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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Timeline: History of Psychology

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the historical foundations of contemporary psychology. Use the timeline to explore key events, publications, and perspectives that have shaped psychology from the late 19th century to the present.
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Other

Simply Psychology: Social Psychology

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what social psychology is, its history, and significant leaders in the field and the theories they developed.
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York University

Classics in the History of Psychology: Gestalt Psychology Today

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is provided for by York University. Where classic Freudian Psychoanalysis fails with the non-verbal patient, Gestalt Psychology tries to combine a little drama, movement, and action to broaden the scope and population that...
Primary
York University

Classics in the History of Psychology: Conflicting Psychologies of Learning

For Students 9th - 10th
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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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Psychological Testing

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides detailed information on psychological testing, describing its history and the many types of tests.
Primary
York University

Classics in the History of Psychology: The Nature of Love

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource presents a paper published in 1958 about the formation of affection. It looks at different psychological perspectives on this topic.
Primary
York University

Classics History of Psychology: Observations on the Organization of Personality

For Students 9th - 10th
A transcript of Carl Rogers' address as the retiring President at the American Psychological Association the September 1947 Annual Meeting.
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Other

New World Encyclopedia: Abnormal Psychology

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what the field of abnormal psychology covers, its historical roots, the different models used in the study of mental illness, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) used in diagnosis, and the...
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York University

Classics in the History of Psychology: The Social Self

For Students 9th - 10th
A classic reading in psychology, this paper by George Herbert Mean was first published in 1913 on the social self.
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York University

Classics in the History of Psychology: The Vectors of Mind

For Students 9th - 10th
This site goes into detail about Spearman's two factor theory. From the classic paper "The Vectors of Mind" by L. L. Thurstone (1934) Address of the president before the American Psychological Association, Chicago meeting, September, 1933.
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York University

Classics in the History of Psychology: Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It

For Students 9th - 10th
Classical article by John B. Watson (one of the founders of Behaviorism) defining his views on Behaviorism.
Primary
York University

Classics in the History of Psychology: Principles of Psychology by William James

For Students 9th - 10th
Complete volumes of the two volumes of this work are available for study.
Primary
York University

Classics History of Psychology: Value/need as Organizing Factors in Perception

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource presents a paper originally from 1947 on value and need as factors in organizing a perception.
Primary
York University

Classics History of Psychology: New Methods Intellectual Level of Subnormals

For Students 9th - 10th
Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon's work from 1905 serves as an introduction to the classic study on intelligence by Henry L. Minton, University of Windsor.
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York University

Classics in the History of Psychology: Intergroup Conflict and Cooperation

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the Robbers Cave Experiment. This experiment focused on intergroup relations, mostly negative attitudes toward the out group.
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York University

Classics in the History of Psychology: Supersition in the Pigeon: B. F. Skinner

For Students 9th - 10th
Classic study by B. F. Skinner concerning learned behavior in a pigeon.
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York University

Classics in the History of Psych: Sigmund Freud

For Students 9th - 10th
This page provides an index to Freud's papers on the Interpretation of Dreams. Original full text, simply select the chapter or topic.
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York University

Classics History of Psychology: Frustration Aggression Hypothesis Culture

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource contains 7 different papers dealing with frustration and aggression. They date back to 1941 and are written by some historic psychologists. These papers have great insight into cognition and emotion of frustration and...
Primary
York University

Classics in the History of Psychology: Attitudes and Cognitive Organization

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides a paper from 1946 by Fritz Heider on how attitudes of one person can influence the attitudes of others. A very basic concept put into detail.
Primary
York University

Classics History of Psychology: Commentary Origin/development of Psychoanalysis

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief biography of Freud; discussion of his major theories about hysteria, dream interpretation, self-analysis, oedipus complex, etc. Makes references to several of Freud's books and papers.
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University of Utah

University of Utah: History of Psychology: More on Logic

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Brief overview of the definitions of 'inductive' versus 'deductive' reasoning.
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Other

Social Psychology Network: Jigsaw Classroom

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The "official web site of the jigsaw classroom",- a cooperative learning technique which was developed by Elliot Aronson. The jigsaw approach is considered to promote better learning, improve student motivation, and increase enjoyment of...
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Nature Versus Nurture O Logy Card

For Students 3rd - 8th
Flip this interactive OLogy card to find questions and answers, fast facts, and other bite-size pieces of information to help you understand the nature-versus-nurture debate.
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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: 300 Women Who Changed History: Margaret Mead

For Students 9th - 10th
Encyclopedia Britannica provides a biography of Margaret Mead, noted anthropologist and prolific author.

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