Psychology
Web
sites for AS Psychology / General
www.garysturt.freeonline.co.uk
This site has been designed by a Psychology teacher
At Colchester Sixth form college. Click on the OCR logo to enter
and then on the Key Studies logo. You will find quite detailed accounts
of all 20 studies here.
www.laburnum35.freeserve.co.uk
This is also a Psychology teacher’s site.
There are short Power Point presentations here for some of the studies
and some issues. It also contains links to other useful sites.
www.psychology.about.com
Huge site covering all areas of Psychology. Lots
of links to other sites and regularly updated.
www.alleydog.com/
An interactive site dedicated to helping psychology
students with their studies!
www.psychweb.com
Links to hundreds of other psychology sites.
www.stange.simplenet.com/psycsite/guide.html
The ‘PsychSite’ - with links to loads
of other sites!
www.psychnet-uk.com/
The Psych-Net site - a wb directory with a database
of over 8000 mental health and psychology resource links.
www.psych.tests.com/
Test yourself! Personality, intelligence and
other on-line tests here.
www.psychologicalscience.net
Another useful site with lots of links.
Psychology
experiments on-line.
The sites allow you to take part in experiments
and get the results. Most have experiments on cognitive psychology
(perception, memory etc) and occasionally studies relating to sleep,
split brain studies and other aspects of physiological psychology.
These are some of the sites offering on-line experiments:
www.eshadow.psychology.msstate.edu/
wwwuwm.edu/-johnchay
www.kahuna.psych.uiuc.edu/ipl
Psychology
museums on-line.
These are all American sites and feature information
about the history of psychology and some of the strange apparatus
that has been used. Try these links:
www.chss.montclair.edu/psychology/museum/museum.html
www.psych.utoronto.ca.museum/
www.barnard.edu/psych/b_museum.html
Thinking
of studying Psychology at University?
The Bangor University sites has a database listing
all the Psychology departments in the UK. A good place to start
your UCAS research!
www.psychology.bangor.ac.uk/BIPsychDepts/
Useful
Sites for individual Core Studies
Loftus et al
www.exploratorium.edu/memory/index.html
An article about false memory and memory ‘reconstruction’.
Refers to the Loftus study and other interesting studies. Click
on the ‘messing with your mind’ lecture icon!
www.faculty.washington.edu/eloftus
This is Elizabeth Loftus’ home page.
Deregowski
There are no direct references to Deregowski
on the internet but there are lots of sites which deal wth perception
and in particular visual illusions. Try these:
www.kahuna.psych.unic.edu/ipl/vis/ponzo/ponzo_desc.html
www.york.ca/eve/cover.htm
Baron-Cohen et al
www.psychiatry.cam.ac.uk/arc/aboutsbc.html
Did you know that Simon Baron-Cohen was Ali G’s
cousin? Check out his website photo and see if you can see a likeness!!
www.oneworld.org/autism_uk/asd/autleaf.html
The National Autistic Society Home page. This
page gives you lots of information and links. Essential for that
homework assignment to find out what Autism is!
Gardner and Gardner
www.animalnews.com/fouts
You saw Roger Fouts talk about Washoe on the
video we watched. Visit his home page and learn more!
www.cwu.edu/~cwuchci/washoebio.html
Could Washoe use language? She’s got her
own website! You can see her on the ‘chimpcam’ and even
e-mail her if you want to!!
www.greatapeproject.org.gaphome.html
The website of the Great Ape Project - the idea
is simple but radical - to include the non-human great apes within
the community of equals by granting them the basic moral and legal
protection that only human beings currently enjoy.
Schachter and Singer
Sperry
www.faculty.washington.edu/chudler/split.html
Some very easy to read stuff on split-brain and
Sperry’s work. Lots of links to other good sites as well.
Dement and Kleitman
www.faculty.washington.edu/chudler/sleep.html
Another easy to read site. Good background reading
for the study as it discusses the stages of sleep etc.
Raine
www.rcf.usc.edu/~raine/
Adrian Raine’s website.
www.plsgroup.com/dg/6ble2.htm
A really easy to read account of Raine’s
work with PET scans.
Milgram
www.College.hcmo.com/Psychology/psychabilities/netlab/social/bk/index.html
This is the NetLab site. Choose Chapter 7: conformity
and then the second netlab which asks you how far you would go in
an obedience experiment. Test yourself!
www.designweb.otago.ac.nz/grant/psyc/OBEDIANCE.HTML
An in depth report of the Milgram study complete
with photos. Well worth visiting (even though they spell obedience
wrong!)
Haney, Banks and
Zimbardo
www.prison.exp.org
A slideshow / video of the infamous prison study
conducted by Philip Zimbardo at Stanford University. Essential viewing!!
www.zimbardo.com
Philip Zimbardo’s Home page!
Piliavin
Tajfel
Freud
www.victorianweb.org/victorian/science/freud/Freud_OV.html
The FreudWeb. Lots of interesting stuff!
Bandura et al.
www.stanford.edu/dept/bingschool/rschart/bandura.html
This is the transcript of a talk given by Bandura
which includes the famous BoBo doll study, its implications for
understanding TV Violence and links to cases such as the Columbine
school tragedy.
Samuel and Bryant
www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile/piaget.html
This is not about Samuel and Bryant’s study
but is a nice outline of Piaget’s life and work. It is part
of Time magazine’s 100 greatest scientists series.
Hodges and Tizard
Rosenhan
www.pineforge.com/newman/rosenhan1.htm
This web page gives an excellent account of the
Rosenhan study.
Thigpen and Cleckley
www.members.aol.com/avpsyrich/mpd.htm
Tells you all about multiple personality disorder
and has some useful links.
www.members.aol.com/victimsofm/Chapter4.htm
This is an extract from a book on false memories.
There is some discussion of the Three Faces of Eve case study and
there are extracts from the clinical sessions.
Hraba and Grant
Gould
A2
PSYCHOLOGY AND CRIME
It is worth checking the news for relevant articles
on aspects of the psychology and crime course. The easiest news
site to search is The Guardian:
www.guardian.co.uk
www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds.bsc1.html
The Home Office Site. Useful material here including
the British Crime Survey and summary papers on the main findings
so you don’t have to read it all!
www.cabinet-office.gov.uk/womens-unit/fear
This is another Home Office site that looks at
zero tolerance projects concerned with violence towards women.
www.fbi.gov/
The FBI site. Fascinating!
www.zerotolerance.org.uk/splash.htm
The Zero Tolerance charitable trust - providing
details of various projects.
www.crimelibrary.com
A must see! Huge resource covering all aspects
of criminal psychology with literally hundreds of case studies!
Good stuff on offender profiling here.
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www.cep.jmu.edu/psychology/spep
The website for the Society for Police and Criminal
Psychology.
www.law-forensic.com/criminal-psychology.htm
The website for the Centre for Justice, Law and
Science. Links here to lots of criminal psychology sites.
www.write-brain.com/research_mystery-psych.html
This site is a resource for crime writers but
has lots of interesting stuff on it! Try ‘The suspect confessed.
Case Closed?’ for material on false confessions and ‘Into
the Mind of a Serial Killer’.
www.info.library.emory.edu/ref/ruc/crime/crimeguide.html
This is the homepage of the Crime and Criminal
Behaviour Research Guide based at Emory University.
www.members.optushome.com.au/dwillsh/index.html
The home page of David Willshire, a forensic
psychologist in Australia.
www.vuw.ac.nz/psych/hudson_police/titles.html
Some interesting stuff on Loftus’ eye witness
testimony research.
www.bcpl.net/~sandyste/school_psych.html
A page for school psychologists. Useful information
on juvenile crime, causes and treatments.
www.heavybadge.com/
This is a police site but has useful links to
relevant topics such as interviewing methods and eye witness testimony.
www.crime.about.com/cs/psychologycrime/
A good general site
www.terryhayden.freeonline.co.uk/murder/psychology
Some good stuff on causes of crime on this site.
A2 PSYCHOLOGY
AND SPORT
www.aaasponline.org/index2.html
This is the home page of the Association of Advancement
of Applied Psychology
www.psyc.unt.edu.apadiv47/
The American Psychological Association Exercise
and Sport division.
www.sportdiscus.com
Lots of useful articles on this site
www.psych.athabascau.ca/html/aupr/sport.shtml
Sports Psychology Resources
www.uxl.eiu.edu/~cfglc/Apex.html
Apex Sports Psychology Services. Worth a look!
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