Blogs and Websites
Here is a collection of websites and blogs.
If you know of anything that you can add to the list - please tell us via the form on the home page. The links will open in a new window.
Teaching High School Psychology Blog - This US blog posts regularly with links to some fantastic resources - you can subscribe to the blog via email.
Psychology Today is a magazine, blog, psychology resource. You could spend quite a bit of time exploring the magazine articles, blog articles and topic streams.
In Mind - Quarterly online Social Psychology magazine.
Psychlotron Teaching Resource Bank - This is a free resource sharing site for teachers and lecturers. The resources are primarily aimed at those teaching the British AS and A2 level Psychology specifications although they will be useful to anyone teaching introductory courses in Psychology. All resources are offered free of charge.
VCE exams - A great resource
Psychwiki- Some excellent information on psychology - I recommend the Research Process section.
All about Psychology - Looks like a dodgy site, but it has quite a few interesting resources.
Personality Pedagogy - A wiki resource for the teaching of personality psychology
Resource Exchange - PsychExchange An amazing searchable resource full of powerpoints, pdfs, doc, videos etc.
The Secret life of the Brain - History of the Brain, Brain Scanning, 3D Brain images and Video Resources
Introductory Psychology Resources This website has been designed to foster cooperation between Introductory Psychology Professors. Most of the pages are wiki-based so that contributions may be made by multiple parties. Please feel free to use these resources and make any additions that may be helpful
Optimism: Never Ever Give Up This You Tube video (2 minutes and 42 seconds long) tells the story of a young man who lived a hard life (his mother died when he was young, he had no education, lost jobs, etc.). At the very end of the video we find out that this young man was Abraham Lincoln.
McDonald’s Advertisements and Culture: I’m Loving It The McDonald’s famous I’m Loving it campaign looks different, depending on the culture in which the ad is targeted. For example, in India the ad features more collectivistic values: A father and son share a bonding moment. In the individualistic United States, the ads most often feature a person alone. Würtz (2005) explains all about cultural differences and advertisements and this companion website includes many illustrations of McDonald’s Ads from China, Japan, India, and the United States.
Extroversion and Introversion: The Eysenck Lemon Juice Experiment The BBC website provides instructions and a simple way to replicate this classic experiment.
Emotions: Spot the Fake Smile Can you tell which smiles are genuine and which are fake? Take this 10-minute test, based on the research of Paul Ekman, in which you watch brief video clips of 20 people smiling.
Conditioning at Mickey D's "What do parents do, at a fast food restaurant, to encourage desirable behaviors and discourage undesirable behaviors? Are the principles of operant conditioning being used?" Check out Raymond Rogoway's clever assignment for understanding and applying principles of conditioning.
Barnum Effect Feedback Take this test to remind yourself why good personality tests should provide specific feedback...and why horoscopes are so much fun! See also this explanation of the Barnum Effect.
Self-Esteem Games Mark Baldwin and his colleagues at McGill University have developed games to help people increase their self-esteem based on psychological research. Visit this site to play one of three self-esteem games, to participate in their online research or to learn more about what they do.
Skinner, B.F.: That's My Theory! Sigmund Freud and two other personality psychologists -- Skinner and Maslow -- are guests on this online game show developed by PBS. Learn about all three theorists through the answers they give.
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/2007-11/memory/foer-text.html -The November National Geographic features an article on memory. The website version of the article has a 3-D brain graphic that explains remembering and forgetting in healthy and diseased brains. It's very impressive and should make a good learning tool. --submitted by Stephen L. Chew, PhD Samford University, Alabama
Watson's Classical Conditioning of Little Albert
Children see Children do http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JfHB2cruJU
PsychMate® is a library of experiments designed to provide a means for exposing students to classic and current experiments in psychology, as well as to teach students about research methods and data collection. Students participate in real experiments, not simple demonstrations or simulations! PsychMate® enables students to take part in 30 classic and current psychology experiments, and see immediate plots and tables of their own real data