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Psyche and science:
  1. http://www.sntp.net/psychology_definition.htm How is psyche defined in this link?
  2. http://www.langara.bc.ca/psychology/whatpsy1.htm List at least 4 subfields of the discipline of psychology.
  3. http://psychology.about.com/library/weekly/aa010100a.htm What year was psychology formally born?
  4. http://studentnet.launc.tased.edu.au/online/behaviour/what_is_psychology.htm What is a definition of "mind?"
  5. http://www.tjhsst.edu/Psych/ch1/intro.html#what_is What is the scientific method?

Psychological schools of thought:
  1. http://www.psych.utah.edu/gordon/Classes/Psy4905Docs/PsychHistory/Cards/Wundt.html Who is Gustav Fechner and what is his relationship to structuralism?
  2. http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Wundt/Outlines/ What was Wundt's concept of mind?
  3. http://www.psych.utah.edu/gordon/Classes/Psy4905Docs/PsychHistory/Cards/James.html When did William James write the first psychology textbook? What is functionalism?
  4. http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/James/Principles/index.htm What does James have to say about will?
  5. http://www.sntp.net/behaviorism/skinner.htm What is significant about BF Skinner's daughter that is not well known? See this link and get the skivvy.
  6. http://dmoz.org/Science/Social_Sciences/Psychology/Psychoanalytic_and_Psychodynamic/ What do Jung, Erikson, and Adler have in common?

Contemporary neuroscience:
  1. http://dmoz.org/Science/Social_Sciences/Cognitive_Science/ A huge list of websites on cognitive science. Pick one and summarize the site for your teacher.
  2. http://dmoz.org/Science/Social_Sciences/Psychology/Cognitive/ Click here and go read the website about "Brain and Behavior." Try to find your "blind spot."
  3. http://dmoz.org/Science/Social_Sciences/Psychology/Evolutionary_Psychology/ Click here and summarize a site of your choice that addresses evolutionary psychology.
  4. http://dmoz.org/Science/Social_Sciences/Psychology/Neuropsychology/ Click here and go read a Harvard Mahoney Neuroscience Newsletter of your choice. Summarize the newsletter.
  5. http://dmoz.org/Science/Social_Sciences/Psychology/Behavior_Analysis/ Click here and go to the Cambridge Center for Behavior Studies. Summarize what the Center does.
  6. http://dmoz.org/Science/Biology/Neurobiology/ Click here and select one from among the many links and summarize the link for your teacher.

Psychology and psychiatry:
  1. http://www.guidetopsychology.com/psypsy.htm A psychiatrist has a different degree than a psychologist. What degree does the psychiatrist have?
  2. http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/traindev/career/school.htm True or false: Psychologists can prescribe medication.
  3. http://www.psych.ualberta.ca/~advisor/faqlist.html#1-3 What is the difference between a psychiatrist and a psychologist. More information here.
  4. Some parting humor: http://www.workjoke.com/projoke30.htm






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