psychic.[37] Dulé Hill plays Burton "Gus" Guster, a pharmaceutical salesman who is Shawn's best friend. Timothy Omundson portrays detective Carlton Lassiter, the level-headed lead detective for the Santa Barbara Police Department, and Maggie Lawson represents Juliet O'Hara, the department's naive junior detective. Shawn's father, Henry Spencer, a former police officer, is played by Corbin Bernsen and Karen Vick, the pregnant interim police chief is portrayed by Kirsten Nelson. By August 30, James Roday and Dulé Hill had been cast to play the show's main characters.[81] The network also revealed that Corbin Bernsen had been cast as another of the show's major characters. On April 27, USA Network announced that Timothy Omundson and Kirsten Nelson would have starring roles in the episode.[82]

So, if you're a fan of this show, you'll like the way they've put together this package. And if you're not a fan, well, all we can say is get ready for the new season of Heroes and make sure you have your annotated Necronomicon handy."

The psych package is very powerful and provides a lot of results from just a single line of code. However, the documentation, while excellent in general, fails to note many pieces of output, or clearly explain it, at least, not without consulting other references (which are provided). Hopefully this saves others some time when they use it. I may add some other functions to explain in time, so check back at some point.

Welcome back! As we begin the new semester, it's important to know what resources and support are readily available to students. The Psychology Undergraduate Advising Office will be holding Drop-In hours which are great for addressing quick 5-10 minute questions or concerns related to psychology Majors/Minors. We hold Drop-In hours consecutively for the first two weeks of classes and will resume our regular Drop-In schedule starting Tuesday, January 31st. For a full appointment, please complete a request form or email our staff at psyadvis@umn.edu with questions.

Establishing stable norms is a huge endeavor and investment for test publishers but often complicated by the challenges in acquiring sizable and representative samples for the task. This paper discusses the continuous norming approach implemented in the cNORM package, an open-source R package. Continuous norming methods have been used by testing companies for decades; however, relatively few resources/publications have been available to psychometricians as best practices and guidelines. Most test publishers use proprietary software programs for norming and the practice is not openly discussed let alone distributed. To that end, the development of the cNORM package in R is very timely and commendable, and this paper in the current tutorial format seems well-suited for a wider dissemination of the methods and associated tools. I just have a few suggestions to potentially increase the acceptance of the methods/tools by test publishers and practitioners from the field.

Cognitive diagnosis models are very important psychometric tools in education, psychology and many other social sciences. This article introduces the first R package that combines CDM with adaptive testing and thus has important practical implications. I think the paper is well written, and I only have a few minor suggestions:

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