Unit Resources for Psychology and Human Behavior

On this page, you'll find helpful information for every unit. Below there's a brief overview of what you'll find.

Review Materials

• PowerPoint notes for each unit.
• Two ways to study the vocabulary: Quizlet.com and StudyStack.com. Both offer a variety of ways to study, including flash cards, games, practice tests, and lots more. Try both sites...maybe you'll find you prefer one to another.

Handouts

• You'll find copies of most of the documents distributed in class, as well as some bonus materials, almost always in PDF format.

Links

• These are websites relating to the unit in question.
• If you find one that you think belongs here, please email it to me!
  

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Some units are offered either only in Psychology or only in the 1st semester. Those units will be annotated in red!

What Is Psychology?   

Review Materials

• Notes
• Vocabulary Review
• Test Review Sheet
• Crossword Review

Handouts

• CHAPTER 1 - FULL CHAPTER
• HW 1 - Ch. 1, assignment 1
• HW 2 - What Psychologists Do Chart
• HW 3 - Help Wanted Ad and Flyer
• HW 4 - History of Psychology packet
• HW 5 - Test Review Sheet
• HW 6 - Crossword Review

Links

• Psychology Matters
• Today in the History of Psychology
• History of Psychology (Wikipedia)
• History of Psychology quiz

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Biology & Behavior  (Psych only)

Review Materials

• Notes
• Vocabulary Review
• Test Review Sheet
• Crossword Review

Handouts

• Heredity: Our Genetic Background Reading Assignment

• Your Personal Genome
• Nervous System Reading Guide
• Divisions of the Nervous System
• Your Body's Chemical Messengers
• Anatomy of the Central Nervous System
• Brain Reading Guide 59-67


• Inside the Brain: An Online Exploration
• Heading off serious injury

Links

• Why identical twins aren't really identical (Slate)
• Whole Brain Atlas (at Harvard)
  
• DNA from the Beginning (a great, easy to understand site!)
  
• Heredity & Traits
• Epigenetics
• Nature vs Nurture (NOVA)
  
• What Is Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy? (CTE; Boston University website)
  

• Concussions and Traumatic Brain Injuries (CDC)
  

• The Secret Life of the Brain (PBS)
• The Growing Brain (NY Times)
• Comparative Mammalian Brains
• Neuroscience for Kids
• Hemispheric specialization
• “A Blow to the Brain” (60 Minutes segment on concussions)
• The Brain from Top to Bottom (massively informative website from Canada’s McGill University)

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Sleep and Dreams

Review Materials

• Notes
• Vocabulary Review
• Test Review Sheet

Handouts

• CHAPTER 5 - FULL CHAPTER
• HW - Sleep & Dreams Questions for Pages 106-112
• HW - Sleep Readings

• HW - Dreams-What Are They and What Do They Mean?

• HW - Interpreting Dreams Case Study
• Dreams According to Sigmund Freud Play
• CNN Sleep video make-up
• Sleep Disorder Activity make-up

Links

• National Sleep Foundation
• The War on Sleep (Slate)
  There’s a military arms race to build soldiers who fight without fatigue.

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Drugs and Alcohol (Sem. 1 only)

Review Materials

• Notes
• Vocabulary Review

Handouts

• HW - Views on Drugs

• HW - Effects of Drugs
• HW - Alcohol Statistics and Facts
• HW - Marijuana LSD Ecstasy
• Making of a Hangover video make-up
• Screening for Alcoholism
• How Much Caffeine Is in That Drink?
• Cocaine and Methamphetamine
• Cancer Causing Chemicals in Cigarettes

Links

• Scientist Profile - Nora Volkow "A General in the Drug War" (NY Times)
• Why does pot make some people psychotic? (Salon article)
• Adverse Health Effects of Marijuana Use (New England Journal of Medicine, June 2014)

• 60 Minutes segment -
  Hooked: Why bad habits are hard to break
• Underage Binge Drinking Can Create Lasting Brain Changes
• The Grim Neurology of Teenage Drinking
• Why Nicotine Is a Gateway Drug
• Help on quitting smoking from the American Lung Association
• National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
  massive amount of scientific info here!
• National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
• Stats on alcohol use in the US (CDC)
• Not a Cough in a Carload - Stanford Research into the Impact of Tobacco Advertising (incredible collection of vintage tobacco ads, mostly for cigarettes)

• Why Nicotine Is a Gateway Drug
• Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)

• National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
• National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
• Stats on alcohol use in the US (CDC)

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Psych of Eating (Sem. 1 Only)

Review Materials

• Notes
• Vocabulary Review

Handouts

• Stuff the Kids
• Excerpt from Mindless Eating

Links

• How Obesity Harms A Child's Body
• The 59 ingredients in a fast-food strawberry milkshake
• Unhappy Meals
• Are You Addicted to Food? (quiz - NY Times)

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Child Development (Psych only)

Review Materials

• Notes
• Vocabulary Review

Handouts

• HW - Chapter 10 vocabulary
• HW - Physical development reading questions

• HW - Teratology and Hazards to Prenatal Development
• HW - Monkey Love
• HW - Social Development questions
• HW - Name That Parenting Style
• HW - What Would You Say?
• HW - Cognitive Development questions
• Parenting Styles table
  

Links

• The Visible Embryo Project
• Zero to Three: The place for info on early child development

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Social Psychology (Psych only)

Review Materials

• Notes
• Vocabulary Review

Handouts

• HW - Attitude Formation assignment
  
• HW - Science of Evil
• HW - Stanford Prison Study questions
• HW - Causes of Prejudice table
  
• HW - A Class Divided
• HW - How Modern Prejudice is Depicted in our Pop Culture
• HW - Implicit Association Test
• HW - Prejudice and Sterotypes Questions
  

Links

• Ads
• The Living Room Candidate
• Social Psychology Network
• Social Psychology Sites of the Week
• Propaganda Critic video gallery
• Stanford Prison Experiment
• Frontline: A Class Divided
• A Class Divided Transcript
• Implicit Associations Test (Harvard)

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Psychological Disorders

Review Materials

• Notes
• Vocabulary Review

Handouts

• HW - Psychological Disorders vocab
  
• HW - What Are Psychological Disorders? reading assignment
  
• HW - Anxiety Disorders Reading Questions
  
• HW - Mood Disorders NIMH packet
• HW - "The Schizophrenic Mind" article by Sharon Begley
• HW - What's Your Diagnosis?
• HW - Test Review Sheet
  
• Phobia List
• Beck Depression Inventory
• Schizophrenia Symptoms and Subtypes

Links

• DSM-5 - lots of info about the long-awaited revision of DSM-IV TR, scheduled for a May 2013 release
  
• The Numbers Count: Mental Disorders in America (NIMH)
  
• Psychologists fear US manual will widen mental illness diagnosis - Guardian article, 2/9/12
  
• Misuse of "Schizophrenic" in the Media
• Can You Fake Mental Illness? - slate.com, 8/7/12

• What is having ECT like? - The Guardian, 5/13/12