PGS 101: Introduction to Psychology
This page contains web-sites recommended by Prof. Thomas V. McGovern for beginning psychology students.
- To learn more about the importance of scrutinizing the reliability and accuracy of online information, please see Critically Evaluating Web Resources.
Recommended Websites
Metasites for Psychology Research
- Psychweb
- http://www.psycwww.com/
- The Psych Web site is developed and maintained by Prof. Russell A. Dewey of Georgia Southern University.
- Neuropsychology Central
- http://www.neuropsychologycentral.com/
- "Welcome to the World Wide Web meta-source devoted exclusively to the subject of Human Neuropsychology."
The History and Scope of Psychology
- American Psychological Association
- http://www.apa.org/
- "Based in Washington, DC, the American Psychological Association (APA) is a scientific and professional organization that represents psychology in the United States. With more than 155,000 members, APA is the largest association of psychologists worldwide."
- American Psychological Society: Psychology Links
- http://www.psychologicalscience.org/about/links.html
- "Founded in 1988, APS's mission is to promote, protect, and advance the interests of scientifically oriented psychology in research, application, and the improvement of human welfare."
- Today in the History of Psychology
- http://www.cwu.edu/~warren/today.html
- By Warren R. Street, Ph.D. (Professor of Psychology Central Washington University).
- The web-site is based on A Chronology of Noteworthy Events in Psychology.
- PsychREF: Resources in Psychology on the Internet
- http://web.lemoyne.edu/~hevern/psychref.html
- Vincent Hevern, Ph.D. Assoc. Prof. & Chair Psychology Department Le Moyne College Syracuse, NY
- "This web guide and index contains extensive resources for undergraduate students &faculty interested in psychology. It is oriented toward the needs & academic scope of Le Moyne College's Psychology Department which hosts this resource. Still, PsychREFTM should be helpful for students, teachers, health professionals, and researchers from any college or university setting."
- Site is no longer updated.
- Mind and Body: Rene Descartes to William James
- http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/Mind/Table.html
- Robert Wozniak, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology Bryn Mawr College
- "Modified from the Catalogue Accompanying an Exhibition of Books from the Collections of the National Library of Medicine, Held in Honor of the Centennial Celebration of the American Psychological Association, August 7 to December 15, 1992."
- Psychology: Scientific Problem Solvers - Careers for the 21st Century
- http://www.apa.org/students/brochure/
- Full-text brochure from the American Psychological Association
- A Student's Guide to Careers in the Helping Professions
- http://www.lemoyne.edu/OTRP/otrpresources/helping-online.html
- Melissa J. Himelein University of North Carolina at Asheville
- "This online guide describes 15 helping professions both within and outside psychology. For each of the helping professions, information is provided on typical job duties, job outlook, potential earnings, required professional degrees, finding graduate programs, and graduate entrance requirements, and sources of additional information."
- Marky Lloyd's Careers in Psychology Page
- http://www.psywww.com/careers/
- Lloyod is a Professor of Psychology at Georgia Southern University.
- "The resources on this page focus on: (1) careers in psychology at the bachelor's, master's, and doctoral level and (2) academic information about psychology at the bachelor's and graduate levels."
Research Strategies
- PsychWeb: Mega Sites
- http://www.psychweb.com/mega_sites/
- Mega List of Psychology-Related Sites on the Web
- http://www.psychwww.com/resource/megalist.htm
- The site "contains links to other sites with very large collections of psychology-related links."
- Social Psychology Network
- http://www.socialpsychology.org/
- Scott Plous Ph.D., Professor of Psychology Wesleyan University
- "Social Psychology Network is supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Number 9950517."
Neurology, the Brain & Behavior
- Neuropsychology Central
- http://www.neuropsychologycentral.com/
- "Welcome to the World Wide Web meta-source devoted exclusively to the subject of Human Neuropsychology."
- Neuroguide.com - Neurosciences on the Internet
- http://www.neuroguide.com/
- Neil A. Busis, M.D. Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
- The National Library of Medicine's Visible Human Project
- http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html
- From the National Library of Medicine.
- "The Visible Human Project® is an outgrowth of the NLM's 1986 Long-Range Plan. It is the creation of complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the normal male and female human bodies."
- Brain Briefings
- http://web.sfn.org/content/Publications/BrainBriefings/
- From the Society for Neuroscience. "The Society for Neuroscience is the world's largest organization of scientists and physicians dedicated to understanding the brain, spinal cord and peripheral nervous system."
- The Whole Brain Atlas
- http://www.med.harvard.edu/AANLIB/
- Keith A. Johnson, M.D. Assistant Professor of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard University and J. Alex Becker (MIT).
- "The Atlas is an information resource for brain imaging which integrates clinical information with multimodality imaging data."
Nature & Nurture of Behavior
- APA Monitor on Psychology
- http://www.apa.org/monitor/
- A publication of the American Psychological Association
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- http://www.aap.org/
- "The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and its member pediatricians dedicate their efforts and resources to the health, safety and well-being of infants, children, adolescents and young adults. The AAP has approximately 55,000 members in the United States, Canada and Latin America. Members include pediatricians, pediatric medical subspecialists and pediatric surgical specialists. More than 34,000 members are board-certified and called Fellows of the American Academy of Pediatrics (FAAP)."
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
- http://www.nichd.nih.gov/
- "The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development is part of the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The NICHD conducts and supports laboratory, clinical and epidemiological research on the reproductive, neurobiologic, developmental, and behavioral processes that determine and maintain the health of children, adults, families and populations."
- Psychology: Myers in Modules
- http://bcs.worthpublishers.com/myersinmodules/
- The web-site for Myers in Modules, by David G. Myers - 4th edition.
- Human Genome Project Information
- http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/project/about.shtml
- "Begun formally in 1990, the U.S. Human Genome Project is a 13-year effort coordinated by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health. The project originally was planned to last 15 years, but rapid technological advances have accelerated the expected completion date to 2003."
The Developing Person
- Parents Action for Children (formerly I am Your Child)
- http://www.iamyourchild.org/
- "Parents' Action for Children is the voice of America's parents. It is a national non-profit dedicated to advancing the interests of families and children. Parents' Action develops parent education materials, connects parents with one another, and fights for issues such as early education, health care, and high quality and affordable child care.."
- National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information
- http://nccanch.acf.hhs.gov/
- "The National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information was established by the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1974. The Clearinghouse provides information products and technical assistance services to help professionals locate information related to child abuse and neglect and related child welfare issues."
- Center for Adolescent Studies
- http://education.indiana.edu/cas/
- Last updated April 1998. From Indiana University, Center for Adolescent Studies.
- "The mission of the Center for Adolescent Studies is to advance the understanding of the psychological, biological, and social features of normal adolescence."
- Administration on Aging: Statistics on the Aging Population
- http://www.aoa.gov/prof/Statistics/statistics.asp
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services site.
Personality
- The Personality Project
- http://www.personality-project.org/
- From Northwestern University's Department of Psychology
- Sigmund Freud and the Freud Archives
- http://www.freudarchives.org/
- The New York Psychoanalytic Institute and Society
- "This collection of links points to Internet resources related to Sigmund Freud and his works. Included in this collection are libraries, museums, and biographical materials, as well as materials in the Brill Library Archives."
- Humanistic Psychology: From Maslow to the 21st Century
- http://ahpweb.org/aboutahp/whatis.html
- From the Association for Humanisitic Psychology.
- "Begun in 1962 as a vehicle to develop a bold new force in psychology that emphaszied the conscious mind and human ability to create healthy lives and communities, AHP today champions a whole-person focus in therapy, health care, the arts, business, education, community activism, and wherever AHP members work."
- Great Ideas in Personality
- http://www.personalityresearch.org/
- G. Scott Acton, Ph.D. Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute University of California, San Francisco.
Social Psychology
- The Stanley Milgram Website
- http://www.stanleymilgram.com/
- Site by Thomas Blass, Ph.D. Blass is a professor of psychology at University of Maryland Baltimore County.
- Influence at Work: The Psychology of Persuasion
- http://www.influenceatwork.com/
- Robert Cialdini, Ph.D. and Kelton Rhoads, Ph.D. nbsp; Cialdini is an Arizona State University Regents Professor of Psychology.
- "This section of our website presents a brief introduction for students of influence, using examples from courtrooms to cults, from Aristotle to George Bush, to illustrate the power of persuasion."
- Social Psychology Network
- http://www.socialpsychology.org/