Jenkintown High School
Psychology

Syllabus


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?

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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]

Classics in the History of Psychology

Unit 2: Personality

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Unit 3: Learning

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Unit 4: Abnormal Psychology

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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.

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Unit 6: Sensation & Perception

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Unit 7: Motivation & Emotion

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Other Resources

Eating Disorders

 

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