Helpful Links
Brain Links
Behaviorism
Random Sites
Introduction
Interview with Scott Lillenfeld, author of 50 Myths of Popular Psychology, on The Psych Files:
Discovering Psychology: History of Psychology
History of Psychology
http://psychology.okstate.edu/museum/history/ (Links to an external site.)
Centre for Psychology Resources
http://psych.athabascau.ca/html/aupr/history.shtml (Links to an external site.)
Classics in the history of psychology
http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/ (Links to an external site.)
Benjamin, L.T., Baker, D.B. (2004) From séance to science: A history of the profession of psychology in America. Wadsworth Publishing: Connecticut.
Benjamin, L.T. (2006) A History of Psychology in Letters. Willey-Blackwell: New Jersey.
Research Methods
Teach Psych Science
http://teachpsychscience.org/ (Links to an external site.)
Understanding Correlation
http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~west/applets/rplot.html (Links to an external site.)
Stats Simplified
http://www.stats.org/faq.htm (Links to an external site.)
Scientific American Frontiers: Water, Water, Everywhere
Biology
Neuroscience for Kids
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/neurok.html (Links to an external site.)
3-D Brain Anatomy
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/brain/3d/ (Links to an external site.)
Parts of Brain demo:
http://www.traumaticbraininjuryatoz.org/Interactive-Brain.aspx (Links to an external site.)
http://www.learner.org/discoveringpsychology/brain/brain_flash.html (Links to an external site.)
http://thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/index_d.html (Links to an external site.)
Secret Life of the Brain
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/brain/ (Links to an external site.)
Teacher Animations: Neurobiology
http://outreach.mcb.harvard.edu/animations.htm (Links to an external site.)
DOPAMINE and drug interactions
Cocaine (Links to an external site.) (aGOnists) - http://www.thirteen.org/closetohome/animation/coca-anim.html (Links to an external site.)
Genes to Cognition
http://www.g2conline.org/2022 (Links to an external site.)
SPLIT BRAIN GAME (to help your students review this concept)
http://nobelprize.org/educational/medicine/split-brain/index.html (Links to an external site.)
HEMISPHERES/SPLIT BRAIN
And there is the Psych Sim which covers hemispheres - very informative
Students can go here http://bcs.worthpublishers.com/gray/content/psychsim5/launcher.html (Links to an external site.)
and click "Hemispheric Specialization" or go directly to-
Scientific American Frontiers: Pieces of Mind
The Man with Two Brains
Stroop effect
http://www.123opticalillusions.com/pages/opticalillusions36.php (Links to an external site.)
http://psych.pomona.edu/illusions/stroop1.html (Links to an external site.)
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/java/ready.html (Links to an external site.)
HORMONES
Endocrine hormone game (Links to an external site.) - http://www.zerobio.com/drag_oa/endo.htm
Mysteries of the Brain (Best of Today series)
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/41653635/ns/today-today_health/ (Links to an external site.)
Pinky & the Brain: Brainstem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snO68aJTOpM (Links to an external site.)
Consciousness
Nova: What are dreams?
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/what-are-dreams.html (Links to an external site.)
Rusty the Narcoleptic dog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zVCYdrw-1o&mode=related&search (Links to an external site.)
Sensation/Perception
“Another One Bites the Dust”
http://douglasbernstein.com/downloads/index.html (Links to an external site.)
Brain Games
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/brain-games/ (Links to an external site.)
Mosquito ring tone
http://www.freemosquitoringtone.org/ (Links to an external site.)
Scientific American Frontiers: Why are peppers hot?
60 Minutes: Face Blindness (Prosopagnosia)
Part 1:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxqsBk7Wn-Y (Links to an external site.)
The Brain Teaching Modules #10: Inverted Vision (4:54). http://www.learner.org/resources/series142.html?pop=yes&pid=1578 (Links to an external site.)
Development
Genetic Science Learning Center: University of Utah
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/ (Links to an external site.)
David Reimer: The Boy who Lived as a Girl
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/reimer/ (Links to an external site.)
Chaz Bono on GMA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGr8vl0vlfg (Links to an external site.)
Mnemonic for Erikson’s Psychosocial Stages
Object Permanence: Family Guy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmggsuJvxuI (Links to an external site.)
Frontline: Inside the Teenage Brain
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/teenbrain/ (Links to an external site.)
The Secret Life of the Brain
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/brain/ (Links to an external site.)
Learning
Jaws Theme
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvCI-gNK_y4 (Links to an external site.)
Classical conditioning at BGSU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo7jcI8fAuI&feature=fvsr (Links to an external site.)
Jim conditioning Dwight on “The Office”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE8pFWP5QDM&feature=related (Links to an external site.)
Pavlov’s Dog
http://www.nobelprize.org/educational/medicine/pavlov/ (Links to an external site.)
A New Twist in the Sad Saga of Little Albert
Penny being conditioned on “The Big Bang Theory”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euINCrDbbD4&feature=related (Links to an external site.)
Positive Reinforcement Activity
http://psych.athabascau.ca/html/prtut/frames/adapt/frames.html (Links to an external site.)
Bandura’s Bobo Doll
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr0OTCVtHbU&feature=related (Links to an external site.)
Children see. Children do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHi2dxSf9hw (Links to an external site.)
Memory
60 Minutes “Endless Memory”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zTkBgHNsWM (Links to an external site.)
Pinky & the Brain: States & Capitals
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snO68aJTOpM (Links to an external site.)
San Francisco Exploratorium: Memory Exhibit
http://www.exploratorium.edu/memory/ (Links to an external site.)
60 Minutes: Picking Cotton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkBiaI9PSQU (Links to an external site.)
Intelligence
MENSA Workout
http://www.mensa.org/workout.php (Links to an external site.)
Human Intelligence
http://www.indiana.edu/~intell/
Detailed History of IQ
Source: http://www.aceintelligence.com/detailed_history_of_iq.php
Multiple Intelligence Inventory
http://surfaquarium.com/MI/inventory.htm (Links to an external site.)
http://www.wisconsinmedicalsociety.org/savant_syndrome (Links to an external site.)
Motivation & Emotion
Emotions Revealed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PFqzYoKkCc (Links to an external site.)
Microexpressions (Lie detection)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXm6YbXxSYk
Personality
Silent films of Freud
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8axgCuXjGS4 (Links to an external site.)
Jung typology test, shortened version of MMPI
http://humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htm (Links to an external site.)
Society for Personality and Social Psychology
http://www.spsp.org (Links to an external site.)
Abnormal Psych & Therapy
Janssen’s simulation of schizophrenia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWYwckFrksg (Links to an external site.)
Phobia List
http://phobialist.com/ (Links to an external site.)
National Institute on Mental Health (NIMH)
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/index.shtml (Links to an external site.)
The World of Abnormal Psychology
http://www.learner.org/resources/series60.html (Links to an external site.)
Medicine Net Slide Shows
http://www.medicinenet.com/slideshows/article.htm (Links to an external site.)
Anxiety Disorders Association of America
http //www.adaa.org/ (Links to an external site.)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Self-Help Brochures
http://www.counselingcenter.illinois.edu/?page_id=7 (Links to an external site.)
Social Psychology
The Bystander Effect (from “The Human Zoo”)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSsPfbup0ac&feature=related (Links to an external site.)
Aggression; Fried Green Tomatoes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx0z9FjxP-Y (Links to an external site.)
Candid Camera; “Face the Rear”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge6wmDfsHXA (Links to an external site.)
ABC News: “Would you obey a total stranger?”
http://abcnews.go.com/WhatWouldYouDo/video/obey-total-stranger-7165482 (Links to an external site.)
ABC News: “The Science of Evil”
Recreation of Milgram’s experiment (150 volts).
http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/video/science-evil-2769000 (Links to an external site.)
Interview with Dr. Zimbardo on Democracy Now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0jYx8nwjFQ (Links to an external site.)
Discovering Psychology: The Power of the Situation, stream for free at: http://www.learner.org/resources/series138.htm (Links to an external site.)
The Stanford Prison Experiment;
http://www.prisonexp.org/ (Links to an external site.)
The Lucifer Effect
http://lucifereffect.com/ (Links to an external site.)
“Power turns good soldiers into ‘bad apples’”
Boston Globe editorial by Philip Zimbardo (2004)
General Resources
Teaching High School Psychology Blog
http://teachinghighschoolpsychology.blogspot.com/ (Links to an external site.)
Teachers of Psychology in Secondary Schools (TOPSS)
http://www.apa.org/ed/precollege/topss/index.aspx (Links to an external site.)
Critical Thinking Companion
Halonen, J. & Gray, C. (2001) The Critical Thinking Companion for Introductory Psychology, 2nd ed. New York: Worth Publishing.
Psych Exchange
http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/index.php (Links to an external site.)
Medicine Net Slide Shows
http://www.medicinenet.com/slideshows/article.htm (Links to an external site.)
Iowa Teachers of Psychology Teaching Resources
http://www.uni.edu/walsh/teachresources.html (Links to an external site.)
Clips for Class
http://www.clipsforclass.com/ (Links to an external site.)
The AP Psychology Commune
http://www.appsychology.com/ (Links to an external site.)
Psychlotron Teaching Resource Bank
http://psychlotron.org.uk/ (Links to an external site.)
Society for the Teaching of Psychology
http://teachpsych.org/ (Links to an external site.)
Social Psychology Network
http://www.socialpsychology.org/teaching.htm (Links to an external site.)
Course Resources on the Web: Social Psychology
http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/ (Links to an external site.)
Teach Psych Science
http://www.teachpsychscience.org/ (Links to an external site.)
Scientific American: 60 second mind
TOPIX: OTRP Teaching of Psychology Idea Exchange
http://topix.teachpsych.org/w/page/19980993/FrontPage (Links to an external site.)
Linda Walsh’s Homepage
http://www.uni.edu/walsh/ (Links to an external site.)
Scientific American Frontiers
http://www.pbs.org/saf/index.html (Links to an external site.)
The Brain Teaching Modules
http://www.learner.org/resources/series142.html (Links to an external site.)
The Mind Teaching Modules
http://www.learner.org/resources/series150.html (Links to an external site.)
Discovering Psychology
http://www.learner.org/resources/series138.html (Links to an external site.)
Introductory Psychology Image Bank
http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/intro/ibank/set1.htm (Links to an external site.)
Swope Ed. Links http://www.swopepsych.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=51&Itemid=336