DP_Psychology

Forty years after Genie made headlines and sensation in Psychology.

Case study

Scientists turn to vaccines to curb the growing opioid epidemic. A good overview of drug addiction, the involvement of dopamine and glutamate, and what happens to the brain of an addict (loss of pleasure from normal activities, the need to increase dosage to stave off anxiety and despair, and impairment of dopamine function in prefrontal cortex hence inability to make good decisions).

By age 25, Patrick Schnur had cycled through a series of treatment programs, trying different medications to kick his heroin habit. But the drugs posed problems too: Vivitrol injections were painful and created intense heroin cravings as the drug wore off. Suboxone left him drowsy, depressed and unable to study or go running like he wanted to.

Fun articles to capture students' interest in psychology

The Forgetting: A Portrait of Alzheimer's is a Primetime Emmy award-winning documentary that takes a dramatic, compassionate, all-encompassing look at the growing epidemic of Alzheimerís disease. The Forgetting website offers resources for understanding and coping with Alzheimer's.

Always a good one to use

Welcome to the official Stanford Prison Experiment website, which features extensive information about a classic psychology experiment that inspired an award-winning movie,New York Times bestseller, and documentary DVD.

Welcome to the official Stanford Prison Experiment website, which features extensive information about a classic psychology experiment that inspired an award-winning movie,New York Times bestseller, and documentary DVD.

Fun way to let student explore classical conditioning on their own. Nobelprize.org, The Official Web Site of the Nobel Prize

Critical Thinking section of Skeptic's Dictionary

Game for Split brain experiment, Roger Sperry, left and right hemispheres, Brain, corpus callosum, Nobel Prize, medicine, game, Nobel, educational, tutorial, flash, brain

This classic study is a hallmark in the field of Abnormal Psychology. David Rosenhan and a few others faked hallucinations to get themselves admitted to psychiatric hospitals and then returned to acting normally and began asking to be released. I got this PDF from this link after a simple Google search for the article title http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic625827.files/On_Being_Sane_In_Insane_Places-1.pdf

Sixty years after the Supreme Court declared separate schools for black and white children unconstitutional, school segregation is making a comeback.

An intimate and eye-opening journey inside the struggles and choices facing transgender kids and their families.

The APA/TOPSS released a manual for new psychology teachers, and it looks like it's full of great resources! See the announcement below for details. "New high school psychology teachers may have a number of questions about how to proceed with instruction in their first psychology teaching assignment.

yes. link to this page and check in every few days, it is slow in the summer but has great moderators and loads of information, you can also look at the archives by topic, it has been around for about 7 years.

also check out the lesson plans from TOPSS (you do need to be a member $50 per year), there is one are lesson plan available on Memory to give a sample but there is an outline, activities and resources for every chapter of the intro course

I use this for my social psych unit.

One of the most requested programs in FRONTLINE's history - the story of a teacher's daring lesson in discrimination.

A report on the new reality for the mentally ill: Nearly 500,000 are serving time in U.S. jails and prisons.

Why, and how, have we reached the point where the United States has 1.5 million meth users - and rising?

A compendium of resources for the teaching of personality psychology. The mission of Personality Pedagogy is to establish an online community of teacher-scholars which provides support and resources for the teaching of personality psychology. These resources include, but are not limited to, annotated high-quality links, examples, audio-visual material, slides, discussions, and documents.

Intended for elementary and secondary school students and teachers who are interested in learning about the nervous system and brain with hands on activities, experiments and information.