BELOW YOU WILL FIND SOME LINKS TO USEFUL AND FUN PSYCHOLOGY WEB SITES - CLICK THE BUTTON ON THE LEFT.
Stanley Milgram's classic experiment on Obedience to Authority.
Philip Zimbardo's classic "Prison" experiment at Stanford University.
Krantz - Sensation & Perception Tutorials.
San Francisco's Exploratorium - Illusion exhibits.
The Keirsey Character & Temperament Sorter - an online personality test.
The Sleep Well - Dr. William Dement's great site about all aspects of sleep.
Neuroscience for Kids - Dr Eric Chudler's site for Psych Students. Great Stuff!!
BACK TO COACH BURKE'S HOME PAGE
Brainviews - View selections from The Animated Brain
Psychology in Action - Textbook Web Site
COACH BURKE'S ILLUSIONS PAGES
ALLEYDOG.COM - A great site to help Psychology students notes, quizzes, more!
"Hidden Persuaders" - links to sites about subliminal messages
Human Brain Anatomy - Study Module - from the University of Alberta in Canada
"Brain & Mind" - an electronic magazine
AMOEBA WEB - Psychology resources arranged by topic. - Great Site!!
STUDY GUIDES & STRATEGIES - great site for improving your study skills - from the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota.
TAKE A PRACTICE TEST - BASED ON YOUR TEXTBOOK
PSYCHABILITIES - Shockwave tutorials for Bernstein's Essentials of Psychology.
UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA - Psychology demonstrations & tutorials
SANDLOT SCIENCE - Great site for optical illusions!
"CHANGE BLINDNESS" - Ineresting consciousness site from the University of Paris. Test yourself to see if you are blind to changes in ordinary pictures.
"DREAM CENTRAL" - All about sleep, dreams, dream interpretation & more!
"DREAM DOCTOR" - Submit your dream for analysis! Look up common dream themes!
APA STANDARDS FOR TEACHING PSYCHOLOGY
Positive Reinforcement: A Self-Instructional Exercise - from Athabasca University in Alberta Canada
COGLAB: Cognitive Psychology - from Purdue University - here you can participate as a guest in online psychology experiments.
HELPFUL SITES FOR PSYCH EXPERIMENTS
"PSYCHOLOGY WITH STYLE" - A hypertext writing guide by Professor M. Plonsky, Ph.D of the University of Wisconsin. An excellent step-by-step writing guide.
AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY - "Psychological Research on the Net" - links to Psychology Research being conducted on the Internet.
The Phineas Gage Homepage: Gives the story of Phineas Gage, the man who survived a horrible accident that launched a (3 foot 7 inch) tampering iron through his head.
VISUAL COGNITION LAB - Lots of demos about vision. (Requires Quicktime plugin).
BRAIN & NERVOUS SYSTEM PAGES
CONSCIOUSNESS & SLEEP PAGES
PSYCHOLOGY "CLASSICS"
RESEARCH & GENERAL PSYCH PAGES
Great attention blindness videos from Christopher Chabis & Daniel Simons.
THE TRAPEZOIDAL WINDOW ILLUSION - from the Exploratorium - Requires Quictime plugin.
ILLUSION WORKS - Best illusion site on the web.
Neuroscience Tutorial - new, from the Washington School of Medicine.
PSYCHE - An interdisciplinary journal of research on consciousness.
Online dream interpretation tutorial - from Aisling Dream Interpretation site.
MEMORY PAGES
EYEWITNESS MEMORY- Frontline program "What Jennifer Saw".
Explores the topic of the inaccuracy of eyewitness memory.
EYEWITNESS MEMORY - Another Frontline program - "An Ordinary Crime"- about a 16 yr. old who was convicted of a crime he did not commit. Faulty eyewitness memory, police mixups, and flaws in the U.S. criminal justice system combine to keep a falsely convicted young man in prison.
Dr. Elizabeth Loftus - Homepage of a leading expert on memory.
TRUTH IN JUSTICE- A non-profit organization working to free wholly innocent men and women convicted of crimes they did not commit, and to prevent wrongful convictions by educating the public. AN EXCELLENT SITE!!
MESSING WITH YOUR MIND - Part of the Exploratorium's Memory Exhibit concerning false memories. Very Good Reading!
BILL MOYERS - ON ADDICTION "CLOSE TO HOME"
DEBUNKING "FALSE MEMORY MYTHS"- An interesting site from a law firm arguing FOR the accuracy of children's testimony in child abuse cases.
EYEWITNES TESTIMONY - An EXCELLENT site from the University of Colorado Psychology department exploring the problems associated with eyewitness identification.
DR. GARY L. WELLS - EYEWITNESS MEMORY PAGE - From Iowa State University Psychology Department. One of the BEST websites I've seen about eyewitness identification. Very Interactive! Take the "Wells eyewitness test".
DR. JAMES ELANDER - EYEWITNESS MEMORY - From London Guildhall University
Department of Psychology - Very good site on research regarding eyewitness memory.
THINKQUEST "OUT OF MEMORY" PROJECT - An excellent student-created site all about memory. Very Comprehensive!
PERSONALITY & INTELLIGENCE PAGES
This page contains links to all kinds of personality sites
& Intelligence tests!
His Brain - Her Brain - and excellent interactive site!!
PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS PAGES
This page contains links to all kinds of information about psychological disorders.
WebVision - The organization of the Retina and the visual system
From the University of Utah
Grand-illusions.com
BLIND SPOTS
LEARNING & CONDITIONING PAGES
You da Rat! - Link to an interactive Maze Learning activity
by Worth Publisher's "PSYCHSIM"
NRU - Negative Reinforcement University - A terriffic little "Shockwave" interactive lesson designed to teach psychology students about "Negative Reinforcement" - Designed by a team of Scottsdale Community College students and psychology instructor Bernie Combs.
MAZES - If you like trying to solve mazes here are some interesting & challenging mazes, both interactive and printable. Done by Bill at Brainopolis.com
"Make Your Dreams Come True" - By Vince Rause - a good article written for DiscoveryHealth.com from the Discovery Channel. Other items on the Discovery site include; a Sleep Quiz, Teens & Sleep, Sleep Disorders, a Sleepiness Test, a Dream Interpreter, and lots of other cool stuff.
DISCOVERING PSYCHOLOGY- A companion site to the Annenberg/CPB Video series hosted by Phil Zimbardo PhD.
MEMENTO - Have you seen the movie?? Still confused?? Check out the complete explanation of the film at Salon.com.
Maybe if you read the actual SCREEN PLAY text you could understand MEMENTO better.
Hints, Clues and other information can be found if you CAREFULLY study the official Memento web site.
The Innocence Project -
CAUSES AND REMEDIES OF WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS
An amazing "Change Blindness" site using gradual changes.
CLASSROOM PERSONALITY ACTIVITY
BRAIN CELLS & NEURAL COMMUNICATION -
very good slide show showing how neurons work.
NEUROSCIENCE FOR KIDS -
Eric Chudler's tutorial on neural connections and the synapse.
PSYCHSIM - Interactive tutorials based on the Myers Psychology text
- Main Menu Page
PSYCHSIM - click on "Neural Messages"
PSYCHSIM - click on "Hemispheric Specialization"
PSYCHSIM - click on"The Auditory System"
PSYCHSIM - click on"Visual Illusions"
PSYCHSIM - click on "EEG & Sleep Stages"
PSYCHSIM - click on"Iconic Memory"
PSYCHSIM - click on"Forgetting"
PSYCHSIM - click on"Classical Conditioning"
PSYCHSIM - click on"Operant Conditioning"
PSYCHSIM - click on"Maze Learning"
PSYCHSIM - click on"Rational Thinking"
PSYCHSIM - click on"Mystery Client"
PSYCHSIM - click on"Computer Therapist"
Illusions etc. - Walt Anthony's blog about all kinds of illusions - Great Site!
Memories are made of this - Here's a simple explanation why some things are easy to remember & others are not.
Do Laptop activity #1 - The Neuron
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST - an interesting and informative review of Ken Keysey's book about Mental Illness & Mental Institutions. From Kingwood College Library - Very Good
Prentice Hall - Psychology interactive site
USE THIS STUDY GUIDE TO PREPARE FOR TESTS AND REVIEW CONCEPTS FROM THE TEXTBOOK - Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader
Power Point Presentation on Chapter 4 - "Consciousness"
