Links for Tom and Michael's Intro Psychology class

Welcome to the internet resource site for Tom and Michael's Introduction to Psychology course.

Psych Web.

An excellent place to start an exploration of psychology. You can click on the link above to go to the site, or click on a specialized topic below:

• APA Style Resources
• Careers in Psychology by Marky Lloyd
• Find Anything by Russ Dewey
• Journals Armin Guenther's list of psychology journals on the web
• Megalists Other big psychology-related web sites
• Mind Tools by James Manktelow
• Self-Quiz for Introductory Psychology by Russ Dewey
• Tip Sheets for Psych Majors

Edu2: Psychology/Psychiatry

This site contains links to dozens of online courses and websites dealing with a variety of topics in psychology. You can click on the link above to go to the site, or click on a specialized topic below:

• Cognition
• Evolutionary psychology
• Experimental
• Geropsychology
• Introductions
• Learning
• Neuro
• Overview
• Perception
• Psychiatry
• Psychology
• Social
• Study_Help
• Tests

Cool links for daily class meetings for Tom and Michael's Intro Psychology class (created by Tom and Jennifer Elston), and for Intro Psych labs.

Links for Parapsychology

• Abstracts from recent Journal of Parapsychology issues (http://www.rhine.org/absmain.htm)
• Skeptical resources
  • The Skeptic's Dictionary. A great starting place for skeptical links.
  • Primenet Skeptical Links Has both skeptical and believer links. Lots of links. Another good starting place.
  • Skeptic's Society Web Site
  • Skeptic magazine

Links for the Biological Bases of Behavior:

• Institute for behavioral genetics at Colorado U. has lots of departments, but limited information.
• Human behavior and evolution society (http://157.242.64.83/hbes.htm) has many different articles about evolutions role in behavior, links to related web sites, and links to the homepages of researchers on the topic.
• Evolutionary psychology for the common person (http://www.evoyage.com/index.html) has easy to understand explanations, essays and recommended readings on evolutionary psych.

Links for brain and behavior:

• Neuropsychology central (http://www.premier.net/~cogito/neuropsy.html) Jen's favorite--this one’s got it all. Homepages, publications, newsletters, forums, and other good stuff.
• Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology (http://www.swets.nl/sps/journals/jcen.html) Includes links to training programs, abstracts and articles.
• APA Journal of Neuropsychology (http://www.apa.org/journals/neu.html) Abstracts from current issues.
• Dream Interpretation. OK, so it's total nonsense, but many of you were interested in dream interpretation, so go crazy!
  • Dream symbols by Swade. (http://www.swade.net/swadepages/dreamlst.htm)
  • An Introduction to Dream Interpretation. (http://www.avcweb.com/dreams/tutorial.htm)
  • In Search Of's Dream interpretation discussion list. (http://www.in-search-of.com/frames/dreams/sleeping/wwwboard.html)

Jen's links from class on 9/28:

• Genes and depression: (http://www.nami.org/research/resear3.htm) contains article on genes and the brains of murders, and articles on genes and other mental disorders.
• Depression central (http://www.psycom.net/depression.central.etiology.html) contains article on heredity vs. environment in depression and other related articles and discussions.
• Alcoholism and the environment: (http://www.mentalhealth.com/mag1/p5h-al11.html) article on heredity vs. environment in alcoholism.

Resources in Perception:

• Illusionworks. Describes itself as the most comprehensive collection of illusions on the web.
• Sandlot Science Optical Illusions

Resources in Learning and Conditioning:

• Try some sample mini-cases on conditioning and learning in preparation for Tuesday's exam.
• Journal of applied behavior analysis (http://www.envmed.rochester.edu/wwwrap/behavior/jaba/jabahome.htm): selected articles on behaviorism and learning from current and past issues, mostly relating to society. A few selected articles from the society for the analysis of behavior.
• B.F. Skinner foundation (http://www.lafayette.edu/allanr/skinner.html), includes and autobiography of skinners life.
• J. Nichols class on learning (http://www.tulsa.oklahoma.net/~jnichols/learning.html) links to tons of sites about learning theory, interesting and different sites.
• Jen's link's from class on 9/2:
  • Phobias (http://www.sonic.net/~fredd/treat.html) short page on the treatment of phobias
  • Treatment of phobias (http://www.psych.org/public_info/phobias.html#treatment) contains information on symptoms, treatments and types of phobias.

  Animal training:

  • See how animal training at Seaworld is done.
  • Another very good resource, especially on conditioned reinforcement, is Karen Prior's Frequently Asked Questions about Clicker training at her Don't Shoot the Dog site.

  Social learning theory:

  • anger (http://www.cmhc.com/psyhelp/chap7/chap7e.htm)
  • Bandura’s theory (http://galton.psych.nwu.edu/greatideas/cogsocial.html)

Tom's notes on Ethology from class 10/21.

Here are a couple of sites you can go to and find out a little more about executive order 9099 and the relocation of Japanese Americans in 1942:

• The Japanese American internment site,
  
• The University of Washington's Japanese American Exhibit and Access Project, and
  
• The Santa Clara Japanese American site.

Resources for memory:

Jen's favorite memory site -- Exploratorium: The Memory Exhibition (http://www.exploratorium.edu/memory/index.html)

One of the most hotly contested areas of psychology in the last few years has been the reliability of recovered memories. Here are some relevant links:

• False Memory Syndrome Foundation (FMSF) homepage. (http://advicom.com/~fitz/fmsf/) Includes links to their newsletter, articles on the subject and an explanation of what the syndrome is. Also includes frequently asked Q and A’s.
• The Multiple Personality resource Center argues against the FMSF. (http://www.asarian.org/~astraea/abuse/fmindex.html) Their Main home page is worth a visit.
• Childhood memories Q&A. (http://www.apa.org/pubinfo/mem.html)
• Delson-Kokish Associates (http://www.northcoast.com/~dka/caution.htm) present a pro/con discussion of FMS. They also list several relevant sites. (http://www.northcoast.com/~dka/sites.htm) They counsel victims, so evaluate their site in light of their viewpoint as expressed on their main page. (http://www.northcoast.com/~dka/)

Resources for Developmental Psychology--attachment:

• Attachment: Theory and Research @ Stony Brook (http://www.psy.sunysb.edu/ewaters/index.htm) has current articles on attachment theory.
• Attachment research center (http://rdz.stjohns.edu/lists/bowlby-l/ARChome.html) has information on bowlby’s attachment theory and biography.

Social influence

• Diffusion of responsibility. Article on diffusion of responsibility, and links to a lot of other articles on social influence.
• Stanford Prison Experiment. Philip Zimbardo’s page about his classic study on obedience. Be sure to check out the Zimnet site to see some of the other work by Zimardo.
• The Prisoner's Dilemma page on the Constitution Society's web site has lots of links about the classic game theory contest.
• Cooperation and the Prisoner's Dilemma
• The Prisoner's Dilemma issue in THE ETHICAL SPECTACLE has several short articles about aspects of the game.
• Peoples Temple (Jonestown)
• The Jonestown Massacre: CIA Mind Control Run Amok? excerpted from 60 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time. The paranoid view of Jonestown.
• Jonestown: Examining the Peoples Temple kind of rambles but has lots of information and links.
• The original Heaven's Gate web site. Well worth a look.
• Where's Weirdo, a game based on the Heaven's gate cult (no kidding!).

Social learning theory:

• anger (http://www.cmhc.com/psyhelp/chap7/chap7e.htm)
• Bandura’s theory (http://galton.psych.nwu.edu/greatideas/cogsocial.html)

Links on the Inner Life:

• PBS' That's My Theory! is a quiz show that lets you try to guess who the real Sigmund Freud is. Who are the two other mystery guests?
• the association for humanistic psychology (http://ahpweb.org/index.html)
• lots of info on Erikson (http://snycorva.cortland.edu/~ANDERSMD/ERIK/bio.html)
• article on transference and children (http://wawhite.org/Review/colm.html)