Useful Psychology Websites
Please note that although all of the links have been checked (Nov/Dec 2007), not all of these
sites have an automatic link from this page and you may need to copy the address bar into your
search engine
General Psychology Sites
John Suler’s Teaching Clinical Psychology - General web site on clinical psychology
http://www-usr.rider.edu/~suler/tcp.html
Dr Michael Fenichel’s Current topics in Psychology - An American web site but good A-Z list of
resources, articles etc.
http://www.fenichel.com/Current.shtml
Sigmund Freud Archive site – has some good links
http://www.freudarchives.org/
University site with interesting slideshows on abnormal psychology
http://www.psy.fsu.edu/undergrad.prog/schmidt/powerpoint.htm
Encyclopedia of Psychology - www.psychology.org/
The Association for the teaching of psychology - http://www.theatp.org/index.html
David Baldwin’s trauma information site - http://www.trauma-pages.com/
Allpsych online - Incredibly comprehensive site with really good games based on psychology
http://allpsych.com/
Look at this; it’s terrific on history of psychology
http://www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk/learning_modules/psychology/02.TU.04/?section
=4
Psychology on the brain!
Neuroscience for kids, very easy to read - http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/introb.html
Excellent animated slides illustrating split brain experiments. Excellent to show on a screen to a
whole class to introduce the topic http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/medicine/split-brain
Simple web page that illustrates the split brain experiment. Useful site to start with.
http://physics.weber.edu/carroll/Wonder/split_brain.htm
Slide show on the Brain and Behaviour http://hart.camden.rutgers.edu/intro/brain/sld001.htm
Useful website with pictures of the effect on the brain of Alzheimer’s disease.
http://www.med.harvard.edu/AANLIB/cases/case3/tc1/028.html
Journal article of case study of experiment on self-recognition conducted on an individual who
had had spilt brain surgery.
www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v5/n9/full/nn907.html
Web site with pictures of natural and surgical split brains.
http://nawrot.psych.ndsu.nodak.edu/Courses/465Projects05/splitbrain/splitbrain2.htm
Another useful slide show on the brain with pictures.
http://web.umr.edu/~pfyc212b/ch2b%5B1%5D/sld018.htm
Erratic Wisdom Web site on the split brain, with links to many other related areas.
http://erraticwisdom.com/2006/02/24/split-brain
Academic style notes by Zaidel, Zaidel and Bogen on the split brain. Useful bibliography at the
end. http://www.its.caltech.edu/~jbogen/text/ref130.htm
Looks specifically at research by Hubel & Wiesel into visual receptive fields and Roger Sperry’s
work on split brains. Images of the brain included.
http://www.richmond.edu/~pli/teaching/psy333/neuro_60splus.html
Attractive website with good colour pictures on brain lateralization, split brain findings and the
two hemispheres.
http://web.lemoyne.edu/~hevern/psy340/lectures/psy340.14.1.lateralization.html
Chapter of Vihman et al’s (2006) research into the way Mono and bi-lingual Welsh and English
infants listened to words
https://intranet.psychology.bangor.ac.uk/dspace/bitstream/123456789/8890/1/Vihman%20et%20
al.%20revision.pdf
One page website of a page from Time magazine on anxiety
http://www.joelertola.com/grfx/grfx_img/brain_stress.jpg
Web site portraying the story of Janis who has Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder or OCD.
http://www.ufocd.org/Janis’%20story.htm
Short letter to South Wales Argus asking teenagers to recognise stress of parents.
http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/search/display.var.1177901.0.teenagers_you_have_no_idea.p
hp
Daily Post article about how businessmen can take their stress on holiday.
http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/business-news/2007/07/05/stressed-managers-take-work-onholiday-55578-19406490/
Your Amazing Brain - How your brain works
http://www.youramazingbrain.org.uk/teachers/default.htm
Good Behaviourist
Site of an alphabetical list of phobias
http://www.phobialist.com/index.html
Desensitisation - Useful website of hierarchies and desensitisation.
http://www.csulb.edu/~tstevens/Desensit.htm
Video example that illustrates social learning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEieixxZnog
Web site on string games such as ‘cat’s cradle’. http://www.alysion.org/string.htm
Web site on how to produce origami models to be made and copied.
http://www.britishorigami.info/practical/diagrams/simple/simple.htm
Web site of short and accessible article on the work of Garcia and Gustavson on aversion.
http://www.sciencenews.org/pages/pdfs/data/1997/151-13/15113-20.pdf
Useful web site on Conditioned Taste Aversion (CTA) in wildlife management
http://www.conditionedtasteaversion.net/
Exercise in classical conditioning. If the levels of security on your computer are high, then you may
not be able to access this material https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/johnchay/PL06/CC/CC.html
Website of several video clips of Viki the chimpanzee in exercises of imitation.
http://epsych.msstate.edu/adaptive/learningByObservation/index.html
Web site of article covering issues of Pavlov and classical conditioning.
http://www.enotalone.com/article/898.html
There is a sociological version of the Nature vs Nurture debate on the GCSE bit of the NGfL
website
http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc-sociology-part2_nature-nurture
Psychodynamics
Website with a transference exercise. http://www-usr.rider.edu/~suler/transference.html
Another site on transference http://www.share.onlypunjab.com/article.php?id=36671&act=print
Stanley Milgram
Website of the story of a witness’s recollection of Jews resisting authority, presenting a personal
account of the Milgram experiment
http://www.jewishcurrents.org/2004-jan-dimow.htm
Website offering video clips of re-enactment of Milgram’s experiment.
http://www.milgramreenactment.org/pages/section.xml?location=5
Website of transcripts of some of the participants in Milgram’s experiment.
http://home.swbell.net/revscat/perilsOfObedience.html
Website featuring audio clips of some of the participants in Milgram’s experiment.
http://learningat.ke7.org.uk/socialsciences/Psychology/PsyRes13/Milgram.htm
Good worksheet focusing upon Milgram’s variations in 1963, 1964 and 1974. Other resources are
available on this site
http://www.le.ac.uk/education/resources/SocSci/milgram.html
Website featuring an article of a Russian pilot who obeyed instructions even though he knew his
plane would collide.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/ls/_20020709/ai_n12629097
Website of abstract of research into the influence of clothing.
http://psp.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/14/3/459
Useful revision web site offering multiple choice questions and a crossword
http://www.holah.karoo.net/milgram.htm
Cartoon about feeling the odd one out.
http://www.lermanet.com/exit/milgram/farside2.gif
Solomon Asch
Web site featuring Asch’s original research paper
http://www.wadsworth.com/psychology_d/templates/student_resources/0155060678_rathus/ps/
ps18.html
Website offering Asch’s original research paper with numbers as pdf file.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/psychology/terrace/w1001/readings/asch.pdf
A website that offers a summary of Asch’s research
http://www.gerardkeegan.co.uk/resource/seminalstudies.htm
A website that offers a summary and some criticisms of Asch’s research
http://www.cultsock.ndirect.co.uk/MUHome/cshtml/socinf/conform.html
Somewhat messy website which looks at Jenness attempt to rpoduce an ethical version of Asch’s
study. http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=00AEkx
A useful link for revision. Students can test each other on Asch’s study.
http://www.sparknotes.com/psychology/psych101/socialpsychology/section8.rhtml
Another revision site with a link allowing students to test each other on Asch’s study.
http://www.scool.co.uk/topic_quicklearn.asp?loc=ql&topic_id=3&quicklearn_id=2&subject_id=14&cebt=198&
cebn=&cebl=&celc=13
Stanford Prison Experiment
Zimbardo’s website offering slide shows and video clips on the Stanford Prison Experiment
http://www.prisonexp.org
Useful website providing summary of the experiment plus some additional material.
http://www.psychologymatters.org/spe.html
Full article by Hany and Zimbardo of US prison policy 25 years after the experiment.
http://csdp.org/research/haney_apa_pdf
Website carrying Zimbardo’s concerns about misrepresentation of his experiment in the film ‘Das
Experiment’.
http://www.apa.org/monitor/mar02/filmcritic.html
Wikipedia site on Stanford experiment offers a clear recount of events.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/stanford_prison_experiment
Useful website on the Stanford experiment with questions for students.
http://www.garysturt.free-online.co.uk/zimbardo.htm
Cartoon http://www.lermanet.com/exit/milgram/farside2.gif
Psychological Studies
Website of the Holmes-Rahe Scale
http://www.geocities.com/beyond_stretched/holmes.htm
Abstract of Abe et al’s article on deceiving others
http://jocn.mitpress.org/cgi/content/abstract/19/2/287
An article by Szpunar et al on neural substrates of envisioning the future
http://memory.wustl.edu/reprint_request_files/2007_szpunar_watson_mcd_PNAS.pdf
An article by Marucha, et al on Mucosal Wound Healing Is Impaired by Examination Stress
http://www.psychosomaticmedicine.org/cgi/reprint/60/3/362.pdf
A website containing a summary of Marucha et al’s study
http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/marucha.htm
Useful revision website on Rahe’s work
http://www.scool.co.uk/topic_quicklearn.asp?subject_id=14&topic_ID=10&Quicklearn_ID=2&loc=ql
Useful revision website on Sperry’s work http://www.holah.karoo.net/sperry.htm
Website that looks at Oliver Sacks findings of brain damaged patients responding to a US
President’s speech www.junkfoodforthought.com/long/Sacks_Reagan.htm
Website covering stress and deprivation http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/emotions/stress.html
Cartoon on job stress http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/j/job_stress.asp
Cartoon on executive stress http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/e/executive_stress.asp
Cartoon on exam stress http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/e/exams_gifts.asp
Cognitive Studies
Site of a bibliography with lots of links to Bartlett http://wwwbartlett.sps.cam.ac.uk/Bibliography.htm
Abstract of article showing how serial reproduction paradigm can be used to investigate the
issue of global versus local processing
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-9280.00406
Website of information and photos of Kanzi.
http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/features/animals2/index.html
Website describing language learning of Lana, Sarah and Kanzi.
http://www.bowland-files.lancs.ac.uk/chimp/langac/LECTURE4/4token.htm
Website for revision relevant to Loftus & Palmer http://www.garysturt.free-online.co.uk/loftus.htm
Another website for revision relevant to Loftus & Palmer
http://www.holah.karoo.net/loftusstudy.htm
Website for revision relevant to Garnder & Gardner http://www.holah.karoo.net/gardners.htm
Another website for revision relevant to Garnder & Gardner.
http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v8p293y1985.pdf
Not sure what this site for National Association for the Deaf has to do with Gardner and Gardner?
Check it out - http://www.nad.org/site/pp.asp?c=folNKQMBF&b=186452
Website on animals and communication http://www.phon.ox.ac.uk/~jcoleman/animals.htm
Website of Elizabeth Loftus offering extensive bibliography
http://www.seweb.uci.edu/faculty/loftus/
Website of academic paper examining factors that influence sightings of UFOs.
http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/apru/pdfs/2003-french-fantastic.pdf
Website of online dictionary of American sign language, including video of some signs.
http://www.handspeak.com/
Website of British sign language for children and adults who are developmentally delayed
http://www.makaton.org/
Developmental Studies
Webpage with online quiz about Gibson and Walk.
http://claweb.cla.unipd.it/home/nwhitteridge/Tests/test101audioc.htm
Website about case of SB who recovered from blindness (Gregory and Wallace)
http://www.richardgregory.org/papers/recovery_blind/contents.htm
Website covering correspondence about SB’s case.
http://www.richardgregory.org/papers/recovery_blind/8-appendix.htm
Abstract of article of sensorimotor adaptation to reversing prisms.
http://jn.physiology.org/cgi/content/abstract/93/2/1104
Abstract of article on Re-acquisition of upright vision while wearing visually left–right reversing
goggles http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1111/1468-5884.t01-1-00024
Website exploring the question: if a blind person gained sight, could they recognize objects they
had previously only touched? http://www.rps.psu.edu/probing/vision.html
Website of long article of case study by Oliver Sacks
http://www.wfu.edu/art/art111/files/12_tosee.pdf
On page 3 there is brief summary of Gregory and Wallace and Oliver Sack’s study.
http://www.centenary.edu/attachments/philosophy/aizawa/conferences/UtEoP.pdf
Website of equipment used in visual cliff and other research.
http://www.brainbehaviortest.net/zboard.php?id=TestList&page=2&sn1=&divpage=1&sn=off&ss=
on&sc=on&select_arrange=headnum&desc=asc&no=
Website of the CN tower with its glass floor in Ontario.
http://www.canadacool.com/COOLFACTS/ONTARIO/TorontoCNTower.html
Individual Differences Studies
Website of abstract to article by Geller et al Psychometric Properties of Darryl, a Cartoon Based
Measure to Assess Community Violence-Related PTSD in Children.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/f575646522076415/
Website article by Neugebauer, et al on Darryl, a Cartoon-Based Measure of
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=1508733&blobtype=pdf
Useful revision site on David Rosenhan’s work.
http://www.holah.karoo.net/rosenhan.htm
Website of a discussion with David Buss
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/darwin/evolutionist/buss.htm
Website of abstract to article by Spitzer et al Rosenhan revisited: the scientific credibility of Lauren
Slater's pseudopatient diagnosis study.
http://www.ncbi.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=Pubmed&list_uids=16260927&dop
t=Abstract
Website that describes in detail Rosenhan’s Pseudopation experiment and invites discussion.
http://www.solport.com/roundtable/archives/000468.php
Online journal article on Spitzer et al’s criticism of Slater’s work.
http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/41/7/12
Newspaper website article about what women find attractive in men.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/09/nmen09.xml
Extensive website exploring issues about relationships.
http://www.love-lectures.com/blog/2007_02_01_archive.html
Webite on what women want from men.
http://www.explodeyourdating.com/?gclid=CJff1Zizho8CFQrolAodLznRvQ
BBC news web article: ‘Why women fall for Mr Average’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6345623.stm
Extensive blog from an American GP on a variety of Psychological issues.
http://richardgpettymd.blogs.com/my_weblog/psychology/index.html
Interesting website into Mickey Rowe’s research of colour blindness.
http://www.lifesci.ucsb.edu/~mrowe/
Full article by Rowe and Jacobs into colour blindness.
http://www.lifesci.ucsb.edu/~mrowe/Publications/RoweAndJacobs2004.pdf
Website of a cartoon about female parental investment
http://www.hawaii.edu/fishlab/Nearside/rivera3.gif
Website article of research into speed dating by Fisman et al ‘Revealed Preference Determinants
of Mate Selection’
http://www2.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty/rfisman/dating_paper.pdf
Links and revision
A links and revision site is at
http://www.revisiontime.com/alevel_psychology.html
Revision notes can be found at
http://www.revision-notes.co.uk/A_Level/Psychology/
A student has made a website of his notes.
http://www.aspexdesign.co.uk/psych.htm
Another student based notes page, more detailed than the last one
http://members.lycos.co.uk/kalyka/psych.htm
Loads of undergraduate level notes on the psychology of personality
http://hopelive.hope.ac.uk/psychology/undergraduate.htm
More university level notes for you to browse
http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/staff/PeterMartin/LectureNotes.asp
University site with interesting slideshows on abnormal psychology
www.psy.fsu.edu/undergrad.prog/schmidt/powerpoint.htm
Resources for students at the A and AS level. Includes summaries and exam questions
for the core studies.
www.holah.karoo.net
Games and Puzzles, just a bit of fun, but could be of interest to psychologists as the games
are psychologically based.
www.psychnet-uk.com/games/games.htm
Encyclopedia of Psychology - www.psychology.org/
Psychade – an A level site http://www.psychade.net/
Rob’s psychology site – someone nice typed up his AS level notes!
http://xenonic.redtoe.co.uk/psychology/home.asp
The Association for the Teaching of Psychology - http://www.theatp.org/index.html
The Long road College site has loads of resource material, pitched at OCR
http://www.longroad.ac.uk/accreditation/index.htm
A site with notes for you to copy
http://www.alleydog.com/cognitive.asp
Psychade – an A level site http://www.psychade.net/
AS key studies and some tests as well
http://www.qeliz.ac.uk/psychology/