Unit Activity and Investigation Links for General Psychology

Generally Useful Links

American Psychological Association
Association for Psychological Science
American Educational Reasearch Association
Psych Central
Educational Testing Service
Southwestern University Resource Listing
James Randi Educational Foundation
Snopes
Urban Legends
The Skeptic's Dictionary

The Federal Government's Home Page

Unit 1: Introduction to Psychology

• American Psychological Association
• Association for Psychological Science
• History and Philosophy of Psychology
• History of Psychology -- APA Division 26
• Environlink -- Science and environment related headlines

Unit 2: Neuroscience

• The Society for Neurosciences
• Neurosciences on the Internet -- a listing of topic areas, weblinks, and search tools
• The National Institues of Health homepage
• The Cognitive Neuroscience Society homepage
  Phineas Gage Information

Unit 3: Sensation & Perception

• The Joy of Visual Perception
• Magic Eye
• Vision and Art
• Parapsychology Association
• James Randi Educational Foundation
• Koestler Parapsychology Unit

Unit 4: Consciousness

• Eliza - an experiment in artificial intelligence
• NSF Center for Biological Timing
• Sleepy Bear Dream Interpretation Site
• The Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention
• The Society for Psychological Hypnosis -- APA Division 30 homepage
• Jim Maas's Powersleep Site
• The National Sleep Foundation
• The Sleep Well

Unit 5: Memory

• PsychWeb - Mind Tools: Memory
• Memory Training and Memory Improvement
• The Alzheimer's Association
• Therapeutic Recovery of Memory
• Memory and Reality - The False Memory Syndrome Foundation
• Information about Dr. Elizabeth Loftus and her work

Unit 6: Learning

• The APA Division of Behavioral Analysis
• The B.F. Skinner Foundation
• The Association for Behavior Analysis
• Information about Pavlovian Conditioning
• The Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition
• The Cognitive Science Society
• Operant Conditioning and Behaviorism
• Classics in the History of Psychology: Bandura's Bobo Doll Study
• Classic Articles on Behavioral Learning
• The Concept Mapping Home Page

Unit 7: Cognitive Psychology

• Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics: Language and Cognition
• Exploring Nonverbal Communication
• MAA Online: Research Sampler - what it takes to become an expert problem solver
• Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition
• The Thinking Page

Unit 8: Intelligence

• Classic Articles in Psychology - Studies of Intelligence
• Educational Testing Service
• IQ Tests a set of online tests you can try
• American Mensa: The High IQ Society
• A Guide to Artificial Intelligence Websites
• The Association for Retarded Citizens of the United States
• Roger von Oech's Creative Think Site

Unit 9: Motivation & Emotion

• Facial Analysis
• The Gottman Institute - Information on Relationships -- sometimes called the "Love Lab"
• Resources about Eating Disorders for Consumers - from the USDA

Unit 10: Personality

• Classic articles on Personality
• Personlaity Tests on the Web
• The Freud Museuhttp://www.freud.org.uk/m
• Temperament.com
• Humanlinks.com

Unit 11: Lifespan Development

• Classic Articles about Development
• Zero to Three
• The Jean Piaget Archives
• National Center for Early Development and Learning
• APA Division 7 -- Developmental Psychology
• Aging Research Center
• National Institute on Aging

Unit 12: Stress, Health, and Coping

• The American Institute of Stress
• The Association for Applied Psychology and Biofeedback
• Canadian Institute of Stress -- The Hans Selye Foundation

Unit 13: Psychological Disorders & Treatment

• The Obsessive-Compulsive Foundation
• Pendulum Gateway to Affective Disorders
• Depression.com
• APA Division 12: Clinical Psychology
• APA Division 17: Counseling Psychology
• Fear of Flying Clinic
• Center for Advanced Multimedia Psychotherapy
• The Albert Ellis Institute
• Psych Central

Unit 14: Social Psychology

• Classic Articles in Social Psychology
• Center for the Study of Group Processes
• The Social Psychology Network
• The Society for Personality and Social Psychology

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