Jenkintown High School
Psychology
General Resources for Psychology on the Web
America Online (AOL)'s keyword PSYCHOLOGY is also useful
A very interesting interactive psychology textbook from Dushkin/McGraw Hill can be found at Psychology A ConnecText, fourth edition.
Looking for articles for an article report? Try...
CNN.com - Health Library Look at the Features section
MSNBC's Mental Health Front Page
WebMD Health Look for the News section.
Psychology Today Magazine. You can look for articles by topic using the pull-down menus at the top of the page. Look at the other sites above first, though.
Instructions for Article Reports, Journal, and Real World assignment
Unit-Specific Resources
Unit 1: What is Psychology?
Don't try this at home! Trephination An Ancient Surgery
Phrenology: Science or Scam?
Wilhelm Wundt and William James
Wundt's Outlines of Psychology (1st two chapters)
Sigmund Freud and the Freud Archives
Sigmund Freud Conflict & Culture (Library of Congress Exhibition)
Sigmund Freud [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
Unit 2: Personality
Unit 3: Learning
Unit 4: Abnormal Psychology
- BehaveNet® Clinical Capsule™ DSM-IV Classification (The DSM-IV has been replaced by the DSM-IV-TR)
- Another abbreviated version of the DSM-IV
Unit 5: Consciousness
Remember, dream interpretation--or whether our dreams mean anything at all--is a controversial subject in psychology. Many of the books or resources that you come across on the web may claim to provide "easy answers" to these questions (such as dream dictionaries), but remember we are approaching consciousness from a scientific perspective... Some of the links below are most useful for entertainment.
Unit 6: Sensation & Perception
Unit 7: Motivation & Emotion
Other Resources
Eating Disorders