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Careers in Psychology: What Is a Neuropsychologist?
Site provides a very brief overview for information on neuropsychology and brain injury, while explaining the essential purposes of a neuropsychologist.
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Crow: Resources for the Teaching of Social Psychology
This page provides links to several subcategories of social cognition such as prejudice, persuasion, attitudes, and altruism. Once you click on the topic you have a variety of sources to choose from for more information.
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Guide to Psychology and Its Practice: Adolescent Violence
Why are some kids prone to violence? This site by R. Richmond, Ph.D. offers some sound reasons and is very informative. Is it money? Is it media? is it more?
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Psychological Treatment Services: Group Therapy
A discussion of two general types of group therapy and the characteristics of each.
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American Psychological Association: Personality
A definition of personality is provided with a link to information about personality disorders.
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Simply Psychology: Social Facilitation
The concept of social facilitation is explained, and the research done by Norman Triplett in 1898 into the co-action effect. Also discusses the audience effect. These two factors influence whether someone can be influenced or inhibited...
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American Psychological Association: Transgender Individuals and Gender Identity
Find answers to questions concerning transgender issues. This addresses the definition, categories of transgender people, possible causes, the types of mental health problems and discrimination they may face, and the kinds of support...
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Lumen: Boundless Psychology: How Culture and Society Impact the Elderly
Examines the positive and negative perspectives that different cultures have on aging.
World Health Organization
World Health Organization: Caregiver Child Interactions: Survival, Healthy Young Children [Pdf]
A review of the importance for caregiver-child interactions to understand the psychology of child development, relationships, and identification of the need for intervention.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Psychology: Social Cognitive Pespectives on Personality
Boundless offers an opportunity to deepen study of personality with this product identifying social-cognitive perspective limitations. Find a reading, a quiz, and a slideshow.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Introduction to Psychology Depression and Bipolar Disorder
An explanation of bipolar1 and bipolar2 disorders and their relationship to mania.
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Verywell: Erik Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development
Understand the eight stages of psychosocial development studied and defined by psychologist Erik Erikson.
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A Short Biography of Jean Piaget
The Piaget Society provides a short, easy-to-understand biography on Jean Piaget (1896-1980 CE), including a paragraph on his developmental theories.
Science Museum, London
Making the Modern World: What Is Stress?
This website gives an overview of stress, its causes, and the physical and psychological results. Case studies and a glossary are included.
University of Virginia
The University of Virginia: The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
A classic psychological text by Gustave Le Bon on crowd behavior, first published in 1896. The full text of this work is organized by chapter.
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Oikos.org: Jean Piaget
"The basic reason for this international attention was the unquestionable fact that Piaget was the founding father of a branch of psychology that tries to unravel the mysteries of the human mind, how it grows and how it comes to know."...
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Psych Page: Defenses
This resource presents a terms list of psychological defenses, including withdrawal, displacement, sublimation, and projection, with definitions and typical manifestations.
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Instructional Design: Creativity
This article provides a short introduction into some of the psychological views concerning curiosity. It provides a long list of references for further research.
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Oak Park Tourist: Carl Rogers
A short biography on psychologist Carl Rogers. Includes details of his life story but also links to his psychological theories and other relevant information.
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The Philosophy of Social Sciences
This is an article on how philosophy can be used in the study of social sciences such as sociology and psychology. The nature of social sciences and how they differ from the natural sciences is also explored.
New Advent
Catholic Encyclopedia: Catholic Encyclopedia: Herbartianism
This article gives an overview of Herbart's life and work in psychology, philosophy and education. Please note that ?The Catholic Encyclopedia? is a historic reference source and should be viewed in the context of resource material dated...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Using Sources: Introduction to Citing Sources
This is an introduction to citing sources and used in your paper. It includes the need to choose the proper method of citation based on the field of study: Modern Language Association (MLA) or the American Psychological Association (APA).
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Austin Community College: Gender and Sexuality
This site provides notes from a college Psychology class from Austin Community College. Discusses the causes and effects of gender stereotyping and gender polarization.
Curated OER
Classics in the History of Psychology: Conflicting Psychologies of Learning
A 1935 paper by psychologist Clark Hull. He discusses the disagreements between different types of psychologists and gives details of how to make psychological research more scientific.
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